I’m excited to share that I’ll be hosting a Mastodon interview with Brent Simmons / @brentsimmons, creator of NetNewsWire / @NetNewsWire and one of the long-time voices of the open web and RSS.
We’ll be talking about software craft, the early blogging world, the future of RSS, and what it means to build software that respects users.
The interview will begin Tuesday, March 10 at 7 AM Eastern.
We’ll be using #interview so you can follow the thread as it unfolds.
Racintosh Plus: Never trust a computer you can't mount in a rack.
"Are you pondering what I’m pondering?"
"I think so, Brain, but why would a federated social network care about our anniversary?”
"Pinky and the Brain" debuted on 9 september 1995.
Bliss
Milford Sound, NZ
Such an amazing location and I got lucky with the light and atmosphere.
#newzealand #landscape #LandscapePhotography #nature #naturephotography #mountains #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #photo #photography #noai #AntonGorlinPhotos
Hello Fedi friends!
Happy #BastilleDay to those who celebrate it.
TIL that the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille was called the "Fête de la Fédération" (festival of the federation).
A fascinating read:
🔗 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fête_de_la_Fédération
📷 : https://photos.elenarossini.com/p/ele/786240186705498903
Death by a thousand slops
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-slops/
I have previously blogged about the relatively new trend of AI slop in vulnerability reports submitted to curl and how it hurts and exhausts us. This trend does not seem to slow down. On the contrary, it seems that we have recently not only received more AI slop but also more human slop. The latter … Continue reading Death by a thousand slops →
Are you using AI to summary emails with Google gmail and workspace?
Google Gemini Bug Turns Gmail Summaries into Phishing Attack: No links or attachments are required; the attack relies on crafted HTML / CSS inside the email body. Victims are urged to take urgent actions (calling a phone number, visiting a site), enabling credential theft or social engineering. That is all.
More
https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini &
https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-gemini-bug-turns-gmail-summaries-into-phishing-attack
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