Firefox now has a single toggle in the settings GUI to disable AI "enhancements"

i wonder how much consumer demand is driven entirely by "I've gotta buy [thing] before AI outcompetes it out of existence via the supply chains"

The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications. Well, well, well. Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk #bankrupttesla #teslatakedown #cancelstarlink #boycottspacex #ElonMusk […]

In the year 2026, it still appears that virt-manager cannot create snapshots of systems that use UEFI. I haven't paid attention to this stuff for a while, but I have to assume that there's a sane and free modern replacement for virt-manager these days?

infosec.exchange has more nines than Twitter. Good job @jerry

Ars Technica retracted an article about how AI is making the world worse because... **the Ars article itself** contained AI-generated quotes in it. https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations/ […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

It's the time of year when I realize that post-winter life exists! 🎉

A cheapo mini PC I got at the end of September for $114 from Amazon is now listed for $289. Thanks for making the world a better place, AI.

Me: I should download today's Patch Tuesday updates. Also me: I wish I understood things. Related: This reminds me of a consequence of these Patch Tuesday updates being cumulative: Sept 2024 was 509MB. Feb 2026 is 3.87*_GB_ *.

Whoever ran the bot army to get that 99% user rating for Melania must've not realized that metacritic is a thing.

I suppose Microsoft never considered that anybody might have a two-character-before-the-`@` email address, huh? I need to prove that I'm the email address holder for `[email protected]` by telling them what the hidden part of `me*****@example.com` is.

When you get a screenshot of an individual window in Windows, using either `Alt` + `PrtScn` or the fancy new Snipping Tool, you also capture the contents of whatever is **behind** the window around the edges. Linux doesn't do this. macOS doesn't do this […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

In today's episode of "Don't introduce new features that are likely to be triggered accidentally" `-or-` "Don't change the behavior of things that users likely have muscle memory to do" Sometimes I drag one of my numerous tabs to be a new window, because I […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

How on earth does `osk.exe` go not-responding in Windows, he wonders. Oh. They've hooked the clicking of the `PrtScn` button into the display of a OneDrive nag screen. Neat.

In today's episode of "Will dislikes a film that gets near universal acclaim": **Black Bag** While Gregg Turkington would approve of the 94-minute runtime, what we have here is 60 minutes worth of material stretched out to feature-film length. Every character is completely unlikeable, yet well […]

In today's episode of "Will sometimes has wonders about the world he lives in": This hotel dishwasher has an "All clean" indicator. That is made of **paper**. That is **permanently attached** to the front of the dishwasher. What feature does it provide, he wonders... 🤔

I'm sure there are reasons.

I have **not once** used the "home" tab in VMware Workstation, in the bazillion years that I've been using it. But it seems that you can't disable it?

Sometimes (all the time), I wish that software wasn't bugs all the way down. This time: If you connect to Windows via RDP, **and** you have `Interactive logon: Machine inactivity limit`, **and** you have a VMWare Workstation VM running, the `svga` device in […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A timeline cleanse for the end of a year that has been, well, something: Dean Doherty fixing things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mC36N25BVg

I recently bought something from `poshmark.com`, for the first time. While I haven't heard of them before, I figure with credit card protections as they are in the US, there's really no harm with giving it a shot. Within about **30 minutes** of placing my order, I got a not-very-good phishing […]

After realizing the macOS Terminal isn't compatible with tmux's page-up, I quickly discovered iTerm as an alternative. However, between feature creep and obnoxiously high CPU usage, I've moved on to wezterm (after poking around at some inferior alternatives). 3 months in, I can confidently say […]

So this Pluribus show... Given the nearly universal acclaim, I figure it'd be a sure shot. My opinion: I made it through episode 3, and that's enough for me. Remember kids: different people like different things. And that's OK.

All these seeds and not a single parsley. Not even that Italian nonsense.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/115389762657213818 To those thankless sysadmins visiting friends and family with older computers this season: You know what to do.

