Humans began to wear clothing 170,000 years ago

Genetic data suggest that body hair was lost ∼1.2 Ma ... 3 Ma

Parasites are an ideal for determining when clothing use first began in hominins.

The human louse (Pediculus humanus) is a single species that occurs as two ecological types (head and clothing lice). Determining when head and clothing lice began to diverge provides a date by which clothing must have been in regular use by humans.

Origin of Clothing Lice Indicates Early Clothing Use by Anatomically Modern Humans in Africa https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/28/1/29/984822?login=false

#evolution #molecularBiology #Paleoanthropology #Anthropology
#Archaeology

good coffee at the macro cafe

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed."

"Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon.

"You agree?"

"These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

We can build technology that helps our liberatory movements learn from the past, in order to build a better future.

Our newest project is an archive of higher-ed campus protests, designed to support campus activists and others working on left and liberatory organizing.

https://campus-protest.org

so what has broken the internet today?
1. php
2. node.js
3. gitlab
4. 4
5. musl
6. QUIC/HTTP/3
7. Signal
8. Apache Traffic Server
9. Pillow for Python, even!
10. LiteLLM

(Java is reported, but supposedly it's just their version of the 4 issue)

anything else I'm missing?

and apparently Railray (a cloud provider?) got hacked and are telling all their customers to rotate their secrets. Apparently things like API keys were stolen

Finally got around to reading WARHOUND today, and as a feminine quasi-human entity overburdened by responsibility that loves drugs and hates thinking, i would like to say bark bark arf wruff *pathetic whine*

My new translation app, thanks y'all:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.davidv.translator/

Based off of the Firefox translation models, so tragically it won't translate or transliterate pinyin (will translate 我不知道
but not "wo bu zhidao" or "wǒ bù zhīdào"), but otherwise high quality, does images. UI could use a bit of freshening and the camera UI is slightly glitchy but it's a darn sight better than whatever DeepL is doing. Actually this is really nice, it would compliment Google Translate well even if I still used that.

@jacqueline like i've looked at everything i could and zulip is by far the best contender for something that is forum-like and actually usable (even if it is not exactly a forum)

second best was flarum, but that's more php

someone should write a new simple forum software in like go or rust or something. not like the avant-garde disaster of discourse, just like a normal software for a normal forum. one binary deployment, flexible frontend so u can style it how u want, works fine with sqlite.

If you're looking for the most detailed AND *entertaining* way to read about the php2shell bugs, the Calif post is epic: https://calif.io/php2shell/

Almost every time a peaceful protest becomes a "riot", the riot was started by the cops.

#hugops for all of the folks dealing with all of the various security dumpsterfires of today.

HTTP/3 compression bomb: https://foxio.io/blog/header-accordions-qpack-amplification-attacks-against-http-3-servers

Hey hey momo

Hey hey hey momo

uh oh, 5, too many https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2026-94300

staring across a wasteland of lockfiles that require immediate attention, forever, we must imagine Sisyphus singing, "I like dep bumps and I cannot lie"

@NatGrayYes Debian does have patches for the PHP vunls all the way down to PHP 5.6.

Here's my summary of why websites are offline right now, and why nerds are laughing at the number 4.

I've attempted to explain the jargon in use, so those interested but not working in tech have a chance at understanding what's going on.

https://natgray.co.uk/blog/why-websites-are-offline-and-nerds-are-laughing-at-the-number-4/