You Can Fix Your Own Stuff
https://www.wweek.com/culture/2026/03/25/you-can-fix-your-own-stuff/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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https://github.com/cpan-authors/IO-Tty/pull/41/changes

So this asshole: https://github.com/toddr

Created an account to launder his Claude AI slop code: https://github.com/toddr-bot

So now an OpenBSD porter updates IO-Tty and it only compiles with clang. Not GCC. Neither the ancient GCC in base nor GCC 15.2.0 in ports.

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New #blog post alert!

I muse about research some of my grad students and I did around independently evaluating some #OpenBSD anti-ROP mitigations, and I bid farewell to being an OpenBSD developer.

https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260322.html

#freebsd #netbsd #dragonflybsd #bsd #unix #linux #compiler #compilers #rop #research

🐿️🌋 In 1980 researchers helicoptered #gophers onto the barren slopes of Mount St. Helens to test their role as #ecosystem engineers.

By digging through volcanic #ash, the #rodents brought vital mycorrhizal #fungi to the surface and sparked a #plant explosion that's still visible four decades later.

👉 https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a70780384/gophers-mount-st-helens-eruption/

#volcano #ecology #nature #science #biology #washington #mountsthelens #microbes

#BSDPizza was anything but pizza (Thai!) and with someone having had a birthday the day before and me knowing they don’t love being photographed… this is all I’ve got.

Thank you @AFresh1 for organizing this but sigh, you have a placeholder for me having missed so many over the years.

Watched 2012 (the disaster movie) with bae the other day. I was fine with neutrinos microwaving the earth's core, sections of the earth's crust moving dozens of degrees, and other such nonsense, but my pedantic brain absolutely broke when it was revealed "both the president and vice-president are gone, so as Secretary of State, you are now the president".

That might have been the case in 1946, but this movie is set in 2012, and the 1947 Presidential Succession Act¹ makes it very clear that if both the president and vice-president are out of commission, then the office falls to the Speaker of the House or the president pro tempore of the Senate. CGP Grey even did a whole documentary on this².

I would have been okay if the movie said that the 1947 amendment to the Presidential Succession Act was deemed unconstitutional, which is a legitimate thing to investigate. But it didn't, ruining the believability of the entire movie.

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¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act

² https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/the-most-deadly-job-in-america-and-what-happens-next

Paolo #Benanti is an Italian Catholic priest and theologian known for his work in #ethics, particularly regarding artificial intelligence. He serves as an advisor to Pope Francis.

Peter Thiel is a wackadoodle billionaire touring the world giving "Make the antichrist great again" lectures. (Because he's a wackadoodle, that's why. Also, he thinks billionaires should be in charge and poors should be slaves or fertilizer. Did I mention the wackadoodle part?)

Peter "Bow Before Me" #Thiel decided to give a series of these lectures near the #Vatican. The Vatican rebuked him and has unleashed the Franciscan Ethicist, who wrote this: (Translated, Italian link on page)

American heresy: should Peter Thiel be burned at the stake?

This is a work of stunning beauty and knowledge. As #philosophy and #theology slapdowns go, this one will be in textbooks. I'm in awe. Literally in awe.

https://www.notion.so/American-heresy-should-Peter-Thiel-be-burned-at-the-stake-3274ac94ca0580d7b499c5eb546bdaee

#Palantir

Perl 5.43.9 is now available.

https://metacpan.org/release/EHERMAN/perl-5.43.9/view/pod/perldelta.pod

📢 Calling all BSD enthusiasts! 😈⛳️🐡

The call for papers for EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels is open, and we're looking for your brilliant ideas! 🌟

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Don't miss this chance to:
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EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

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