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Phillip Wylie @phillipwylie.bsky.social · 11m

Hacking Past and Present: A Conversation with Moses Frost

Hacking Past and Present: A Conversation with Moses Frost - Phillip Wylie

Moses Frost, an offensive security expert, shares his journey into cybersecurity in this episode of the Phillip Wylie Show. Frost’s interest in computers started in elementary school when he taught himself how to use an old IBM 8088 and read about DOS. He later discovered bulletin board systems (BBS) and began exploring the world of…

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 1d

wrote up a little thing

AT Namespaces for Community Spaces

How should public community-controlled spaces be represented in atproto?

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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 1h

Been meaning to put this somewhere for a while — a real, solid technical reason linear VCS history is better than one full of merges, going beyond taste and subjective preference

lobste.rs/c/cix1sm

> git works best when it has the full merge history available

I used to work on source control. This is actually not true, because (among other things) having a full merge history leads to the likelihood of what are known as criss-cross merges: situations where there isn't a single nearest common ancestor/merge base between two commits. (Merge bases are a crucial piece of information for many source control algorithms.) Criss-cross merges are a pain to deal with, both within the version control system itself and within tools written on top of the VCS. As a result, many tools simply consider criss-cross merges to be outside of their design parameters.

In contrast, a linear history can never have criss-cross merges, greatly simplifying many algorithms.

In general, linear history is friendlier for both tools and humans.

edit: to give an example, a tool I helped build for work needs to load files from the merge base of a commit so it can ensure that "blessed" files don't change in nontrivial ways. The tool simply (and correctly) considers criss-cross merges to be out of scope: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/dropshot-api-manager/blob/bb71488cfa2f642b232ef619bbb3d2c287c8e336/crates/dropshot-api-manager/src/git.rs#L22

Opting into a history full of merges means imposing a burden on the entire ecosystem.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 48m

Yeah that one came as a surprise to me. Did Alaska voters already know about that, or were they surprised too?

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 1h

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h

That’s a different phenomenon, although occasionally there’s a little overlap.

Sometimes Blue MAGA (reactionary and dogmatic) is a slippery slope to BlueAnon (stolen 2024 election conspiracy theories) which can carry an untethered mind almost anywhere on winds of nihilism.

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Tankie - Wikipedia

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4h

Thread of the Day 🥇

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thanks to the first volume of Michael Palin's diaries, I recently discovered the glory of one of the greatest travel pieces in British publishing history.

In early April 1977, The Guardian published a 7-page travel supplement on this "little-known" island nation...

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 6h

“As a fellow portfolio company of Silver Lake, EA is now, just like Qualtrics, best understood as a surveillance operation.”

When the Saudis backed EA’s acquisition, they bought both cultural power and a surveillance infrastructure. It’s weird to see so much official disinterest in this move.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 7h

Inspired by Northwestern students protesting EdTech-delivered loyalty oaths, by the student-led Luddite Renaissance, by Matthew Josephson, Connie Bruck & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, I tried to track how kleptocratic antitrust policy enables a surveillance megalith.

open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 7h

Inspired by Northwestern students protesting EdTech-delivered loyalty oaths, by the student-led Luddite Renaissance, by Matthew Josephson, Connie Bruck & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, I tried to track how kleptocratic antitrust policy enables a surveillance megalith.

open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6h

That was true on Twitter for years too. It led to an entire genre of “influencers” for whom whining about “my mentions” and “don’t @ me” became their entire personality. 🧐🤔🤣😑

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · Jun 13

In recent weeks, a swarm of spammy X accounts has been advertising an AI "nudifier" app by the name of Undress App. Here's a look at the network promoting this problematic software.
bsky.app/profile/mant...

collage of X spam posts with links to undress(dot)app

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Euronews @euronews.com · 6h

A sign of changing times... And a business decision that represents a cultural moment, signalling the death of communal music discovery and prompting a reflection on how we consume music in the digital age.

MTV music channels to be switched off across Europe by end of 2025

A sign of changing times... And a business decision that represents a cultural moment, signalling the death of communal music discovery and prompting a reflection on how we consume music in the digital age.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6h

…so far.

a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson with the words that you know of so far

ALT: a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson with the words that you know of so far

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6h

Yup. Childhood indoctrination is an extremely powerful force.

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 13h

I meant to, but you know how it is. Got busy with other things and forgot. Glad word finally got to you, though. 🤣

Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 13h

Tariffs and even simply Wall Street fretting because of uncertainty are probably contributing, too.

If he keeps playing tariff games, it could get quite bad, like it did from 1929 to 1939 in part due to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.

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Deflation - Wikipedia

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 14h

Their LLM re-used the headline, too. 🧐🤔⌨️🖥️🤣

So, the not-so-funny part is that inflation probably *is* falling because *demand* is contracting. He's caused a recession in most sectors of the economy, which in aggregate is being asked by large AI datacenter builds.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-h...

Trump Hails Inflation Win As PPI Drops To 2.6%, Defying Forecasts

President Donald Trump touted victory over inflation after the Producer Price Index dropped to 2.6% in August, below forecasts.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 14h

Upgrading older devices to iOS 26 and macOS 26 provides some of the benefits of Apple's new Memory Integrity Enforcement. Hardware extensions in A19 and M5 processors provide even more protection against a wide array of programmatic attacks against devices.

security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our adv...

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 14h

It hasn't been announced, but it seems likely that Apple's new M5 processor will include the same Enhanced Memory Tagging Extension (EMTE) as their new A19 and A19 Pro chips which debuted in iPhone 17 models recently.

Memory Integrity Enforcement is a *big* deal.

www.engadget.com/big-tech/the...

The first products with Apple's M5 chip could make their debut this week

We're expecting to see the latest MacBook Pro, along with a new iPad Pro and Vision Pro, in the coming weeks.

www.engadget.com

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 14h

It's my impression that bots on social media have done more damage than is generally realized.

news.nd.edu/news/social-...

Social media platforms aren’t doing enough to stop harmful AI bots, research finds

New research from the University of Notre Dame analyzed the AI bot policies and mechanisms of eight social media platforms: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit, ...

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 14h

They've been trained by a decade of bots on social media, a few decades of Fox News overlapping and prior to the bots, and a decade of Rush Limbaugh before Fox News, to become trolls.

news.nd.edu/news/social-...

Social media platforms aren’t doing enough to stop harmful AI bots, research finds

New research from the University of Notre Dame analyzed the AI bot policies and mechanisms of eight social media platforms: LinkedIn, Mastodon, Reddit, ...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time."

I didn't think George Stephanopolous had that gear, but good for him. That's how it should always be done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Keith Connolly @limerick4inarow.bsky.social · 20h

This regime needs to be relentlessly mocked. Well done Portland. Giant frogs and naked cyclists helped saved the republic.

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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 15h

Dispatches from The Second Great War for Portland™

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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