I guess an LLM wrote this:

All Firefox users—especially those on versions prior to 139.0.4—should:

• Update immediately to version 139.0.4 via built-in browser update tools or Mozilla’s official download page.

🙄

Are forks like Librewolf also affected?

Yes

And have they been updated?

Librewolf is in the process of updating; perhaps some distributions of it have released new binaries already but the flathub release is still 139.0.1. In git you can see they bumped the version to get 139.0.4 (the version with the fix) here, 18 hours ago; presumably flathub will get that in the near future.

were you careful to be sure to get the parts that have the key’s name and email address?

It should be if there is chunks missing its unusable. At least thats my thinking, since gpg is usually a binary and ascii armor makes it human readable. As long as a person cannot guess the blacked out parts, there shouldnt be any data.

you are mistaken. A PGP key is a binary structure which includes the metadata. PGP’s “ascii-armor” means base64-encoding that binary structure (and putting the BEGIN and END header lines around it). One can decode fragments of a base64-encoded string without having the whole thing. To confirm this, you can use a tool like xxd (or hexdump) - try pasting half of your ascii-armored key in to base64 -d | xxd (and hit enter and ctrl-D to terminate the input) and you will see the binary structure as hex and ascii - including the key metadata. i think either half will do, as PGP keys typically have their metadata in there at least twice.

how did you choose which areas to redact? were you careful to be sure to get the parts that have the key’s name and email address?

Those countries won’t be too happy if Israel is kidnapping their citizens.

One might expect them to care, but the Foreign Minister of Sweden was pretty unconcerned

This article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess at all:

“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."

To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, I think you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still tend to lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.

(note: numerous people have done this; you can play chess against something based on chatgpt, and if you’re any good at chess you can win.)

Chat, is this real?

yes.

and we’re seeing it now because two days ago he wrote a long tweet (something only people who pay for twitter can do) musing about why so many people have been failing to understand that he was joking for the last eight years.

The Russian trolls are working overtime to justify military action against American people at the objection of the governor and mayor.

For sure, the American people could never be ignorant xenophobic bigots like that on their own, it must be foreigners influencing them and/or posting those comments!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher

this is a tweet from 2020: https://xcancel.com/CianMW/status/1267890378276876288

but, the organization which operates that hotline is still active: https://girightshotline.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GI_Rights_Network

Ah, this is jogging my memory:

HyperCard 1.x was given away as a standard item with the purchase of a new Mac Plus, SE, or II. This was the key to HyperCard’s early success. HyperCard 2.x had to be purchased separately. However, Apple made and gave out HyperCard Player, a freeware application that allowed one to run HyperCard stacks.

But yeah, HyperStudio was something else entirely (HyperCard-inspired but not compatible).

HyperCard was basically the viewer/player for HyperCard stacks/files. HyperStudio was the program used to make them.

This is incorrect. The HyperCard application could both create and play back HyperCard stacks. It could also export them as stand-alone applications which people could use without needing to run HyperCard.

I should admit that it’s been years since I messed around with old Macintosh or looked into the old Mac retro sites, it’s probably out there somewhere…

You can use HyperCard on an emulated Mac in a web browser at https://system7.app/ - it’s in the Multimedia folder there :)

Teknolust (2002)

CW: y2k aesthetic, Tilda Swinton in multiple roles.

Do not read wikipedia’s synopsis of it first unless you want to spoil it. you can find it here on archive.org.

The English translation of ‘stukkie wukkie’ would surely be the train is ‘stuck’?

Google translates “stukkie wukkie” as “piece of shit” or “wonky”, depending on other nearby words, and “stukkie” as “broken”. but neither of these words is in a dutch dictionary afaict. And google doesn’t translate anything i tried to those words.

I’m not a Dane though so could be wrong.

Dutch is the language (and demonym) of the Netherlands.

Dane is the demonym for people from Denmark, where they speak the Danish language.

update one year later: https://www.wbtv.com/story/18967542/man-who-robbed-bank-for-free-helalthcare-released/

update one year later: https://www.wbtv.com/story/18967542/man-who-robbed-bank-for-free-helalthcare-released/

this is obviously a joke but it contains more dutch than people unfamiliar with the language might guess.

here is google’s translation of a verbation transcription of the image:

oopsie woopsie! the train is a piece of shit!

we are working really hard to make this maybe you can fwietsen better owo

Maybe a Dutch speaker will comment here and tell us how many of the words in the image are actual Dutch words? I suspect google is probably providing plausible translations for some that aren’t really.

it’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.

(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)

https://fridayeveryday.com/how-psy-ops-warriors-fooled-me-about-tiananmen-square-a-warning/

https://www.qiaocollective.com/articles/a-note-on-the-tiananmen-protests/