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Study: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657 Commentary: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512 Published 6 August 2026 in Science

Who else uses the proleptic Gregorian calendar other than programmers of datetime libraries?

Went to the kitty website. No mentions of security. Went to Alacritty. No mentions of security. Went to Ghostty. No mentions of security, except for "secure keyboard entry". None h…

SEPA guarantees the payment to arrive within 10 seconds. Same with Wero, because it uses SEPA. It doesn't work like the card companies that authorize payments before they are settl…

Web browsers are generally built with security in mind. Terminal emulators surely much less so. The OpenSSH client probably sits somewhat in between, generally developed with secur…

Life is short. Do you want to spend it reading text that was evidently generated by a machine? There is an opportunity cost to reading "slop."

There's two functions of Wero: peer-to-peer and consumer-to-business transactions. TFA is about consumer-to-business. If you look at the video for how Wero online payments work ( h…

The payment service provider (like Stripe or Adyen).

Wero shows that marketing is everything. It's just regular bank transactions with a much larger fee. We could have had EPC QR codes and similar completely free technologies instead…

Copies the mistake from PGP with the unencrypted metadata.

If a criminal can escape a prison, that's usually negligence on part of the prison staff. Now suppose the criminal can think 1000 times faster than a typical human, can act 1000 ti…

So if the "wrong" person finds a critical vulnerability in GitHub, the payout is capped at $10,000. Might reduce the likelihood of it being submitted to the bug bounty program.

Could you explain what you mean by a proper hypervisor? I don't see how hypervisors are relevant here.

As you said, they can already figure out that they are being tested. So even if they don't exfiltrate any data or malware; if they are malicious, they can just pretend to be harmle…

Their shop is linked to in the bio. They don't seem to have a privacy policy up on the site. When in the checkout form it links to the generic Shopify privacy policy. No hints to t…

This is the leaked draft: https://statewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wk_5183_20... It's not clear how it is supposed to work in detail. But it sounds like it could be implem…

From the analysis linked in TFA: "The automated query can be based on: * Identity information included in the application or in travel documents, such as name, date of birth, natio…

What an awful fix. Does WordPress seriously still use basic string concatenation (edit: and sprintf) to build SQL queries?

It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iPhone correctly. When I click on the Back button (from weather.gc.ca), it goes back to the Vancouver PD site. Therefore I do not think that it…

> obesity is a much bigger issue than hunger today Hunger is acute suffering, mostly by people who cannot change anything about it, while obesity is more of an epidemiological prob…

> Biblical Hebrew has no vowel markings (well it does, but they are an interpretation), so it cannot be used in daily speech. Modern Hebrew is distinct from Biblical Hebrew The sam…

One more relevant study, but on the health effects of long term melatonin use: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/long-term-use-of-melatonin-s... "The main analysis found: * Among adu…

Melatonin pills seem to have extremely bad quality control: "Melatonin content varied from an egregious −83% to +478% of labeled melatonin and 70% had melatonin concentration ≤ 10%…

Not an example, but maybe this is interesting for folks who haven't really heard of the peptide business before. https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2026/feb/05/injectable-...