ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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Happy Winter Solstice!
Good morning from Wollongong, everybody.
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Seen on Bluesky:
Guy explains to CEO of Signal (messaging) that it's going to add "AI" to the service. She says no. He insists, not knowing or caring who he's talking down to.
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@rix It's played on a full-size cricket oval. (The clip I shared was from a recent match between Adelaide and Port Adelaide at the Adelaide Oval, which regularly hosts T20 and Test cricket.)
So roughly 170 metres x 140 metres.
With kicking, if the ball is kicked more than 15 metres and you catch it on the full, that's called a mark, and you get to take an unimpeded kick.
You're only allowed to kick the ball or handpass it by punching it with a clenched fist while holding it with an open hand. No throwing.
With tackling, there's no line of scrimmage or offside rule.
A legal tackle is one that's laid on the player with the ball, above the knees and below the shoulders.
If you're tackled, you have to immediately bandpass or kick the ball.
If you're tackled with the ball, you didn't have a prior opportunity to dispose of it, and you make a genuine attempt to kick or handpass it, it goes to a ball up.
If you've tackled with the ball, and you did have a prior opportunity to dispose of it, and you don't immediately kick or handpass it, then the other team gets possession and s free kick.
With the scoring, unlike the rugby codes, there's no try line. If you kick the ball through the two tall goal posts in the middle, it's a goal and you get 6 points. If you kick it between the tall goal posts and the smaller outer posts, it's a behind and you get 1 point.
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#Trump signed an #EO eliminating several of #Biden’s #cybersecurity initiatives: software security requirements, AI-related initiatives, adoption of post-quantum cryptography. https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/trump-cybersecurity-executive-order-eliminate-biden-programs/750119/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
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AI coding tools are currently good at the first 80% of software development, which is putting bugs in. Not so great at the second 80%, which is taking them out again.
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Fuck.
Elsewhere in their profession, some scientists are starting to look away. “We know quite a number of entomologists who have experience dating back to the 70s, 80s or 90s,” Hallwachs says. “One of our very good friends – he now does not have the emotional courage to hang up a sheet to collect moths at night. It is too devastating to see how few there are.”
@patrickcmiller we used to have that back in the dos days
@aj i can see it
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news canceling headphones
@jpmens oh yeah - we get E22ed every now and then here too
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Crucial CVE flaw-tracking database narrowly avoids closure to DHS cuts
Board members have launched a nonprofit to take over the program from MITRE.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/crucial-cve-flaw-tracking-database-narrowly-avoids-closure-to-dhs-cuts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Why do some neurons say “sleep” while others shout “stay awake!” — inside the same brain?
In fruit flies, researchers just mapped the molecular chaos behind this nightly tug-of-war. And it’s wilder than we thought.
https://elifesciences.org/articles/106686?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_insights
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"If you spend your whole time thinking about the universe, you tend to forget the less important bits of it. Like your pants."
-- Small Gods
#TerryPratchett
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A Cambridge team studying the atmosphere of a planet called K2-18b has detected signs of molecules which on Earth are only produced by simple organisms. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c39jj9vkr34o
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Probably the last CVE indexed before it goes dark should be CVE-2025-DOGE (critical, local privilege escalation vulnerability that leads to malicious code execution and data exfiltration).
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Mouse watches The Matrix, scientists map brain that looks like a ‘galaxy’
Thanks to a mouse watching clips from The Matrix, scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date, a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons.
#science #technology #brain #movie #Health #Mouse
https://globalnews.ca/news/11124950/mouse-watching-the-matrix-scientists-map-galaxy-brain/
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OpenSSH 10.0 (a regular bump from 9.9) is out, and it makes the post-quantum ML-KEM hybrid mlkem768x25519-sha256 the default. https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-10.0
The next release of x/crypto/ssh will support it, too, when used with Go 1.24, making SSH sessions quantum resistant! ⛓️ https://go.dev/cl/646075
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