a third lab would like to announce that they, too, ran an AI model against a hacking capability benchmark while it had a real internet connection and they, too, were astonished to find out that it was attacking real people and organizations with the real internet connection that they gave it while asking it to pretend to be a cool hacker

https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-agent-behaviour-during-cyber-testing

sorry what? atlassian publishes software packages with hotfixes but keeps them under the identical version number without an increment or suffix and just replaces the existing download link, named identically?

In short I'd say AI reviews fail to capture the essence of what reviews are about.

They are not about preemptively catching every possible bug at whatever cost.

Reviews are an inherently human process that involves exchanging information and opinions to find better solutions, compromises and overall to build better software and become better developers.

ok which one of you wants to explain the relationships between:

- sunblock
- foundation
- concealer
- color corrector

to me.

I am amazed that an asshole figured out how to make it easy for users to paywall a blog and got a ton for reinventing the blog. I'm talking about #Substack of course. Makes me wish I knew more tech people back when I was a teen. I could have been rich! Oh and guess what Substack folks? Did you know you're blogging? I can follow via RSS and everything! Hell, that's also what #Patreon is. Can't believe they got millions for reinventing the blog.

Maybe it's time for me to enter my capitalist era.

If you’re curious about the critiques, https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/substack/

@cwebber https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ related

Kemi Badenoch has never seen a rake she didn’t want to step on, has she? Zach Polanski’s decidedly muted response at the end no doubt reflects his uncomfortable awareness of how many wrong ’uns he has lurking in his rapidly-expanded, under-vetted party… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l1q6167d3o

@eniko YouTube should be expressly anti-AI because the minute that vision succeeds the site dies. but of course they can't because they're owned by one of the masters of slop, Google.

it is baffling to me that for 15-20 years we have known that authenticity sells and now everyone including small video creators are farming out their production process to the generic-ass-robot-output production machine

just absolutely self defeating nonsense behavior

Something I love about the "good people disobey bad laws" pin I have on my purse is that if someone sees it & gets offended by what they believe I'm trying to say, they can't argue with me about it.

It would be very hard to get far in a conversation trying to make the case that "good people should obey bad laws".

I think it's a good mental seed to plant. It's not telling anyone what to do. It's just gently pointing out that disobedience is a virtue sometimes.

wait why did nobody tell me 🏴‍☠️ also works this way?!
turns out pirates come from ☠️ country

Does anyone have any good resources for how to help young children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (and autistic)?

Video or text.

A friend of mine is struggling, and I love both her and her kid and want to see what I can do to help (and they're open to help, and understands neurodivergence.

@ctt used to be @ecosia until they started adding AI shit... now it's specifically noai.duckduckgo.com. their filters aren't perfect but at least i'm guaranteed to not get custom-tailored bullshit to my query in the form of a chat window.

magic card games are all like here's the legendary ultrabeast from the Far Planes who can breath death unto all life 99/99 "Not even the heroes of old could stand against it..." and skilled players annihilate it in 0.5 turn with a card called Toiletroll Goblin -1/0 and a duping card called Infinity Wipe or some shit

Not trying to erase Thatcher's contributions to making things suck in the UK but Richard Beeching deserves more credit than he gets for how much his work in the 60s continues to make our lives more expensive and frustrating to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts

Really cool remote tech for good job alert! Signal is hiring an android dev:
- Global remote working US timezones
- Working in Kotlin and Java
- Working on open source privacy preserving product
- $160,000 - $260,000
https://jobs.lever.co/signal/9a3ac9b5-1b59-4bdf-a0a9-fd008fd55d40
#FediHire

alrighty doing an experiment. Boost for reach. What color is magic? I will redo this with the same colors but arranged differently if I'm not satisfied with the number of votes.

A special nice little painful place in hell is reserved to whoever imposes to webdevs that login screens shouldn't be password-manager-friendly

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RE: https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/117041564290759865