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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.

There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.

Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/unofficial-vibe-coded-notepad-for-mac-draws-objections-from-original-author/

Grilled cheese #ditherinator

Ask Jeeves, one of the first search engines, has shut down on Friday

https://www.ask.com/

Ah, the #copyfail clickbait posts are coming. Here’s my contribution. On your Linux machine add

initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init

to your kernel boot commandline (typically in grub). Reboot. You are now safe until the updated kernel packages become available. For distributions with the `grubby` command this is done as root with

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

This mitigation comes courtesy of Red Hat. Our engineers keep you safe :)

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'Caffeine and Coping.' I need that mug.

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#audhd #autism #autistic #adhd #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

we should be educating kids about what dangerous interactions look like and the tools they have to block and report people or disable stranger contact on their own terms. but nah fuck informing and empowering them to keep themselves safe eh. that's too hard. just take away their rights

never mind that 99% of such interactions are teens befriending other teens or having totally benign or positive interactions with adults. we're doing stranger danger again baby. oi mate you got a loicense for that human connection you're forming

Folks, if you're going to have a third-party antivirus/security program on your PC, then please keep it up to date. If you decide to let the subscription lapse, then uninstall it.

With an expired subscription, security/antivirus programs are so much worse than useless. It refuses to work AND prevents the built-in Windows Defender from working.

This PSA is brought to you by a McAfee trial that expired 400 days ago.