Apple MacBooks Lose Network Connectivity After 49.7 Days Due to macOS "Time Bomb" Bug
I'm skeptical that it's just something that affects MacBooks; surely it would affect Mac Minis and any other Mac using the latest OS?
But still... oops?
davep - powRSS
My blog on powRSS.
1D-Chess
Chess, in 1d.
powRSS - Discover the Indie Web
Another collection of "small" blog feeds.
The AI Great Leap Forward
Seeing AI rolled out in some places, with all the emphasis on adoption and use and zero talk of measuring results, and how this really concerns me and what might come of it... this reall hit home.
It Bears Repeating: Emacs 28 & Repeat Mode
This looks like a really useful approaching to repeating actions in Emacs.
The Many Faces of flet: cl-flet, cl-labels, and cl-letf
A good explainer of the differences between cl-flet, cl-letf and cl-labels.
Crafting Your Own Snippets with Emacs Built-In Abbrev Mode | Rahul's Blog
While much of the post itself reads like it's AI generated; this is a pretty good and simple explanation of handy uses for abbrev.
Declutter M-x with read-extended-command-predicate
Introduction on how to declutter your M-x completion list.
Old McCarthy Had a Form - Atomized
Nice simple intro to EIEIO.
git.gay
A git forge for queer folk. What's not to like?
Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark
Nice example of how Lisp code can be fast; it just tends to seem to be slow in the hands of those who don't know how to make it fast, or who want it to be slow.
Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis? | House of Saud
Is the current state of the US government, and its war on Iran, down to use and abuse of AI?
CommentBox.io - No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments.
I keep thinking I might like to add comments back to my main blog. This might be an affordable (or free) option.
Blogosphere - Frontpage of the indieweb
Kind of a "planet" site for personal blogs in genral. Could be a good place to find stuff to read and follow.
k06a/macpow: Mac Power Monitor
Neat-looking system monitor for macOS
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity
axios got hacked in a pretty major way, which is pretty major in that it gets used all over the place.
No, Copilot for GitHub wasn't advertising
Watching the "Copilot is inserting adverts into PRs!" thing do the rounds was kind of wild, because it obviously wasn't. It obviously was inserting what the team throught were useful tips, and it had been doing it for a wee while.
This comment confirms what I felt was the case there.
open-slopware
A database of software that some feel is "tainted" by AI. Seems to very much come from the "all code touched by AI is slop; no disagreement is allowed". It is, however, an interesting project to follow.
Periodic Table of Elements
Pretty cool periodic table of elements, on the web.
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.
Interesting wander through one person's experience of the early days of modern AI.
in praise of BlogMore
Someone said nice things about BlogMore.
GitHub's advice on using personal accouns
It’s a bad idea to have different accounts for work and personal, on GitHub. Even GitHub themselves, in their documentation, suggest using one account for everything.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Nobody will pay attention, but this is a good call to calm the fuck down when it comes to going all in on agents.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
An interesting claim from a member of staff that doesn't quite fit what's said elsewhere.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
GitHub's FAQ on how they're going to start learning off people's interactions with Copilot.
JellyShell
Pretty much an effort to be social like we used to back in the BBS days.
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Doesn't say what I didn't believe to be the case anyway, but it's worth having to hand. Also something worth guarding against.
TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign | Attack Timeline & IOCs
So this is... horrible.