Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.

Tuesday, April 14

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Daily News Stuff 14 April 2026

Greasy Spork Edition

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Monday, April 13

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Fresh Spoo Edition

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  • DC.  Suicide Squad is a DC property, not Marvel.


  • The peril of laziness lost.  (Dtrace)

    AI makes it easy to generate millions of lines of code.

    What it doesn't make it is a good idea.

    It used to be that laziness by itself placed a brake on the wheel of code churn.  Now you also need to know what you are doing.  And that is hard work to begin with.


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Sunday, April 12

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Is It Real Edition

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Anime is Suicide Squad Isekai, the recent anime adaptation of Marvel's Suicide Squad.  Song is Go Getters by Hololive's own Grim Rapper, Mori Calliope.

Not an AMV, exactly.  The studio hired Calli to perform the ending theme for the show.



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Saturday, April 11

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Crazy Eddie Edition

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Disclaimer: We have every type of memory here at Crazy Micro Center!

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Friday, April 10

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Peterbyte Edition

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  • A hacker has reportedly broken into the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China, and made off with...  Carry the twelve...  Ten petabytes of data.  (CNN)

    That's the equivalent of 70 billion Apple II floppy disks, or the total data in all the DNA strands of six and a half dromedaries.*
    CNN cannot verify the origins of the alleged dataset and the claims made by FlamingChina, but spoke with multiple experts whose initial assessment of the leak indicated it was genuine.

    The alleged sample data appeared to include documents marked "secret” in Chinese, along with technical files, animated simulations and renderings of defense equipment including bombs and missiles.
    Oops.
    Hofer, who reviewed the sample of the leak, said he was able to contact on Telegram a person who claimed they had carried out the hack.  The attacker claimed to have gained access to the Tianjin supercomputer through a compromised VPN domain.

    Once inside, the attacker told Hofer they deployed a "botnet" - a network of automated programs that were able enter the NSCC's system and then extract, download and store the data.  The extraction of 10 petabytes of data took around six months.
    One question arises: Where did the hacker get 70 billion Apple II floppies?**

    * Content may settle in shipping.
    ** Or six and a half dromedaries, for that matter.


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Thursday, April 09

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Leapn't Year Edition

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  • Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to a MacOS time bomb.  (Notebook Check)

    Not just MacBooks.  Anything running MacOS:
    This bug means that after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds from the moment a Mac is switched on, network connections are no longer terminated correctly.  This initially leads to an increase in CPU utilization, because after some time hundreds or even thousands of connections are managed that should actually have been terminated.  As soon as the available ports, usually 16,384 in number, are used up, no more new connections can be established.
    49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47.296 seconds?

    That number might ring a bell for the 29 year olds in the audience, because the same bug caused Windows 95 and 98 to crash outright when they were running for just shy of 50 days: It's a 32-bit unsigned integer counting milliseconds.

    Of course Windows 95 and 98 had the saving grace that they would usually crash for some other reason well before that time ran out.


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Wednesday, April 08

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Terabyte Edition

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Tuesday, April 07

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The Command Line Cometh Edition

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  • A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the leaked version of Claude Code.  (Adversa)

    If you've used Claude Code, you've noticed that it loves running shell commands to examine your codebase, rather than, say, reading it.  Or having simple fixed-function code built into the software to do it on your computer.

    And it also loves to ask you for permission to run those shell commands.

    The vulnerability comes into play when a very long string of shell commands are run together.  For the first fifty commands it will check - manually if needed, and in its history of permitted and denied commands if it's in there already.

    And on the fifty-first command, it rests.  And executes it regardless.

    So if someone triggers a long string of commands and the first fifty are innocuous, after that they can take full control of your computer - because Claude Code runs on your computer, and just communicates with the Claude AI service as needed.

    The particularly lovely thing here is that Anthropic already fixed this.

    But both versions are present inside Claude Code and it using the broken one.


  • The cult of vibe coding is insane.  (Bram Cohen)

    Claude Code is the preeminent vibe coding tool.

    Guess how it was coded?  Guess how that horrible bug stayed in, even how it was fixed.

    You'll never guess.

    Oh, you guessed.


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Monday, April 06

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Break Fast And Move Things Edition

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  • Apple continues to roll out device-level age verification.  (9to5Mac)

    First Britain, now Singapore and South Korea.  Though they do use the age of your Apple / iTunes account to calculate that, and mine is at least 14 years old, and you have to be 13 to have an Apple account, making me 27.

    Good to know.

    Also, this is only if you want to download "mature content" through Apple services, and why the hell would anyone do that?


  • Apple has just approved drivers to let users attach external GPUs to Macs.  (Tom's Hardware)

    Given that there are now zero Macs that support internal GPUs, this is kind of a big deal.

    Because the alternative would be to just install the driver without Apple's approval.


  • Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold.  (Jeffrey Snover)

    Charles Petzold wrote the seminal book Programming Windows.

    In 1988.


  • The XFX Swift Radeon RX 9060 XT OC Gaming Edition is $460 on Amazon.  (WCCFTech)

    That's a 16GB model, so the MSRP is $350.  Given the clusterfrog of current hardware prices, that might not seem too bad.

    But in Australia right now, you can pick up that exact model on Amazon for the equivalent of $310 before tax.  I have to pay that tax (10% GST), but you don't.

    Not sure if you can order from Amazon Australia in the US, or if it just laughs in your face and redirects you.


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Sunday, April 05

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Bug Buggy Bugger Edition

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