Mastodawn

Jim Jones 13h ago

Nanoraptor 18h ago

CMYK

Jim Jones 1d ago

Kevin Beaumont 1d ago

RE: https://masto.deoan.org/@neurovagrant/116523975367255574

If you want a fun threat hunt, look at what Claude et all are doing in your company. Spoiler: dumb shit.

Jim Jones 1d ago

Joy 2d ago

✨ A Sprinkle of JoyousJoyness ✨

One of the best crab cats I've seen!

Have a JoyousJoyfulJoyness day!

#happy #cat #funny #cute #joyousjoyness #repost

Jim Jones 1d ago

Inspirational Skeletor💀1d ago

Jim Jones 1d ago

abadidea 1d ago

this painting is probably meant to represent a funeral but I can only read it as the kid is having the worst birthday party ever, and his grampa really regrets hiring this musician.

("Boyan" by Viktor Vasnetsov)

Jim Jones 1d ago

nixCraft 🐧1d ago

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is between two and three orders of magnitude larger. This article does the legal analysis and, for the first time, the environmental analysis. The numbers are not small.

That Privacy Guy!

Jim Jones 1d ago

Taggart

2d ago

Hey @cloudflare, how come you're protecting beamed[.]st, the DDoS service that's attacking Ubuntu? It's an obvious criminal enterprise that literally advertises botnet access.

Jim Jones 1d ago

Veronica Explains 2d ago

Today is a great day to learn about Debian.

It's far from perfect, but by golly once you learn it it's pretty sweet. Highlights:

Everything is transparent, sometimes painfully so
Debian isn't a company
You still have apt, so deb packages still probably work
Flatpak makes desktop use easy
Hate updates? Debian only releases a major new version every two years.
Nobody is ever, ever, ever going to sell you "Debian Pro"

If Ubuntu's got you down today, I dare you: give Debian a try.

Jim Jones 1d ago

Natasha

🇪🇺2d ago

A binman in Turkey’s capital found a bag of thrown-away books on his rounds and couldn’t bring himself to take it to the dump. He kept it. Other workers started doing the same. The pile has now grown into a public library of over 9,000 books, run by sanitation workers, in an old brick factory 📚

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/15/europe/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

oss-sec: uutils coreutils CVEs