80 stories tagged mastodon, newest first.
131 points by tensegrist | 53 comments
Mastodon thread describing a bypass of eMudhra's OTP login by encrypting OTP requests with an exposed public key, enabling brute-forcing of logins to steal certificates.
50 points by mpaepper | 17 comments
A Mastodon thread by security researcher Elise describing a newly found PHP double-free vulnerability affecting 8.4 and 8.5, reported to [email protected] with details withheld.
417 points by AshleysBrain | 406 comments
A Mastodon post by Ashley Gullen reporting that Facebook Pages now require a paid subscription to post more than two links per month; the page returned a 429 error.
169 points by doener | 39 comments
Mastodon post by Bryan Steele previewing OpenBSD 8.0 changes, including Clang/LLVM 22, sparc64 Clang switch, and DRM graphics drivers updated to Linux 6.18.
579 points by ent101 | 603 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao arguing that "Math 2.0" should value exposition, community building and new directions over raw problem solving, with AI playing a role.
95 points by kmstout | 24 comments
Homepage of SDF Public Access UNIX System, a community since 1987 offering free shell accounts, a Mastodon instance, and access to vintage systems.
257 points by Cider9986 | 106 comments
A Mastodon post from GrapheneOS saying devices will likely be sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027, though probably not at initial launch.
327 points by inputmice | 315 comments
A Mastodon post by Daniel Gultsch complaining that Google Play app review now often takes over a week, with a screenshot of the Play Console releases page.
341 points by encyclopedism | 112 comments
Mastodon post by Simon Tatham reporting that an update to the Linux Zoom client makes it proactively read everything written to the X11 clipboard.
845 points by pred_ | 787 comments
Mastodon thread by mathematician Andreas Thom questioning whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics shared via ChatGPT, citing the non-sofic group result.
418 points by _alternator_ | 359 comments
A Mastodon thread by Terence Tao arguing that good, fruitful open math problems are a scarce resource being mined non-renewably, using a drinking-water analogy.
1116 points by mraniki | 223 comments
A satirical Mastodon post claiming the author's qBittorrent escaped its sandbox and downloaded copyrighted media, which Jellyfin then added to its libraries.
516 points by IngoBlechschmid | 217 comments
Mastodon thread by Ingo Blechschmidt describing how since Linux 6.9 the LUKS suspend tool silently failed to wipe disk-encryption keys from memory.
495 points by Risse | 1111 comments
A Mastodon post claiming Mullvad VPN's CEO is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party, linking a Flamman article.
509 points by danabramov | 289 comments
Dan Abramov's Overreacted blog post explaining why the concept of "instances" from Mastodon doesn't apply to Bluesky's AT Protocol.
960 points by sohkamyung | 227 comments
A Mastodon post by @hailey on social.hails.org about a Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux project; the page did not render any content.
354 points by pabs3 | 203 comments
A Mastodon post by Thom Zane asking for a human contact on Google's Gmail team to report a spammer who sent 10,000+ spam emails via Gmail.
539 points by nothrowaways | 153 comments
A Mastodon post from GrapheneOS stating the OS will stay usable worldwide without personal information, ID, or accounts, even if devices can't be sold in some regions.
1164 points by pabs3 | 477 comments
A GrapheneOS Mastodon post stating that Motorola devices supporting GrapheneOS will allow bootloader unlocking and relocking.
1353 points by novemp | 837 comments
A Mastodon post presenting the riddle-like question of whether to walk or drive to a car wash 50 meters away, likely highlighting LLM reasoning failures.
515 points by robin_reala | 220 comments
Mastodon post noting a matplotlib maintainer says quotes attributed to him in an Ars Technica article were fabricated, apparently AI hallucinations; the story was pulled.
410 points by JadedBlueEyes | 161 comments
A Mastodon thread criticizing a Cloudflare blog post claiming a Matrix homeserver on Cloudflare Workers, arguing the code is AI-generated and incomplete.
647 points by colinprince | 440 comments
A Mastodon post on eupolicy.social introducing the Citroen C15; the post content did not load in the capture.
590 points by cod1r | 334 comments
Terence Tao's Mastodon post reporting that Erdős problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI, and discussing emerging AI-powered capabilities in mathematics.
365 points by birdculture | 87 comments
Blog post on IT Notes describing how FediMeteo, a fediverse weather service, runs on a small €4 FreeBSD VPS serving thousands of followers.
500 points by twapi | 465 comments
A Mastodon post from Firefox web developers saying Firefox will add an option to disable all AI features.
727 points by akyuu | 339 comments
A Mastodon post from the GrapheneOS account claiming it is the only Android OS shipping full security patches; the page rendered blank when captured.
324 points by mystraline | 179 comments
Mastodon post by Fedi.Tips claiming YouTube uses AI to alter creators' videos without permission and recommending creators also post to PeerTube.
487 points by nabakin | 157 comments
Mastodon post by La Quadrature du Net criticizing French press articles attacking GrapheneOS as a tool used by drug traffickers.
470 points by AshleysBrain | 68 comments
A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.
540 points by Tomte | 379 comments
Op-ed on the Mastodon blog by founder Eugen Rochko announcing he is stepping down as CEO and taking a strategy and product advisor role.
476 points by greatquux | 77 comments
Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.
505 points by robhlam | 145 comments
Mastodon post by curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg reporting that Joshua Rogers' AI-assisted tools found many potential curl bugs, with 22 fixes already landed.
968 points by bertman | 490 comments
A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao reflecting on how society operates at four scales and how the role of small organized groups has shrunk.
350 points by doener | 254 comments
Mastodon post from Fight Chat Control reporting Germany reverted to undecided on the EU Chat Control proposal at the September 12 LEWP meeting.
360 points by belter | 226 comments
Mastodon post by Fight Chat Control quoting Danish Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard saying private encrypted messaging is not a civil liberty.
459 points by nickslaughter02 | 318 comments
Mastodon post relaying an ISOC Global Encryption Coalition update that the EU ChatControl blocking minority held while Denmark pushes the proposal to the October 14th JHA Council.
941 points by xyzal | 302 comments
A Mastodon post by Patrick Breyer reporting that Germany will not support the EU ChatControl proposal, securing a blocking minority.
444 points by Bogdanp | 226 comments
A dashboard measuring server concentration of the Fediverse and Bluesky's Atmosphere using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, with server counts and user shares.
448 points by nickslaughter02 | 317 comments
A Mastodon post by Patrick Breyer reporting that many EU countries that opposed the ChatControl proposal in 2024 are now undecided.
507 points by qsort | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao contrasting blue-team (building) and red-team (vulnerability-finding) roles, applied to how LLMs might be used.
1074 points by ColinWright | 879 comments
A Mastodon post by Lauren Weinstein noting that, after a court order, OpenAI is preserving all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted and sensitive chats.
560 points by bzg | 182 comments
Mastodon post by code.gouv.fr announcing France as the first government to endorse the UN's eight open source principles, listing them.
353 points by moelf | 228 comments
Mastodon post from GrapheneOS announcing an initial highly experimental release for the Pixel 9a, installable via CLI and web installer.
894 points by luu | 623 comments
A Mastodon post sharing an Amazon email saying the Alexa 'Do Not Send Voice Recordings' option on Echo devices ends March 28, 2025.
605 points by SlyHive | 317 comments
Mastodon profile of "Daily Azure Shit" (@azureshit), an account posting daily complaints about problems experienced with Microsoft Azure.
381 points by luu | 432 comments
Mastodon post by Rob Ricci, behind a content warning, reporting that all NSF staff overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation program are gone.
359 points by ColinWright | 79 comments
Mastodon post by Terence Tao announcing part two of Grant Sanderson's video interview with him on the cosmic distance ladder, plus a blog post with commentary.
512 points by zdw | 71 comments
A Mastodon post showing a QR code that resolves to different destinations depending on viewing angle or scanner, using lenticular and adversarial techniques.
499 points by nebalee | 77 comments
Mastodon post by Cees Bassa sharing a year-long keogram for 2024 built from all-sky camera images taken every 15 seconds over the Netherlands.
788 points by GavCo | 256 comments
A Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao noting a journal rejected one of his papers and reflecting on how common, yet rarely discussed, rejection is in academia.
553 points by pkaeding | 200 comments
A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.
626 points by dselsam | 404 comments
Mastodon post by mathematician Terence Tao describing his experiments with OpenAI's o1 model on research-level mathematical tasks.
516 points by pera | 144 comments
A Mastodon post by Terence Tao describing Guth and Maynard's improvement to Ingham's 1940 zero density bound for the Riemann zeta function.
757 points by colinprince | 404 comments
A Mastodon post by Ernie Smith sharing an internal memo announcing that Vice will stop publishing content on vice.com and shift to a studio model.
405 points by sohkamyung | 161 comments
A Mastodon post by an author on eldritch.cafe noting that LibreOffice opens old Microsoft Word files better than Word itself does.
360 points by rwmj | 251 comments
A Mastodon post noting that power-over-fiber components can deliver 3V 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light sent over standard multimode optical fiber.
706 points by blakewatson | 310 comments
A personal blog post by Blake Watson describing omg.lol, a community web service, as a refuge after leaving Twitter.
717 points by srijan4 | 562 comments
A Mastodon thread by Jason Lefkowitz arguing that the 1988 USS Vincennes shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 was partly caused by Aegis user interface design failures.
816 points by anotherevan | 632 comments
A Mastodon post arguing Brother became the recommended printer brand because competitors made their printers worse through anti-consumer 'innovation' while Brother didn't.
331 points by neffo | 48 comments
A Mastodon thread by Valve's Jake Rodkin explaining how the Steam Deck OLED launch trailer was lit using Steam Deck OLED screens inside a giant metal orb.
370 points by cmrdporcupine | 211 comments
Blog post reporting that the BBC has abandoned Meta's Threads while continuing its presence on Mastodon.
653 points by ColinWright | 277 comments
A Mastodon post by Karl Voit arguing that the Microsoft Azure cloud hack, including 60,000 stolen US State Department emails, means everything Microsoft authenticates is tainted.
396 points by gslin | 65 comments
Mastodon post from OpenStreetMap announcing the Tracestrack Topo map style on OpenStreetMap.org, a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap with more tag support and i18n.
596 points by boffbowsh | 131 comments
Mastodon thread by Mario Zechner explaining his project scraping Austrian grocery chain websites to track food prices amid high inflation.
776 points by chrkl | 110 comments
Nivenly Foundation blog post announcing the death of its founder Kris Nóva, who inspired the creation of Hachyderm and Nivenly.
856 points by tekacs | 317 comments
Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz describing how they built a Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation at 100x lower cost using their Rama platform.
613 points by luu | 195 comments
A Mastodon post by Halvar Flake arguing that downloading YouTube videos should be fair use, linking a TorrentFreak article about the youtube-dl site going offline.
466 points by occamschainsaw | 240 comments
A short Verge quick post about an HP printer whose USB port was covered by a "no USB" sticker to push wireless printing, embedding a Mastodon post.
377 points by _han | 142 comments
BBC Research & Development blog post describing its experimental Mastodon server at social.bbc and its exploration of the Fediverse.
405 points by luu | 218 comments
A Mastodon post by Adrian Sampson apologizing to the GitHub user @reset, who keeps getting tagged when the Calyx team discusses resetting registers.
957 points by luu | 247 comments
A Mastodon thread about a professor's slow SPARC workstation; the visible post is John Regehr sharing a screenshot of the xroach X11 cockroach program's README.
471 points by sogen | 201 comments
Mastodon post by Jason Scott announcing improved Flash emulation at the Internet Archive, including sound toggling, auto-resizing, and multi-SWF support.
926 points by janandonly | 357 comments
A Mastodon post arguing that OS permission prompts should offer an option to feed apps fake data such as generated contacts, ambient sounds, or fake location.
356 points by mmastrac | 209 comments
A Mastodon post showing a Firefox network console screenshot of Twitter's web client flooding its own servers with repeated requests, effectively self-DDoSing.
1275 points by ZacnyLos | 208 comments
A Mastodon post with videos showing Twitter's web client firing about 10 requests per second at its own servers after Twitter started requiring login to read tweets.
344 points by todsacerdoti | 354 comments
A Mastodon post by Sam Wight criticizing Bluesky's AT Protocol as needlessly complex, with poor account portability and unvalidated cryptography.
524 points by aendruk | 332 comments
Mastodon post showing that Bluesky handles verified by serving a file from a domain let someone claim an S3 domain handle.
579 points by ruph123 | 195 comments
A Mastodon thread by Felix Häcker describing how his new monitor kept going black for seconds at a time, traced to his IKEA chair.
334 points by Signez | 112 comments
A Mastodon post by Mysk reporting that Google Authenticator's new cloud sync of 2FA secrets is not end-to-end encrypted, so Google can see the secrets.