evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

We understood how to write good code in C. When we didn't feel like managing memory manually, we called up the Boehm garbage collector and punted, and that worked just fine.

What the fuck happened to us? We used to be the sharpest knives in the drawer. We didn't need an ocean of fresh water and an entire nuclear power plant to pretend to do our jobs, we just did them.

PSA.

An AI threat report accused a startup of Chinese espionage. Security vendors globally blocked them based on hallucinated findings. The startup is now suing. This is what happens when you treat machine-generated correlations as intelligence.

https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/07/02/startup-sues-palo-alto-networks-koi-security-saying-an-ai-hallucinated-report-falsely-linked-it-to-chinese-espionage/5266201

Onion ads are killing it rn

@sundogplanets have NZ folks already shared Brendan Larsen’s picture of Mt Taranaki with you?

Shared on FB. His website is here: https://www.blarsenphoto.com

Harry Update: I told him he was orange

#CatsOfMastodon

right so i got the PowerBook G4. problem is that the 4 key is extremely sensitive and was actually firing repeatedly. i took the 4 key off and it stopped. the slightest touch of the rubber dome thing makes it fire the 4 key. any ideas on how to fix it?

please boost this post, i don't want to use it without a proper 4 key!

#VintageTech #PowerBook #Apple #Tech #Technology

shoutouts to whoever drew this bunny on one of the classic macs at this computer museum

By Xinmei Liu

#Art #illustration

Mt Cook (Aoraki), Canterbury Region, New Zealand

More about me & prints
https://linktr.ee/steven.sandner

Aperture: f/8
Shutter Speed: 1/400s
ISO: 100

#Mountain #Snow #Landscape

4x USB-C ports
* 2x USB hosts
* USB Audio
1x - HDMI port
LoRa, GPS, Wifi, BLE
No uboot - custom bootloader
Removable Battery
QMK Firmware keyboard
Builtin Black Magic Probe
Full driver stack
Full software support
* Suspend to ram
* Low power mode
* USB C charge profiles
* Fast Charge mode

#cyberdeck #linux #mobilelinux #openSource #QMK #BlackMagic

It seems bright in here. Did I leave a light on. Oh, that would be the sun.

Oh no.

A vendor for my day job had a 12 hour outage to start the week. The length pushed the vendor into the second tier of SLA violations for the fiscal year.

This morning we had a meeting to discuss that outage and they inadvertently confirmed it was unaudited vibe-coding/AI slop.

So at least I've got that going for me.

#AI #VibeCoding #Slop #Outage #LLM

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
June 28,1972

Longshot, but does anyone own the Nokia 9110 Upgrade Kit CD and could put an iso on the archive?