⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Ha! Love this! #TheExpanse

For pete's sake, @mozilla : if you want to measure whether the AI/ML features are worth a damn, put a big green "disable all AI in my browser" button on the version update screen and put some telemetry around how many people instantly click it.

Just about everyone I know who has taken the 142 update is working through about:config menus to toggle off everything under browser.ml.* and grumbling about it, or just straight-up abandoning Firefox in exasperation.

Turn the ship around. *Please*.

European Postal Package Services to US STOPPED - yes, tariffs https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/23/2339844/-European-Postal-Services-to-US-STOPPED-yes-tariffs?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web #Trump

I had an old Hard drive, that was shut down before the OS could wind it back to the starting track. So I quickly made an a acrylic tool to quickly wind it back. So as not to damage the disks, I used a pair of strong magnets to drag round the platten with no contact.

I can also use this to wind it on to the free space near the end too.

I have 4 others in this raid array, this should be usefull for them too.

Cool cool, Sam Altman met a UK government minister and tried to get the UK gov to buy every citizen a ChatGPT license, at a cost to taxpayers of £2bn a year.

We’re a country with food poverty and food bank usage is high. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/23/uk-minister-peter-kyle-chatgpt-plus-openai-sam-altman

Generative AI government lobbying

"I typed a lot, ergo I have refuted your point"

So, again today we get another crystal clear example of how #Bluesky is not decentralized. The company just blocked all users from an entire US state and those users are completely cut off. No other way to interact with the Bluesky network.

BECAUSE BLUESKY IS A CENTRALIZED PLATFORM.

Folks on Bluesky. There is a decentralized alternative. Just create an account on any decentralized Mastodon server. You will love it here. Promise.

https://joinmastodon.org/

#timetravel #sapientcorvid #corvid

This poll made me laugh. Isn’t it amazing that not a single person (out of 1,386) clicked yes. Even in error.

Jim Sanborn Is Auctioning Off the Solution to Part Four of the #Kryptos Sculpture

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/jim-sanborn-is-auctioning-off-the-solution-to-part-four-of-the-kryptos-sculpture.html

#cryptography

Coming soon on your Mastodon server… The long awaited quote posts, with user-control (you can chose if you want to be quoted on a per-post basis, change it later, and retract any quote of your post)

Amazing work by the team 🎉

Expect a blog post with all the details in a few weeks, support in the mobile apps, then we will enable the feature on mastodon.social, then release Mastodon 4.5

#mastodon #quotePosts

Phrack turns 40.
The digital drop is live.
Download it. Archive it. Pass it on.
💾 https://www.phrack.org

#phrackat40 #phrack72

Photo of the only critic to give me a one star review.

★
‘Not enough treats and none of it was outdoors.’
- Skylab the Dog

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths

Attention Jerry-O-DKL:

Do not worry, you are not being fired.
You are merely being thermally encouraged to progress on your combustive career path, from flammable organic matter to inflammable organic matter.

#ttrpg #work #paranoia