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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Me and Drew are hanging out on OwnCast: https://live.freebooters.uk/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

When the devil pulled out his contract and said "okay, you can be a billionaire, but you will have to be a creepy sociopathic asshole who will drive away anyone who could truly ever love or even like you" he clearly was not expecting such a rush

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I think my blog has been invaded by artificial stupidity.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/something-has-happened-to-my-blog/

![Al agents are your fastest-growing audience. Automated traffic is growing 8x faster than human traffic, Al-driven sessions nearly tripled in 2025 alone, and agentic browser traffic is up roughly 8,000% year over year] But unlike human customers, agents don't browse, scroll, or respond to advertising. They evaluate, select, and act. And if the data isn't trusted by them, they move on. The sale is lost.]3

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Who knew that professional lolcow was such a lucrative occupation?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/failing-upward/

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
brian_greenberg@infosec.exchange ("Brian Greenberg :verified:") wrote:

Quick thought experiment. Pull out your phone, look at your lock screen, and ask yourself who else is reading those notification previews. The answer is stranger than you think.

EFF just laid out what most people don't realize: push notifications usually route through Apple or Google servers before they hit your device, often with content visible in the clear. Then they get written to a local notification database that doesn't always get wiped when you swipe the alert away or even when you uninstall the app. 404 Media reported the FBI has pulled deleted Signal message text out of that database using standard forensic tools. Signal. The app you installed specifically because you didn't want this.

🔐 Apple and Google now require a court order for push notification data, but Apple's transparency report still shows hundreds of users handed over
📱 Lock screen previews are a free read for anyone who picks up your phone, including at a border crossing or traffic stop
🧹 Uninstalling an app does not guarantee its notification history goes with it, and we don't know what gets backed up to iCloud or Google
🛠️ Signal's notification setting "No Name or Content" is a 30-second fix that closes the easiest leak

For the security folks, this is a useful reminder that end-to-end encryption ends at the endpoint, and the endpoint includes a SQLite file most users have never heard of. For the executives, this is the reason your travel security policy for high-risk regions should say more than "use Signal." The default settings on a stock iPhone leak more than the app you chose to protect you.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it
#Privacy #Cybersecurity #MobileSecurity #security #cloud #infosec

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Every pollen forecast in Florida: “Is there a plant nearby? It’s trying to kill you.”

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We boomers can't fade away fast enough.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/04/22/boomers-ugh/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“US turns to Ukrainian counter-drone tech after Iran attacks” - https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-turns-ukrainian-counter-drone-tech-after-iran-attacks-sources-say-2026-04-22/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
Screwtapello@teh.entar.net wrote:

Matt Colville has recently been thinking about the division between people who think of tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons as a hobby (like model railroads, or stamp collecting) and people who think of them as a folk tradition (like hopscotch, or singing). For Matt Colville, who owns a company that makes and sells TTRPGs, the difference is money: hobbyists *love* to spend money on cool new accessories for their hobby, but folk-traditionalists think it's morally abhorrent to pay money to participate in their community-building tradition.

I'm beginning to suspect there's a similar divide in computing, but more so. You've got the people who see computers as a force-multiplier for their business interests, who are happy to spend any amount of money as long as it generates more than it costs. You've got the hobbyists who just like playing with the dang things and love to buy new accessories but only within their budget. Lastly, you've got the folk-traditionalists, who value that feeling of connection and collaboration with others in the present, and learning from and building on the lessons of the past.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

shockley's children... would not attend his funeral

yeah, well he did sorta lose it entirely towards the end.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

picketed kennedy on the white house lawn

feels like how we used to let people into aeroplane flight decks for a look around

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
lislegaard@sonomu.club ("Kristoffer Lislegaard") wrote:

Interesting blog post by @tante

"Open source licenses do not allow you to forbid using your work in weapons. Do not allow you to limit using your work only for socially beneficial endeavors.

Open source is impressive, but tries to be apolitical and therefore does not help us fight back fascism.

It wants to stay neutral. But there is no neutrality when standing in a wildfire."

https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
amber@front-end.social ("Amber Weinberg") wrote:

I hate to say I’m desperate, but I haven’t had work in *months*. If anyone’s looking for a #freelance senior #wordpress #developer, please keep me in mind. I do full, custom theme builds, specialize in #accessibility and #semantic code, and am a great communicator about time estimates and budgets! My full portfolio is www.amberweinberg.com

If you don’t have any work, I would appreciate a boost 😊

#frontend #frontendDeveloper #development #WPJobs #needwork #hireme #hire #getfedihired

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

“The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin”

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/

> Not one of these quotes names a bug, a CVE, a product, a severity, a patch, or a specific Mythos finding

“AI” vendors are an extra untrustworthy lot, so much of this was suspicious from the get go, but it’s looking more and more dubious every day.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

dear Apple, I just want to charge my iPad, not create a blackhole that steals my MacBook cursor and requires restarting devices until it's released. thanks.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fox@front-end.social ("karolina") wrote:

I’ve been privy to the weeks of research and experimentation that culminated in @benschwarz’s map implementation.

not only it’s so much better than many janky, JavaScript based maps I was forced to use in the past, I also wish more people cared about details as much as this does ♥️

https://front-end.social/@benschwarz/116445796505977800

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
hailey@hails.org ("Hailey") wrote:

With Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux you can run all your favourite Windows and Linux apps side-by-side with a modern Linux kernel running cooperatively with the Windows kernel in ring 0. And unlike modern WSL, no hardware virtualisation is used so even your 486 can run it!

Please enjoy, I think this might be one of my greatest hacks of all time

https://codeberg.org/hails/wsl9x

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Old apple tree. One of the two trees that are left from an old orchard.

#darktable #photography

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

nice try, Yanks 😠

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

Connections
Puzzle #1046
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

looks fun! i'm sure this will be used responsibly

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/the-web-is-fun-again-first-experiments-with-html-in-canvas/

Boosted by jwz:
MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Scary Austin") wrote:

AOC is all of us.

#RFKJr

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
liztai@hachyderm.io ("Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾") wrote:

The world will be a better place if the intelligent people on Twitter
leave that s*** hole, set up a website where they can micro blog to their hearts content and I can follow them by RSS in peace. Now I'm forced to wade through s***, AI slop, deluded lies and read deluded, crazy, racist comments. Most of whom are probably feom teenagers in basements who can't find Iran on a map, or who are bots.

#SocialMedia #Indieweb

Boosted by jwz:
naomikritzer.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Naomi Kritzer") wrote:

"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now

EmilyEnough@hachyderm.io ("Emily 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Location hidden to protect the guilty. Might as well call it Cinco de Cuatro.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

referring to the Latin alphabet as "Egyptian Hieroglyhpics (Simplified)"

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
craigoverend ("Hermit Crab Craig") wrote:

Found that Stunt Car Racer via Bubbles, the link aggregator for the #smolweb

https://bubbles.town/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Oh my god, OpenAI reinvented Recall, but for macOS.

"Chronicle" is an opt-in feature that scans your screen, saves screenshots temporarily, and sent to OpenAI's servers.

https://developers.openai.com/codex/memories/chronicle

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
dat@social.g33ky.de ("Cegorach") wrote:

And @ZachWeinersmith hits the nail right on the head!

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh-2

#smbc #agi #ai #apocalypse #capitalism