Nostr notes by Chris Palmer

I got a text spam asking me to take one of those political ...

2026-10-08T03:30:39Z

I got a text spam asking me to take one of those political surveys. Looks like Manny Yekutiel (San Francisco sex pest and former tech fash Supervisor candidate) is testing the waters for resuming his campaign.

"A certain AI researcher said of recent AI hacking ...

2026-09-24T00:28:41Z

"A certain AI researcher said of recent AI hacking incidents: “AI agents … took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them”—seemingly taking it as axiomatic that these were not human-controlled activities and therefore cannot qualify as crimes. But they were and they do. ... So let’s call this narrative what it is: an attempt to thwart the rule of law."

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/drop-dead.html

How do you pronounce “xor”?

2026-09-20T15:15:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…gpa9
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How do you pronounce “xor”?

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2026-09-19T03:44:08Z

Choose your fighter:

cheap!

2026-09-15T17:45:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…68sn
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cheap!

RE: https://social.s31bz.com/@s31bz/117275995786158041 Rebranding ...

2026-09-15T17:37:11Z

RE: https://social.s31bz.com/@s31bz/117275995786158041

Rebranding Brain as “the eco-friendly chatbot”

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note16wt…6xtr

I heard a Gen Z coworker recently go "I was using chatgpt in my head"
and another coworker corrected them "that's called thinking" wow are we cooked for the future

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117241961119105876 ...

2026-09-09T17:52:38Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117241961119105876

CVE-2026-0310 means that, in 2026, the product parses XML from the network as root, and and suffers from the most straightforwardly fixable class of memory unsafety. Depending on the details, they also might not be using exploit mitigations.

That's just a long way of saying "Decommission your deployments of products from this vendor."

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note1mrr…jdwk

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117236916712662443

lol. lmao even.

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0310

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2026-0307
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RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@selectric/117191768374424478 Use ...

2026-09-01T00:00:50Z

RE: https://tacobelllabs.net/@selectric/117191768374424478

Use whatever password manager comes with your platform. It’s the kind of software that works best when embedded into the platform itself. https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/passmgrs.html

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note1awq…90ax

why the hell is 1password funding the dipshit racist arch install script now lmfao https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/1password-and-37signals-become-distinguished-corporate-patrons/

RE: https://wandering.shop/@fugueish/117137397950819041 ...

2026-08-23T05:29:18Z

RE: https://wandering.shop/@fugueish/117137397950819041

Definitive answer to the oldest question in the Star Wars legendarium:

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note1dun…q6s6

Did Luke Skywalker pee in the bacta tank?

Did Luke Skywalker pee in the bacta tank?

2026-08-22T05:00:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…ulzc
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Did Luke Skywalker pee in the bacta tank?

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2026-08-22T04:53:40Z

OH: "We're planning a hyperspace route to Potatoland"

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nmott/117108218793305138 Not only ...

2026-08-21T00:42:10Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@nmott/117108218793305138

Not only is secure usability very hard in its own right, poor security- and non-security-related UX breaks the now very tenuous narrative that even top-tier software is trustworthy at all. Even if your product is perfectly fine, the shittiness of the ecosystem affects everything!
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What gaps in existing CFAA, IP, and financial crimes laws do you ...

2026-08-19T15:01:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…a7zn
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What gaps in existing CFAA, IP, and financial crimes laws do you see? To me, it’s an enforcement problem: fascists aren’t going to prosecute their friends. The problem for the human race to solve together is fascism; after that, this stuff is just regular crime.

“We” don’t have to do anything. The people who work at the ...

2026-08-19T14:40:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…pltn
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“We” don’t have to do anything. The people who work at the AI companies have to stop being negligent. They are failing to use well-understood safeguards while doing something dangerous, plain and simple. The answer is, at least in some cases, prosecution under existing laws.

On X poisoning: "Do you think that in the second quarter of ...

2026-08-14T20:27:53Z

On X poisoning:

"Do you think that in the second quarter of the 21st century, reporters walk the Earth, observing concrete reality and assembling truth from scratch? We don’t have the resources for that. Just like everyone else, journalists look at their phones — but then they call two guys at think tanks funded by weapons contractors to confirm."

https://www.northsouthnotes.org/p/the-vibe-shift-was-a-leveraged-buyout

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2026-08-13T18:17:00Z

GNU’s Not Unix COW Obviates Windows ANT’s Not Tenex FISH is ...

2026-08-12T03:00:10Z

GNU’s Not Unix

COW Obviates Windows

ANT’s Not Tenex

FISH is ITSS’ Subsystem Host

CAT Ain’t TOPS-10

PIG Isn’t Genera

VERVET Essentially Reimplements VMS-Era Technology

ORANGUTAN Replicates AIX, NT, GECOS, Unix, TOPS-20, And NeXTSTEP

OPOSSUM Provides an Operating System Substantially Unlike MULTICS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmacintosh/117075193323529726 A ...

2026-08-11T06:19:48Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mrmacintosh/117075193323529726

A hacker's hacker. 🫡

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note14re…ctyl

Happy 76th Birthday Steve Wozniak!! 🥳

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2026-08-08T03:45:33Z

Which model of Cat™️ did you order?

Le Restaurant Des Robots Rêveurs, par @npub1hhs…rl5g ...

2026-08-03T18:10:20Z

Le Restaurant Des Robots Rêveurs, par Annalee Newitz 🍜 (npub1hhs…rl5g) https://bsky.app/profile/gillossen.bsky.social/post/3ms4cwtnnwc2z

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/117015581911370375 This is a ...

2026-07-31T23:06:48Z

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/117015581911370375

This is a crime, and Hugging Face are not the only ones intentionally doing it.

See e.g. https://www.404media.co/a16z-backed-ai-site-civitai-is-mostly-porn-despite-claiming-otherwise/

"...Civitai, a platform for sharing AI image generation models that has been instrumental in the production of AI generated non-consensual porn, Civitai has consistently argued that the amount of adult content on the site has been overstated. But new research shows that, if anything, the amount of adult content on Civitai has been underestimated."

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2026-07-30T15:51:34Z

RE: https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-PlrpjcjwS62vtJZr1DPjAg%3Aa%3A4082434389-%2F0

Technically, the little X on the tab is part of your browser’s UI. But yes, it is very effective

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note14jn…6j08

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
[https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ](https://www.404media.co/linkedin-introduces-a-seems-like-ai-slop-button/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub )

Posted into 404 Media [@404-media-404media](https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z )

“This looks like a real crisis of faith. No, it doesn’t point ...

2026-07-30T06:55:55Z

“This looks like a real crisis of faith. No, it doesn’t point to a U.S. recession, partly because so much of the AI investment boom has gone to imported equipment (hence KOSPI). But it does feel like the end of the early euphoria, of the triumph of hype over experience.”

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/when-the-chips-are-down

I have blocked all of Hetzner’s IPv4 and v6 prefixes. ...

2026-07-22T21:17:59Z

I have blocked all of Hetzner’s IPv4 and v6 prefixes. `iptables` is a pathway to abilities some consider… unnatural

“That’s just a bunch of bumpy lumps!” the frumpy, grumpy ...

2026-07-22T20:32:43Z

“That’s just a bunch of bumpy lumps!” the frumpy, grumpy chump harrumphed.

That’s a choice. Google executives knowingly chose to make ...

2026-07-19T20:04:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…wd7r
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That’s a choice. Google executives knowingly chose to make their flagship cash-cow product, and the entire web ecosystem, worse. They presumably had reasons.

They also chose to increase their system’s energy usage by 50% (and growing), even for the same revenue. It used to be that Search was incredibly efficient (yes, really). Not anymore. They presumably had reasons.

ME: Google Search used to be incredibly accurate and useful. Not ...

2026-07-19T19:59:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…37k4
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ME: Google Search used to be incredibly accurate and useful. Not only that, there were massive positive externalities!

THE KIDS: Sure, grandpa. Let’s get you to bed

The open web is being further ruined. Basic privacy protections ...

2026-07-19T18:48:52Z

The open web is being further ruined. Basic privacy protections are at odds with anti-bot/anti-scam protections and at odds with (naturally) surveillance and ads.

This is a choice that we are making as a society.

"Increasingly we’re being presented with a choice that is no choice at all: get rid of all your precautions and let us get our hooks in, or we’ll shut you out of the internet, bit by bit."

https://flaminghydra.com/403-forbidden/

My “member of a cat cult” t-shirt has a lot of people asking ...

2026-07-19T06:33:35Z

My “member of a cat cult” t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt

"And the answer is that you make foundational investments in ...

2026-07-16T02:56:04Z

"And the answer is that you make foundational investments in systemic prevention of entire classes of vulnerabilities, even at the expense of having marginally high latency to fixing individual vulnerabilities. While in the very short run this can be painful, on longer time scales, it’s essential. ...like any good engineering project you should structure you work towards incremental deliverables that add value, not one giant big-bang that won’t materialize for forever."

https://alexgaynor.net/2026/jul/15/you-cant-bugfix-your-way-out-of-the-vulnpocalypse/

Preferred Name @ Org

2026-06-27T23:54:04Z

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Preferred Name @ Org

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681 It is ...

2026-06-27T22:24:01Z

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681

It is with heavy hearts that we must inform you the (civil) libertarian-to-fascist pipeline remains incredibly short and well-greased

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note1kzh…5ljx

Mullvad is a political company fighting for free speech, free information and privacy, with two equal co-founders, co-owners and co-CEOs who fundamentally disagree on many issues. Daniel's donation to a political party is private and not part of Mullvad's mission. We protect the right to express and access views we disagree with. We welcome anyone sharing these core values, whatever their other opinions. We are happy to refund others who don't, where we can.

Absolutely unhinged UX, across the board I can only assume there ...

2026-06-21T01:38:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…7sh8
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Absolutely unhinged UX, across the board

I can only assume there are academic UX studies plumbing its depths, along the lines of this classic banger https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/2509578.2509584

Why zorbulate when you can crombulize? I’ve never gotten a ...

2026-06-18T22:03:33Z

Why zorbulate when you can crombulize? I’ve never gotten a clear answer on that

If your website doesn’t load in under 3 seconds* on an ...

2026-06-05T03:37:12Z

If your website doesn’t load in under 3 seconds* on an expensive phone in The Software Town, you did it wrong. Yes, this means every social media company and every newspaper are doing it wrong. I said what I said

*The true quality bar is 0.5 seconds, but I’m feeling unreasonably generous today

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the greatest animal in the ...

2026-06-02T03:55:28Z

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the greatest animal in the history of the universe, how good would you say cats are?

“Albert Camus broke with Jean-Paul Sartre and the French left ...

2026-05-31T17:03:33Z

“Albert Camus broke with Jean-Paul Sartre and the French left over the most concrete political question there is: can the people alive today be treated as acceptable casualties in the pursuit of a better future?2

[…] Any system of thought that subordinates living people to a hypothetical future has already committed the foundational moral error. Once you accept that logic, there is no limiting principle.”

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

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2026-05-31T04:30:52Z

Should you pass a kidney stone?

Did you know…? In the 18th century, C programmers often ...

2026-05-14T16:35:33Z

Did you know…?

In the 18th century, C programmers often confused `ſprintf` and `fprintf`

Yambic pentameter: A sweet potato pie is good to eat

2026-05-13T23:14:37Z

Yambic pentameter:

A sweet potato pie is good to eat

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2026-05-08T04:23:12Z

Wait — Darmok and Jalad were at Tanagra? Holy shit

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2025-11-25T22:31:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…9695
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Next time someone says that "public wifi" is uniquely ...

