*snickering* https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2026-45584/

It's so goddamn insulting whenever companies direct support to some fucking chatbot as if you would be reaching out to them directly for support if the answers were something trivial enough to be in its training set. I know how to run a search query. Contacting the vendor is the LAST resort. Fuck your chatbot wasting my time at this point.

It looks like the community needs someone to hard-fork systemd as soon as possible. I do *not* envy the schlemiel who has to step up and be that someone. They're going to be getting shat on by at least five different constituencies, at once and for the foreseeable future.

(Do not @ me about openrc, runit, s6, The Shepherd, or any other alternative init system that isn't a drop-in replacement. It's the same deal as what I keep having to say about alleged PGP replacements and RFC 822 email.)

Last boost: unusually, @bitterkarella is describing a real book that exists in our world, and I highly recommend you read it

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Sarah Gailey: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the river of teeth
Gailey: it's about the most dangerous game of all
Stephen King: is it man?
Clive Barker: what kind of question is that, steve? of course it's man
Barker: it's always man
Mary Shelley: phht

I put the cry out to mastodon again: Are you an #artist who wants to draw werewolf redneck bootleggers looking smug in their arrest photos. For money. For a card game.

every time people start talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_stuff_beans_up_your_nose I'm reminded of the time when I was three years old and I put a dried bean in my ear and couldn't get it back out and my mom had to take me to the doctor

and (this is the funny part) what I said to my mom to ask for help was, "what did I put in my ear?" because I didn't know the word "bean" yet

Today's reason why leaving your car windows open while you duck into the drugstore for five minutes is often a bad idea: wasp

Look at this bug!!! Look at it!

https://youtu.be/agj-tqYf9RQ?si=07cM4QDHAcsZOttf

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
May 17,1944

like all good xaunts and xuncles, their purpose in life is to embarrass their niece while secretly being extremely cool

One time I wondered "why should we put a limit on how much the player can zoom-out?" this was the result 😅

#indiedev #gamedev

today in "people who are very experienced with computers still have many problems with them, the problems just get more and more bizarre": the completely unexpected place where this afternoon's hacking session hit a brick wall:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/521048

#nixos

@algernon I have only read the abstract yet but https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.13706 looks potentially relevant to iocaine

@zwol Someone has since commented:

> On the original 3270 keyboards, field navigation wasn’t done with a “Tab” key the way you’d think of it on a PC. The dedicated keys were called Field Forward (→|) and Field Backward (|←) — sometimes labeled as “Skip” — usually shown with arrow-and-bar symbols.

And a reply to that:

> So that’s why Tab key has those two symbols.

Which - huh - so it does¹, which I'd never really paid attention to before!

¹ at least on the keyboard I'm using rn. ymmv.

This Saturday, I make my time-traveling baseball team debut. Come to Governors Island, Parade Ground A, 11am-2pm, to watch. And maybe join me.

Context: In 2024, I got to see a vintage base ball game -- hobbyist re-enactors using old-timey bats and baseballs, wearing period uniforms, and playing baseball with the 1864 rules. (Including: Catching the ball on a bounce is an out.) https://nymutuals.com/rules-and-differences

#NYC

1/n

Getting older problems: suddenly it matters which pair of glasses I am wearing while cooking.

For the record, the fix turned out to be "boot into Safe Mode and remove one widget from the home screen." Did you know Android has a safe mode? I didn't.

the specific list of service restriction controls that don't work without eBPF are:

SocketBind(Allow|Deny)
IPAddress(Allow|Deny)
IP(Ingress|Egress)FilterPath
RestrictNetworkInterfaces
RestrictFileSystems

(RestrictFileSystems *also* requires the BPF LSM)

My fellow gremlins, which do you believe adds *more* attack surface to a realistic web server?