@mathowie It's the visual equivalent of when I hear a cover song of a song I know really well—it takes me a *long* time to place it.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@botgov/116064225980562715

saveamerica.gov

@mathowie OK I'm starting to see why people live in Oregon

The diff man page being insufferable

@nelson @jtk I remember when that started, ~20-odd years ago. It was frustrating for me, as somebody running a home mail server, but I had to concede that it made sense as a spam-reduction strategy.

@tagir_valeev @mathowie Decades ago, I read a story (I want to say on Slashdot?) about a baffling email sent to thousands of employees at a large corporation, that said, simply, “DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL.” Ultimately, it turned out that one of their buildings at one location had a false fire alarm, and some well-meaning person emailed everybody to inform them of that fact.

In 2026, we have automated DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL, and it's wrong.

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

@AkaSci Boy, I hope not

@jtk Interesting!

Don't miss this explanation of how backbone providers coordinated on this telnetd exploit in advance of the CVE release, and simply blocked port 23 traffic. https://www.labs.greynoise.io/grimoire/2026-02-10-telnet-falls-silent/

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.)

finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk.

i hope you enjoy this read. https://cabel.com/wes-cook-and-the-mcdonalds-mural/

I'm just reading this GNU telnetd CVE from last month. I did not realize that telnet was still a thing, but it turns out anybody could provide a username of "-f root" and, boom, they had root. The vulnerability existed for 11 years. *Wow*. https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-24061

@nelson I've used it for years, pay my 10€ maybe annually, and I've had nothing but good experiences with it.

what a fucking shitshow.

@monkeyninja I just learned a few months ago "marmot" is just yet another word for a groundhog.

@kottke This is not the Boards of Canada content that I expected.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou/116013092201821299

It me

@brittag Oh, I need this! I'm ~25 years into periodically experiencing unexplained losses in grip strength, lasting hours or a day or so, and I'm utterly unable to open a jar or a bottle.

FWIW, the solution to my screw-removal problem was to wrap duct tape around the handle of the screwdriver a bunch of times. That provided the torque required to be able to take the screws out.

Apple shouldn’t put hinge screws in so tightly that a reasonable person can’t remove them.