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mooseallain.bsky.social
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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ndcconferences.com
With 80% of modern #apps built on third-party #code, supply chain #security has become critical. Don't miss
@niels.fennec.dev "Beyond Trust: Building Community-Driven Security Analysis for Your .NET Software Supply Chain" at #NDCManchester!

ndcmanchester.com/agenda/beyon...
Beyond Trust: Building Community-Driven Security Analysis for Your .NET Software Supply Chain | NDC Manchester 2025
With 80% of modern applications built on third-party code, supply chain security has become critical. Traditional security tools like OpenSSF Security Scorecard provide surface-level metrics, but fail...
ndcmanchester.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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t-redactyl.bsky.social
Noticed the shift in AI coverage lately? The hype’s fading, replaced by quiet worry about a bubble.

But we've seen this before ... twice. In my @ndcconferences.com keynote, I explore what past AI hype cycles reveal about today’s boom.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5s_...
Keynote: AI is having its moment ... again - Jodie Burchell - NDC Copenhagen 2025
YouTube video by NDC Conferences
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Just wanted to share my first ever 100% organic selfie!
Selfie with a package of Bioland parbaked bread rolls with "BIO Selfies" branding
November 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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astrokatie.com
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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rachelappel.bsky.social
I just heard a new term I'm going to be using in the future: Slopsplaining:

When someone who doesn't know anything about a topic offers up unsolicited AI generated slop 'advice' to others.
October 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Latest addition to my library. @citizenmatt.bsky.social, thanks for the recommendation!
Cover of the book "The Computers that Made Britain"
October 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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andrewkostrub.bsky.social
Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
"A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called #GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated 35,800 times."
#CyberSecurity #VSCode #SupplyChainAttack
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
Self-spreading GlassWorm malware hits OpenVSX, VS Code registries
A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated ...
www.bleepingcomputer.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
"Researchers [...] said today that it takes only 250 specially crafted documents to force a generative AI model to spit out gibberish when presented with a certain trigger phrase."
#AI #LLM #GenAI #ModelPoisoning #AISecurity #CyberSecurity
www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/i...
Data quantity doesn't matter when poisoning an LLM
: Just 250 malicious training documents can poison a 13B parameter model - that's 0.00016% of a whole dataset
www.theregister.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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blowdart.me
It's Patch Tuesday and ASP.NET Core has a doozy, with a CVSS score of 9.9, our highest ever. Let's examine why.

The bug enables http request smuggling, which on its own for ASP.NET Core would be nowhere near that high, but that's not how we rate things...

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Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability · Issue #371 · dotnet/announcements
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2025-55315: .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability i...
github.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Problem: Limited edition physical re-releases of Doom and Doom II for multiple consoles of which I don’t own any (yet).
Solution: Buy one of each.
#Doom #LimitedRunGames
Doom and Doom II for Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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markoraassina.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
ICYMI: #Commodore is back! And so is the #C64 with IEC bus, Datasette port, cartridge port, and user port. #RetroComputing #8BitComputing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bffe...
Major update: Watch the new Commodore 64 Ultimate being made!
YouTube video by Retro Recipes x Commodore
www.youtube.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
" #Qualcomm is acquiring #Arduino, the Italian open-source electronics platform behind a range of boards for tinkerers, DIY hobbyists, and educators, for an undisclosed amount."
www.theverge.com/news/794452/...
Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform Arduino
Arduino’s under new ownership.
www.theverge.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Green Lotus

Vodka, kiwi juice, rice horchata, oolong tea foam, coconut milk
October 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Tempting. Seriously considering getting one: "Looking at the internals, the Pi 500+ has a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU and 16GB of LPDDR4X-4267 SDRAM inside it. It also has a 256GB M.2 SSD [...]."
#RaspberryPi #KeyboardComputer
www.neowin.net/news/raspber...
Raspberry Pi 500+ is here, with all the hardware inside a sleek mechanical keyboard
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has debuted its Pi 500+ keyboard computer featuring mechanical keys, a 250GB SSD, and more RAM than ever for an official device.
www.neowin.net
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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rachelappel.bsky.social
"In this book I will not attempt to answer the question of whether or not computers can be programmed to think. I sometimes ask people if people can think. Human intelligence may also be an illusion.”

-Timothy J. O'Malley
A book cover that says "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." Author: Timothy J. O'Malley On the cover is an abstract picture of a human head with lines going through it to represent AI, and below the head is a Commodore 64 keyboard.
September 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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rachelappel.bsky.social
Come see my talk about this at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social next month.
retrocomps.bsky.social Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · Sep 13
Computer scientists believe that soon every home will be able to have their own artificial intelligence machine on their own desktops (Source.)
A book that reads in block sans serif font, "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PROJECTS FOR THE COMMODORE 64." The text is red, switching to gold for the words 'Commodore 64'. Cover bottom, a Commodore 64 - a light brown all-in-one microcomputer with dark brown keys - appears. In the center, a gold PCB in the shape of a human head radiates gold wires in the way wires might radiate from a chip, creating the silhouette of a head; in the center and neck of the head-shaped PCB, chips appear.
September 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
"In a blog post on the Microsoft Open Source blog, the company announces that its 6502 BASIC programming language is now open-source."
#Microsoft #BASIC #MOS6502 #8Bit #RetroComputing
www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-65...
Microsoft just made its own code from the 70s open source, and you can download it right now
A glimpse into Microsoft's past.
www.xda-developers.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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rachelappel.bsky.social
10 REM WORKING ON MY TALK
20 FINISH SLIDES
50 FINISH DEMOS
100 GIVE TALK
September 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Enjoying some light reading before going to bed.
archive.org/details/Comm...
Commodore 128 assembly language programming : Andrews, Mark : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Commodore 128 Assembly Language Programming
archive.org
September 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Honestly, I did expect this, given that the 1st edition prominently says, well, '1st edition' on the case. And trust me, if you're into retro gaming, this thing is as awesome as it sounds.
#RetroGaming #GameBoy #GameBoyColor #Chromatic #ModRetro
www.theverge.com/news/700725/...
The ModRetro Chromatic Game Boy is now permanently back in stock
One of the best ways to play classic Game Boy games is back.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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July 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
dcdietrich.bsky.social
Tried an ice cream that was a third durian. Tasted great! But someone could have warned me about durian burps...
June 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM