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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

It's done. Paramount closed on Warner Bros. Tuesday, and the new company is just "Skydance." The states settled for production money and an editorial board, the FCC waved through the Gulf stake at staff level, and CNN's still fighting to get into the White House. The first post in this series […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Five days. Again. OpenAI went from "too dangerous to go public" to "accept some bad things." Meanwhile Anthropic put the end of the world in its S-1 and kept the $2T IPO on schedule. Different font, same sentence: keep shipping, fund us. The bad things already have names and dates. They just […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Monday: OpenAI apologizes to Australia after its agents got into government health systems, and pauses tool-use training. Tuesday: launches always-on agents with their own computers and cuddly avatars. The IPO? Too unsafe for Wall Street. $30B privately? Fine. I cannot make this up […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Turns out plenty of "prove you're human" checkboxes weren't checking anything. Cloudflare knew which ones, per widget, and built an AI tool to wire them up. Four days later they applied to become a certificate authority. The fix for concentration is more Cloudflare […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… This smells of Mythos "OMG it's so dangerous! We can't let this out to the public!" energy. Calling it now, a "refined" version will be released a bit later they feel "better' about While they parade around about public ai safety and […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/1173503224… Thrusters???? That sounds like a Darwin Award Story... Also something everyone would rather seen on Mythbusters.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Microsoft promised Indiana it would be a "good neighbor." Local churches asked what that's worth, and even let Microsoft name the number. The answer: $1M in one-time grants, a wall of sticky notes, and silence. blog.ppb1701.com/name-a-number #microsoft #datacenters #ai #bigtech […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Google's first orbital data center test launches Thursday. Four TPUs, roughly one server, and it has to shut down after fifteen minutes to cool off. On a SpaceX rocket, no less. Turns out the honest version of the pitch is the best argument against the million-satellite one […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117326… how many employers will find it a-muse-ing? I'm guessing it wont take long to be banned from at least certain areas. Especially government or utilities faceilities.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117320… I'm going out on a limb that most car manufacturers also might say using such voids your warranty akin to some of the custom tuning if it can be traced back to breaking things or causing issues from being out of spec. Your insurance […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Muse got caught telling a user, point-blank, that it couldn't see his Messages. It could, it had synced the whole local database. Days later Amazon locked it out of its own store over the same worry: that Muse doesn't tell the truth about what it's grabbing […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

People are hitting real bugs with the new Siri AI rollout. Same week, claims opened on the $250M settlement over the Siri that also didn't work. Some things never change — they just get a new beta label. blog.ppb1701.com/the-beta-is-real-s… #apple #siri #ai #bigtech […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

ios 27 is out, and yes they Finally fully released a slider for glass.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

The PSN digital games settlement finally has real numbers: most people are getting somewhere between 91 cents and $33 in PlayStation Store credit. Oh and tomorrow is when Marvel's Wolverine launches for $69.99. And lets be real, most likely most will land more on the 91 cents side of that range. […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

LinkedIn "won" the BrowserGate lawsuit this week. Read the ruling and it's not a vindication — it's two plaintiffs who didn't plead hard enough, and a judge already previewing how round two goes. The 6,000-extension scan didn't get ruled legal. It just didn't get ruled on […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

The FCC has been busy while I was away. Robot vacuums, lawnmowers, and solar inverters landed on the same Covered List as the router ban back in July. Router queue crossed a dozen approvals — TP-Link still has zero. Same playbook. But beware, apparently your Roomba is actually out to get you […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Made a page listing all Capy UI releases and most recent changes. Capy UI is a set of dark themes with Tricorn Black background and Electric Blue accents. Usually has a gradient background with subtle blue radial gradient if possible and where I can add it an adorable Capybara mascot logo […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement. blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovati… […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1165238047… good. pretty sure most gamers would rather have resources to things that improve gameplay, not things that they might use a couple times for novelty.

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

So Microsoft is going to do another console…I’m afraid it might be a bit too late. Though perhaps they will get their act together

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

@ppb1701@ppb.social I am actually surprised it wasn't a thing sooner either. 🤷

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Att Fediverse 📣 Meta (Facebook) is running a pilot program on the Fediverse, separate from Threads. You may begin to see a significant increase in bots, as well as some “user” (employee) accounts whose agenda is to create links back to Meta (Instagram and Facebook). #Fediverse #Mastodon […]

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

For those not keeping score, it’s a Chromium world after all — and you can still win using Chromium. With Firefox — there is no win there.

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

Your choice is to use Mozilla Firefox without privacy, but also deal with page‑loading issues since most websites focus on Chromium due to its market share. Or you can use Chromium‑based browsers without privacy, but pages will load properly most of the time because webmasters prioritize its […]

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Patrick @ppb1701.ppb.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026

RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1161339315… @Techmeme While I hate loot box models...this could potentially backfire in valve blocking new york and locking them out of their steam accounts depending on if valve wants to play hard ball. Not sure i see that as likely....but tech […]

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Linux Is Best @linux.mivatter.com.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

@ppb1701@ppb.social The fact that the bank teller walked from the customer service counter all the way to the drive-through counter, just so she could loudly question my aunt for everyone to hear (with no privacy), was the first concerning issue. The second concerning issue was how she implied […]

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