⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@billyjoebowers @mcc you mostly can, but they need to catch some grief over these stunts every so often so they clean up their act for a while https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass

@mcc would you be interested in hearing a counter-argument? I actually think this is pretty good for users, at least, given the other factors that we must contend with in the reality of the modern web

So you won’t even notice this if:

you block or don’t click on ads, or
you never visit a website that’s part of the origin trial.

“Tapes were so simple, why can’t we go back to that way of listening to music”

A tape player, which I’m replacing the belts on for the third time:

Goldman Sachs saying the obvious thing: that people spent a half trillion dollars on nvidia chips and that much again powering them, cooling them and piping stolen data through them, and there is just not a trillion dollars in the chatbot-and-autofill business.

https://www.404media.co/goldman-sachs-ai-is-overhyped-wildly-expensive-and-unreliable/

Dinner?
(wife away!)

Good news for rationality!

https://humanists.uk/2024/07/11/highest-number-of-mps-ever-take-secular-affirmation/

#ukpolitics #GE2024

Some Expanse art to enjoy.

#scifi #scifiart #starships #spaceships #lightwave3d #3DModel #3dart #scifiartist #TheExpanse #ScreamingFirehawks

Some extraordinarily cursed computing, here.

You might remember Cathoderaydude bringing us the exceptionally cursed knowledge that was the Phoenix BIOS "Hyperspace" quickboot Linux, the Surprise Bonus Operating System that came with an exceedingly tiny number of subnotebooks years ago because it was such a terrible idea:

https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1228730-taking-the-deepest-p

But there was a sequel!

Behold: "HP Daystarter", a program that _ran in SMM mode and pretended to be Outlook_.

https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/1311259-hell-never-ends-on-x

me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does

the tech landing page i’m on: Cloud Scale. Enterprise Solutions For Your SXPBMs. Hosted QBPK Monitoring With Lightning Speed Performance Metric Assfucks. Trusted by Google, Cisco, Oracle and Your Grandmother.

ICYMI, AT&T has acknowledged that cyber thieves stole basically the phone bills for all of their customers. The data includes information you would see on a phone bill, including the source and destination of calls on your AT&T mobile device(s), and the same for SMS messages.

AT&T said it delayed disclosing the breach "on national security and public safety concerns." And we're learning now that the FBI has confirmed this.

AT&T's SEC filing says some cellular site tower information is also among the data accessed by the intruders, which could be used to determine the approximate location of where a call was made or text message sent.

This raises an important question: Was the AT&T customer data stolen from a law enforcement portal set up by AT&T? Sure seems like it.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/att-phone-records-stolen-data-breach/