AccessiWeather update and dev musings:

I just added a small improvement to accessiweather: being able to import/export settings to copy them from machine to machine. However, if I can convince the Toga/BeeWare team that portable apps can indeed exist on macOS as well as Windows, maybe they can implement something to allow it. Briefcase is the real issue, though it certainly has its issues though overall it makes it easy to build and package the app with a few commands, though the config method they have for all platforms to save user settings saves it where each platform usually does, E.G. %appdata% on Windows. With my WX implementation, my make.py script had to do a bunch more shit. If I did that over again, I'd probably try to switch to Nuitka instead of the abandoned pyinstaller.

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taking a close look at early unix would likely reveal a high density of this kind of thing, in terms of vulnerabilities per 1000 lines of code

sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/uni…

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973

This blog post shows how to fix a buffer overflow in the su progam of UNIX v4

^{sigma star gmbh}

Abolishing ICE is now the conservative position. The moderate position is shipping them all, including every single leader, to The Hague.

I leave the more aggressive position as an exercise for the reader.

Today has been a very strange day. Definitely had some #Thursday components, such as both of my ears completely becoming useless at different points, a fantastic headache, a couple of technical things that went wrong, and the ill-advised (by me) working on an experimental project that might crash and burn, but I won't know about that for a while.

Currently, both my ears are, for all intents, nonfunctional, so I am once again thankful for the existence of braille displays.

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11…

Let me reiterate: ChatGPT Health is a dangerous product and a terrible idea. Keep it away from everyone you care about.

Taggart

2026-01-07 19:12:12

Don't, uh

Don't use this. Don't let your family or friends use it. If you see it in your neighborhood, bang pots and pans, whistle, and scare it off.

help.openai.com/en/articles/20…

As I suspected it probably would be, my bug bounty submission of using an AI email summarizer was closed as being 'infeasible' and an 'acceptable risk' with AI.

But still - I think it's an interesting finding, so I have written it up thus: mike-sheward.medium.com/recrui…

TL;DR = I discovered how you can use Google Workspace's Google Gemini Email Summarizer to make a phishing attack seem more convincing, because it summarizes hidden content.

#infosec #ai #llm

Yo dawg, I herd you like Amiga mouse pointers? Well, here’s all of them!

heckmeck.de/pointers/

#amiga #pixelart

more than 2000 ASCII art diagrams extracted from the source code for Chromium, Linux, Tensorflow, and LLVM 😍

asciidiagrams.github.io/

hey wanna hear something surreal?

when i called 911 [on 9th of December] to report "a stalker being actively in my home right now", the cop on the phone spent like a minute trying to figure out if my ethnicity was "white - british" or "white - other"

lord only knows what they wanted that data for

Daughter just came home to tell me the teachers at school tried to confiscate her vape but they couldn't because it's actually a kazoo.

"I made a kazoo noise at them and I could see them dying on the inside so I made a sad kazoo noise instead. I don't think it helped."

The grin on her face.

Every day, thousands of women and children are victimized by people on X using the Grok chatbot to generate scantily clad and naked photos of them.

It’s time for governments to take action. Elon Musk’s X should have been banned long ago. They don’t have an excuse to delay any longer.

disconnect.blog/elon-musks-x-m…

#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #grok #twitter #everythingapp #deepfake

Elon Musk’s X must be banned

Regulators need to stop cowering before the richest man in the world

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

the SHIVAA strawberry picking robot that works in open fields, not some custom designed greenhouse/warehouse

people said it can't exist

Why is Grok still allowed on the app store after generating thousands of CSAM images?

Does Tim Cook just not want smoke from Elon? Many apps have been removed for far less.

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their contest, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.

404media.co/grok-ai-sexual-abu…

Grok's AI Sexual Abuse Didn't Come Out of Nowhere

With xAI's Grok generating endless semi-nude images of women and girls without their consent, it follows a years-long legacy of rampant abuse on the platform.

^{Samantha Cole (404 Media)}

I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉

[1]Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.

If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.

Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!

[1] communityblog.fedoraproject.or…

#Fedora

Fedora Linux 43 (F43) election results – Fedora Community Blog

The Fedora Linux 43 (F43) election cycle has concluded. In this election round, there was only one election, for the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo). Congratulations to the winning candidates.

^{Justin Wheeler (Fedora Project)}