Straight out of watch_dogs www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Ouch, Spotify only thinks there are two (really just one?) competing services I could be leaving to 🫡

Wrote some notes on self-hosting an Atuin sync server and getting to it via Tailscale hackd.net/posts/atuin-...

Oh good of course

This is such a garbage design pattern, Microsoft.

We're really cooked when Klarna starts partnering with One Medical and your local healthcare providers.

Didn't realize "🫡" was an Italian phrase!

Is TurboTax getting a kickback from all these CAPTCHAs we gotta solve? 🤔 Like damn seems like there's one every other click.

How many ===== is JavaScript up to these days?

There's a kind of cutthroat efficiency that's often applied to various kinds of systems which in turn makes them eminently exposed to black swan risk. Absent significant skin in the game, the cost of failure is an externality not borne by the system designers/owners. (See: Incerto, Infinite games)

Art critic CAPTCHAs

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

We're just going to leave this here…

Someone is getting fired and someone is getting promoted.

Fun fact! When the Nazis were looking for templates for their horrible fucking laws, guess where they went looking! Yes! That's right! The US Jim Crow laws! So, yes. Fucking Jim Crow, yes.

If moving your newsletter from Substack seems overwhelming, both Buttondown and Ghost have processes AND people to help with it. buttondown.com/features/con... ghost.org/docs/migrati...

1. I'm NOT the sort of SF/F nerd who thinks everyone needs to read a "canon" of older works in genre like they're homework before they get to call themselves a fan, nevertheless the book I'm always mildly surprised when people say they haven't read it is "Snow Crash," which to me is era-defining...

How are people in the US keeping up with health-related information regarding existing or developing situations, nowadays? E.g., COVID-19 rates, new and exciting pathogens and their spread, etc.?

I’ve always actually preferred using “X”, to mark its “bag of shit” era. The fact it also works for “American History X” was the unfortunate bonus we didn’t need.

How they divide us.

What the hell is this?!

Some advice on How to Weather the Storm, including “create something lovely for yourself or others”, “moderate your exposure to the bullshit”, “find the people who are already doing the work, and follow their lead”, and “join something”. [kottke.org]

My keyboard is getting a little extra attention now that Severance S02 started up.

i’m glad the lonely sunfish now has cardboard company www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/a...

An experiment I recommend (maybe for a Sunday morning): * get good coffe in a style you like (e.g., light roast Ethiopian) * find suitably appealing music for your Sunday morning, and play it * select 3 (ideally), or any number N>1 coffee preparation methods (e.g., French press, pour over, siphon)

Quickest way to figure out it's a phish pretending to be your Canadian bank/government office? They forgot to scam you bilingually.

I don't think I expected this *particular* combo…

This one in particular is so cool (especially if you love sci-fi): pudding.cool/2024/07/scifi/

Breaks are important for your (mental) health. Nothing improves from unabated stress.

This is NOT a good way to try USB drops for your next red team.

It's starting to look like Bluesky is coming ahead as the new home of more and more of the people I've been interested to follow (post-Twexodus) with Masto a good bit more technically-oriented. Threads had been appealing for mainstreamers; outside of the influencer crowd, I'm seeing more leave.

WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

it's a new year and I spent my first workday writing a quick ★ terminal survey ★! it should take about 5 minutes and I'd love for folks to fill it out, I'm writing a zine about the terminal and my goal is to understand who we're writing it for a little better s.surveyplanet.com/wkepwlsp

If a 16 year old uploads a dick pic to an online AI STI test site but the TOS forbids under 18s from doing so how many different federal laws have been broken and by who

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS! 💥 2023 is winding down, so it’s time to choose the WORST PERSON IN TECH! 🗳️ ROUND 1 VOTING OPEN NOW: forms.gle/xqcDPSXB98gA...

Talking about every social network on every other social network.

I wish people would stop being surprised every time there is a new round of Crypto Wars. There will always be people in power who want to backdoor end-to-end encryption. The only thing that ever changes is the excuse.

An all-star group of folks has come together to write this online safety guide for protecting yourself against harassment by individuals, loosely organized groups, and cybermobs. This is a much-needed guide and I'm glad it exists. https://gameshotline.org/online-free-safety-guide/

What you’re referring to as Twitter, is in fact, X/Twitter.

All of these assholes who want us back in the office just remember that being the last place they felt important.

Probably before the 50th anniversary of Hackers, someone will actually build the file system navigation interface everyone just lost their minds making fun of at release, to be used with some ~ S P A T I A L ~ computing device

Can I buy this “island of the future” made by the architects and clothiers of the future, with money I’ll make in the future?🤔 https://vollebak.com/en-us/pages/vollebak-island-a-visionary-concept-for-the-future-of-habitation

Light play

A concise summary of the difference between cancel culture and free speech from an anonymous Techdirt commenter.

Last splash for a while…

The “remove books based on parent complaints” movement in one quote

listen I'm not a designer but this app's icon looks like a rejected Windows 98 wallpaper