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What's up Python? We are living interesting times for sure...
September and October 2026
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What's up Python? We are living interesting times for sure...
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
I have a glass that says "Warning, containers for dihydrogen monoxyde" with tons of warning labels in my bathroom. That's the software equivalent.
November 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
I have a glass that says "Warning, containers for dihydrogen monoxyde" with tons of warning labels in my bathroom. That's the software equivalent.
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Omg. Doomed.
Terminal2Shell: Critical flaw grants instant shell access on every major OS
Researchers disclose a 55-year-old vulnerability affecting macOS, Windows and Linux. Exploitation is trivial and requires no special tools. No patch exists.
terminal2shell.com
November 9, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Omg. Doomed.
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NaN propagation in my Vulkan renderer
November 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
NaN propagation in my Vulkan renderer
The fix is to use the language-* class instead of code.language-* to mark the code block and prevent Grammarly from finding it. You lose spell check in code, but it's actually better, it's usually not great at it.
November 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
The fix is to use the language-* class instead of code.language-* to mark the code block and prevent Grammarly from finding it. You lose spell check in code, but it's actually better, it's usually not great at it.
I like the Grammarly browser add-on spell checker. But it tends to mess up code blocks colored with Prism in CodeMirror, replacing the code with [Object], because it ships its own copy of Prism scan all code.language-* classes and inject his own stuff in them, which CodeMirror saves raw.
November 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I like the Grammarly browser add-on spell checker. But it tends to mess up code blocks colored with Prism in CodeMirror, replacing the code with [Object], because it ships its own copy of Prism scan all code.language-* classes and inject his own stuff in them, which CodeMirror saves raw.
What's up Python? We are living interesting times for sure...
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
What's up Python? We are living interesting times for sure...
September and October 2026
www.bitecode.dev
November 9, 2026 at 9:51 AM
What's up Python? We are living interesting times for sure...
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
https://www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-python-we-are-living-interesting
So I missed September, which means this article is both for sept and oct.
And boy, did I choose the wrong time to do that; this article is masssssssssive.
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“The fingerprint reader only enabled the USB connection, and nothing on the card was actually encrypted.”
SMDH
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
SMDH
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case — AI-assisted follow-up finds a backdoor and hardcoded keys in other ‘secure’ USB products
The fingerprint only switched the USB connection on; nothing on the card was encrypted.
www.tomshardware.com
November 2, 2026 at 9:58 AM
“The fingerprint reader only enabled the USB connection, and nothing on the card was actually encrypted.”
SMDH
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
SMDH
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Thinking of giving it a try, but so many things to try...
How did it improve your dev life concreatly?
How did it improve your dev life concreatly?
November 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM
Thinking of giving it a try, but so many things to try...
How did it improve your dev life concreatly?
How did it improve your dev life concreatly?
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This is not just reddit. Everywhere people engage with fake content with high intensity, building opinions from it and model their world.
October 29, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This is not just reddit. Everywhere people engage with fake content with high intensity, building opinions from it and model their world.
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"A term in your PID loop has become NaN and you're about to have a fun day" has happened at every job I've had thus far
IEEE-754 may be accursèd in the eyes of the LORD but that's no excuse to start slinging +Infs and NaNs around in code that is supposed to work on values between 0 and 1 lol
October 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
"A term in your PID loop has become NaN and you're about to have a fun day" has happened at every job I've had thus far
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wtf is mozilla doing? i don't like this feature in firefox so i'm now switching to hitler browser dot palantir.
October 3, 2026 at 5:44 AM
wtf is mozilla doing? i don't like this feature in firefox so i'm now switching to hitler browser dot palantir.
Following the eMudhra debacle, many package managers (anything relying on certify) issued an update.
You should update your pip, uv, certify, etc., ASAP. Right now, ideally.
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsign-ca-certificate-security-incident/109576
You should update your pip, uv, certify, etc., ASAP. Right now, ideally.
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsign-ca-certificate-security-incident/109576
Information for Python users regarding eMudhra / emSign CA certificate security incident
A security incident affecting eMudhra intermediate certificates has required removing the emSign root CA certificate from CA bundles such as “certifi”. It’s important to immediately upgrade the software packages below to at least the versions specified and rebuild container images with layer caching disabled to fetch the latest system certificates. Failure to do so could result in monster-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against TLS clients, including python.org and pypi.org . certifi 2026.10.19 (..
discuss.python.org
October 27, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Following the eMudhra debacle, many package managers (anything relying on certify) issued an update.
You should update your pip, uv, certify, etc., ASAP. Right now, ideally.
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsign-ca-certificate-security-incident/109576
You should update your pip, uv, certify, etc., ASAP. Right now, ideally.
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsign-ca-certificate-security-incident/109576
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I once inherited a python system that handled about $100m in ARR. It was a single Django class that was 25k lines long and had zero tests or docs that always called out to MySQL and postgres via fork+exec rather than actually using those client libraries
Agents turn out mediocre code, but I really don't think some people comprehend the horrors humans made before. I inherited an ETL pipeline that was a single 3k line python script/god class with control flow managed by adding, modifying, *and removing* properties. No arguments to be found.
October 25, 2026 at 2:44 PM
I once inherited a python system that handled about $100m in ARR. It was a single Django class that was 25k lines long and had zero tests or docs that always called out to MySQL and postgres via fork+exec rather than actually using those client libraries
This is really nasty. People talking about being listened to by their phone because of targeted apps have been gaslighted for years.
But we know Siri and Alexa both got caught on listening scandal, and now this. At this stage, it is naive to think it's not happening on a regular basis.
But we know Siri and Alexa both got caught on listening scandal, and now this. At this stage, it is naive to think it's not happening on a regular basis.
October 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
This is really nasty. People talking about being listened to by their phone because of targeted apps have been gaslighted for years.
But we know Siri and Alexa both got caught on listening scandal, and now this. At this stage, it is naive to think it's not happening on a regular basis.
But we know Siri and Alexa both got caught on listening scandal, and now this. At this stage, it is naive to think it's not happening on a regular basis.
Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-board AI always listening
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
October 24, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Hacker reverse engineers his Samsung TV and finds on-board AI always listening
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiai/comments/1xdv3e5/hacker_reverse_engineers_his_samsung_tv_and_finds/
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Wow, that's a very good starter pack go.bsky.app/HmV5x47
October 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Wow, that's a very good starter pack go.bsky.app/HmV5x47
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Context: A certificate authority, an essential part of how your computer knows a response from website-dot-com is the real website-dot-com, was found to be using "4" as a private key. This should never happen and it should be a very big number instead. This is a very bad thing
October 20, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Context: A certificate authority, an essential part of how your computer knows a response from website-dot-com is the real website-dot-com, was found to be using "4" as a private key. This should never happen and it should be a very big number instead. This is a very bad thing
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![[A computer program.]
int getRandomNumber()
{
return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
// guaranteed to be random.
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:edaqpjrias7uenphyrrttsuk/bafkreida5h2doewjtynfailjyu5xl72eaquzul5lrgdxq6vmsmpv2ood34)
I would add, apply it to the stock market and see if it hallucinante patterns in this bag of noise. After all, it's as important for it to find them than to tell you it can't find any.
October 21, 2026 at 9:10 AM
I would add, apply it to the stock market and see if it hallucinante patterns in this bag of noise. After all, it's as important for it to find them than to tell you it can't find any.
Not the reason I ask if people would use those. 10 years ago, game changer. Today with LLM, much less so. Stack overlow shows that interest in programming online resources is taking a dive since less and less coders are looking at the code.
October 21, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Not the reason I ask if people would use those. 10 years ago, game changer. Today with LLM, much less so. Stack overlow shows that interest in programming online resources is taking a dive since less and less coders are looking at the code.