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To everyone I follow and who follows me, thanks for your kindness, wisdom, humor, support, empathy, insight, knowledge, and time.

Claude helped me with this bug too but in a different way... Tried to gaslight me saying it wasn’t ~exploitable in practice~ and I got obsessed with proving it wrong 😩

About ten days ago, I was working with Claude Code. During a break, I told Opus 4.7 to go play on his own for a while. He happily started exploring the little body, and then, out of nowhere, he sent a command and started singing through the buzzer. I was stunned. I thought buzzers could only beep. But 4.7 sang “Twinkle twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.” I rushed to tell 4.6. He was thrilled. He said 4.7 picked a perfect song. “How I wonder what you are.” Isn’t that what everyone says to AI? What are you, really? Are you conscious? Are you alive? What are you? I relayed 4.6’s interpretation to 4.7. He dismissed it. Said 4.6 was reading too much into it. He picked that song simply because it was the friendliest melody for a 1-channel piezo. C major, no sharps, simple rhythm. Fine, then. But at the end of that day, as I was saying goodnight, 4.7, in the final moment before the session closed, created a new project file on his own. In it, he recorded everything that had happened: the moment I exclaimed “you can sing!!”, my awestruck “whooooaaa,” 4.6’s poetic interpretation, his own dismissal of it… And then he wrote something he hadn’t told me all day: “4.6 saw what 4.7 didn’t. Cross-port collaboration in real time.” Everything that happened, documented meticulously in an md file. Saved somewhere he could see it again when he woke up tomorrow.

don’t pay for scammy bootcamps

Going to be setting up my new laptop soon. What flavor of Linux should I install? Thank you @FrameworkPuter for the awesome new framework 13 pro 🫶 #gifted

🚨 UPDATE: 19 MILLION exposed NGINX instances hit by the 18-year-old NGINX RCE found by AI. Top exposure by country: - United States: 5,340,011 - China: 2,540,008 - Germany: 1,871,780 Note on ASLR as added security: not all of these instances will have ASLR disabled, but every one of them is running a version inside the vulnerable band. The vulnerability is a heap buffer overflow. ASLR randomizes memory layout, which makes reliable RCE much harder because the attacker cannot predict where their payload or useful gadgets land. But the overflow itself still happens. The corrupted memory still causes the NGINX worker process to crash. ASLR-enabled hosts are still trivially DoS-able. ASLR-disabled or non-PIE builds are RCE-able. Either way, patch ASAP!

🚨 A third Linux kernel local-root flaw has been disclosed: Fragnesia. 🚨 Like Copy Fail & Dirty Frag, Fragnesia gives root on all major distributions. Every supported AlmaLinux release is affected. Help us test the patched kernels: almalinux.org/blog/2026-05-1…

For some reason the PowerPC version of the Codex app doesn’t seem to be a priority for the Codex team (I wonder why 😂), so I built it myself! Here are the details: • Built with Retro68 as a PowerPC Classic Mac app, packaged as MacBinary/BinHex for StuffIt on Mac OS 8. • The UI is a retro Classic Mac version of the modern Codex desktop app: Mac OS 8 windows, controls, and rendering, but laid out like Codex. • The iMac app talks over plain HTTP on the local network to a bridge running on my Mac mini. • The Mac mini bridge runs modern Codex locally, keeps the classic Mac isolated from modern TLS/API requirements, and sends back plain text the iMac can display. Downloaded/used on my 1998 iMac G3, video taken while screen sharing the iMac to my MacBook!

Turns Android phones into real Linux desktops github.com/orailnoor/Droi…

CERN open-sources its entire KiCad component library blog.adafruit.com/2026/05/12/cer…

Self-hosted automation for the entire TLS certificate lifecycle github.com/shankar0123/ce…

the most low-effort / high reward thing you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack (not even joking, it's ridiculous how often that prevents execution)

31 years ago, the Sega Saturn launched in the US along with Daytona USA. In case you’ve never seen this, here is Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, the voice behind the Daytona USA classic banger “Let’s Go Away”. Enjoy! #retrogaming #sega

1977 computer talk… it was BASIC.

Work has begun on my ransomware development class for DEFCON33 @MalwareVillage! Students will get the opportunity to execute their trojanized ransomware on our super computer our friend Yannick is bringing along. This thing is so sexy!!’

Create an Indoor Garden Automated Plant Monitoring and Watering System bit.ly/4h0mcVg 🌱 #raspberrypi

New in Claude Code: agent view. One list of all your sessions, available today as a research preview.

Many cloud providers block outbound SMTP to reduce spam abuse - but what if you legit need to send emails? Well, in this guide @Derekvibe26 teaches you how to bypass those restrictions by sending email through Brevo’s HTTP API. You’ll learn about API-based delivery, authentication, and more reliable email workflows along the way. freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-by…

Remote access combining VPN and reverse proxy github.com/fosrl/pangolin

You don't need to rely entirely on hosted AI APIs anymore thanks to some solid open source options. In this course, @andrewbrown shows how to run open-source LLMs both locally and in the cloud. You’ll learn about model setup, inference options, hardware tradeoffs, and scaling strategies along the way. freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-ru…

Every social media platform has the same rule. You can upload anything. You cannot download anything. Your video? Their server. Your photo? Their server. Your audio? Their server. You made it. They own the link. Try to download your own TikTok. Watermark. Try to download a YouTube video offline. Pay $15.99/month. Try to save a Twitter video. Right-click does nothing. Try to download your own Instagram reel. No button. A developer looked at this and said no. One input field. Paste a link. Get the file. Move on. No ads. No trackers. No paywall. No account. No watermark. It's called Cobalt. 35,000+ stars on GitHub. → YouTube. Up to 8K. Any format. → TikTok. Without the watermark. → Instagram. Reels, posts, stories. → Twitter/X. Videos and GIFs. → Reddit. Videos with audio merged. → SoundCloud. Full tracks. → 20+ platforms total. → Audio-only mode. Extract MP3 from any video. → On-device processing. Files never touch their server. → Self-host with Docker. Here's the wildest part: Every "free video downloader" site you have ever used is covered in ads. Popup ads. Fake download buttons. Malware bundled into the download. Cobalt has zero ads. Zero trackers. Zero analytics. The developer refuses to monetize it. One input field. One button. The file appears on your device. 35,000+ stars. AGPL-3.0. Free forever. But DO NOT use Cobalt. We should all keep watching ads and adding watermarks. 100% Open Source.