Daily fill-the-blanks game:

"[REDACTED] technology is characterised by a constant stream of poorly thought-out experimentation and constantly trying to outdo the competition [...] Therefore [REDACTED] technology is not uniform, lending [REDACTED] a cobbled together and random appearance.[...] Much of [REDACTED] technology is unreliable and sometimes seemingly inoperable to [REDACTED], in some cases only working properly in the hands of an [REDACTED]."

Solution below...

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[RSS] Aha, I found a counterexample to the documentation that says that Query-Performance-Counter never fails

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260304-00/?p=112110

DOMPurify 2.5.9 and DOMPurify 3.3.2 were released today in a rush to fix a security issue caused by jsdom's faulty tag parsing.

A total of four people reported the exacty same bug within a window of three days.

One did so via email, thank you. One did so via private security advisory, thank you too.

One however simply published a ticket for everyone to see, the other one just dropped a CVE on us without a working fix release. Thanks for nothing.

https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/releases/tag/3.3.2

https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify/releases/tag/2.5.9

I'm here waiting until the multi-trillion dollar wunderchild of human progress finishes "Finagling..."

Btw. is it me or these pinnacles of technology only ask confirmation for `echo` when they are about to execute `echo lol && rm -rf ~/`?

@iFixit Do you see any improvements on the keycap front? My perfectly good ThinkPads become unsuable because keycaps break all the time and I can only order full keyboards (*if* I can find any!).

[RSS] Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 1

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi

If you as a journalist bring up the fact the Linus Torvalds vibe-codes, but fail to add "for his guitar effect pet-project" you can consider yourself a permanent resident of the tabloid/propaganda shelf.

@cygnus-xr1 I'm listening through their Bandcamp rn :)

@cygnus-xr1 Just what I needed, thx!

"Every single time you mandate #ageverification, you are mandating the creation of a centralized database of extraordinarily sensitive personal information. Government IDs. #Biometric facial data. The kind of data that, once breached, cannot be “changed” like a password. You get one face. You get one #government ID number. When those leak—and they will leak—the damage is permanent."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. 🧵 1/5

[RSS] Building a Custom Architecture and Platform: Part 3

https://binary.ninja/2026/03/04/quark-platform-part-3.html

#BinaryNinja

what the—and I cannot stress this enough—absolute fuck:

"...sensitive and personal footage captured by [Meta Smart Glasses]—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed by contractors who see all of it uncensored."

https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928

Joshua Rogers has published a good tutorial on how to customize your Firefox right-click menu and remove all the bloat you don't like

https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0269

[RSS] Unfaithful Claims: Breaking 6 zkVMs

https://osec.io/blog/2026-03-03-zkvms-unfaithful-claims

[RSS] Avira: Deserialize, Delete and Escalate - The Proper Way to Use an AV

http://blog.quarkslab.com/avira-deserialize-delete-and-escalate-the-proper-way-to-use-an-av.html