Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

Bizarre 7.30 story regurgitating the easily disproven trope that investors leaving the rental market leads to higher rents.

Even included an 'expert' academic who lamented that there are no longer any incentives for landlords, despite the fact that negative gearing and the CGT discount still apply to new builds, and an increase in investor loans for new builds is already happening.

#AusPol #Housing

Terrific to see Lula won in Brazil's election runoff, defeating the fash Bolsonaro, who in a display of mala leche, still isn't conceding. Trumpolini will be miffed. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/10/25/brazil-election-results-2026-live-polls-close-in-lula-bolsonaro-face-off #Brazil

Throwback Saturday memory: there's something about Paris.

(This was taken from the high tower on the university campus).

We are in a very dangerous time, when "AI" security companies are competing to prove that their technology will provide returns on investment. The industry has always been broken. There has always been an incentive to inflate the importance of vulnerabilities, but there was always a risk of burning hard earned trust. In the end, a lot of folks decided it wasn't worth it.

But "AI" companies haven't worked to earn that trust. They have something to prove, right now, or they don't exist. So now everything is critical, "impossible to find without AI," and so on. Blah2shell sells, and now everyone wants their little vuln labeled that way regardless of the complexity or risk.

Burning trust in security is the absolute worst thing you can possibly do in terms of tech. I'm worried about where things are going right now.

There have always been more bugs than we can fix. We've had to triage. If we break that, we flood maintainers until they burn out. Our job is not to fix everything. It's to filter information for the people who do.

But right now I'm reading vuln reports that aren't distinguishing between a 100% reliable and trivial exploit like log4shell and complex memory corruption bugs that are incredibly noisy and basically impossible to exploit with ASLR. ASLR is like 25 years old. You have to do better than a simple buffer overflow now to get a shell.

But people have shit to sell, so we have more noise. Again, "we've put the attenuator on the wrong side of the equation."

Israeli occupation aircraft bombard the town of Kafr Tabnite, southern Lebanon.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon

Breaking | Al-Shifa Medical Complex: Two Palestinians killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting a vehicle in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

internet taken offline by huge pulse of smugness from static site operators

Please stop anthropomorphizing AI executives.

They're not sentient and they can't actually think. They just predict the next token using statistical patterns scraped from LinkedIn, X and the Financial Times. The apparent "understanding" is simply a parlor trick: They produce text strings that *sound* plausible, but they don't actually have any understanding of the world.

I'll grant that they became a lot more technically impressive when Reinforcement Learning from Investor Sentiment pipelines were introduced, but fundamentally they're still just stochastic bullshit generators. Running them in a loop and giving them access to the internet will end up being the most expensive mistake in the history of technology.

Clashes in France as uprising swells to millions.

https://freedompress.org.uk/2026/10/19/clashes-in-france-as-uprising-swells-to-millions/

#france #news

https://www.health.vic.gov.au/medicines-and-poisons-regulation/psychostimulants-for-adhd-updated-permit-requirements

This is good news. Little annoyed I'll likely need one more expensive appointment but hopefully that'll be the last one

'In a sign of investors’ increasing unease over the borrowing binge, the cost of buying CDS on many AI-linked companies has hit record highs this month...not only for companies that investors judge as riskier, such as AI cloud-computing provider CoreWeave, but also for those such as Microsoft that are seen as relatively safe'

Guess what? We wrote an iPhone 11 Linux Camera driver ✨📸

#Linux #Apple #iPhone #iPhoneLinux #cyberdeck

FYI, Firefox has enable the "Donate your body to fuel data centers" option to true by default, so if you want to opt-out, make so set this hidden flag to false every browser update.

browser.ml.donateFlesh = false

The potential for runaway ice sheet retreat due to the Marine Ice Cliff Instability has been debated for years from theoretical and modelling standpoints. At last Caroline Needell and co-authors have brought a large observational dataset to the party.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2593672-towering-ice-cliffs-may-collapse-in-fits-and-starts/

The paper the article refers to is here
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aee0658