Brutkey

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange
stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

“The bad news is that despite its new capabilities, Alexa+ is too buggy and unreliable for me to recommend. In my testing, it not only lagged behind ChatGPT’s voice mode and other A.I. voice assistants I’ve tried, but was noticeably worse than the original Alexa at some basic tasks.”

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/business/alexa-artificial-intelligence-amazon.html

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

My reaction when assigned a radar

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

They ship these out weeks in advance, but I waited until my actual anniversary date to open the box.

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

Made it this far!

Photograph of an Apple five year anniversary plaque. A purple aardvark plushie sits beside the plaque. Anika is the unofficial mascot of Radar, the system Apple uses for tracking features and issues.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

“Companies laying off devs while racking in the profits are probably due for some disruption.”

https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/follow-up-to-microwaves

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

@octothorpe@mastodon.online it’s even better, if you mistakenly hit the “start” button three times instead of the “seconds” button three times (1:30) it locks you out of the microwave until you hit some other magic key combo

These buttons are of course right atop each other, it’s super-easy to do this accidentally.

A wonderful experience when you’re not fully awake yet… “I wonder why we bought this microwave”

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

@octothorpe@mastodon.online keep your old microwave working as long as you can

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

If your appliance has a blue LED brighter than the sun, they put you in jail. Right away. No trial, no nothing. Right to jail.

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

If your appliance makes beeping sounds, it must have an option to disable the beep. The option must persist after loss of power. Failure to meet these requirements will result in the deployment of wire snips and/or trace cutting until the issue is resolved.

stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange
Drop your guns!
stephen ryner jr. 🦉🦉
@nuthatch@infosec.exchange

@jacobvo@mastodon.social and by tweet I mean toot no not that kind