Senselessly Tooted Disinformation

This host is mostly for my random stuff, and in little part acts like a well-intentioned placeholder for the typosquatted domain.

Discoverability and Archiving

Currently I'm using this host for saving the items from my own feeds to the Wayback Machine and provide in-links for search engines. I hate that I have to do this, but the non-sense ideology of Mastodon pretty much ruined the search feature for Fediverse as a whole, and this wasn't changed by the fact that they owned their mistake and implemented search eventually.

Yes, I (or anyone else) could do similar things with other peoples published feeds, regardless of the tantrum. No, you can't defederate this, because the process doesn't rely on an instance.

Gluttony Section for Search Engines

@chaos0815 Yeah, it's moments like this when I become nostalgic for strict typing, but part of Pythons power is exactly this kind of flexibility. I could argue for a more strict API/type checking in this particular lib, but I guess this is also something that makes them (very) popular, so I think I just have to be more careful in the future (like building less funky loops)...

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OK, I feel like an absolute noob:

I just spent hours debugging that I left a comma at the end of a #Python assignment, so the value became a tuple instead of the object I wanted 🤦

The library I passed the value to also has very liberal typing so it failed quietly, and the IDE didn't tip me off because I overwrote the value inside a loop...

Extra commas are the new lack of semicolons!

#fail #programming

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@bert_hubert Java applets have been disrupting my life for decades!

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TIL #pwndbg accepts donations, so if you care about your debuger command line being actually *good* then consider throwing some money at them:

https://github.com/sponsors/pwndbg/

#ReverseEngineering

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[RSS] Micropatches Released for Credential Security Support Provider Protocol (CredSSP) Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2025-47987)

https://blog.0patch.com/2026/01/micropatches-released-for-credential.html

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I only break out Cattle Decapitation on special occasions, but today I realized they have about 2x as many albums than I listen to and now I'm on the path to radical veganism.

https://cattledecapitation.bandcamp.com/album/homovore-2

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@mwichary They present technology as an instrument for art, and you get to play with literally everything (we spent the opening hours in full then went back the next day for more). On the flip-side the items are not very well documented, so you often stop scratching your head what a thing actually is - they are really helpful though and I think this also adds to the "magic" of the place.

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@mwichary My recommendation: https://this-museum-is-not-obsolete.com/

Not a typical a museum, more like a playground for geeks :)

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Decorative Cryptography

https://www.dlp.rip/decorative-cryptography

"All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends."

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@schrotthaufen I certainly argued with very intelligent people about this...

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