Human folly for 02026-05-04

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• Release (openssh.org):

  #SSH release 9.0 in 02022 semi-transparently switched scp to use the SFTP protocol, which I guess no longer does wildcard expansion of remote filenames. Also, “use the hybrid Streamlined NTRU Prime + x25519 key exchange method by default (“sntrup761x25519-sha512@openssh.com”)” for #security against #QC

• Most of what you read on the internet is written (old.reddit.com):

  “Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people”

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  interesting discussion of recovering from social isolation by talking to people at the gym

• 3Hkyr (archive.ph):

  #Economist editorial by Marie Potel-Saville, the co-founder of FairPatterns, a member of the Support Pool of Experts on Dark Patterns at the European Data Protection Board and the Paris chair of Women in AI Governance, about regulating #UX dark patterns. Archive of <https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/04/29/stop-big-tech-from-making-users-behave-in-ways-they-dont-want-to>

• Ripdrag (github.com):

  drag and drop files from a multi-select in the terminal #UX

• Euler%E2%80%93Bernoulli beam theory (en.wikipedia.org):

  Beam theory

• (pozorvlak.livejournal.com):

  Commentary by #pozorvlak (Miles Gould) about how some #programming-languages don’t have adequate abstraction facilities to move some #design-patterns into a library, forcing programmers to implement them over and over again

• Design patterns (blog.plover.com):

  #MJD explaining how #design-patterns are signs of weakness in #programming-languages

• Design patterns (norvig.com):

  #Norvig’s #PDF slides from 01996 on how 16 of the 23 GoF #design-patterns are qualitatively simpler in #Lisp or #Dylan than in C++, some of them invisible

• Johnson (blog.plover.com):

  #MJD follows up on #design-patterns after Ralph Johnson’s rebuttal

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of embedded #Rust and its embedded OS "Ariel" on #microcontrollers. Lots of useful information about Rust stability commitments, etc.

• (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov):

  why the Hippocratic oath prohibited lithotomy of kidney stones. #medicine #history

• Civil servant family pair up (en.wikipedia.org):

  a #human-rights abuse familiar from before the American Revolution: quartering of over a million government officials in #Uyghur homes to quell rebellion against #China.

• CVE 2026 31431 copy fail rootless containers (dragonsreach.it):

  testing the #copy-fail #security PoC against podman #containers, which, surprisingly, contained it because of “User Namespace UID mappings”; explains how to get strace to work there instead of PTRACE_TRACEME: Operation not permitted. Also how to use bpftrace instead of strace to see syscalls from suid.

• (socialskillswisdom.com):

  #ebook of Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” because in #India it’s in the public domain

• Sam Altman may control our future can he be trusted (newyorker.com):

  #news investigating #Altman’s integrity #toread