3233. Make It Myself
title text: It's not as big a loss as it looks, because now I have have leftover supplies, which will help me talk myself into doing this all over again with a new project!
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owning the libs
maintaining the libs
reviewing pull requests on the libs
setting up ci and fuzz tests for the libs
"Days of arguing about exploitability can save minutes of fixing the bug."
-- Socrates, on vulnerability disclosure
In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre
— Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States
— and delivered a lecture.
“America,” Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.”
As tempers rose, one U.S. official reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy -- the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.
Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place
— and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year.
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-pentagon-threatened-pope-leo
did you know? the google forms share icon has a stray pixel in its corner
why? because the icon spritesheet has a massive black triangle overlapping the icons
what is that triangle? it's a giant out-of-bounds hat!
"How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'? I mapped every one."
https://teybannerman.github.io/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html
"A few weeks ago, I tried to explain to someone what Microsoft Copilot is. I couldn’t… because the name ‘Copilot’ now refers to at least 75 different things."
How annoyed are judges about getting filings with hallucinated citations? They are using ChatGPT to write limericks mocking the filers 🤖😵
https://flcourts-media.flcourts.gov/content/download/2486572/opinion/Opinion_2025-0843.pdf
Here’s one of my more reflective poems, written while waiting for a train at a provincial railway station.
WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW BANKSY'S IDENTITY
STOP INVESTIGATING BANKSY FFS
INVESTIGATE LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE
"There's nothing we can do"
"What do you suppose we do?"
"We are powerless"
- The democracy supposedly worth spreading through bombs
We and our 847 partners can have a CSRF vulnerability, as a treat
> The State cannot claim it lacks capacity. It has police, it has a military, it has an airport. It simply refuses to apply scrutiny to US-linked flights in the way it would to almost any other perceived security concern.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41792807.html
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.
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.