Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

The Call for Proposals for the 15th edition of @piwo Poznań Free Software Fest, a conference I'm somehow involved in, is open until Sunday. If you're interested in sharing your perspective on topics such as digital independence, the legal aspects of FOSS, privacy software development or cybersecurity, consider submitting a talk (there's also a dedicated Python track this year). It's a great community, last year there were like 200 participants.

📆 The event's on May 30th (Saturday) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (western Poland).

➡️ Details and CfP link: https://piwo.sh/en/news/2026-03-24-call-for-proposals-is-now-open/

Boosts welcome!

RT: https://fosstodon.org/users/piwo/statuses/116399002028609823

So this is a result of my photo walk. One is wild goose, the other - red kite. Both birds are very popular at the Baltic coast. #Photography #birdwatching

So they won't be more'ns

This feathered visitor recently stopped by the IRAM 30-m telescope to assist with EHT observations.

The bird had gotten lost in the fog and appeared at the control room door- more than 1,500 meters above its usual habitat.

After a brief "internship," it was safely released back into nature the next morning.

#M87MOVIE

@mhoye

As Margaret explained it to me, NASA wanted the lunar lander's actual landing to be 100% automated with no manual override. She disagreed, and insisted on implementing an override. NASA didn't like the idea but Margaret just went ahead and wrote it.

Of course, on Apollo 11's final approach, the lander was headed for a field of giant boulders. Neil Armstrong used Margaret's code to override the computer and manually divert to the actual, safer, landing point.

folks who say it's the code that matters when someone actually makes a decision based on technical merits

oh god

remember kids, when implementing a library that talks to a webserver, make sure to hardcode that URL in the source 27 times, just to make sure no one can easily use it against a local instance

Today's xkcd comic is freaking hilarious with the addition of the various reading modes. I think I like the hacker mode. It's still dark mode but also no blinding white visible at all. 😋

This aged well.
#ThisAgedWell

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

🎉 The critical amendment 34 (rejecting automated assessment of unknown photos and texts) PASSED by ONE vote, paving the way for the extension of Chat Control 1.0 to be overwhelmingly REJECTED!

Initial analysis by @echo_pbreyer : https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

@zipkid a long time ago I was flabbergasted by the "E-mail is broken and there's nothing to do" doomerism. Obviously signing and encryption work in email, and whitelisting would be trivial with it (like signal does it)

The same could work with https: trusted sources could guarantee #noAI and we could filter.

Trivial working solutions are ignored in favor of "oh noes! Whatever can we do!? Oh the humanity!"

So annoying 🤦

godDAMMit ruby

> Date.today is not timezone aware, I believe Date.yesterday is timezone aware

https://stackoverflow.com/a/20640452/477480