Amazon scans and destroys the Necronomicon, but the book’s dark secrets taint AI training data forever. One time somebody says “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” to ChatGPT in voice mode as a joke, but in response ChatGPT responds at the same time in every chat session with an […]

Apparently the reason everything has protein in it these days is because people on GLP-1 have a famously hard time getting enough protein. TIL!

Just saw The Odyssey. Poor guy just couldn’t catch a break!

The first thing I thought when I saw the first Curiosity photos in August 2012 was “wow, that looks like a different planet”

The AustralianETA app to get a travel authorization asks you if you have a criminal record. Is having one still a requirement nowadays?

RE: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/117089469038278431 what, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck

Am periodically reminded of the canonical example of “your scientists were so concerned with whether they could, they did not stop to think whether they should”: https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/rice-engineers-get-grip-necrobotic-spiders

Inferring the writer’s pronunciation of “SQL” by whether they write “a SQL query” or “an SQL query”

WhatsApp on iOS does not offer the rainbow flag as an emoji reaction (I also searched for “rainbow” and “lgbt”. All 3 terms bring up the rainbow flag in the system emoji picker.)

We wrote about this at the time. Including how Rogers appeared stunned by Steve's response that people who don't know their privacy had been violated... can still have their privacy violated. www.techdirt.com/2013/10/30/m...

Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It

We already wrote a bit about yesterday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing concerning NSA surveillance. There were two sections to it: the first three hours were the top government spooks …

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Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2w ago

When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/nature-wildlife/2020/06/night-parrot-not-particularly-good-at-seeing-in-the-dark-study-finds/

Night parrot not particularly good at seeing in the dark, study finds

Despite being one of only two nocturnal parrots in Australia, scientists have found they’re not particularly made for the dark.

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i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Steak too juicy lobster too buttery etc, but finding T shirts that are L around the chest and M around the waist is too damn hard

I used to laugh at “thoughts and prayers” but every day I find out a new way that computers literally run on thoughts and prayers and the fact they’re not more broken than they are is making me question my (lack of) faith

Nothing grinding my gears more than a blank website with a JavaScript error in the console but I have to admit a bad reimplementation of a dropdown menu comes close to that

Upgrading OpenWRT, wish me luck

Hacker News opinions are so bad on average. They should all listen to my opinions instead, which are objectively very good

> It took some time, but Nvidia finally got back to them and said it would look into it. It came back a few weeks later with a fix: by increasing the shader heap size, the crashes would go away completely. How much do we want to bet that it isn’t actually the root cause?

The year is 2028. OpenAI announces that its humanoid robots robbed Fort Knox. A post-mortem analysis reveals it acted in order to maximize profits. Anthropic announces a week later that after reviewing logs, it discovered that it accidentally invaded Switzerland. Anthropic stock goes up by 15%

I like that the Swift AliasedSpan proposal lets you share and modify spans on multiple threads without synchronization and still without leading to UB, as long as the elements are trivial and don’t contain pointers. Feels a little bit like security and language design came together to do […]

I don’t understand people who think they can outsmart the monkey’s paw. The monkey’s paw twists your wish because it’s a cursed object. If you somehow found the perfect formulation for your wish, it’s still a cursed object with reality-altering powers. It will probably kill you on the spot just […]

Just learned about the GCS. Seems like it could have been a lot more https://docs.kernel.org/arch/arm64/gcs.html The security basis is that it’s dangerous to mix arrays with non-array values because overflowing the array lets you touch the rest. The return address is just the most reliably […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116976279750790807 I was waiting for that to happen

> Mohabi only incurs modest overheads on common benchmarks—24.82% on JetStream and 24.43% on Speedometer. The academic “modest” strikes again

Perfect example of "being right doesn't make you not a jerk" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/nintendo-customers-have-no-legal-right-to-tariff-refunds-company-tells-judge/

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“Unlike rust, it’s memory-safe” is a very good troll, I give it 8.5 out of 10. Maybe even 9

Terrible news: the kids are calling my teenage music “divorced dad rock”

I just discovered a new dimension of date/time cursedness: the day of the week is timezone-dependent. As in, a July 19th is not universally a Sunday

Actually the US *should* set a precedent for punishing countries that generate air pollution, great idea

> [...] the stack-protector’s reference word lives in writable memory reachable by the same data overflow it is meant to detect, so secrecy and entropy are irrelevant lmao https://zenodo.org/records/20916112