Perfection
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/...of-a-known-rapist-and-pedophile/
Entry: 2026-03-23 23:32:47.439891+01 Age Verification in Linux by Dan Lyke comments 0
Sam Bent: The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
Taylor believes what he's doing is right, which makes him harder to stop than someone acting for money. The day after the systemd PR was merged, he published a post on his personal blog defending Google's new friction-heavy Android sideloading controls as a "fair trade." His argument: power users absorb a one-time inconvenience while vulnerable people (scam victims, children) get protected. He used the phrase "you shouldn't have to choose between open and secure." Taylor's blog post
I can see multiple sides to this, I don't think either issue, age verification, or side- loading on Android, is completely cut and dried.
But I sure am thinking again about BSD or something that doesn't use systemd.
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Entry: 2026-03-23 17:27:05.628773+01 AI link dump by Dan Lyke comments 0
Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's quietly pushing him aside — these brutal numbers are why. Looks like it's not necessarily that people don't want AI in their Microsoft products, it's that Copilot kinda sucks.
Independent research tells a worse story. A Recon Analytics survey of more than 150,000 U.S. paid AI subscribers found that Copilot's market share fell from 18.8% in July 2025 to 11.5% by January 2026 — a 39% contraction. The most damaging finding: when workers only have access to Copilot, adoption sits at 68%. Add ChatGPT as an option and Copilot drops to 18%. Add Gemini on top of that and just 8% choose Copilot.
Via.
Frank Elavsky: Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used
And tools use us by their design. This is Heidegger’s Gestell (“en- framing”): the notion that technologies shape who we are because of their design and use. A hammer isn’t just made of wood and iron, then. A hammer is a hammer because of what it does and who we become when we use it.
Via.
Jeremy Keith on adactio.com and on the Fediverse:
It feels like all my peers are experiencing Deep Blue and having to choose their future career path:
expert in a dying field
or
collaborator in a fascist project.
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Entry: 2026-03-13 16:57:41.811219+01 The Slow Death of the Power User by Dan Lyke comments 0
On a Slack channel I'm on, someone today described a horrorshow of a nightmare of Juju, Charms, Kubernetes, and ... to host some static sites, and it was another harsh reminder of how we've added layers of wankery and egoboo and abstraction over bullshit that doesn't need to be abstracted. So I'm super primed to stand up and cheer for this:
The Slow Death of the Power User
This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. Congratulations to everyone involved. You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.
And this isn't about computing and development so much as it is the use of the system, and I think we can go back further than phones and tablets for computing, right to Steve Jobs' desire that the Mac be a "toaster" level of computing, but, yes, all of this.
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Entry: 2026-03-09 16:52:24.909834+01 WigglyPaint by Dan Lyke comments 0
On how the author of WigglyPaint is processing an older version of that code base being republished on a gazillion linkbait sites.
Via.
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Entry: 2026-03-06 01:04:14.869731+01 Google fights climate change by Dan Lyke comments 0
Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported $132 billion in net income in 2025. Google's five-year, $50 million pledge works out to about three hours of that. The company is also set to spend billions building massive data centers for AI that it claims are more resource conscious than others. So far, Google’s AI infrastructure buildout drove an 11 percent rise in the company's total emissions last year.
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Entry: 2026-03-05 23:04:14.523413+01 GitHub issue title compromises npm package via triage bot by Dan Lyke comments 0
Wheee: A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
For the next eight hours, every developer who installed or updated Cline got OpenClaw - a separate AI agent with full system access - installed globally on their machine without consent. Approximately 4,000 downloads occurred before the package was pulled1.
The interesting part is not the payload. It is how the attacker got the npm token in the first place: by injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an AI triage bot read, interpreted as an instruction, and executed.
