this ai bubble is going to burst any minute now, and we all know what that means: cheap data centre rack space in huge quantities.

can we use server racks to grow salad instead of swindle? i set out to find out: https://sa.lj.am/rack-mount-hydroponics/

So, I recently saw some quiet discussion about a paper where researchers reverse-engineered and disclosed some attacks against PhotoDNA, the very-super-duper-secret algorithm used by tech megacorps to scan for illegal images.

They didn't make any code public, and so... I did: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna

A _complete_ reverse-engineering and commented Python reimplementation of the algorithm from publicly-leaked binaries.

This means that studying the algorithm and any potential flaws is now much more accessible.

This took only about two days (once I knew that there even _was_ a leaked binary to compare against), which just goes to again show that security through obscurity never works.

🔁 encouraged

When Has Western Intervention in the Middle East Ever Gone Well?

https://novaramedia.com/2026/03/02/when-has-western-intervention-in-the-middle-east-ever-gone-well/

#Novara

‘A world chained to fossil fuels’: Does the war on Iran prove it’s time to quit oil for good?
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/02/a-world-chained-to-fossil-fuels-does-the-war-on-iran-prove-its-time-to-quit-oil-for-good?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on the official Copilot discord, then locks the server

lol

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/