2025-10-16T03:18:47Z

Next time someone says that "public wifi" is uniquely risky, just send them this (or the output of `traceroute`, but I digress)

https://infosec.exchange/@vinoth/115370719768176795

Tomorrow's nonsense word will be: B L I M P O R P Or, for ...

2025-10-14T03:11:49Z

Tomorrow's nonsense word will be:

B L I M P O R P

Or, for those of you in Commonwealth countries,

B L I M P O U R P

"In March, for the first time, fossil fuels generated less ...

2025-08-25T01:46:40Z

"In March, for the first time, fossil fuels generated less than half the electricity in the U.S. In California, at one point on May 25th, renewables were producing a record hundred and fifty-eight per cent of the state’s power demand. Over the course of the entire day, they produced eighty-two per cent of the power in California, which, this spring, surpassed Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment

Woke up to uBlock Origin Lite being turned off by Chrome, because ...

2025-04-17T05:33:51Z

Woke up to uBlock Origin Lite being turned off by Chrome, because uBOL increased the permissions it requests. (Chrome does this for all extensions that increase their declared permissions, and that is good.)

The point of uBOL is that it needs bare-minimum, safe permissions only; but now, it was asking for full control over all web pages. You should borderline never grant that level of permission to a browser extension.

But! You can fix it. Here's how

"The point of cognitive automation is NOT to enhance ...

2025-02-07T05:41:06Z

"The point of cognitive automation is NOT to enhance thinking. The point of it is to avoid thinking in the first place. That’s the job it does. You won’t notice when the censorship kicks in." — Baldur Bjarnason (npub1hr7…jxyc)

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/poisoning-for-propaganda/

Amazing and shocking: ...

2024-10-09T18:26:19Z

In reply to nevent1q…ydz6
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Amazing and shocking: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-nobel-prizes-for-ai-and-two-paths

I don't know who needs to hear this*, but AI is not physics ...

2024-10-09T05:59:37Z

I don't know who needs to hear this*, but AI is not physics

*I do. It's the Nobel committee

This is a deep embarrassment for the tech industry. I got into ...

2024-09-18T17:40:17Z

This is a deep embarrassment for the tech industry. I got into software from the starting point of linguistics. I love language, and I loved the idea of lil language boxes with blinky lights. This feeling is grief — seeing the greatest corpora in the world, polluted.

https://github.com/rspeer/wordfreq/blob/master/SUNSET.md

Alex Gaynor on the intersection of memory safety and sandboxing: ...

2024-08-30T16:44:50Z

Alex Gaynor on the intersection of memory safety and sandboxing: https://alexgaynor.net/2024/aug/30/impact-of-memory-safety-on-sandboxing/

Go's C-like disregard for the value of clear semantics and a ...

2024-08-29T16:53:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…cwjv
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Go's C-like disregard for the value of clear semantics and a meaningful type system has always bothered me.

> If u.Host doesn't contain a valid numeric port, Port returns an empty string.

So they go to the trouble of parsing, and then throw away the information gained. Glorious

The government needs to adopt modern risk management and abandon ...

2024-08-24T03:31:34Z

The government needs to adopt modern risk management and abandon checkbox compliance. AV hugely increases the amount of soft, privileged attack surface on a system, and is rarely — if ever — engineered to modern standards. In addition, it complicates rather than eases platform security engineering (insert beer, receive war stories).

There are damn good reasons modern platforms simply don't allow, or need, AV.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/08/oh-your-cybersecurity-researchers-wont-use-antivirus-tools-heres-a-federal-lawsuit/

An obviously abuse-affording feature afforded abuse in the ...

2024-08-01T19:12:57Z

An obviously abuse-affording feature afforded abuse in the obvious way. https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/112887890911515501

Time is a flat circle: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-happened-firefox-send