Observation: low-quality MCPs have more GitHub stars than their high-quality alternatives.

@thezero One important lesson I learned in life is to stay the fuck away from people who employ projection, esp. if they do it consciously:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/projection

isomorphisms per monad

@joxean It's perfectly normal, our politicians used that same spyware on journalists etc.

[RSS] Hungary grants asylum to former Polish minister implicated in spyware probe

https://therecord.media/hungary-asylum-spyware-probe-poland

'i learn so much by using an LLM' sure thing, just as anyone who ever 'learned' programming from a book while not bothering to type out a single line of code.

🔔CFP for #OffensiveCon26 is STILL open.
If you want a slot on one of the most technical offensive security stages out there, this is it.

We’re looking for real, original work: cutting-edge security research, novel exploit techniques, and deep technical investigations that actually move the field forward. Ready or not, the deadline is coming.

🗓️ CFP Deadline: 1 March 2026, 6:00 pm UTC
📬 Submit your talk: https://buff.ly/bPTM6wl

⏳ Last weeks. No extensions.

@mikoto MS deliberately messing with us, just look at Visual Studio vs. MSVC product/version numbering

A useful chart on what type to use for flags in C/C++ depending on your D&D alignment:

Shot in the dark but is anyone else here a teacher? I am working on revising the literacy curriculum at my school and feel as though I’m doing it in complete isolation. I’d love to chat with another professional about it. #forkiverse #teachers #curriculum (im trying with this tagging stuff but I have legit never done it before)

@bagder

On the morning of the 13th day of the year we have received *checks notes* 13 #curl vulnerability reports on Hackerone this year.

None a confirmed vulnerability.

libpng memory corruptions:

* CVE-2026-22695 - Heap buffer over-read in `png_image_read_direct_scaled` (regression from CVE-2025-65018 fix)

https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advisories/GHSA-mmq5-27w3-rxpp

* CVE-2026-22801 - Integer truncation causing heap buffer over-read in `png_image_write_*`

https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/security/advisories/GHSA-vgjq-8cw5-ggw8

This is the Web of the 1990s and, to some degree, the early 2000s — that some of us experienced and remember.

The Web that some of us want to make a come back.

#WorldWideWeb

The Remarkable Computers Built Not to Fail by Asianometry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSSB7ZTSXH4

#tandem #hp

This is a super thought-provoking read: "your password doesn't matter": https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft-entra-blog/your-paword-doesnt-matter/731984

It looks at all of the major failure cases of passwords, pointing out that only one password complexity choice (avoiding a password in the top 10) really influences those failure modes.

The rest can only be addressed with MFA.

@georgek @bontchev I don't have a clue if expecting EUR drives inflation or not, but pretty sure that real estate prices are not good indicators that it does.

@Tattooed_Mummy @ben @TwoClownsEating @babe @TheBreadmonkey @jerry @Nickiquote @skeletor

“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”

@airwhale @internetsdairy @nicol @TheBreadmonkey third one mostly explains robot uprisings!

@GossiTheDog It’s fascinating that payment processors and app stores happily bullied Tumblr over female presenting nipples and have kicked adult game creators off of Steam, but have been completely silent on CSAM and misogyny generated on X