Thanks to your amazing support, our team is funded for the next year. This is a huge relief and lets us focus on building a truly self-sustaining OSL.

https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update/

Somebody replied to a post of mine with "lol microsoft security" and... Look, we laugh because we remember the old days, but: log4shell, Heartbleed, Shellshock, the Valgrind randomization bug, every firewall traversal bug with "../../" in it and Linux access permissions are a child's toy left over from the 70s. None of those are Microsoft problems.

Time was, yes, sure. Fine. Today, we have to get our own glass house in order before we call in that shipment from the quarry.

We're 2.5 years into this gold rush, and I still haven't seen any gold. I've seen people selling picks & shovels. I've seen "gold experts" selling maps to the gold. I've seen CEOs announce they're going "gold-first". I've seen people selling land where they claim there's gold. But no actual gold.

How to Bike Across the Country (that being the USA)

https://www.brooks.team/posts/how-to-bike-across-the-country/

Though fair play to Google, it did acknowledge that there is no literal meaning to the phrase "To grow an aubergine you have to bugger the badger".

Though it still thought it was a phrase that is used. Which I'm pretty sure it isn't.

#AI #Google #Hallucinations

Be like Dolly.

Just, y’know, a plot of all objects in the universe...🤯

@signalapp

When do we get the ability to link our tablets so we aren't stuck trying to message on a device the size of an index card?

Finished up the first round of -fsanitize=undefined work in picolibc and wrote down some notes. précis: use this flag, it's good.

https://keithp.com/blogs/sanitizer-fun/

@DamonHD I think we all know by now which the one true editor is, but we in the winning team want the other side to be happy as well, so we keep up the charade for everyone's benefit! 😁

I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.

#AI #AICrap #EmDashes #typography #writing #FuckAI

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/waymo-market-street-lurie-20268233.php

hey @cfbolz I heard that writing this kind of code is the secret to getting the most out of PyPy, is that true?

https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html

GCC 15 Is Bringing Some Nice Usability Improvements For Developers

In addition to the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release bringing a COBOL language front-end, much better Rust support, revamped AVX10 support, and other shiny new language features and hardware supports, there are also some more fundamental usability improvements for developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15-Usability-Improvements

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff.

The pace of innovation coming from these phishing groups is something to behold, as are their success rates. And thousands of US financial institutions are sitting ducks.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/china-based-sms-phishing-triad-pivots-to-banks/