The chatbot mental health crisis is here. No one is ready for it https://www.platformer.news/chatgpt-suicide-lawsuit-openai-safety/

Hungarian #FolktaleMoment of the day:

You know the folktales where fairy maidens are taking a bath, and the "hero" steals the dress of one of them to force her to be his wife?
(Also in Selkie stories)

Well I just read a Hungarian folktale where the guy steals the dress - at which point the fairy walks up to him, slaps him across the face, and takes the dress back.

Pop off, queen.

#folklore #folktales #storytelling

How it was to scan the whole Internet in 1998. Don’t skim over week 3, when an actual APT shows up 🍿

The #Internet #Auditing Project (beta 1)

https://www.focb.co.nz/audit/

I finally brought myself to read this essay

https://www.structuredprocrastination.com

Hacking & Barbecue in the south of France
What could possibly be better?

Barbhack 2025 starts this Saturday August 30th at the Palais des Congrès Neptune in Toulon

We are giving away a ticket to a student nearby looking to live the experience.

Send us a DM with your name and school. We will notify the winner tonight.

https://www.barbhack.fr/2025/fr/index.html

Formal verification is a process for reducing programmers' confidence in their ability to write correct code.

I've been working on improving a few of Git's man pages and I could use a few more test readers to read the existing documentation and identify what's confusing about it! Here's the signup form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYd9FrjiBg8IbJXk-51p7zewt7aiVOamUImnpb90hK29w3Qg/viewform

I'd especially love test readers who use Git on the command line but aren't 100% comfortable with it.

I've updated the first chapter of linux-insides on the Linux kernel booting process to reflect modern 6.16+ kernels - https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/Booting/linux-bootstrap-1.md

The thing I like about writing blogposts is that I need to verify everything I say, so I usually find a few small errors and learn a couple of new things in the process. A lot of work but a very good learning exercise.

The slides from my keynote yesterday at the Open Source Summit Europe: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/giants-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-by-daniel-stenberg/282693094

"giants, standing on the shoulders of"

While waiting for the video to become available. I have no idea when that will happen.

#USB keyboards can't interrupt the CPU themselves, but the USB controller continuously polls them and will interrupt it on their behalf. Loudly.

#keyboard #shitpost

I FINALLY got a chance to chat with James Kettle @albinowax and hear about his latest research, with a cool caption "HTTP/1.1 Must Die" 😎 Mind-blowing work including desync attacks and critical vulnerabilities affecting websites & CDNs... and a demo! https://youtu.be/n3Bw8CASnHE

An example of algorithmic resistance

This is great news 🤩 I guess it’s about time to start learning CodeQL seriously

#CodeQL can be enabled at scale on C/C++ repositories in public preview using build-free #scanning

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-06-03-codeql-can-be-enabled-at-scale-on-c-c-repositories-in-public-preview-using-build-free-scanning/

“Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of 'almost right' AI code | VentureBeat”

https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-hidden-productivity-tax-of-almost-right-ai-code/

> AI tools don’t just produce obviously broken code. They generate plausible solutions that require significant developer intervention to become production-ready. This creates a particularly insidious productivity problem.

::sighs::