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Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

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Don't blindly believe everything you read online, tempting as that is. Do your homework first. This video series will help you do it well: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8d

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Remember to pop your filter bubble every so often. If you think you're not in one, you're trapped in one and in for a rude awakening.

re: Spam of the day 

I'm pretty sure the Mariners aren't that desperate to end their status as MLB's only team without a pennant.

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Spam of the day 

An "Account Executive" with the Seattle Mariners wants my company to advertise at T-Mobile Park & sponsor the Mariners to help us get more business.

We're a small business with only one office, in rural New Mexico.

Yeah, this a legit offer we should definitely take up. :V

I love this panel of the 737-900 safety pamphlet, which demonstrates proper procedure for how survivors should pledge fealty to
~T h e B u o y a n t C h i l d~

what's your plan for when AI collapses and you have to explain the years you spent forgetting how to program on purpose

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LB: Charat Yoco is also what I used to create my current av, but I edited it with some transparency blurring and overlay on a trans pride flag background using ImageMagick incantations I can never remember.

Charat Yoco: charat.me/en/profile/

I found the character creator app again that I used to create my famous profile avatar in 2018: https://charat.me/en/profile/ (runs completely in the browser)

In 1985, "Computer Chronicles" covered The WELL, an early online service founded by Stewart Brand and Larry Brilliant. In 1999, Salon.com acquired what remained of The WELL. Salon's founders were WELL members who developed their initial business plan in a private forum on the service.

Today, Salon shut down. But The WELL (well.com) endures. Salon sold the service to a group of longtime members in the 2010s.

salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye-f

OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability.

openssh.com/releasenotes.html#

If you operate a Linux system that uses musl libc without PAM (Alpine Linux is one example) then stop reading and set PasswordAuthentication=no or disable SSH for these systems IMMEDIATELY.

This vulnerability does not exist on non-Linux systems, Linux/glibc systems and Linux systems that use PAM for password authentication.

We consider the root cause of this bug to be outside OpenSSH itself, but we're in a good position to deliver a mitigation quickly.

We are making this release as fast as possible (we learned of the problem yesterday) because we have recently observed multiple cases of rapid bug rediscovery by AI agents, sometimes within hours, and so now consider long embargo periods to be a dangerous practice that primarily benefits attackers.

Thanks for Özgün Kültekin of Wakefield (wakefield.co) for reporting this problem to us and for the Alpine Linux developers for making an updated release available at very short notice.

Docker, Alpine Linux, and musl are in computer security news today because there's a vulnerability exploitable via SSH in one very specific but somewhat common server configuration.

sshhole.com/

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