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John Timaeus @johntimaeus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Most interesting question a computer has asked me this week:

output file: /dev/null exists, overwrite? [y/N]

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21h

So, at Amazon, we have a huge ecosystem of internal systems that have all sorts of goofy names and weird interdependencies. A colleague of mine left, I inherited a bunch of his technical assets, and now I have to go around shutting things down, deleting things, etc. But the process is always […]

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Dozens killed or wounded while protesting against Burma’s military government after an army motorized paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge2l1xj2zdo

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data.

I realize they […]

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screenshot: We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.

That sounds like a lot, and it is, but that’s where the real value for improvements comes from. If you allow us to collect this data, we will make sure that:
No sensitive or personal information is shared.

(Snippets of the text have been highlighted: “edit history, terminal usage, code snippets, prompt text … no sensitive or personal information is shared.”

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dgelessus @dgelessus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

@0xabad1dea I particularly "like" their FAQ entry on the subject:

> How do you **prevent** sensitive data from being used to train models?
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> We use filtering, anonymization, and strict access controls to **avoid** using sensitive information for LLM training. [...]

Emphasis mine. How do they […]

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Chester Wisniewski @chetwisniewski.securitycafe.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19h

New startup idea: Safety railings for Moscow apartments. There clearly is a desperate need for this technology and presumably an eager market in Russia.

Newsweek
News Russia
News Article
Former Russian Newspaper Publisher Dies After Falling From Window

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 19h

www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

In a list of the Office of Personnel
Management director's priorities for the federal workforce, technology is "number one, two and three."

"We have a real, acute shortage of people who have what I would call very cutting-edge, modern tech skills," said Scott Kupor, director of the government's personnel agency.

A man dressed in a hot dog suit, saying “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

CNN: "There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration is warning. In Nashville, so many controllers have stayed home the facility, which guides planes into and out of the airport, is […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

CIT spells out what 99% of professional press and analyst community appears allergic to mentioning: "As we have previously noted, some instances of airspace violations in Europe may be deliberate Russian provocations, while others are likely ordinary incidents that would once have gone largely […]

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reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"The witness says he went to talk to the men, who said they were tourists from Hong Kong… [Police inspector] Koskinen says that the Helsinki police receive reports of drones every week, often involving tourists flying drones. According to Koskinen, based on a “general feeling,” the number of […]

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

I know it's tiresome to play the "imagine if the parties were reversed" game, but thinking about how Republicans (and right-wing media) would be reacting if a Democratic-controlled House was refusing to swear in a newly elected *Republican* member may be the apotheosis of this particular meme.

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

"When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts suggest to help you through the external appeal process." […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

E.g. "according to a guy who was probably joking when he had a book printed in the 15th century, the word for..." or instead of "this means that" the truth is something like "this meant that, briefly, in a small region of Scotland in the 18th century, strictly among goatherds."

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like the whole thing where there are purported names for groups of animals in English (which mostly come from 1 or 2 books, were never used in conversation, etc.) is a good example of how people view language? Like saying "the word for [x]" as if English is part of the structure of reality.

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Assembly code between iOS 4.0 and 4.0.1. It's basically the same except one instruction points to a different address.

A lookup table tweaked between 4.0 and 4.0.1.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

ABC7: Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

https://abc7.com/post/hollywood-burbank-airport-will-have-no-air-traffic-controllers-evening-faa-warns/17952670/

#aviation #bur

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

AP: Air India’s midair emergency sparks new alarm over the safety of the Boeing Dreamliner

"Updated 9:56 AM PDT, October 6, 2025

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s leading body of pilots has asked the civil aviation regulator to inspect all Boeing 787 Dreamliners operating in the country for electrical […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I should note that none of this is technically difficult. Many image editors can embed and edit arbitrary EXIF fields (GPS location, captions, copyright, exposure, etc). Extracting data from EXIF is straightforward for websites that process images. The software part is easy here, and mostly done […]

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

so, analog tech used to be pretty glitchy. TV "static", modem line noise, degaussing, flickering fluorescent bulbs, etc. I grew up in an era of identifiable, well-understood signifiers of malfunction; and, crucially, *partial* malfunction. things kinda kept working even if they were wonky.

but […]

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Clint (he/him) @conejoclint.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/07/global-renewable-energy-generation-surpasses-coal-first-time

Aerial view of a winding road passing through a large solar panel field, with rows of solar panels on either side of the road. The landscape is green, indicating the presence of vegetation surrounding the installation.

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Michele Bannister @astrokiwi.bsky.social · 2d

Just going to say that it is hurtful when a systematic study effort by the global small-body community, with many of the campaigns led by women, with results being pushed to free open-source arXiv & data repos for scicomm as quickly as possible, is described as lacking coordination/communication

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reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115327889687349884

It's bleach

#savedyouaclick

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