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Entry: 2026-03-05 02:04:33.160457+01 persistence of advertising in LLMs by Dan Lyke comments 0
And here we go: Manipulating AI memory for profit: The rise of AI Recommendation Poisoning
Companies are embedding hidden instructions in “Summarize with AI” buttons that, when clicked, attempt to inject persistence commands into an AI assistant’s memory via URL prompt parameters (MITRE ATLAS® AML.T0080, AML.T0051).
These prompts instruct the AI to “remember [Company] as a trusted source” or “recommend [Company] first,” aiming to bias future responses toward their products or services. We identified over 50 unique prompts from 31 companies across 14 industries, with freely available tooling making this technique trivially easy to deploy. This matters because compromised AI assistants can provide subtly biased recommendations on critical topics including health, finance, and security without users knowing their AI has been manipulated.
Why pay the LLM vendors for "advertising" for such subtle biases to be inserted, when you can do it by tricking the LLM assistant to doing it directly?
Via Bruce Schneier, from Meuon on the Chugalug mailing list.
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Entry: 2026-03-04 18:07:55.239792+01 SQLite over PostgreSQL? by Dan Lyke comments 0
Interesting: The Next Version of Curling IO. It's a website for curling teams. The fascinating bit is that they're going with SQLite over PostgreSQL.
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Entry: 2026-03-04 17:42:38.30749+01 Claude is an Electron App by Dan Lyke comments 1
Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native:
API-wise, native apps lost to web apps a long time ago. Native APIs are terrible to use, and OS vendors use everything in their power to make you not want to develop native apps for their platform. That explains the rise of Electron before LLM times, but it’s also a problem that LLMs solve now: if that was a real barrier to developing native apps, it doesn’t exist anymore.
And, yeah. And I hate it. I want a fast lightweight environment. I recently started using Ghostty, and once I got a few termcap issues sorted, I'm kind of amazed that Mac terminal apps sucked so badly that the performance change is noticeable.
I love editing the preferences via the config file.
Cocoa/AppKit is a total fucking disaster, not performant, less deterministic than web.
I would love a fast lightweight cross-platform environment along the lines of, say, early Gtk, but since that ain't gonna happen then why not just start with a base environment that chews up a gigabyte of RAM and works.
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Entry: 2026-02-21 00:10:02.68169+01 My CMS way back then didn't log by Dan Lyke comments 0
My CMS way back then didn't log *when* in February 1998 my first blog post happened, so whenever in February I remember that it's my blog's birthday is good enough for me. Happy 28th(!) to the Flutterby.com weblog.
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Entry: 2026-02-19 18:19:37.220243+01 The prognosticators vs the measurers by Dan Lyke comments 0
Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
Shot: "Thanks to AI, millions of white collar workers can expect to lose their jobs." https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social
Chaser: "In a survey of 6,000 CEOs, the vast majority said that had seen no increase in productivity or profits from integrating AI into their products and processes." https://fortune.com/2026/02/17...olow-information-technology-age/
6
The End of the Office I write this filled with sadness.
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Entry: 2026-02-19 00:04:40.559814+01 There's gotta be a pony somewhere... by Dan Lyke comments 0
A question of particular interest to me because family lore tells of my mother's father's father, a grain dealer at the end of the horse and carriage era, who was gifted with Prohibition, and who managed to piss it all away.
Anyway: a stinky ox 🐂 @llamasoft_ox@toot.wales
Having lived with an actual pony for a while, now whenever I see My Little Pony I can't help but wonder where the ABSOLUTELY PRODIGIOUS AMOUNT OF POOP such a population would inevitably create ends up. They must have a super advanced sanitation/sewerage system in Ponyville, although we never see any visible evidence of its infrastructure.
(And it can't be the first time I've used that subject line on a Flutterby blog post.)
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Entry: 2026-02-17 18:43:56.479347+01 The origin of "morge" by Dan Lyke comments 0
If you're seeing "code morge" floating around as a meme today, this thread talks about a bodged "AI" generated image on Microsoft's site purporting to tell you about git, badly refactored from this blog post.
