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Reminder: reading literally anything about election results between the time you voted, and the time the votes are tallied, is self harm.
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Tonight a friend tried to talk to me about "AI" and I became the physical, loud manifestation of the Bugs Bunny "NOOOOOOOOO" meme and walked away mid sentence. They were offended; I was practicing self care.
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"Blink twice if Zuckerberg is an asshole"
Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta....
https://jwz.org/b/yk8F
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Fluck Flock.
Flock is quietly training police to sway city leaders to buy surveillance tech: As East Bay communities raise concerns about civil liberties and immigration enforcement, the license plate camera company is seeking support from its...
https://jwz.org/b/yk79
jwz@jwz@mastodon.social 🌐
Help me keep home.mcom.com online.
I am once again seeking a contact inside the Yahoo DNS team.
Early this morning the "home" record vanished from the "mcom.com" domain. I need it put back.
My last contact there was Paul Frieden, in 2023, but the only email address I have bounces. Ideally I would ask Paul, "Hey, can you introduce me to your replacement?" Failing that, I'd like to find anyone currently on the team responsible for Yahoo's DNS records.
https://jwz.org/b/yk76
jwz@jwz@mastodon.social 🌐
Ever since I added substackcdn.com to my blocklist, I have learned how many bloggers have solved their "substack nazi" problem by just hiding it behind their own domain.
Spoiler: it's a lot.
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The AI botnets cannot be stopped.
I am constantly getting scrape attempts for avatar-image-JPEG URLs that have not existed on my blog since a restructuring in 2022. They come in bursts of about a 100 per minute, each from a different IP address, and in random order.
I thought: enough is enough, I need to figure out what clown service these are coming from and start blocking whole networks.
Nope, they're almost all from cable modems, not from hosting facilities:
https://jwz.org/b/yk7g
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The Rust Evangelism Task Force has declared "ethics" to be out of scope. And that's going as well as you might guess:
This document establishes a policy for how LLMs can be used when contributing to rust-lang/rust. [...] No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:
• Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs
• The environmental impact of LLMs
• Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output
• Moral judgements about people who use LLMs
https://jwz.org/b/yk7V
jwz@jwz@mastodon.social 🌐
Someone gave me a classic CRT oscilloscope. So in the immortal words of Ice Cube, today was a good day.
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I see 1Password is stepping on the rake again.
The brain geniuses securing your passwords just squirted out this statement: "We applied agentic tooling to a multi-million-line Go monolith."
Ok first, how in the everloving fuck did you allow a password manager to reach multiple millions of lines??
Welp, I warned about 1P's self-immolation in 2023 and posted a migration guide. You're welcome.
DO NOT reply telling me what manager you're using instead. I don't care.
https://jwz.org/b/yk7M