OpenChaos.dev is an experiment where the most upvoted pull request gets merged every day. Today’s winning PR added a 1.337% chance of serving a blank page. And Vercel, doing exactly what it’s supposed to do, cached it. So a probabilistic failure became a permanent outage.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42401713

a.k.a. Surveillance as a Service

Pollard also provided new detail on the progress of Atlantic NET, a programme intended to examine how persistent anti submarine warfare sensing might be delivered through service based models rather than through a single platform acquisition. “The first formal element of the tendering process for Atlantic NET commenced in September 2025 and was completed in January 2026,” he said.

“This involved the assessment of 26 compliant industry proposed solutions for ‘Persistent ASW Sense (ISR) as a Service’ and followed on from six months of regular two way industry engagement with approximately 327 companies in the supplier base. These are largely UK based, or have UK elements in their proposals.”

Irony is dead and the military industrial complex killed it.

Subs as a Service?

Who knew the SaaS acronym joke structure had such real world depth?

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/35512041

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/29119198

Regarding Sicarii's broken decryption process, researchers said that "during execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key."

cross-posted from: https://thebrainbin.org/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/1376014

‘Why let mere mortals decide CPU priorities when the cosmos can guide us?’ asks the developer.

To be clear, the point of this is to demonstrate the power and flexibility of a new Linux feature in a "haha only serious" way.

Zampieri is clear that this GPL-2.0 licensed project is a “scientifically dubious, cosmically hilarious” work. It definitely isn’t recommended for use in production systems - not because of bugs, but because it works as intended… The dev is still looking to add “more cosmic chaos” to scx_horoscope, so contributors are welcome.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/post/806111

OpenChaos is a repo where anyone submits a PR, the community votes with GitHub reactions, and the most-voted PR gets merged

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37425133

My favorites are bumblebees and jumping spiders, cute little critters!

Context:

• OpenAI bragging about their Postgres servers
• Postgres Sponsors