Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

A great line of defense against AI slop: crediting artists.

Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!

#computers #SocialMedia #passwords

@tholindeth And when wolfram alpha made mistakes, they were fun, and still usually technically correct!

There are two dragons inside you.

One wants a Diet Coke.

The other wants a Mentos.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/116518148479614779

The safest day on the internet in recent memories was when cloudflare shat itself and all the phishing sites were down.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937

Cloudflare doing shit like this is the perfect analogy for why cybersecurity is such a shitshow. They even offered their DDoS mitigation services to canonical. They could just like. take down the stresser service, but that doesn't result in money. I'm so sick of this "its acceptable to be on both sides because we like money." travesty we're forced to deal with on a daily basis.

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

> Over 8 million Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people suffer 'permanent vision loss'
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/8-million-thermos-jars-bottles-recalled-after-3-132568152

From the headline I thought it was some kind of metal poisoning or other contamination issue. Hell no. The damn thing basically is a loaded cannon waiting to shoot it's lid on your fucking face.

If you got one of these, get rid of it now.

#PSA #FYI #Thermos #ProductRecall 🚨

Hey @cloudflare, how come you're protecting beamed[.]st, the DDoS service that's attacking Ubuntu? It's an obvious criminal enterprise that literally advertises botnet access.

Met Gala VIP toilet, installed outside the Met Museum in New York.

A $100,000 ticket gets you fashion, glamour, and apparently the full Amazon worker experience. 💋

Want to estimate the read-time for your text file in ed(1)?

Assuming a 200WPM reading rate

$ ed file.txt
3141
w !awk '{i+=NF}END{print i/200}'

Cities must be primarily for biological life instead of machines

Enterprise Role Play (ERP), sometimes also Enterprise Resource Play: A unique form of fetish role play.

Unlike more popular fantasies such as boss/secretary focused on power relationships in an office environment, in ERP the business processes themselves are central to the scenario.

ERP participants can create elaborate scenarios involving fictional purchasing departments, legal teams, contract negotiations, and more. Large group ERP scenarios sometimes even extend to the point of renting out vacant space in an office park and acquiring demo licenses of SAP or a competing software package to make the fantasy more realistic, or even traveling to a remote ERP group's dungeon to roleplay a merger or acquisition.

As with more conventional roleplays in the S&M context, consent is critical in ERP. If participants are expected to invest significant real-world money in software licenses, make sure this is agreed upon by everyone in advance. The outcome of all merger scenarios should be pre-briefed; attempted hostile takeovers of another dungeon are extremely frowned upon and can result in participants being banned from future events.

Protect your schedule, including the empty time.

😂 https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2050279582037614638

@davidgerard

I'm genuinely astonished how many defenses of LLM contributions are a flat "you can't enforce this and you can't actually stop us". Just completely steamrolling past consent and comfort and forcing themselves on people who don't want them. Feels like some serious masks-off kind of shit.

AI in a nutshell.

WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOUR TELEVISION

“Oh, uh. Sorry. Are you here to destroy us?”

NO BUT WE HAVE A LIST OF HUMANS THAT WE WANT TO SLAP.

“Uh. Uhhuh. Good list. Do Clarkson first.”

YOU ARE WISE. ALSO WE WANT TO PET BLUEY AND HUG ATTENBOROUGH.

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot