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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I don't think anything of the words until someone decides to change their behaviors and actions... I can say "I am the Dolphin King, loved by all cetaceans!" as much as I want and run around like an idiot. When I'm doing any of that it in the desert, what I am doing is of no benefit to any dolphin. (Or anyone else at all.)

@aronkvh@mograph.social @lynndotpy @Blender "Shut up and accept fascism" is an odd hill to take, but go storm it. That's not us slowing you down, it's just mud and rainfall. The rest of us will do as we please without some blathering about inferiority complexes guiding our lives.

@grickle@mstdn.social Knocking on his window, quoth the Raven, "Once again."

@tillybridges@mastodon.social Read the first, the second? Q. E. Fuckin' D. Had no idea about the influence and where it ultimately came from. Damn. Thanks for this. :blob_bongo:

@meluzzy@woof.tech 2029 (when modern computing has collapsed) offline ICs and electrical engineering is good.

@hobbs@dobbs.town @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social Why do I feel this way? (=SUM(A2:A40))

@hannah@posts.rat.pictures In power pole terms: "Yo, telecom people, this is not my fucking job. Fix yo shit." :ablobcatmeltwave_rev:

@cR0w@infosec.exchange I wish. I'd love to be in Oregon.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange I'll testify.

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Ah, good point. I'd be trading mosquitoes for "insert local pest here", but because of Idaho, same MAGA neighbors, I'd take it?

@davidgerard@circumstances.run No GOBLIN idea GOBLIN how GOBLIN this GOBLIN has GOBLIN come GOBLIN to GOBLIN pass.

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space @farshidhakimy@chaos.social The Web Attestation stuff started off with "it's up to sites to determine what security" so the hardline "Android and iOS only" setting may not initially be default. But as people get used to these checks, not hard to guess Google will make new sites use harsher defaults before eventually making the hardnose option the only one in the future in the name of "security."

@inthehands I blame South Park. Dawkins would have far less eyeballs on him for as long as he's had without Trey Parker's help.

@OddJob ...but is it a test?

@futurebird Still a lousy graphic as most of those vary in hardness. I don't mind being bombarded by raw Hen Eggs in the 100s, my paint is already peeling off. But compared to 100 Grapefruit falling from the sky, eggs won't kill me.

@Beachbum @DemocracyMattersALot A reality of the US Civil Lawsuit system: a majority of the cases that find a defendant guilty of damages wind up with them not paying them a single dime. The Onion domain sale was probably their best shot at any money owed. He'll declare bankruptcy, work in the private sector (in his case, as under the table as possible) and disappear for enough time, then when the defaults and consequences are through, try coming back in a decade with D-List celeb nonsense or a book deal.

@Blender@mastodon.social It is truly an era where a tool to help artists is being funded by a tool to steal art and both sides wants artists placated while keeping the money. It is like learning to paint with a specific brush only to learn that brush is sending my artwork to hundreds of other easels, while the brushmaker is telling me to shut up and keep painting. When put into those terms, the simplest answer is for the artists to walk away from all of it. Make new tools yourself, and to hell with everything else.

@Bwee My bald, old ass can get behind this initiative.

@tillybridges Excellent job. And sending this to some people not on Mastodon who don't know what "chaser" means and wear it like a badge of pride (AFAIK are not harassing women online but if they are, "Hey, you might wanna knock this off.")

@mastodonmigration @diametraldaneben That rubicon has passed. It will be junk one way or another.

@aram@aoir.social The words "Violent" and "Extremists" are a feint, and a revision or two from disappearing.

@bwana@discordian.social @flesh@transfem.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @Walruths@mastodon.social Why #FuckMozilla and why I abandoned Firefox on all my devices: Mitchell Baker left, cause "she gets a big salary for the lowest user counts in Mozilla's history? WTF?" New CEO during Google's antitrust trial did a pivot of Mozilla "from an open source and public benefit company to an Advertising Provider to compete with Google." (Makes no sense? Agreed. Privacy-first and advertising do not mix. You have to lie to one to do the other.) This was because of fear of losing their annual multi-million dollar payout of "here's development money to keep Firefox alive so Chrome can flourish" and in return making Google the default search in Firefox, so Mozilla quietly announced this. (The payout was Google's dodge for anti-competitive behavior.) Google's antitrust trial petered out, no real impact. Firefox payout from Google still happens, Mozilla still full speed ahead on competing with Google for advertising. Also, they're making an "open source" AI product. The Firefox mascot will be the AI product, more or less. (Again, makes no sense: how can it be open source if training data is private?) There, that should catch you up for the last 26 months. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2024/06/18/mozilla-buys-anonym-betting-privacy-is-compatible-with-ads/1042316 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/ Op/Ed along the same route: https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/06/17/firefox-is-dead-to-me/630985

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.space This appears to be the web attestation format that was brought to light and shot down before Trump took office. Here it is again, challenging users not to only identify themselves, but "prove your device is worthy of accessing our data. Only authentic Android and iPhones may roam here." Same shit, different banner.

@bwana@discordian.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @Walruths@mastodon.social A bunch of business oriented folks shoving a product down the consumers throats and telling their existing base to "love it or leave", I wouldn't be at all shocked if the new CEO doesn't back Trump. He may not has said as much, but the actions are loud enough to me. In this era of authoritarianism, if you refuse to speak out against it, you're not against it. Second thing to consider: Most pivots do not pretend to keep a "failed product" or two alive. They kill them and use the bones for their nonsense, but doing that would indicate confidence that Mozilla has a plan instead of courting investment and keeping their foot in the door. The only thing that would restore my confidence is the CEO stepping down and someone else takes the reins saying, "this is dumb, let's walk it back." Like SourceForge's nonsense six years ago of spreading malware for profit, then a new owner shutting that plan down.

@transworld Enshittification, Society Edition: if blowback at a CPAC conference causes concern when Michael Knowles says Trans people must be eradicated, they don't have to change their position. Not if they go slower and increase in severity as they go. Protect Trans Youth-- if we fail with them, we fail for decades past today.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

@ErikUden Even professional wrestling pays their heels to dive in the later round.

@cmconseils That one is a perrenial in my nightly automatic meatspace storytime. For further fun, try "sex dream with completely insufferable person suddenly being adorable", "I can fly, but I have zero control, why am I suddenly inside a mountain/lake looking out?", or my favorite, "dead relative drives you to blended workplace/college where friends and coworkers meet for the first time/ask you for weird fake demands". (Didn't go? No prob., substitute last school attended.)

@donni@mastodon.social Like having another chance kept in a Zip-Lock bag in your pocket. https://youtu.be/4SqTTwVQwgc (Apologies for the screaming at the start, but Dee Snider giving the Mark Metcalf speech at a 90's kid was a full circle moment.)

@flesh@transfem.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @Walruths@mastodon.social With Firefox's alt-right capture, kinda surprised Firefox and Brave haven't partnered up or discussed a merger.

@AltTextHealthCheck I guess we don't post enough images as an instance to chart here, but pleased to see this every time it comes out.

@theonion@bots.defencegeeks.net Tim Heidecker as host for video content. https://www.theverge.com/tech/915057/the-onion-takeover-of-infowars-is-almost-complete

@mastodonmigration @jeeynet I blame Saul Zaentz. Any attempt to legally steal an artists' work, he was the start of it. But also, #FuckAI.

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange Has to mention crying. All of his opponents reveal their weaknesses to him while crying.

@antimnguyen Extracting a Lego Minifig made of microplastics from your testicles does not count as male pregnancy.

@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @quinn@social.circl.lu Mechanically and physically, printing on paper is a solved problem. It has been for years. If it goes wrong, 9/10 the device itself has a mechanical fault. Updates do not improve a printer's performance more than it attempts to fix mistakes made in manufacture. Get a Brother HL model, small paper toaster for $120 at an office store and maybe one replacement toner cart. Don't install shit. Windows and Mac will use it the moment you plug it in. Print, then unplug it. Same as a webcam if you aren't an influencer or creator, don't leave something you use 15-30% of the time plugged in constantly because it's easier. Put it away. If it makes you feel better, buy a wheelie cart to roll it to wherever you want to print from. Do not network it. If it breaks, its cheap enough to replace eventually. Take it offline. Use a USB Cable. Before they lock out that use case next. You don't need updates on something that isn't on a network.

@diegomartinez @antimnguyen It's in there?

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Usual Disclaimer: IANAP (Programming hobbyist at best, not a pro or an expert) 1.) Stands to reason that if the prior technique of "fuzzing" (another automated way of discovering bugs) has false positives, so will AI. In fact, I'd be surprised that it isn't a statistically significant number of false positives. 2.) Since Mozilla is all-in for AI and no longer interested in customers (except as cattle), Firefox's days are likely.longer behind it than ahead before it becomes an AI client for them. The brand is all they care about, not the users.

@diametraldaneben @mastodonmigration Somehow, if China sent Starlink satellites into each other air-hockey style to some end of theirs, I would never gripe about it.

@byte The best plan, really.

@kaidenshi So not even script kiddies need apply... just an operator too dumb to trust Edge. Microsoft, handing the blue team on a silver platter.

@eff@mastodon.social Seems a half step from licensing 3D Printer use to kick out amateurs and protect big business from competition. Or just straight up ban it like Trump and the billionaires are doing to consumer electronics.

@Viss@mastodon.social @cR0w@infosec.exchange OMG so much this. Sales people will claim a tech product will piss rainbows and make you immortal. Tech support wastes so many hours bringing customers back down to Earth, and yet this goes on cause "Make Cash Masheen Go BRRRRR."

@elvira@girlcock.club @Walruths@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run Statement on rejecting AI and stripping Mozilla's AI bolt ons from the Firefox code upstream on future Waterfox releases. https://www.theregister.com/software/2025/12/18/waterfox-browser-goes-ai-free-targets-the-firefox-faithful/1943869 I agree this is awesome, while recognizing this may not be sustainable as Waterfox is a one-man show more or less and when he gets tired, there goes Waterfox. Hopefully it can last until Servo gets off the ground.

@nix @mattblaze Mess with them during depressurization: trash around the spaceport, orange ass skies, and slash cut anything growing. Army of Darkness bad ending! "Oh, no, I slept too long! Waaaaaah!"

@WilliamJKelleher @remixtures The entire educational industry is being captured by AI because Google and Microsoft are forcing capitulation. It's on and nobody was asked. Your options are adopt it faster or dump buckets of training data while avoiding use.

@netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org "Sure, it's that Microsoft Linux I keep hearing about that runs on Mac PCs. So those Apple Core 9 things have something to read the Internet with that isn't that terrible MacOS Windows." -- A grandparent somewhere who is responsible for maintaining a list like this.

@4caddit Waiting for the YouTube Algorithm to suggest to creators that stabbing something with a toothy grin will increase engagement before people intervene.