[Twitter] Elon Musk: > Twitter needs to become by far the most accurate source of information about the world. That’s our mission. Also Elon Musk: Adds a, `Edit image` button to use AI to edit **somebody else's** photos and post/reply with those faked images.

On a Verizon thing I ended up figuring out on my own, I got an automated callback: > Please press 1 if you would like to speak to a support representative > With no other option. Since I didn't want to speak to anyone, I hung up. At which point I immediately got a call back with the same lone […]

Every Pittsburgh Verizon Fios customer who tried to tune in to the NBC Nightly News episode that was filmed in Pittsburgh.

Life hack: Replace your electric razor's blades/foil.

Windows has had the ability to extract various archive types via libarchive for over two years. The part that Microsoft skipped? An Extract all button in Explorer. You know, to extract files from an archive. A job done, folks.

I don't like that if I have a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT using Chrome (Don't judge. I often have quite complex scenarios where I need troubleshooting assistance), Chrome is heavily taxed and frequently the tab goes unresponsive. Firefox behaves just […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Sometimes Comedy Central accurately predicts the future. I don't like this. https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ

UI/UX wonder: When a Windows dialog has multiple buttons, but one of them is blue, that blue one is the default action you get if you hit `[Enter]`, right? With the UAC Credential Dialog, `[No]` is the blue button, implying that it's the default action […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Cloudflare helpfully preventing Thunderbird from checking for updates. Just normal computer stuff.

I today's episode of "I wish software were better": VMware vCenter Converter will fail to convert a system that has a 4k disk, **even if you don't include said disk in the conversion**. 🤦‍♂️ For example, a system that uses a Windows Storage Space.

Every now and then I try a plausible workflow on different platforms to see how they compare. And then I wonder why the less-good ones aren't better.

Apparently Gmail has a default-on setting that grants the permission to train their AI using your emails and attachments. I'll file this as "expected". The unexpected part? When you toggle `Smart features` to turn it off, the pop-up says: `Smart features turned **on**` 🤦‍♂️

Twitter sure is something these days.

I have a UASP-using USB 3.2 thumb drive that works great on my Windows 11 host, but is virtually unusable (timeouts, errors, etc.) in a VMware Workstation or VirtualBox guest VM (Windows or Linux). But this drive works fine in a VMware Fusion guest VM […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

For reasons, I happened to ponder the concept of 208V circuits in the US. And I saw a YouTube video that explained it well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMZkKI5rleg It's refreshing to every now and then see quality content, as opposed to slop created […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

I've already come to terms with the fact that I don't use computers in the way that developers had considered, but every now and then I'm surprised by things. With macOS, the manual DNS setting is **global**. Not per-configured-WiFi-network. Scenario: I want to use my pihole when I'm on my […]

There's a weird subculture on Youtube where occasionally I see that people post videos of themselves pointing, finger-wagging, and doing things that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. Dare I ask why such things exist? Do people find such things […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Microsoft: > As much as 30% of the company's code is written by AI. Also Microsoft: Somehow we managed to make it so that clicking the `x` in Task Manager doesn't close the app. Whoopsie daisy!

Back when I first left the CERT/CC, I was unpersoned by the SEI pretty much right away. "Will Dormann" ? Never existed. All we have is `user-9a25e`. Just recently, looking for a thing I had done in the past, I realized that the entire vuls.cert.org website […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

TFW ChatGPT tells you that it saved a script for you. Presumably server-side, as I obviously couldn't see it. 🤔

I've noticed that Gmail is letting a pattern of spam messages through lately (maybe the past month or two?). With the subject line of `Delivery Status Notification (Failure)` and then just a junk email body. Just me? Is using a subject line of `Delivery […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

I suppose it's fried green tomato season.

TIL that I can take the part of my tomatoes that I'd otherwise throw away (the skins), throw them in a spice grinder, and you get delicious tomato powder! `mindblown.gif`