jana: so you know the thing you think of as a mushroom? that's actually just the reproductive organ of the real organism. this four-pack of sugar free redbull is basically the same thing, but for the organism that is the redbull brand 14 year old grocery store employee: it's still shoplifting, dude
Capcom announced that Street Fighter II players will now be able to dismantle a Tesla Cybertruck with their fists. paletteswap.site/dif...
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airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
They removed the ability to google "disregard" because it breaks their "AI," but "Ignore" still returns this:
Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"
every desktop environment sucks so i just started using minecraft as my desktop environment
To settle the big vs little endian debate once and for all, I propose Freedom endian: mid, little, big digits, repeated in a zig-zag pattern.
Remote attestation is a heavily underdiscussed threat to computing freedom. People often mistakenly dismiss it with "I will run my own fork (of the OS or browser) / Magisk", not understanding that with hardware attestation, you're literally unable to 1/
GrapheneOS@grapheneos.org · 6mo agoApple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.
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An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.
X user tricks Grok into sending them $200,000 in crypto using morse code - Dexerto
An X user managed to trick AI chatbot Grok into sending around $200,000 worth of crypto after exploiting its link with an automated trading bot.
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As a young biochemist I was very daunted by the complexity of metabolic pathways and felt extremely relieved that I didn't have to grasp it all properly it for my cells to be able to just get on with it. (Also now uncomfortably aware of my heart, plus my breathing, my tongue and my peristalsis.)
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 6mo agoI gotta say, I’m really glad my heart never forgets to beat or loses its rhythm or whatever and it just… keeps going, all day and night, without stopping. I’m definitely not suddenly aware of my heartbeat and the seemingly arbitrary unremarked tenuousness of life. Everything is fine.
A friend of a friend (Pete Fenelon, RIP) in a compiler writing class produced a compiler with one error message: "you lied to me when you told me this was a program". I briefly adopted this approach myself before learning better the hard way. This cricket approach is genius.
doop@doop.bsky.social · 6mo agoI used to work on a system in a Very Large Bank which used cricket terms for errors & it was great for support, ‘cos instead of saying “umm it doesn’t work” or otherwise mangling the message, users would ring up & say “it says it’s been bowled a googly” and you knew exactly which line of code it was