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Autistic people can lie; they just generally really suck at it, because their brains are monotropic. To coin a new phrase, once we start to deceive, it's a tangled web we weave. Keeping all those alternate realities straight - who knows what version of what - is strictly the domain of the neurotypical mind. A good NT liar can have seven versions of a story out there and keep exquisite track of who knows what, what overlaps, etc. Psychopaths are even better at it. But for an autistic person to lie well, they have to live that lie and believe it as if it's the truth and defend it. It has to be part of their reality, and then it's easy to do. It's "true", after all. George Costanza had the best advice for lying, likely written by Larry David: "Remember — It's not a lie if YOU believe it." And that's how it is for autistic people.

Do you understand what pedophilia is? It's sexual attraction to children who haven't reached puberty. It's not an action. What's criminalized is the act of child sexual abuse, not pedophilia. Few things are more unlibertarian than creating thought crimes, criminalizing desire.

I’ve revived my Apple II Agent project from January: An Apple IIe with an Ethernet card and a custom client It links to Claude through a Mac proxy and allows conversational Apple II software creation similar to Claude Code When it’s done, it loads the new program into memory

Not sure I want to meet this person

In Windows, we had xBAADF00D and xDEADBEEF and a few others :-) 0xBAADF00D - Windows heap: newly allocated, uninitialized memory under heap debugging 0xFEEEFEEE - Windows heap: freed memory. 0xABABABAB - Windows heap: guard bytes after an allocation, used to detect overruns 0xCCCCCCCC - Visual C++ debug builds: uninitialized stack storage 0xCDCDCDCD - Debug CRT: newly allocated heap memory 0xDDDDDDDD - Debug CRT: freed memory retained when delayed freeing is enabled 0xFDFDFDFD - Debug CRT: “no man’s land” guards before and after an allocation.

🚨 BREAKING: IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE. NOW PYTHON IS FACING A MASSIVE SECURITY EMERGENCY. Python's security team has issued an URGENT warning after a certificate authority compromise put Python's HTTPS security at risk. → 8 CERTIFICATE AUTHORITY KEYS COMPROMISED. Some were so weak they could be cracked almost INSTANTLY. → FAKE TRUSTED WEBSITES: Attackers could potentially impersonate Python.org, PyPI and other websites during intercepted connections. → MALICIOUS DOWNLOADS: Vulnerable environments could be tricked into downloading software from attacker-controlled servers. → YOUR OS PATCH MAY NOT PROTECT YOU: Older versions of pip can STILL trust compromised certificates even after system updates. → EMERGENCY UPDATES: Python developers are being told to immediately update pip, certifi, uv and other affected tools. → DOCKER USERS AT RISK: Existing container images may retain vulnerable certificate stores and need rebuilding. First PHP. Then Node.js. Then GitLab. Then LiteLLM. NOW PYTHON. The very systems developers rely on to establish TRUST online are becoming the attack surface. If you use Python, PATCH NOW.

In May 2000, Metallica's Lars Ulrich delivered 13 boxes to Napster's office. Inside were the screen names of 335,435 users who had shared the band's songs for free. Napster agreed to block them. To many, it looked like Metallica against its own fans. In the video below, Ulrich explains why he did it. "Napster hijacked our music without asking." It started with a leak. Unfinished versions of "I Disappear," a song for Mission: Impossible 2, were already playing on US radio. The band traced them to Napster. On April 13, 2000, Metallica sued. In 48 hours, Ulrich said, over 300,000 users made 1.4 million free downloads of its music. Napster said it stored no songs and only connected users. Fans called it sharing. Ulrich rejected the word. "If I share a sandwich with you, I'm left with half a sandwich." That September, Napster's founder, Shawn Fanning, walked onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in a Metallica T-shirt. He said he had borrowed it from a friend. Metallica and Napster settled in July 2001. That same month, Napster's free service went dark. In 2003, Apple opened the iTunes Store at 99 cents a song. Thirteen years later, Ulrich put it this way: "It's not about money. It's about control." He knows how he will be remembered: "It'll be in the first five sentences of my obituary." So was Metallica protecting its music, or turning on its own fans?