yossarian (1.3.6.1.4.1.55738)

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open source interloper; attracts bugs easily

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github should really give me the banhammer. i'd have their platform cleaned up in no time
I once again feel vindicated in believing that there’s a perfect negative relationship between companies being serious security vendors and having names like CYBER SHADOW GLOCK

oh look, more ReDoS CVE spam created without even waiting for the maintainer to confirm it:

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5239-wwwm-4pmq

CVE-2026-4539 - GitHub Advisory Database

Pygments has Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to Inefficient Regex for GUID Matching

GitHub
I put together a more detailed AI contribution policy for zizmor: https://github.com/zizmorcore/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md
.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · zizmorcore/.github

Community Health Files / org-global configs. Contribute to zizmorcore/.github development by creating an account on GitHub.

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I got too excited about "set-and-forget" relative dependency cooldowns coming to #pip that I hacked them together using cron and a script that calculates uploaded-prior-to in pip.conf 👀

https://sethmlarson.dev/pip-relative-dependency-cooling-with-crontab

#python #pypi #dependencycooldowns #security

Relative “Dependency Cooldowns” in pip v26.0 with crontab

WARNING: Most of this blog post is a hack, everyone should probably just wait for relative dependency cooldowns to come to a future version of pip. pip v26.0 added support for th...

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specifically: I almost never actually want to validate objects against a schema, I almost always want to take a schema and transform it (e.g. by unrolling all external references). but very few libraries seem to support doing that in a way that lets me extract the result back out into a new schema
I don't understand why this is, but >99% of my interactions with JSON Schema involve wanting to do things that literally zero parsers/resolvers of JSON schema documents want me to do

this hackerbot-claw thing is a good reminder: attackers (and beg bounty spammers) are using zizmor for offensive research, so you should be using it for defense!

https://docs.zizmor.sh/

Welcome to zizmor's documentation! - zizmor

Static analysis for GitHub Actions

I would personally not be happy if this was the quality of my shipped product.