Stephen Hoffman

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VSI OpenVMS, Apple macOS, iOS, iPadOS; Server & Network Security; IP & DECnet Networking; TLS, DNS, C et al. ⌘ irc·2600·net #vms pwd:VMS

"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html

"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."

@ai6yr wow this social engineering attack should be made a major motion picture!

"The attackers then scheduled a meeting on Microsoft Teams that appeared to include numerous people.

During the call, a technical error was displayed, claiming that something on the system was out of date, prompting the maintainer to install a Teams update to fix the error." (The update was a trojan.)

i need the computer nerds of the fediverse to looks at this

bc I know the fact that this is programmed mostly with shaders will be lost on essentially everyone on tiktok and yt

they will think i did this in blender or some video editing, and ask why it looks wonky

not realizing this was direct output from the 2d engine into ffmpeg to make the video, and less than 2000 lines of code

the only asset was the font file

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

Existing licensees are grandfathered.

Tom's Hardware

fuck the browsers for making this even possible. do I have to go and disable all .js???

https://browsergate.eu/

LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.

BrowserGate

The CDC has paused testing for rabies and pox viruses.

It's vital we keep a close eye on them as rabies is virtually 100% fatal without vaccination, and smallpox killed hundreds of millions (we really don't want a similar virus returning).

Losing track of these viruses is a recipe for catastrophe.

IT'S HAPPENING

GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#github

I did not watch that ridiculous speech. But I did read the reactions.
holy shit there's another entire fallback tree before this one, that's actually an astounding twenty two times it's possible to compress an image across nine independent conditional legs of code in a single api call. i can't even screenshot this, the spaghetti is too powerful
The funeral home said the cemetery can’t inter an urn before the summer but they can inter coffins all year round. I asked if we could just put the urn in a coffin and the reaction I got leads me to conclude that few people are familiar with the OSI model in the funeral industry