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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 20h

Yeah that's happening already chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

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jiska @naehrdine.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know more details on Apple's SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves? Read more on this in the paper based on Moritz Steffin's thesis. Lots of low-level details including their security implications are covered.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.09272

Modern iOS Security Features -- A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves

The XNU kernel is the basis of Apple's operating systems. Although labeled as a hybrid kernel, it is found to generally operate in a monolithic manner by defining a single privileged trust zone in whi...

arxiv.org

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 21h

One of the dozen other BOINC-based projects like SETI@Home was :)

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

@dequis.org

rocío 🏳️‍⚧️ @rocio.blue · 2d

Probably the best mug from ommo.art ever which says "artificial intelligence? No, natural dumb". It sounds funnier in spanish lol.

A white mug with a poodle using a laptop an it says: inteligencia artificial? No, boluda natural" and the laptop shows an error through a dialog bubble

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

If you only need an S3 bucket, use Backblaze instead of AWS (cheaper and has spending caps!)

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

Prediction: 6a87710d95b6d72f104cc7ef4df8b2a2

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

But I think Google *already* worked that way, if the vibe coder enables paid plan expecting $2 and gets a $20000 bill, it won't save them...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

For new accounts since July, users have to actively "switch to the Paid Plan". aws.amazon.com/free/

Free Cloud Computing Services - AWS Free Tier

Gain hands-on experience with the AWS platform, products, and services for free with the AWS Free Tier offerings. Browse 100 offerings for AWS free tier services.

aws.amazon.com

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

AWS free tier got significantly better recently. They actually have a "don't let me do anything that would cost money" mode.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

Now this is true art.

じゃむろーり @jamroly66.bsky.social · 3d

ミクさんとまめっち

#初音ミク
#バルーンアート

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 3d

it can’t be good for our fragile brains to be asking “is this real?” at everything we see

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 2d

Then tribalism and rivalry turns into violence and games end up like this: youtu.be/9fDAzIBvYhs

El famoso [Matt Damon] nos cuenta su experiencia en un partido de Boca Juniors ❌[#BocaMundial]❌

YouTube video by JAPM DEPORTES

youtu.be

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

Recently a friend was praising Omarchy Linux and telling me to try it.

I think he's entirely unaware of DHH's politics, Omarchy being advertised as "DEI-free anti-woke distro", and all the lore behind hyprland. I don't know where to even begin answering, I don't have references for all this 😭

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 4d

Many YouTube comments are saying the single layer discs are likely to be bootleg 🤔

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 5d

I found a security bug in Bitcoin-related software and reported it, my PoC basically stole 5 BTC from the dev. He didn't mind because it was worth like $0.01.

I ended up donating it to one of those "faucet" websites that gave you free BTC to play with. It was worth $0.01 anyway.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 5d

your

TestFlight app on the App Store, the preview screenshot says "Access you beta apps and view updates"

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 5d

I found a security bug in Bitcoin-related software and reported it, my PoC basically stole 5 BTC from the dev. He didn't mind because it was worth like $0.01.

I ended up donating it to one of those "faucet" websites that gave you free BTC to play with. It was worth $0.01 anyway.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 5d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 6d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

Ah I see you incorporated the Apple trampolines since last time I read this ^^

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

Google behind Tile? That's surprising, I guess in the US there's way more people using Tile than I thought. The Life360 acquisition probably helped them expand coverage too 🤔

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

Self-confidence is almost as badly distributed as wealth.

Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

I was a fan of Tile but the Apple and Google BLE tracker ecosystems are now significant improvements (security, privacy, coverage) and Tile didn't seem to catch up...

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

The license says if you receive binaries, you should also receive source code. They didn't release any binaries yet.

The instant they publish binaries, if the repo is still private, they're violating the license, but until then there is no problem.

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Nicolás Alvarez @nicolas17.xyz · 6d

Did they publish any binaries yet?

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