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Cake day: June 11th, 2025

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  • The headline makes it sound like vibecoding was the main part in this, but in the text they describe an elaborate social engineering scheme that compromised the laptop.

    "The engineer was asked to complete and download an “assignment” that contained malicious code that instantly executed once the employee began installing it. Among the things it changed was replacing a real development tool with a malicious version that could communicate with the hackers and execute commands.

    That all took place in September. Starting in October, the hacker used the compromised employee machine to leverage an internal AI tool and use it as a “springboard” to seize control of the computer and the computer of a third wallet developer. "


  • Could be many things, I wonder if the big insitutions want to avoid circuit breakers, while also doing a bit of short squeezing on everyone betting on the market going down further. A crash can play out over weeks. Or it’s retail becoming exit liquidity, or dead cat bounce, or… or maybe this isn’t the bubble pop we’ve been waiting for and I’m just projecting my hopes of big tech crashing into the numbers.







  • I don’t think that exists, but you might be interested in what Bonfire calls “archipelago mode”. It’s where instead of open federation being the default, an instance deliberately federates with selected other instances, which can result in a small group of instances cut off from the rest.






  • I don’t fully agree, except for a small lock-in due to convenience (having one bill to pay instead of five). Interoperability is the key. To me an ecosystem is not inherently captive if I can easily pull out my data and use a different service. I do agree that some services are less valuable to have bundled, but some services work together, and that’s the value in ecosystems. I also think Proton could be way more interoperable, but nothing is perfect I guess.