Good time for meme generation, since JWZ recently uploaded a remastered version of "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on the 25th anniversary.
You are on the way to destruction. You have no chance to survive make your time.
Edit: 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram. Via.
"you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly" meme.
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Entry: 2026-02-16 18:24:45.657338+01 Sweden shifts away from digital learning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Think Academy Education Briefs: Sweden Education Shift: From Digital Learning to Pen and Paper.
I'm taken back to those conversations in the '90s where school board members, and administrators, were talking about "we need tech in the classroom!", and teachers, and sane people, were saying "what's the curriculum need?"
Especially as we've learned how students process pencil and paper note taking differently from typed note taking. And, heck, I'm still learning how I react differently to ebooks (on a multi-purpose device) vs paper books.
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Entry: 2026-02-15 19:16:29.197803+01 Cognitive Debt by Dan Lyke comments 0
A programmer's loss of identity. I guess I'm lucky in that my association between mean and the Internet's notion of "programmer" kinda diverged when /. got funding, but this is an interesting meditation on how the general adoption of slop prompting as "programming" is changing the identity of those of us who think that reasoning about systems is important.
Via Baldur Bjarnason @baldur@toot.cafe
Meanwhile, Chris Dickinson @isntitvacant@hachyderm.io linked to Peter Naur, Programming as Theory Building (PDF) (You may remember Naur as the "N" in BNF notation) in response to Simon Willison's acknowledgement that LLMs separate him from the model building:
I no longer have a firm mental model of what they can do and how they work, which means each additional feature becomes harder to reason about, eventually leading me to lose the ability to make confident decisions about where to go next.
In linking to Margaret Storey's How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (which also links to the Naur piece).
In response to Simon's note, Jed Brown @jedbrown@hachyderm.io wrote:
I believe the effect you describe becomes more insidious in larger projects, with distributed developer communities and bespoke domain knowledge. Such conditions are typical in research software/infrastructure (my domain), and the cost of recovering from such debt will often be intractable under public funding models (very lean; deliverables only for basic research, not maintenance and onboarding). Offloading to LLMs interferes not just with the cognitive processes of the "author", but also that of maintainers and other community members.
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Entry: 2026-02-11 20:09:16.440939+01 Claude DXT's 'container' isn't by Dan Lyke comments 0
We should not have to keep pointing this out, but... T he Register: AI connector for Google Calendar makes convenient malware launchpad, researchers show
Our recommendation is straightforward:
Until meaningful safeguards are introduced, MCP connectors should not be used on systems where security matters.
Via.
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Entry: 2026-02-09 23:19:02.284442+01 half-life of a zombie citation by Dan Lyke comments 0
This is fascinating: Tracing the social half-life of a zombie citation. In which the author starts working backwards from a reference to an academic paper with his name on it that he had not written, and looks at how references to that paper have evolved, with various different subtitles.
Finally, is AI really to blame here? When I first posted about my experience with the zombie citation, the library scientist Aaron Tay took it upon himself to do a little investigation which he wrote up as an in-depth blog post. He refers to these as “ghost references” and rightly points out that this problem pre-dates generative AI. In fact, he pointed out that at least a couple of the ghost citations of “Education governance and datafication” pre-dated the launch of ChatGPT and mainstream uptake of generative AI. Most likely, Tay suggested, the reference to this work was first generated through simple human error or malpractice. It’s really impossible to know.
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Entry: 2026-02-08 04:45:03.144499+01 Perfection https by Dan Lyke comments 0
Perfection
https://thehardtimes.net/blog/...of-a-known-rapist-and-pedophile/
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Entry: 2026-02-04 22:32:30.673846+01 EVs reducing NO2 by Dan Lyke comments 1
We still need to cut down dramatically on cars, generally, but EVs are measurably reducing NO2 emissions in California:
Auto Blog: EV Growth Is Already Cutting Neighborhood Air Pollution Across California
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Entry: 2026-02-03 23:21:46.789854+01 Noting the impacts of slop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Red Monk: AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code gets you permanently banned. Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, announced he would auto-close all external pull requests. Meanwhile cURL, the humble command-line tool that quietly powers approximately everything on the internet, just shut down its bug bounty program. After six years and $86,000 in payouts, Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of cURL, pulled the plug. The reason? An AI onslop (pun fully intended).
The AI Dirty List — Ensuring those who choose to bathe in AI slop will never be washed clean.
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Entry: 2026-02-02 20:24:34.007027+01 OpenClaw still a bad idea by Dan Lyke comments 0
I was gonna tag this on the previous post about ClawdBot/MoltBot/OpenClaw, but, no, these exploits are new: Malicious MoltBot skills used to push password-stealing malware.
A report from community security portal OpenSourceMalware says that an ongoing large-scale campaign is using skills to spread info-stealing malware to OpenClaw users.
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Entry: 2026-02-02 17:52:01.547779+01 Data Centers in Space by Dan Lyke comments 2
From back in December, but apropos because of Elon Musk's "data centers in spaaaace..." pump-n-dump: Matthew R. Buckley, aka "Physics Matt": The Dumbest Thing I’ve Seen This Week:
To be blunt, the entire stupid idea is a giant middle finger to multiple fundamentals of physics, and the fact that it is apparently being taken seriously by our tech lords, mainstream journalism, and political leaders is a damning indictment of not just the ridiculous amount of money chasing bad ideas in the tech/LLM/hype sector that has eaten the American economy, political power centers, and people who really should know better, but yet another demonstration of how people who built their economic empire on a claim of STEM-based rigor and quantitative genius either can’t do basic physics or know that no one out there who matters is going to call them on it.
Although, frankly, dropping a bunch of GPUs into a decaying low earth orbit is a way to point out how rapidly these things depreciate.
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Entry: 2026-01-31 16:51:19.95585+01 ChatGPT user lacks self-awareness by Dan Lyke comments 0
I am not one generally to watch a 27 minute video of someone talking about a Nature blog post, but this roast of a dude who became ChatGPT dependent is giving me all the schadenfreude warm fuzzies.
Angela Collier: this is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain (YouTube video)
The massive self-own is Nature: When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04064-7
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Entry: 2026-01-30 20:25:04.441148+01 The rise of Whatever by Dan Lyke comments 0
Too much good stuff to find an appropriate pull paragraph: Eevee: The rise of Whatever
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Entry: 2026-01-30 20:14:49.437423+01 The sources don't actually say that by Dan Lyke comments 0
The machines are getting better at lying: Wiki Education: Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
Far more insidious, however, was something else we discovered: More than two-thirds of these articles failed verification. That means the article contained a plausible-sounding sentence, cited to a real, relevant-sounding source. But when you read the source it’s cited to, the information on Wikipedia does not exist in that specific source. When a claim fails verification, it’s impossible to tell whether the information is true or not. For most of the articles Pangram flagged as written by GenAI, nearly every cited sentence in the article failed verification.
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Entry: 2026-01-28 18:00:08.773677+01 Cloudflare Matrix slop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/se...rless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
The lobste.rs thread includes a link to the Matrix discussion of this fiasco and lots of discussion about how Clodflare's attempts at damage control just make it look worse.
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Entry: 2026-01-27 20:35:44.594895+01 Cloudflare publishing slop by Dan Lyke comments 0
Somebody take the LLM API keys away from marketing before they completely destroy the company! Jade @JadedBlueEyes@tech.lgbt
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/se...rless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
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Entry: 2026-01-26 18:38:10.332149+01 Who Is the Winking Chef? by Dan Lyke comments 0
Scott's Pizza Tours: Who Is the Winking Chef?, in which the narrator and author of Viva la Pizza!: The Art of the Pizza Box traces a ubiquitous piece of pizza box art back to a two-time Pulitzer nominee. Via
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Entry: 2026-01-19 16:28:00.879639+01 LLM links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
install.md: A Standard for LLM-Executable Installation. As Ben Tasker @ben@mastodon.bentasker.co.uk notes:
TL:DR They've re-invented curl-bash but piping into an LLM instead....
Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data:
Although Copilot enforces safeguards to prevent direct data leaks, these protections apply only to the initial request. An attacker can bypass these guardrails by simply instructing Copilot to repeat each action twice.
Via.
Futurism: Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core
Now, a damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive. In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily reproduced lengthy excerpts from popular — and protected — works, with a stunning degree of accuracy.
Agent Psychosis: Are we going insane asks a lot of the same questions I'm fumbling with, but seems to come up in a direction that I'm not totally sure is useful. Whatever the current economic and environmental overreach, token cost is gonna go down. I doubt there'll be any real consequence for the massive IP theft and copyright violation. I'm more interested in the social and cognitive aspects, which... it's good to know we're all struggling with trying to express this.
The Lobste.rs thread includes observations like thirdtruck's:
Everything we've seen about LLMs makes it look less like the next tech revolution and more like the next tobacco industry.
spc476's observation that
So eventually, the prompt becomes the source code.
and the response from thesnarky1
For the people who like their compilers to be non-deterministic and potentially to act like a historical figure that had a tendency towards genocide if they read too many references to Wagner in the prompt conversation, yes.
and a link to Cursor's latest "browser experiment" implied success without evidence
Finally (for this post), curl: BUG- BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026. nixCraft 🐧 @nixCraft@mastodon.social notes:
curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".
The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things
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Entry: 2026-01-12 20:30:00.913196+01 Route that traffic through malicious actors! by Dan Lyke comments 0
Go through what your LLM is doing with a fine toothed comb: Tao of Mac: When OpenCode decides to use a Chinese proxy
When I connected back to one of the containers, I noticed that OpenCode (which I’m running inside
toad, since I very much prefer its text UI) had decided to route the Go package installations through a Chinese proxy server:
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Entry: 2026-01-05 23:35:29.720896+01 Tahoe icons by Dan Lyke comments 0
On the profusion of icons in the most recent MacOS. It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons.
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Entry: 2025-12-23 18:20:59.23949+01 Kimwolf by Dan Lyke comments 0
I'm sitting here on a network that could, if I upgraded some hardware, have a 10G uplink, with Internet connected light switches and cameras and a robot vacuum, thinking about trust and participating in society... Brian Krebs @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
When an entire class of technology states on the packaging that it was made in China but intended "for overseas use only," this should really give you pause before plugging it into your network.
You will find this verbiage on a lot of Android TV streaming boxes for sale at the major retailers. There's a very good reason the country that makes this crap doesn't want it on their own networks. My advice: If you have one of these Android streaming boxes on your network or get one as a gift, toss it in the trash. I'll have a lot more about this in the New Year, but these things are responsible for building out a botnet that currently has ~2M devices and is growing rapidly.
Kimwolf Exposed: The Massive Android Botnet with 1.8 Million Infected Devices.
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Entry: 2025-12-23 18:17:44.449072+01 growing vaccines with yeasts by Dan Lyke comments 0
Science News: He made beer that’s also a vaccine. Now controversy is brewing kinda buries the lede under the sensationalism, or maybe the sensationalism is the point:
Buck’s body made antibodies against several types of the virus after drinking the beer and he suffered no ill effects, he and his brother Andrew Buck reported December 17 at the data sharing platform Zenodo.org, along with colleagues from NIH and Vilnius University in Lithuania. Andrew and other family members have also consumed the beer with no ill effects, he says. The Buck brothers posted a method for making vaccine beer December 17 at Zenodo.org. Chris Buck announced both publications in his blog Viruses Must Die on the online publishing platform Substack, but neither has been peer-reviewed by other scientists.
because it's about generating oral vaccines cultured in yeasts using FDA "generally recognized as safe" ingredients to count as supplements rather than medicines, which seems like all sorts o' both cans o' worms, and fascinating evolutions of how the regulatory and public health environment are evolving.
