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  My boys :blobblush:

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  okay so, it is abundantly clear that the Cursor version of the Claude plugin was compromised (a fork of VS Code), but no-one seems to know for sure whether the vanilla VS Code version was as well what we can see is that Anthropic has recently been updating the vanilla VS Code plugin once every weekday(!!! what the hell are they doing in there), and yesterday's, version .313, is missing from that history But whether it existed and then was pulled, or never made it to this platform to begin...

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  buppy on my bed #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon

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  okay, so here's what I'm thinking right now: 1) we, people who like things to have some reasonable baseline amount of safety in our everyday tools, have been complaining for years that VS Code's plugin model is absurdly unsafe and an absolute open sewer; Microsoft shrugs and says it's the user's responsibility to only install reliable plugins 2) as foretold by the prophecy, a major plugin from a major company is compromised and begins pushing shell scripts to automatically...

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  Whoever hacked AO3 so hard that they're forecasting being down for a month is not prepared for what happens when every random bored paper-pusher between you and being identified and arrested has her yaoi taken away

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  when ads get through my filters, they're often rather poorly targeted because I don't fit into typical interest buckets for my gender and age, but this ad that's clearly targeted at a Levite tribesman from 1200 BCE is perhaps the furthest from the mark yet

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  a breakdown of my Bad Replies, given that the worst-of-the-worst instances are of course blocked by my moderators: - 80% users from major mainstream servers, especially mastodon.social, who have poor netiquette or the stink of subconscious misogyny about them - 15% single-user instances owned by people who have already been banned from every open-signup server and sincerely believe that every single one was completely unfair and tyrannical - 5% kolektiva users openly planning war crimes in...

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  So, my previous apartment – it was in Leiden, on a narrow medieval street, and the buildings were all quite old so they weren't all built to the same standard floor-height, and the windows were all huge. As a result, I could look out my window and have a crystal clear view of the floor of the living room across from me, where some college girls lived. One day, they had some guy-friends over. And I happened to glance out the window and see one of these boys, mid-conversation, casually and s...

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  A young boy that I suspect was probably a Ukrainian refugee came up and asked in English if he could pet Odin "because this is my favorite breed of dog," and then clearly began arguing with his mother in their native language that see, it's fine, he's ready for the responsibility of a dog over twice his size then we ran into Ace; despite living in the same building, we hadn't seen him in weeks. He's grown enough to be more of a fun playmate for Odin, shown here being...

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  “It’s a poor worksman who blames his tools” has always been complete nonsense. No-one complains about imperfect tools faster and louder than a master. A master will yank a cheap or damaged tool out of your hand and yell at you for not blaming it yet Cheap, lousy tools come from middle managers who don’t know how to do your job. Blame the hell out of poor tools and those who demand you use them

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  RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@ehashman/117481992432596098 In the Netherlands, first we got a national news alert that all government websites were shutting down because of the PHP bug, and then our national comedian-newscaster Lubach did a bit about it. so yeah, containment was breached

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  ugh. the patch is massive 🫩 the bug is based on causing an OOM condition and no-one ever accused the php interpreter of being neatly and elegantly architected, so the fix touches everything 🫩 the bugs go back many years but backporting the fix to all those versions is wildly impractical 🫩 the exploit was developed with AI assistance but it was based on existing human research, including by my old nemesis Stefan Esser. I don't remember why he's my nemesis, I assume we got into a stupi...

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  Double ADHD marriage be like: realizing we both completely forgot about our anniversary weeks ago

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  last night: I take the time to watch a funny Skyrim challenge video instead of worrying about anything important. The number 4 breaks the internet this morning: I sleep like a functioning healthy human being. PHP breaks the internet

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  okay, I’m way too late to post xkcd “4” comic and still be funny, so instead I will have to write a serious post Could this disturbingly severe mistake be because someone asked The Cat for a certificate? Hypothetically, yes. But there’s absolutely no reason to jump to that conclusion with self-righteous confidence when all serious infosec experts have been screaming for THIRTY YEARS that our programming languages are designed to maximize the probability of catastrophic mistakes in cryptographi...

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  the most Public Transport Odins of All Time #publictransport #trains #tram

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  I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and not rush to the airport and get on the next flight? There's one every half hour, everyone know that" The idea of rocking up to an airport spontaneously and buying a ticket to...

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  I see your "Tiffany is a valid medieval name" and raise you "Alexander the Great's wife was named Roxanne"

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  Odin’s at the Amsterdam marathon! Yes, many of the competitors smile at Odin as they pass, and one lady gave up a few seconds off her result to stop and pet him. There are party boats blasting music up and down the Amstel. One of them’s just a guy in a rowboat with a trumpet and a hand crank organ tooting Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten While I was typing the alt text, two more runners pet him #amsterdam #marathon #amsterdammarathon

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  I heard a young man in a poorly lit back alley ask a young woman “do you want to feed ducks for two weeks, and get paid for it?” This is the first time a young man’s proposition has ever caught my attention.

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  The Funny Number Paradox states that there is no least funny number, because while the theory informs us that the least funny number is 68, that actually makes it incredibly funny

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  People ask me what I miss about the United States. This, this is what I miss. The cold yet sunlit rocky reaches of my childhood home, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, proud and tall in her autumn raiment. And also goldfish crackers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54U1kdfH_Sk

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  When Odin was two months old, we caught him chewing on an HDMI cable. We told him to stop and he never chewed on it, or any other cable, ever again. (He's remarkably agreeable about this sort of thing.) And I've been re-patching it with more electrical tape every few months for almost three years now 😂 it started dropping frames like crazy today, I guess it's time to let puppy teeth entropy win and buy a new one

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  Flabbergasted by this guy on Mario Kart whose display name is just “Mike”, his character is just Mario, and his player sticker badge is the default one. And he’s quite good at the game. A man whose gender truly is Just A Guy

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  Nintended solution #mariokart

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@NOS/117444709651823503 Current Albert Heijn supply chain crisis level: the police are publicly “inviting” Albert Heijn to actually call them about this criminal hacker that they say stole the national cucumber reserves They forgot to call the police.

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  Two handsome boys and a boat #amsterdam

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  so, Albert Heijn, one of the main Dutch grocery chains, has had a major IT disruption because of some sort of ransomware attack, and this has caused stores to not get deliveries of fresh fruits and vegetables Some passerby was quoted on the news as saying to chin up and stop whining because "it's nothing compared to third-world countries" (their phrase, not mine) The type of places they mean typically have a *fantastic* selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. A city running ou...

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  Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making it exponentially worse

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  Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember