So you’re saying it’s dangerous to take a phone you’re using for 2FA and making its text messages automatically visible to the computer they’re meant to secure? NO SHIT SHERLOCK This is like locking a safe then leaving the combination on a note taped to the front. cyberinsider.com/cloudz-malwa...

Is it just my generations turn to be the grumpy old Luddites, or are all these new technologies being proposed by techbros genuinely horrific and Orwellian? As a kid I was so excited about new tech, nowadays I think I’d rather have a bullet in my head than a brain chip.

Told you so. As soon as minors started bypassing the checks, the whole system was compromised. Here is what needs to happen: - Global moratorium on mandatory age verification, declared unworkable. - All collected ID data erased. - All verification tokens revoked. www.techspot.com/news/112049-...

It’s not just the vandalism that bothers me, it’s the ignorance. ANZAC Day doesn’t glorify war, it’s a sobering reminder of the cost of it. We don’t celebrate conflict, we remember those we lost to it, so that we never become ignorant and allow history to repeat itself. Lest We Forget… literally.

I used to think the least likely element of the cyberpunk genre was the collapse of the wider internet, where some rogue AI or malware makes it unusable and forcing everything into isolated local networks. Think Bartmoss, the Blackwall, etc. Nowadays, I think it might be the most plausible outcome.

Since we all desperately need some good news, looks like the anti-subscription trap bill is finally being sorted. Want to provide a subscription service? Cancelling has to be as easy as signing up, no more “phone our call centre to manually cancel” crap. www.thetechoutlook.com/current-affa...

🚨POLITICS🚨 It really bothers me how ignorant people are to the concept of civil liberties. If civil liberties can be curtailed for ANY group, then they functionally don’t exist. What you have are privileges that the state can revoke at any time. Liberty is either for everyone, or it’s for no-one.

I’m just so… SO tired. Of work stress, of money worries, of products and software I use being enshittified by corporations, of every news day being more apocalyptically bad than the last, of communities I like collapsing from the stupidest of dramas. Is there a way to take a vacation from reality?

👏AGE 👏VERIFICATION 👏DOES 👏NOT 👏WORK We’ve already seen the system bypassed with stolen and fake IDs, and even the faces of video game characters. There are minors with adult verification out there. And if one part of the system is compromised, it’s all compromised. You can’t un-pop the balloon.

Parents, please pay attention. Your kids are YOUR responsibility, nobody else’s. It’s up to you to keep them away from adult spaces, these measures are dystopian and also proven to be ineffective at protecting them. We shouldn’t have to dismantle the internet to compensate for your bad parenting.

au.lifehacker.com/tech/117650/... I was just talking about this issue last night. Just call me Laserdamus! But seriously, people need to be angry about this. Disclosing your own data is one thing, but turning yourself into a walking surveillance tower and scanning other people is something else.

I really don’t understand why tech billionaires think it’s a good idea to invest in “AI wearables”. These things have till the public realises that it’s basically the equivalent of some passing stranger snapping nonconsenting photos of you and your family, at which point the beatings will commence.

What year were you born in? #furry

Walk around with christmas lights around your neck all year round!

Guess I'll post here, then. I'm not much for social media but maybe it's a good idea to have something I can use outside of Discord, and I lack a convenient ten-foot pole for interacting with Twitter. Follow for... I dunno, announcements, stream stuff and my inane opinions about things, I suppose!