THE POSTHOLE
Sunday, 19 April 2026 · Late Edition · Vol. 1 No. 130
MJD 61149.25
TECHNOLOGY
▸ When compilers surprise you
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▸ The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
-- Lobsters
▸ Anthropic Claude Code Leak Reveals Critical Command Injection Vulnerabilities
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IN BRIEF
• Google’s Aletheia Advances the State of the Art of Fully Autonomous Agentic Math Research -- InfoQ
• Critical flaw in Protobuf library enables JavaScript code execution -- BleepingComputer
• Microsoft Teams right-click paste broken by Edge update bug -- BleepingComputer
• NAKIVO v11.2: Ransomware Defense, Faster Replication, vSphere 9, and Proxmox VE 9.0... -- BleepingComputer
• AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation -- InfoQ
SECTIONS
Comic Collection: Just Numbers #comics
Account Avoidance: Meet Kevin 🥰 he’s perfect #opensource
Politics Fightbox: Some Questions About The SCOTUS Leak On the Clean Power Plan Case #politics
Music Hotline: Today’s Wordle answer and hints for #1765 on April 19 #music
Science Showcase: Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations #science
Gaming Greatness: Neverness to Everness launch trailer; music collaborations... #gaming
Tech Talk: You Should Start Spring Cleaning With This Dyson Cordless... #tech
Books Bundle: After the Mystics #books
Travel Trail: Atmos Summit card: Why it's the most rewarding airline card to... #travel
Guns Galore: Aimpoint ICE: A More Aesthetic 1990s Prototype Red Dot #firearms
Full broadsheet: https://posthole.net/
🇩🇪 #Germany #government moving from #BigTech to #OpenSource and European made technology #DeutschlandStack https://deutschland-stack.gov.de/gesamtbild/
#ODF #DigitalsSovereignty #sovereignty #EU #Europe #FOSS
Since software licenses are meaningless now (e.g. malus.sh), are there any remaining ways to legally prevent LLM training?
Can employees "liberate" an employer's code using LLMs? I am certain it wouldn't fly during work hours ("time theft") but what if you access the code after work? If that wouldn't fly either, could open source projects setup a pseudo-employer-employee relationship before allowing code access to hold people liable for stealing the work?
#llm #oss #opensource #ai #theft
🐧 Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.13, Linux 6.18.23, Linux 6.12.82, Linux 6.6.135, Linux 6.1.169, Linux 5.15.203, and Linux 5.10.253
I'm announcing the release of the 6.19.13 kernel
📰 Source: Tux Machines
🔗 Link: https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_19_13_Linux_6_18_23_Linux_6_12_82_Linux_.shtml
🇨🇵 #France #government moving from Windows to #Linux 🐧
numerique.gouv.fr https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/
#OpenSource #DigitalsSovereignty #sovereignty #EU #Europe #FOSS
🚀 This Week in AI Research: Fastest-Growing Projects — April 19, 2026
This week in AI Research, we're seeing a surge in interest around tools that enable developers to better understand and interact with complex AI systems. Repositories focused on architectural deep-div...
Read full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/this-week-in-ai-research-fastest-growing-projects-april-19-2026
#AI #OpenSource #GitHub #Tech #AIResearch
taibai 0.3.0 is out — Milestone 2: Core Reading complete!
taibai is a Fediverse CLI tool built on longwei. The goal is a full-featured terminal client for Mastodon-compatible instances: post, read, and manage your account without leaving the shell.
What's new in 0.3.0
- taibai timeline — fetch and display timelines right in your terminal. Supports four feeds: home (your home timeline, and the default), public (the federated timeline, with --local or --remote filters), tag (any hashtag timeline), and list (a specific list). Use -n to control how many statuses to fetch.
- taibai view <url-or-id> — read a single status by URL or numeric ID. Pass --context to show the full thread: ancestors above, descendants below.
- --json on all data-returning commands — every command that returns data now accepts a --json flag that dumps the raw objects as JSON, making it easy to pipe into jq, fx, or any other tool. Works on timeline, view, whoami, and notifications.
What was already there
- taibai post — publish a status with optional CW, visibility, media attachments, or polls. Reads from stdin too.
- taibai notifications — show unread notifications (or all with --all).
- taibai whoami — verify your stored credentials and display account info.
- Multi-profile support via --profile / TAIBAI_PROFILE for managing several accounts.
Where to find it
Source: https://codeberg.org/marvin/taibai
Docs: https://marvinsmastodontools.codeberg.page/taibai/latest/
Install with: uv tool install taibai
Feedback and contributions welcome!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #CLI #Python #OpenSource
Hackaday: Using Capacitance for Extremely Sensitive Proximity Sensing
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/using-capacitance-for-extremely-sensitive-proximity-sensing/
#linux #opensource #tech
BeagleConnect Zepto – A “$1 computer” based on TI MSPM0L1117 Cortex-M0+ MCU
How to Generate a Full #VPS #Backup Using #rclone (Simple 3-Minute Guide)
This article provides a detailed step-by-step description of how to generate a full VPS backup using rclone.
What is rclone?
Rclone is a powerful open-source command-line tool for managing files on cloud storage services and local storage. You can think of it as kind of like "rsync" (the popular file-copying tool), but ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/generate-a-full-vps-backup-using-rclone/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #disasterrecovery #googledrive #opensource #onedrive

🚀 This Week in Image & Video Generation: Fastest-Growing Projects — April 19, 2026
This week in Image & Video Generation, we're seeing a surge in interest around multimodal foundation models and text-to-image generation tools. The top-growing repositories are leveraging advancements...
Read full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/this-week-in-image-video-generation-fastest-growing-projects-april-19-2026
#AI #OpenSource #GitHub #Tech #ImageVideoGeneration
Greetings programs!! We're doing an impromptu late night stream where I get to fight AI crawlers bots a-fucking-gain... Come on by!!
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