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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/28
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/27
During a private conversation, someone mentioned that there is a storm of CVEs and someone else asked if this was because people have been sloppy in programming for a very long time.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures has a table of Published CVE Records with totals which I have copied:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/21
Earlier this year, someone mentioned Mastofeed. Then I found there are two kinds of Mastofeeds. Both have their own domain and their own repository. Both are free, so I wonder what their business models are as something or somebody needs to be the product. Both have to do with feeds and the ActivityPub protocol of the Fediverse (which mainly consists of Mastodon servers, but other types of servers are still growing). Both can be self-hosted. Both their directions and audience differs.
In short:
- mastofeed.org (mentioned to me first) is uses RSS as feed and posts entries to the Fediverse
- mastofeed.com (found later) uses Fediverse as feed and exposes entries as an HTML iframe using an HTTP API
Some more links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/15
Idea: create an Apple ][ bot for Mastodon like BBC Micro Bot
Regrettably, I don’t have the energy to pull this off myself, cancer was a bitch and I have less than half the energy I used fo have, but for anyone interested here are some links that could get you started:
On BBC emulation and BBC Micro Bot:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/08
A friend is starting a new business, so I am curious to what [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arriving soon will bring (or brought if this post scheduling arrives later than their release).
Looking at the taglines below, I think is that this is an intelligent (unlike LLM “intelligent”) source analysis/probing tool.
The Arrival animation sequence at [Wayback/Archive] Sonde — Arrival attributes the software development past in 29 stages, all the way back from FORTRAN till the more recent Swift until finally showing the moon, hopefully indicating a release before the Artemis IV will land people on the moon:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/30
Recently someone commited a large set of LLM (Large Language Model often wrongly called AI or Artificial Intelligence as at best they are an AI model, or better phrased machine learning model, not even a machine learning reality¹) assistance files to the pixelfed repository. This caused quite some turmoil resulting in pixelfed banning AI generated contributions.
This is for good reason: too many LLM generated commits lack quality control. This results in shoving the burden of the checks from the contributor to the volunteers of the project teams. Those volunteers are already overwhelmed anyway (there is always an applicable XKCD, in this case [Wayback/Archive] 2347: Dependency – explain xkcd).
The offending commit was [Wayback/Archive] Add AI docs · pixelfed/pixelfed@65dff00 · GitHub. The contributor was lazy enough to wrongly name this commit, as these weren’t docs in the sense of documentation, but a set of Claude Skills and other LLM slop².
That behaviour is exemplary for almost all LLM contributions: most humans and systems generating them take them for correct and just commit their content.
I am still not convinced that the main contributor switching within a few days from “oh, let’s add LLM stuff” into “nope, we are not going to allow LLM” vows for a strong soul.
The Pixelfed statement is via [Wayback/Archive] pixelfed: “Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions…” – Mastodon
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/29
Just in case I ever want to migrate a repository from SourceForge to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive] ipmitool/sf2gh: migrates tickets to GH from SF
This was developed for the Gene Ontology but is generic and will work for any project.
The project consists of two files, the extensive [Wayback/Archive] sf2gh/README.md at master · ipmitool/sf2gh · GitHub which has a very important tip:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/23
[Wayback/Archive] Hashtopolis
HashtopolisHashtopolis is a distributed password recovery tool working with hashcat
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/09/22
A while back (actually: a long time ago), in JavaScript Bookmarklet to enable Mastodon publishing for a WordPress.com post that is edited in the Classic Editor I promised to improve that code.
Actually I did improve the gist, but I forgot to write the blog post on it.
So below is the old code, new code, and explanation of the improvements.
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