Mastodawn

emin Apr 5

DCoder 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦Apr 4

emin Mar 5

Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉Mar 5

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines

A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

emin Jan 27

OpenStreetMap Ops Team Jan 27

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how we're responding. #AI #Bots #Abuse

emin Jan 20

Adrian Sanabria Jan 20

The enshittification of computer repair is happening.

AI has amazingly managed to make repairable computers practically worthless.

The increase in memory and storage pricing is destroying the second-hand market for computing hardware and this makes me sad. I watched a video from someone that runs a repair shop, and this is what's happening:

The memory/storage alone is worth more than the rest of the computer, so people are stripping them out to sell separately.

The second hand market is now flooded with computers that have no memory or storage. Buying new memory or storage to put in these used computers is now more expensive than buying a new computer.

So we now suddenly have a giant e-waste problem PLUS a giant problem for repair shops that want to stay in business.

In the video, he was basically saying that they have to pivot to the only computers that folks aren't stripping RAM and storage out of - computers that have those things soldered on. The irony here is that repair shops now have to ignore the most repairable computers and focus on the least repairable computers instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6eiFyJMWgM

cc @pluralistic @iFixit

I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore

YouTube

emin Jan 5

big awoo notation Dec 25

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are:

1. Getting up in the morning
2. Going to bed at a reasonable time

emin Dec 29

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD Dec 28

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

emin Dec 28

Joey de Villa 🪗Dec 28

Also on today’s picdump.

Want to see this and more?
https://www.joeydevilla.com/2025/12/28/sunday-picdump-for-sunday-december-28/

emin Dec 7

abadidea Dec 7

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.

The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.

emin Dec 3