Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

We noticed that the database was slower to respond to queries the last few days.

This was caused by a specific query that is executed for quota calculation. This query took longer than normal (bad query plan) to get a result. MariaDB spent most of its CPU time on those queries.

We instructed MariaDB to re-analyze the relevant tables; this resulted in MariaDB using a better query plan and giving the expected performance for the query.

This unfortunately caused some not planned downtime.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117354990486859177

So layoffs and price increases, the same as every tech company.

If #AI can be wrong on this, it can be wrong on the correct internal temperature for safe to consume chicken.

It might give you the right answer, but it might give you the wrong answer. And I have to wonder - yes this is a little conspiratorial - if that isn't the point.

If you cannot uneducate a population, perhaps you can flood it with information that is so deeply unreliable as to make any fact at all tenuous and ephemeral. 7/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117354507865860424

Stop believing the narrative of despair they want us to take in from "1313 CVEs!" and dig into the actual data, or look for reports from others who have. It's a huge lie.

@siddhesh_p @jschauma They could at least outsource the triage to the reporter.

If they can't even be bothered to explain why they think the bug is a vuln, it shouldn't get a CVE assignment.

If their explanation is technobabble out of the slop extruder, it also shouldn't get an assignment unless someone else is able to determine it warrants one.

@jschauma That isn't an option either. You are just adding more new vulns, and more of them are real vulns not fake ones like the stuff they're reporting.

The "1313 CVEs" are a lie. The hard problem is finding the 10-20 that are actually vulns and the 1-5 that are actually relevant to you.

The only solution is to close off all of the attack surface. Disable module loading entirely or switch to allow list model to block all of the "IPsec shit nobody asked for". Disable io_uring and other optional niche syscalls. Don't give out user accounts, and don't assume running network-facing junk daemons is safe just because they're running as nobody or chrooted. Etc.

We're looking for a #WooCommerce person to do work for us, a small British business selling internationally through an online shop, on an as-and-when basis. We need some tinkering to improve our current set-up, and some new work. If that's you please get in touch, or please forward this message to someone you think might be interested. Thank you most kindly.

Trying to come up with a more descriptive term for the US political system than "democracy," since it obviously ain't that. I'm trying out "Aristo-oligarchic Politocracy," i.e. rule by a small sect of politicians and the super-rich. Going to start using it in normal conversation, and see how it goes...

Here's your economics lesson for the day: why de-dollarization is not actually a thing, no matter how much we may despise the US empire.

"As we have pointed out, many anti-globalists allow their distaste for US hegemony to color their readings of the current standing and prospects for the dollar. We have repeatedly stressed that well under 5% are for trade. The rest are financial flows. The big push to find alternative payment mechanisms is for trade, to prevent the US from using sanctions to choke cross-border commerce, as it has tried to do with only partial success with Iran. But getting more international goods payments to take place outside the dollar is not going to have much impact on the use of the dollar." ~Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/09/de-dollarization-is-a-youtube-urban-legend.html

Trial of live #FacialRecognition in #London stations leads to a #FalsePositive and no arrests | Facial recognition | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive

#UK #England #Surveillance #Policing

Loops also blocks AI code contributions.

I should have made this policy much sooner, my apologies ❤️

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#ai-generated-contributions

Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.

We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.

Thank you for your feedback!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions

#pixelfed #aiBan

"We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

A decade ago during a project, I was griping about the trouble friends of mine had been having with their landlord, who was controlling the thermostat remotely to save money (rent was inclusive of bills). This was a shit thing to do when you don't know a family's schedules or even the local weather…

But when I was venting about this, the other devs got defensive and angry.

Turns out they were both landlords who did exactly the same thing to their tenants

Even if the code quality hadn’t declined overall, LLM users would still make the worst collaborators.

That feeling when coworkers on a freelance project, who used to send nicely curt and to-the-point emails with clear questions, now send massive essays with vague questions on random things from the code base that are nonetheless marked as [URGENT]