@troed @chainq One recurring pattern I see with LLM contributions is that code-level abstractions don't make sense. The feature works, all tests pass, but a considerable amount of functionality is at the wrong place. Simplest example is a C project where *technically* it doesn't matter in which file you implement a function, but I've seen the same with Java&classes too. This doesn't matter for machines because they just grep for the function name, but makes human contributions extremely taxing, like living in a mad mans house where the soap is in the fridge and you have to climb a ladder to the attic to find the salt.

I think this can be a valid argument against the LLM push.

The Cycle 2 deadline for the USENIX WOOT Conference is in ~ 4 weeks (March 3, 2026)!

WOOT continues to include both a Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) track and an Up-and-Coming track (industry-focused).

Details are available in the Call for Papers:
https://lnkd.in/gK2RGj-h

It's pretty insane how we live in an age where everything needs to be monetized; every single tear of knowledge must be consecrated to the mighty god of money throught crappy trainings and certificates.

Annie Rauwerda, creator of Depths of Wikipedia, lives for the internet’s weirdest footnotes.

That includes things like the long-gone Garfield the cat “G-Mail,” 🙀📬 a very real web oddity now preserved only on the #WaybackMachine.

Internet history is stranger—and more fragile—than it looks.

Read more 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/05/depths-of-wikipedia-creator-annie-rauwerda-on-fragile-internet-citations/

@annierau @internetarchive #Wikipedia

[RSS] Windows containers network isolation RE

https://safesws.github.io/windows-containers-network-isolation/

[RSS] CVE-2026-2103 - Infor Syteline ERP - Keys Included: No Assembly Required

https://blog.blacklanternsecurity.com/p/cve-2026-2103-infor-syteline-erp

I am losing it at how many of my peers have forgotten what software engineering is. It is not typing in lines of code.

@nieldk we need an official alias

git ass

@csepp Stay strong, you can do this!

@Daffodil

i'm making a #QBasic game using mode 13h, 320x200 8bpp. i'm using the line doubling feature of the VGA card to make it 320x100 then manually doubling each pixel horizontally for 160x100

i realized i could use a palette with 3 bits red/green and 2 blue, and then do "subpixel" dither to generate the in between colors. i made a converter to test if that would look good, and it does

here's a thread of images showing what that looks like

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#PixelArt #QBasic #dos #RetroComputing #RetroDev

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Dear FOSS maintainers,

here’s a list of funding programs currently accepting proposals for maintenance work:

Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

GitHub: https://github.com/mechko/awesome-maintainer-funding

Thanks to everyone who helped crowdsource it! I’ll keep it updated, issues and PRs are very welcome :)

#opensource #funding #maintenance #foss

First research in a while! Here's my brain dump on reverse-engineering and auditing Lenovo Vantage. In total, I found four (4) vulns. Check out the post and my custom tooling if you're interested.

https://mkiesel.ch/posts/lenovo-vantage/

BMW’s latest “innovation” isn’t about performance or safety. It’s a logo-shaped screw designed to keep owners out of their own cars. We dug into the patent, the intent behind it, and why Adafruit is already working on a custom bit to undo BMW’s attempt to block repair. Learn more at the link below.

http://ifixit.com/News/115528/bmws-newest-innovation-is-a-logo-shaped-middle-finger-to-right-to-repair
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld

In a joint security notice BfV & BSI warn that a likely state-controlled threat actor is conducting phishing attacks via messaging services such as Signal. The targets are high-ranking individuals in politics, military & diplomacy and investigative journalists in Germany & Europe. https://www.bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Cybersicherheitswarnungen/DE/2026/202602_BfV_BSI_Sicherheitshinweis.html

[RSS] Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) on iOS Deep Dive - Part 1 - 8kSec

https://8ksec.io/mie-deep-dive-kernel/

Me: *drinks coffee*
My brain: DRINK MORE COFFEE!!!1

Due to $reasons I came across this blogpost https://www.elttam.com/blog/env/ about turning ENV variables into code execution which is nice. But the Python vector is depending on Perl, I didn't like that :P.

Digging a bit deeper in the code often helps, so it did this time:

Looking at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/d73634935cb9ce00a57dcacbd2e56371e4c18451/Lib/webbrowser.py#L51-L52 I could simplify the payload to:

PYTHONWARNINGS='module::antigravity.'  BROWSER='sh -c id #%s' python whatever.py