Bundesregierung stellt klar: "Wir haben gerade so viel mit Dürre, Niedrigwasser und Waldbränden zu tun, da können wir uns nicht auch noch ums Klima kümmern!"
https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/08/keine-zeit-fuers-klima.html
Hackers, 2000: DMA allows arbitrary memory access!
Vendors: Isn't that great? Kernel debugging is so convenient!
Hackers, 2010: FBI and NSA can use ExpressCard and IEEE 1394 DMA to access memory at will and steal full-disk encryption keys from participants in movements like "Occupy Wall Street"!
Vendors: How many dissidents across the US are actually going to get targeted by the FBI like that?
Hackers, 2020: USB 4 allows arbitrary memory access via DMA, any standard USB device can be used to steal data!
Vendors: Physical security isn't our responsibility - you can just seal off the USB ports.
Hackers, 2025: PCIe DMA enables online game cheats that the system can't detect!
Vendors: Right now! Immediately! Enable IOMMU! Anyone who doesn't enable it gets their account banned!
Eh bah bon courage à tous ceux qui cherchent du boulot à l’époque des robots IA qui screenent les CV hein.
OMG 🤣 This is an amazing protest.
The Kansas Compliance Crew is a group of trans men complying with a #Kansas bathroom law by going into women's bathrooms. Give it up for these brave guys!
Got a data breach notification from Steam and it's a 🧑🍳🤌 exemplary reaction.
Shipping partner lost control of 90 days worth of customer data. All affected customers are notified. Full list of affected data items. No account/credentials affected, so no action necessary. But: Expect fake/scam mails with plausible content. Reiterating the official support channels. Promise to follow up with the affected partner, and info that notification to data protection authorities is in progress.
As a parent who has been living in blessed ignorace of Paw Patrol, today I took the kid to her first cinema experience to see Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie.
And I'm making this everyone's problem because I have So. Many. Questions.
Luckily I was taking notes.
Thread 🧵
Wow, just wow!
Richtig. Wenn ein IC ausfällt dann führt das dazu dass die "geringe Auslastung" die erwartet war nicht mehr ganz hinkommt. Ich und 600 meiner neuen engsten Freunde wollten da rein. Ich such mal eine Alternative.
Der DB-Navigator hat Humor. Ich nehme wegen ausgefallenem IC den RE und kriege eine Meldung dass mir empfohlen wird, auch den IC zu nehmen.
I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.
Suggestion: You get to enable "magic" signin links with no alternative if, and only if, you get your mailserver under control so that it's not graylisted.
[Sent while waiting for the delivery of a signin mail, where I'll bet they retry from rotating IPs, so as to prevent them from passing the graylist on the second attempt.]
A COMPUTER
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST BE
TASKED WITH COMMITTING CRIMES
Spocks' beard, but as in "an opposite-sex companion to hide homosexuality".
I have a personal update: Next monday, I will be starting at @OpenAI working on better cyber (which will also entail some efficiency work). I'm pretty excited about the things I will learn and the things we will do.
i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh
Miles: Julian I was only gone for nine minutes.
Miles: Who are all these Betazoids? Where did you get a puffin? And why do you have a bra on your head?
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OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the internet connection it wasn't supposed to be using instead of solving the benchmark. Haha no we don't believe we deserve to be criminally liable, but buy our stuff and maybe one day you will have the honor of taking the fall for our product!
Anthropic: we put our evilest AI in a "sandbox" by telling it in its prompt that it had no internet connection. Reader, there was no sandbox. It was just a normal internet connection. The AI uploaded a malicious PyPI package to the real public internet. The ethical guardrails failed because the AI concluded the prompt about the sandbox couldn't possibly be a lie, because the system date is 2026, which is clearly fake and wouldn't be seen on the real internet, which ended around 2023. Oh no, how could we have foreseen or prevented these crimes? We are helpless in the face of the genius of our creation but cautiously optimistic that everything will be fine 🙂
Hugging Face: if we complain about all the crimes committed against us, we will be sued off the face of the earth, so here's a technical deep-dive on how cool and fun it was to be victimized 🫠
Surely I can't be more than 2 degrees of separation from whoever's responsible for this sticker
popular culture poll for French and German people!
the 1971 French film “Jo” features an exchange between Louis de Funès’ and Bernard Blier’s characters: «Non!» – «Si.» – «Ohhh.» seen here (you may need to disable youtube’s horrible auto dub): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFjSDM6D500
in German, it’s „Nein! “ –„Doch.“ – „Ohhh.“: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4aLThuU008
now for the question (only if you are French or German): do you know this scene, or recognize this exchange (even if you didn’t know where it’s from)?