‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens | Kevin Patel

｢ “It’s a shame, but what can you do? This is just the price of building modern web apps,” said Senior Frontend Engineer Mark Vance, echoing the sentiments of a community that completely relies on a 40-level-deep nested tree of unvetted packages maintained by pseudonymous strangers to capitalize a single string ｣

https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/

#npm #satire #cybersecurity

OMG! 😆 🤣

#SecretHandshake... the same group behind the #TrumpEpstein Dancing statue, made an old style video game (playable for free on the National Mall or PLAY IT ONLINE FOR FREE) called:

#EpicFurious!

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow/watch/video-game-makes-a-laughingstock-of-trump-and-his-iran-debacle-2499717699837

Very exciting discovery in Velasco Labs right now!

People keep sending me links to that German feminist hacker collective that made wild clay PCBs, and while i think that's pretty cool, the way they applied the conductive traces felt a little like a cheat to me because they were sort of painted on.

Last night after someone linked me to it again, i suddenly remembered my experiments with adding copper powder to ceramics glazes, and how, by smothering the red-hot ceramics in sawdust, i was able to reduce the copper oxides into something that looked like metallic copper. That got me pondering.

So, i applied some tinning flux meant for plumbing to a small spot on this test piece from last year and hit it with my soldering iron. Sure enough, it tinned the copper, and with that, i was able to solder a piece of wire to it.

Your eyes to not deceive you. This is copper wire soldered to a piece of ceramic pottery and it is firmly attached.

It's amazing how fast attitudes to security in the industry has changed. Like, I remember in 2023ish spending a while working on a system to securely trigger remote builds, because we couldn't have our slack chatbots on the same network as our Jenkins server

And in 2026 they just give a 3rd party LLM write access to both + the git repo

I've just published my April story for @forbes. It's all about non-exhaust emissions and covers lots of recent research into their extent in our cities and their impact on our health

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauriewinkless/2026/04/12/most-of-the-microplastics-in-urban-air-come-from-tires/

#science #scicomm #emissions

Heartbreaking: Thousands of fluffy emperor penguin chicks have drowned as Antarctic sea ice shatters beneath them — too early for the babies to swim or stay warm.
The IUCN has now officially listed emperor penguins as Endangered. Record-low sea ice, driven by global heating, is collapsing their breeding grounds. Entire colonies are falling into the ocean. Chicks that don't drown often freeze to death, soaked and helpless.
This isn't some distant future scenario. It's happening now — in 2022 alone, four out of five colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea were wiped out. Scientists are calling them a "sentinel species": what we're doing to the planet is playing out in real time on the ice.
The emperor penguin’s move to endangered is a stark warning: climate change is accelerating the extinction crisis before our eyes.

#ClimateCrisis #EmperorPenguins #Antarctica #SaveOurSeas #ActOnClimate

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/09/mass-drowning-of-chicks-puts-emperor-penguins-at-risk-of-extinction

OH: “AI programming tools have made the best programmer you know slightly more efficient, and the worst programmer you know infinitely more insufferable and dangerous.”

FUCKING CO-SIGNED (albeit more the latter point…extremely few of the best programmers I know are on board with this crap.)