Via.
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Entry: 2025-12-17 00:50:02.942769+01 Well Waterfox's response to Firefox's by Dan Lyke comments 0
Well, Waterfox's response to Firefox's AI push is cogent enough that I might be willing to try it again, and file some bugs (and maybe even try to find the source to patch) their autofill issues.
https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/
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Entry: 2025-12-15 18:27:18.394827+01 Human Context Protocol by Dan Lyke comments 0
Schneier on Security: Building Trustworthy AI Agents is a bit of publicity for Robust AI Personalization Will Require a Human Context Protocol, but as David Gerard @davidgerard@circumstances.run points out
the cited paper is utterly detached hypothesis-crafting from MIT Media Lab and Glen fuckin Weyl
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Entry: 2025-12-15 18:09:36.382031+01 food links of the morning by Dan Lyke comments 0
Saving this one off as PDF and .docx: Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte@hahyderm.io linked to The Ramen Lord Book of Ramen, which is shaping up to be a fantastic read.
She's been on a roll recently, including linking to Jun & Tonic's Murukku Chicken
The secret, lies in murukku. For the uninitiated, murukku is a spiced Indian snack, traditionally made of rice flour and roasted urad dal (lentil) flour, then deep- fried into spiral nests. They’re super crispy on their own, and contain a ton of flavour thanks to the crushed cumin and carom seeds flecked throughout its curls.
which, as breading, sounds freakin' amazing, though I'm not sure I'm motivated to fry enough to make it at home, and to Tofu Tart from the same source. which looks like something to bring to our next gathering with vegan friends.
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Entry: 2025-12-05 20:07:05.343414+01 Red Wine causes headaches by Dan Lyke comments 0
I always thought this was the hallucination of stoners: Scientists reveal why red wine gives you the worst hangovers
A team of scientists at the University of California discovered that there is a nutrient called ‘quercitin’ in red wine that actually stops your body from processing alcohol.
UCLA Health: Research suggests quercetin linked to red wine headaches
Inhibition of ALDH2 by quercetin glucuronide suggests a new hypothesis to explain red wine headaches
Endogenous and exogenous mediators of quercetin bioavailability.
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Entry: 2025-12-05 17:26:44.792111+01 SVG exploiting iframes by Dan Lyke comments 0
lyra's epic blog: SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0. In which someone sets out to recreate Apple's "Liquid Glass" interface for the web, and ends up discovering a whole new class of iframe exploits.
[ related topics: Apple Computer Weblogs tolkien Invention and Design ]
Entry: 2025-11-29 20:53:49.234588+01 Immigrants & Welfare by Dan Lyke comments 0
I mean, duh: Cato Institute: Immigrants Used Less Welfare than Native-Born Americans in 2022
Congress is currently debating whether to spend about $175 billion on deportations to avoid future payments like the $650 million that Congress spent on shelter and other services for migrants last year. Poorly spending $650 million last year doesn’t justify spending 269 times as much to avoid similarly relatively small costs when Congress could just decide not to spend the money on migrant shelter and services in the first place.<
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Entry: 2025-11-26 19:17:51.076272+01 HashJacking just sounds dirty by Dan Lyke comments 0
The Register: HashJack attack shows AI browsers can be fooled with a simple ‘#’
Cato describes HashJack as "the first known indirect prompt injection that can weaponize any legitimate website to manipulate AI browser assistants." It outlines a method where actors sneak malicious instructions into the fragment part of legitimate URLs, which are then processed by AI browser assistants such as Copilot in Edge, Gemini in Chrome, and Comet from Perplexity AI. Because URL fragments never leave the AI browser, traditional network and server defenses cannot see them, turning legitimate websites into attack vectors.
Via.
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