BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

#GhostMap #Android flaw lets malicious app trigger persistent boot loop

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ghostmap-android-flaw-lets-malicious-app-trigger-persistent-boot-loop/

#cybersecurity #malware

We got here because we valued code above solving problems, not understanding that code almost always causes new, worse problems.

“Over several months, [Google’s] Gemini chatbot diagnosed a previously active, well-adjusted 13-year-old girl with a battery of severe psychological disorders, helped her plan her suicide and funeral, and coached her to conceal her distress and self-harm from her family—all without providing a single alert to school personnel or her parents...” #AI
https://www.commondreams.org/news/google-ai-chatbot-teen-suicide

Shorter: Trump would sooner kill everyone, including himself, than injure his own ego.

Elected Democrats, civil institutions, other countries, people of the US, people of the world: take this week’s news as a warning and resist accordingly.

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

@ariadne

It is a dark day indeed when Microsoft Visual Studio Code is the ethically superior alternative to GNU Emacs.

@cwebber in my workplace we are still in the "embracing AI first" way of working stage. No amount of warnings seem to have any effect. I'm in malicious compliance -mode. Then I can tell I told you so. Though probably no one is interested in that either...

Pylova is a mostly pointless reactionary fork that came out of some drama perpetuated by a bunch of crybullies.

So it’s cringe, but not necessarily controversial. But also doesn’t really contribute anything of value.

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

Fortunately, piefed’s controversial feature was a checkbox in the settings that an admin can easily toggle on/off, unlike Tesseract that had a hidden hardcoded list. And as you are probably aware, our .zip admin gives us users the autonomy to block stuff ourselves, so that wasn’t really that big of an issue.

@shauna @jtannenwald.bsky.social @davisjason.bsky.social Reign City Riot. More here: https://www.thestranger.com/play-date-2/making-music-with-the-reign-city-riot-79047067/

@jalefkowit

Maybe the next Austin Powers would be a better fit.

@lritter Well my point was "there seems to be no plan or the opposite of a plan, and regardless of what happens it will happen with no plan". And I feel your questions only reinforce that point

@Moosader i dunno, in a way that's kinda "real world" though, first step in programming software to do something is always researching and defining exactly what the "something" is and breaking down the logic i'd need to interact with it, though maybe that crosses the line a bit between software engineering and programming and might be out of scope for a class on a programming language.

@felix Belonging definitely feels like an underappreciated value when it comes to some aspects of computing. I've written about a related topic (grounding) with respect to social media: https://destructured.net/groundedness-networked-community

For open-source software, if you are maintaining a successful project, moving fast and expecting others to keep up… you won’t be successful for long.

la créativité des gens m'émerveillera toujours

jeu : Trace ta manif

platformed.studio/gaming/trace...

unless you looked at their profile on their home server, zero posts could have just been that posts don’t federate if nobody on your server had followed them before.