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Calvin Gluck Interests: #InformationTechnology #IT #Computers #OpenScource #Fediverse #Cybersecurity I mostly post quotes from articles I read. See links below for my other […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ gluck.cc/@it, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[VMware defends ending downloads of SDK that helps VM backups – or migrations to rivals] “VMware has defended its decision to end public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK).” … “VDDK is also useful when moving VMs from VMware to another virtualization environment.” … “The VDDK […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11721531933545… Shame on EFF for this betrayal of copyright holders and creatives who have been harmed by the LLMs trained by their intellectual property. U.S. copyright law allows “fair use” for “transformative uses” which “add something new, with a further […]

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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

[Insurer AI Exclusions Spark Policyholder Alarm on Coverage Gaps | Bloomberg Law] “Companies that develop or use AI-generated content will likely either find themselves on the hook for any related litigation or regulatory probes or paying through the nose for insurance coverage as carriers race […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

[Parked Waymos Are Recording You] “ … even when they are vacant, if the vehicles are running — which is identifiable by the sensors spinning and whirring — they are recording audio and 360-degree video to “continuously perceive the world around the vehicle.” … When asked, the company did not […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

This Forward Deployed Engineer job is nightmare fuel: “ The Job 1 Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building. … What We’re Looking For • Ready to […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

[AI produced code looks reasonable, but can contain ‘hard-to-spot bugs’] “ I received a note from a senior software engineer … He described himself as an AI skeptic who became converted after trying Claude Code for the first time. … “I’m writing to give you an update on my current thinking […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said: 1) they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in 2) the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like […]

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Saustrup @saustrup.mstdn.dk.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Wife's idea. It worked! 😂😎 #floppy #floppydisk #SolarEclipse

Looking at the solar eclipse through the magnetic plate of a 3.5" floppy disk. Sun visible.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

[Workers speak out against growing screen time surveillance] TD Bank uses screen monitoring software called ControliQ and WorkiQ / Application Mining. “Bell started using Verint …” “… these tools increase stress on workers and don't actually improve performance. Tracking tools tend to narrow […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

An impressive result from the WV #RemoteWork incentive program! “ West Virginia began offering successful applicants $12,000 paid out over two years. … more than 1,500 new residents have arrived. … A remarkable 96% of West Virginia's participants remain in the state after the program's two-year […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Mark Wieczorek @mrak.solarsystem.social · 15/06/2026

I have nearly completed my transition from macOS to Linux, but I still use a single macOS machine at work. With my latest upgrade of LibreWolf, I needed to manually remove a quarantine attribute for the application from the command line. I just see these […] [Original post on solarsystem.social]

Why is LibreWolf marked as broken?

It is possible that Apple Silicon users see their recently downloaded LibreWolf flagged as broken or unsafe by the OS.

This happens because we do not notarize the macOS version of the browser: we don't have a paid Apple Developer license and we don't want to support this signing mechanism that is put behind a paywall without providing significant gains.

You can remove the quarantine attribute from the Application using this command:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreWolf.app

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Martin Holland @mho.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Ever since reading "Getting off US tech: a guide" by @parismarx last year, I wanted to build a little website where you could check the #software you're using and get some shareable text, showing how much is from the US. Now it's finally done 👇🏼🥳 fingolas.eu/MyTech What do you think? […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

[Coinbase CEO brags “Non-technical teams are now shipping production code”] “ AI is changing how we work. Over the past year, I’ve watched engineers use AI to ship in days what used to take a team weeks. Non-technical teams are now shipping production code and many of our workflows are being […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

If you haven’t already removed Chrome from your devices, you might want to consider doing so. “Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

[Artemis II Laser Communications is capable of 260 Mbps, 4K from the Moon] “ The Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) will enable Orion to send back video and high-resolution images. … At 260 megabits per second, O2O is capable of sending down 4K high-definition video from the […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

[Reminder of Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use] “Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.” “WE DO NOT MAKE ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND ABOUT COPILOT […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

IT'S HAPPENING GITHUB, THE FIRST ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION TO REACH ZERO NINES RELIABILITY mrshu.github.io/github-statuses #github

uptime graph reading: 95 incidents in last 90 days - 89.91% uptime

classic meme image: "it's happening" with Ron Paul laser show

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

[What the Meta and Google verdict means for your social media feed] “ … Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 … shields Internet companies from liability over user-generated content. … Instead of treating Instagram and YouTube chiefly as hosts for other people’s speech, the […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

[Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.] “The downside of adult offloading is people get less sharp. The downside of adolescents growing up delegating to AI is a generation that was never sharp to begin with. Protecting the space our children need to develop the foundational […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

[The FCC will be banning Wi-Fi routers with foreign components] “Because any router that’s available now has already gotten FCC authorization, there’s no need to rush out and buy a new router. In fact, I would recommend the opposite: holding off on buying a new router until some of the dust […]

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

I KNOW IT SUCKS, I KNOW IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WANT, BUT PLEASE DISABLE YOUR DAMN OPEN MASTODON INSTANCE REGISTRATIONS

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

PSA: The Amazon wishlist doxing threat is much greater and more immediate than folks might realize. Attack works like this: Stalker who wants your address opens an Amazon seller account and lists themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2026

The more I see people going down the LLM hole: It really feels like we're seeing some form of the same mass psychogenic conditions that gave us the dancing plagues of the middle ages repeat itself. Just with people suddenly believing that token generators are sentient and forming parasocial […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

[Jack Dorsey’s Block Mandates The Use Of AI] “ Dorsey said that frequent topics cited by workers in their latest messages included “widespread concerns about layoffs,” “performance anxiety,” and “the tension between accelerating delivery through AI adoption versus maintaining code quality and […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

[Microsoft 365 Copilot has summarized confidential emails since late January] " According to a service alert seen by BleepingComputer, this bug (tracked under CW1226324 and first detected on January 21) affects the Copilot "work tab" chat feature, which incorrectly reads and summarizes emails […]

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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

This is what AI scrapers are doing to our platform. Our database capacity is just being ruined every time they initiate a fresh scrape and our tech team has to scramble, taking radical measures, to keep the platform up.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

[Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell footage] " ... officials said she had a doorbell camera, but that it had been forcibly removed, and she did not have a subscription. ... Ten days later, the FBI released footage from the camera, which was […]

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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I've mocked up a set of constellation shells consistent with the limited available data on the mega-sat SpaceX orbital data center system and added them to planet4589.org/space/con/co... for a total of 1.7 million proposed satellites worldwide

Jonathan's Space Report | Space Statistics

Jonathan McDowell's new homepage

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

[The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files | Wired] “Below are the names in tech that show up most frequently in the Epstein files …” Reid Hoffman (2,658 Files) Bill Gates (2,592 Files) Peter Thiel (2,281 Files) Elon Musk (1,116 Files) Larry Page (314 Files), Sergey Brin (294 Files) Mark Zuckerberg […]

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow is a case in point of the parasitic nature of LLMs. LLMs feed their models on places like Stack Overflow to be useful to users, so users flock to them to avoid the eternal snarky comments and just get an answer to their […] [Original post on greennuclear.online]

Graph showing rise and fall of Stack Overflow usage between 2008 and 2026 in numbers of questions asked per month. There's a clear bell curve visible coming from 0 and going to 0.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 08/01/2026

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

[AI “Current models are not close to being able to automate real jobs in the economy” | WaPo Paywall] “ To understand what work AI can do on its own today, researchers collected hundreds of examples of projects posted on freelancing platforms that humans had been paid to complete. … The […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

[Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages] “ For centuries, that “other” directing human thought and life was often the priest, the monarch, or the feudal lord – the ones claiming to act as God’s voice on Earth. … artificial intelligence threatens to […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

[Excel for Mac updated with a CoPilot logo that obscures several cells] Every result from searching how to disable CoPilot on Bing and Google leads to instructions that don't work. I was able to ignore CoPilot until now, but this is really annoying. I wish they would stop.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

[NetApp "Cloud Volumes ONTAP nodes no longer shutdown when the Connector is out of compliance or down for more than 14 days.] This is great news for #NetApp CVO users! "... Cloud Volumes ONTAP still sends Event Management messages when it loses access to the Connector. This change is to ensure […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

[The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI] “ “Areas where I used to feel confident in my own skills and abilities—like writing concise, thorough, balanced emails—have now become areas where I consistently reach out to AI for feedback,” he wrote in a recent blog post. “The 2015 version of me […]

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 22/11/2025

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Update November 22. We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared.

It’s easy to see where the confusion came from. Google’s updated language around “smart features” is vague, and the term “smart” often implies AI—especially at a time when Gemini is being integrated into other parts of Google’s products. When the new wording started appearing for some users without much explanation, many assumed it signalled a broader shift.

We’ve revised this article to reflect what we can confirm from Google’s documentation, as it’s always been our aim to give readers accurate, helpful guidance.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

[NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data] “ The lawsuit, filed on November 6 in the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleges that Jón Thorgrímur Stefánsson spent his final months at the company quietly laying the groundwork for a […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

@MonaApp I’ve noticed that I can see way more comments after I “Copy Link”, “Search” for that link and then “Open Link” than when I simply click on a post in my timeline. I’ve tried completely resetting all of my preferences to no avail. I don’t experience this […] [Original post on gluck.cc]

A screenshot of a post from Mona after clicking on a post shows 32 comments, 72 reposts and 176 favorites.

A screenshot of a post from Mona after “copy link”, “search” and then “open post” shows 144 comments, 72 comments and 176 favorites.

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

[Eavesdropping Unencrypted Satellites] “ We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf #satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of #geostationary satellite #communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast #unencrypted […]

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Shubhankar Srivastava @shubhankar-91.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

We now support Fediverse sharing of long form text attachment #Fediverse Threads Long form text attachment will now be federated. Let me know if you see any issue.

Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

[Workslop - Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work] “ Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers. … Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and […]

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Calvin’s IT Posts @it.gluck.cc.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025

[The H-1B fee is likely to face legal challenges. But if it survives,] “ …companies that hire skilled international workers would have to pay $100,000 each year for any employee working on the visa, for up to six years. The fee applies only to new applicants, a White House official said […]

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