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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The most important thing to understand about privacy and Big Tech is also one of the simplest: any company that wants you to believe it cares about privacy, but won't show you receipts on how much it is spending to lobby for airtight privacy laws, is just gaslighting.

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gsuberland@chaos.social ("Graham Sutherland / Polynomial") wrote:

security advice, 1996: writing your passwords down in a notebook is a very bad idea and nobody should do it

security advice, 2026: writing your passwords down in a notebook is one of the most secure storage methods for most users

(fun how threat models change over time, eh?)

jwz wrote:

Apropos of nothing,
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and also, by the way,
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jwz wrote:

S.F. looks to repeal law requiring stores to accept cash.

The impetus for the rule was accessibility: The "very poor," as well immigrant communities and the very young and old, the amendment read, "fall outside the non-cash financial system." [...]...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3X

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Most of the time when you hear a serious tie-wearing CFO type or similar talk about productivity, they mean it to be some financial metric over number of employees or hours worked at the organisation.

Unless the organisation actively measures hours worked across the board (like a law firm or organisations where employees clock in and out) they're likely to base it on number of employees

So, the easy way to juice those numbers is to lock in revenue and reduce headcount.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

There are oodles of different measures for productivity, most of them are based on proxy variables ("we think this thing we can measure has some relationship to the thing we want to measure but can't") of varying quality, but productivity as an economic measure is usually business-relevant output over input, like widgets made per hour worked

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bobmonsour@indieweb.social ("Bob Monsour") wrote:

Built with Eleventy #11ty Project Etho https://11tybundle.dev/showcase/etho-clooney-io

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
markwyner@mas.to ("Mark Wyner Won’t Comply :vm:") wrote:

If you are using ai to undress women you are in the epstein files by proxy.

https://www.404media.co/grok-nudify-ai-images-impersonation-onlyfans/

If you defend sexual abusers you are in the epstein files by proxy.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq6ql2n917zo

If you sexually abuse women by any means whatsoever you are in the epstein files by proxy.

#epstein #sexualabuse #patriarchy

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://social.circl.lu/@quinn/116054584919152247

You don't. It's a PR tactic that moves the conversation away from data center energy consumption and towards "space computers?"

Away from public transit and towards car tunnels.

Away from climate change taxes and towards "let's all just move to mars!"

It doesn't need to be plausible, just sharp enough to slice up the discourse a bit.

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein we have more flyer screens
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/02/11.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
MsDeathwish@kolektiva.social ("Ms Deathwish") wrote:

Any advice on building a following on here? #Anarchist #AntiFascist #Help #Artist

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

It's good advice to always read @brucelawson, but even more so when regulators are handing serial bad-actors extravagant gifts for no obvious reason:

https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/on-apples-pinky-promises-to-cma/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

If a serious company talks in earnest about “AI” empirically increasing productivity, odds are they mean revenue per employee

Basically that’s revenue divided by number of employees

And you can see what is likely to happen when customers are locked in and you lay off employees every quarter

jwz wrote:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 257.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3T

Attachments:

• video: feef137c1f779879.mp4

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas :flan_on_fire:") wrote:

Inspired by a discussion elsewhere:

I've been on the Internet since 1987, started a career building the commercial Internet in 1995, and have spent the last 25 years writing books about how to build foundational Internet infrastructure. I've consulted for and worked with any number of dot-coms, and the one lesson I've gotten over and over again?

The Internet's business model is betrayal.

We have no smart lights. No voice assistants. No Alexa or Siri. No video doorbell. Our thermostat and appliances constantly complain about their lack of Internet. None of this stuff is safe.

The Internet tech I do use? A desktop PC. Email on my phone is for travel only: airplane tickets, hotel reservations, hockey and concert tix. Location on my phone? Nope, we use a dedicated non-networked GPS in the car. The microphones are off.

How can a light bulb betray me? I don't know. I do know that the vendors have put a LOT of thought into it, though, and I can't out-think all of them.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bstn@social.lol ("Sebastian") wrote:

All right. I wrote a few words about omg.lol. Actually, others did it for me, and I would like to extend my warmest regards to them: @brennan @szadkowski @benjamim @helenchong @adam 👋
https://bstn.info/unusual-case-of-omglol/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
phipunk@sfba.social wrote:

@bixfrankonis @adam This reminds me in a sideways manner of the Mulaney bit about “If you can’t say one of the words, that’s the worse word.”

Why not say “One of my contractors remains active on X, and is effusive in his praise of EM; I disagree with him, but I still want to keep him on the job.”?

At the risk of being selectively empathetic, I think we know why.

jwz wrote:

Peter Thiel, Bad Vampire.

This is not the language of a man who fears death. This is the language of a man who solved it in the 1400s and is tired of pretending. The one thing the longevity-vampire community has not yet learned from Dracula is...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3R

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritely ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.

We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.

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jeffluszcz wrote:

I'm still amazed that in 2026, 6 years into a novel pandemic, that the press still can't bother to mention masking as a preventive step to keep you safe from the Flu or Covid. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/flu-strain-bay-area-21343720.php

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116053130455318523

I think it was @pluralistic who questioned whether these type of claims were a way for big tech to get people to buy into their schemes.

The "green" logistics are always just on the horizon. Don't worry about living wages, our drones will deliver our food soon!

Coke and Pepsi do it too: there's always a plant-based bottle that'll replace plastic. Since the 90s.

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blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116053130455318523

it’s also sunny in philadelphia but nobody is going there for spring break.

jfc on a pogo stick.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

📝 New CSS Article!

If you want to understand the magic behind that elastic effect, check my latest article

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-a-css-only-elastic-text-effect/

Not really useful effect, but you might learn more about new CSS features.

#CSS #HTML

Attachments:

• gifv: A fun elastic text effect

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Still a work in progress, but….
Happy 100th Black History Month!
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/happy-black-history-month/pl.u-r2yB1aPFRvZqmRj

Mastodon wrote:

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

OpenClaw is like Furby for techbros

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116050674785414938

Hey Alexa, how do I treat a penile degloving injury

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mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

say what you want about the developer relations and developer advocates, but they're incredibly effective.

to wit: the mozilla's developer relations lead jake archibald made me switch away from firefox only in few weeks of communication, and i was using firefox since it was still called phoenix.

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

Omg I can finally organize my downloads folder 😍

🌰 **Hazelnut** — A file organizer TUI inspired by Hazel

⚡ Watch folders, define rules (move/rename/archive/run) & let the daemon handle everything.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/hazelnut

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #automation #productivity #files #cli #linux #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 1fd9caac7bf654c3.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.