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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Viss/117475756759987593 I miss the old days when we didn’t have multiple critical vulnerabilities a day.

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  “Cupertino” (TV Series) is intriguing… the first episode felt a bit like a legal procedural knock-off of “Silicon Valley” but it’s started to go other places. I’m curious to see if the writers manage to not fumble it.

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  I broke my ankle two weeks ago. (It’s fine, I’m fine, it’s a simple non-displaced fracture.) Anyway my post is that I’ve found the most shockingly over-accommodating place contrary to every abled expectation: airports. I’m embarrassed to accept help because I’m traveling with family and can hobble along reasonably, but they’ve insisted on wheeling me everywhere, taking us to the front of lines, and generally making things not worse than normal. All included in the normal price of travel. 1/

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  @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz This is undoubtably the most Greg Egan of Greg Egan short stories (in a positive way).

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  "20 Percent Say Al Has Taken Over Parts of Their Job" "Al is the Boss at This Retail Store; What Could Go Wrong?" "Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About Al?" "More Americans Turn to Al for Financial Advice" "Al and Drones Can Select the Most Resilient Wheat" "Detectives Test Out a Potential Crime-Fighting Partner: Al"

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  I’m just back from an off-grid dive lodge in Pixvae, Panama and it really redefined for me what “off-grid” can mean. Solar power for lighting and devices, Starlink WiFi, gravity-fed spring and rain collection for water, and integrated septic systems. Still needs an occasional propane fill for cooking and hot water, but was just as comfortable as an urban resort and had world-class diving in Coiba National Park.

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  There’s finally an iOS 0-click vulnerability so severe that Apple has released an update for those of us who don’t want the Liquid Ass UX! Huzzah! https://tapbots.social/@paul/116330624484699048

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  "The past is never dead. It's not even past.” (Faulkner) https://digitalcourage.social/@Bonobo/116347204480585797

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  “I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.” https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116359653177344810

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  I have a rude question: Is open source licensing dead? Code assistants are trained on the universe of (variously licensed) source-available software in existence, and can recapitulate a vaguely compatible clone claiming “clean room”(ish) techniques. (See: chardet) LLMs can be used to monetize others open source work even more trivially, as described below. Where can we even go from here? https://social.nouveau.community/@june/116189020908193236

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  I was reading my child a bedtime story and then my book decided it had to install a software update in the middle.

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  Who could have guessed that allowing crypto-betting prediction markets would rapidly converge with Jim Bell’s “Assassination Politics”? 🤔 https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/116239121117366190

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  Question: is it better to be in a sweatshop folding laundry, or in a VR headset sweatshop teleoperating a laundry folding robot? https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/laundry_folding_robot_8000_dollars_teleoperated/

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