Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”. After fixing a vulnerability in #pip, I started digging into the confusing API and found more than I expected.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix

#python #oss #opensource #security

NINETY DAYS

NINETY INCIDENTS

NINETY PERCENT

YOU PAID FOR ALL FIVE NINES BUT YOU’LL ONLY NEED THE EDGE

#github

As mentioned before, I hate bringing this up because I have no evidence or expertise here, just a gut feeling. But I just can't help feeling like, aside from everything else aside about LLM chatbots, they're quickly becoming the leaded gasoline of our time.

Something doing real damage to human cognition, but in this diffuse and difficult to measure kind of way.

The EDPB and the EDPS published a joint opinion expressing serious concerns about key elements of the proposed GDPR and ePrivacy changes in the so-called “Digital Omnibus”.

Read our statement here 👇
https://noyb.eu/en/digital-omnibus-eu-dpas-reject-many-proposed-changes-gdpr

Europäischer Datenschutzausschuss legt Stellungnahme zum Digitalen Omnibus vor. Als Teil des EDSA haben die
deutschen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden an der gemeinsamen Stellungnahme mitgewirkt. https://www.datenschutzkonferenz-online.de/

#Datenschutz #digitalomnibus

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.

This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.

Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841

#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology