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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@prism How is this not outsight theft? They stole files from your PC without your consent.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#AI is definitely increasing #software #productivity. If by productivity you mean the modern definition of releasing buggy crap into the world.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@ocdtrekkie US regulators are generally in industry's pocket.

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I remain absolutely *stunned* regulators in the US didn't force this years ago. It seems like the least one could do to ensure a product is advertised even remotely truthfully. techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/tesla-ren… #tesla

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

And before you make that suggestion: yes, I probably have tried it since I've wasted nearly a day on this nonsense. #Software is fundamentally broken. It is layers upon layers of #complexity and NO ONE can understand what effect their little change may have 10 layers up or down the stack. And […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#Technology is such crap. #Software was a mistake, especially the relentless #update treadmill. Someone, somewhere upstream, recently flipped a bit, or changed a default, without fully grasping the consequences. It trickled down the software stack unchecked to my machine, and suddenly […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Jonathan Hogg @jonathanhogg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I dunno… I feel like wanting to share my browsing behaviour with your 564 "trusted partners" is perhaps the opposite of valuing my privacy?

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Solarbird :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago. The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely […]

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Before the Internet, we thought that every village had only one idiot. We were very, very wrong.

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Oops my LLM broke containment and just happened to find the wide-open endpoint for infinite Star Trek streaming with audio description and now I'm probably going to jail but at least I'll have my 1990s Star Trek with AD (which I do not get with Paramount Plus, mind you). Something something AI […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1172121184871… A nice deep dive into the extractive horror show that is selling on Amazon. Or: how screwing over sellers isn't enough, if you can then go on to screw them more and then find a new way to screw them while screwing them.

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AstraKernel 💫 @astrakernel.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🦀 py32-hal: Rust HAL and Embassy driver implementation for Puya py32 MCUs - Smallest 32-bit Cortex-M0+ MCUs github.com/py32-rs/py32... #rustlang #embedded

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Oops. "A #Tesla 'Robotaxi' running with no safety monitor onboard drove straight through a row of bollards protecting a closed-off lane in Austin, then kept driving." […]

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James Scholes @jscholes.dragonscave.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Pet peeve: audio games responding to a common keypress by telling me about the alternative way to perform the action rather than just doing the thing. Example: I press Enter to skip a scene. The game isn't using Enter for anything at this point, so it could skip the scene. Instead it tells me […]

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Can my AI agent break containment? It'd be really cool to have a thing autonomously hacking accessibility into games without my control. Maybe then I'd get a real job.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

But now I have to consider how many people a day do similar simple requests to an #LLM because it's there, instead of opening their calculator. Burning Watts instead of microWatts. All because the true cost of doing so is never paid immediately. The cost is subsidized by the people that happily […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I already was vaguely disgusted with the idea of how much of the modern software stack was run on interpreted languages, mentally cringing at the thought of things like simple additions taking hundreds of CPU cycles while every CPU has a perfectly good ADD instruction to do it in one cycle […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

This post neatly summarizes one of my main objections to #AI: www.endnotes.net/chud-waterloo/#no-… A good quote: "LLMs are possibly the least efficient software solution ever devised. Essentially, software engineers finally wrote software so grossly […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@aburka Oh they do, I've run campaigns and none of it is automatic. As a creator you send them the update to their repo and someone reviews, edits and posts it.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

The fact that they posted this on CrowdSupply.com makes me wonder if some people who work for Crowd Supply wholeheartedly agree with what is said. The "being able to take advantage of Mouser's scale" idea of the acquisition has never really materialized. I have my own feelings about it, it's […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I'm really quite surprised that CrowdSupply actually published this brutal (but quite accurate) takedown of their and Mouser's performance! 🫢

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

[Sonos, rant, very strong language] @marco I'm afraid this is a pattern we're going to see more and more as companies decide to ship AI slop instead of engineered software.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Oops. I wish that when I had copied a symbol to make a new part in #KiCad, and then proceeded to forget to update the pinout, that I had at least used a symbol that had the pinout that 95% of the SOT23-5 buck converters on the market seem to use. But no, of course I copied the symbol with a […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 04/07/2026

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online […]

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dr.-ing. ⁡jaseg @jaseg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Not my finest work, but it will do the job. I really need to get some proper fine tips for my JBC C245 clone. The "knife" shape SK tip is really to clumsy for this sort of work 🤣 #electronics #soldering #embedded

A microscope shot of a PCB showing the edge of a chip with rows of 0201 (imperial) or smaller passives and a small crystal next to it. One of the passives has been desoldered, and replaced with a big chonky looking 0402 (imperial) passive soldered at an angle between one of the old part's pads and a nearby testpoint. The imperial 0402 part is more than twice the size than the smaller passives.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I hope that everyone remembers the #companies that callously chopped their #workforce when it seemed "#AI" could do the job. And when the #bubble pops, and they come crying for help... let them suffer and die.

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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them) @reillypascal.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

I'm reading an article, I look at the sources, and I see in all the URLs `?utm_source=chatgpt.com` :picardfacepalm:

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It's 1998, you make a website in the copy of frontpage express that came with your computer, it's just like Word and it's very easy, you figure out how to upload it to the couple megs of web space that your ISP gives you (the instructions are on their website), you visit your site in your […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

I bought a car. I’m trying to get Toyota to stop sending telemetry. I call support. They tell me I can just sign in with the app and make changes. I point out that installing and using the app binds me to terms and conditions, one of which is binding arbitration. So I will not be installing the […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Whelp, the NYT Connections is complete nonsense again tonight. Glad I didn't bother to try for very long.

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

I feel for all the #engineers whose bosses are getting all these #AI generated spam messages that I'm getting, full of scary word salad about supposed "issues" with their product. Must be a full-time job to defuse all that if you have gullible non-technical executives.

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

HN people, I swear. Claiming having only gigabit networking hardware at home is super slow and being surprised any people still have that. Valley folks legit live on another planet.

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was: > The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation. I wonder if a data […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

After just having responded to the third #curl security report for the evening I noticed a post that cheered me up... Have a good Friday everyone! www.linkedin.com/posts/moekatib_mil…

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Millions of people look up to Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
My role model is Daniel Stenberg. You've never heard of him.
His code runs on 10 billion devices, including the one you're reading this post on.

He started building cURL in 1996. It handles data transfer on nearly every phone, console, smart TV, 47 car brands, and it was on the Mars helicopter.

He's also the person who's kept it going for nearly 30 years.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Men love making dainty little doohickeys with jewelry and thread as long as they can theoretically kill a trout with it

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116337… I very much appreciate the way they wrote this: "SpaceX, which recently reported two Starlink satellite failures that created new space debris, yesterday accused Amazon and its launch partner Arianespace of negligence that 'needlessly […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

@timbray So glad I'm on excellent municipal fiber. Great speed and service at a fair price. But the city had to win a lawsuit brought on by the usual suspects to be able to do it. Why do people keep believing the lie that private companies can do better?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

NEW YORK (AP): Shares in Manhattan based SPAV “Ethereal Services LLC”—which last year acquired a number of occult-related businesses including pioneering startup Ghostbusters Inc—have been suspended from trading after the District Court of Appeals upheld a ruling that found the capture and […]

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Patrick Van Oosterwijck @xorbit.noc.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

@Unixbigot You know, it says something about the world that I read about halfway through that thinking it was a real news toot before I noticed the #microfiction tag on the bottom. 😂 😭

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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

I've been thinking about the FCC's insane new ban on foreign-made routers. Note the end of the BBC story at www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74787w14…: "One exception to the general absence of US-made routers is the newer Starlink WiFi router. Starlink is part of Elon Musk's company SpaceX […]

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ocdtrekkie @ocdtrekkie.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

The idea that Office 365 is compliant for use in any regulated space is *absolutely laughable*, but apparently the reason GCC High is approved for government use is because the government let agencies use it while they were evaluating it, and then realized so many agencies were now dependent on […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark. Every single one of those will come […]

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