⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

One fewer instruments running on Voyager 1.

Because plutonium will keep decaying.

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyager/2026/04/17/nasa-shuts-off-instrument-on-voyager-1-to-keep-spacecraft-operating/

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

Why Whiskey Collectors Care About Seamless Experiences

There was a time when buying whisky meant walking into a bottle shop and grabbing whatever was on special. If something better was on the radar, it came down to knowing the right bloke or waiting for a trip overseas. That setup’s gone. Today’s whisky drinker — especially in Australia — is after something different.… Why Whiskey Collectors Care About Seamless Experiences

https://dramgazette789681223.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/why-whiskey-collectors-care-about-seamless-experiences/

Just let me compute in peace.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/just-let-me-compute-in-peace/

#blog

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

"We've been saying this for years now, and we're going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

#linkdump #blogpost #surveillance

If you buy a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill, and you don’t spend time learning how to operate it properly, harm may come to you. If you give your child a chainsaw or a bicycle or a power drill without imparting said understanding, great harm may come to them too.

Somehow we’ve decided computers are different and this is a problem we need the government to fix by breaking computers for people who do know how to use them.