Category: Technology
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the evil empire of fb
Those Zuck emails that explode FB’s defenses to charges of being a monopoly are pretty funny. In fact, they make the corporate name change to Meta even funnier because fb is no longer pretending to offer anything to its users. It’s completely meta at this point. This is why fb is actively hostile to its…
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yeah about that. . .
On the socials someone has mentioned a US “whistleblower” site deliberately set up to allow Canadian addresses. The site in question allows collaborators and fascists to report medical professionals providing gender affirming care. The whole idea is horrifying, of course. I checked the site, and it does provide a dropdown of all US and Canadian…
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when stealing is a speciality
The DOGE bros are running rampant through government data and stealing it I mean extracting it to servers that are not part of the government. One of these bright bulbs posted his data extraction tool on a public GitHub repository. That right there tells you everything you need to know about whether DOGE or this…
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HP
For decades I was a loyal repeat customer of HP printers. My printing needs require a fast laser jet, no color needed, capable of holding an entire ream of paper. Such a printer typically cost me about $1200 dollars. It was worth it to get a product that rarely, if ever, broke down and that…
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i learned a new word the other day
That word is “greyrock” as in “How to greyrock Facebook.” I had no idea there was a word for what I have been doing for years. Basically, you reduce your FB presence to the absolute minimum and never click on anything shoved into your timeline. Review privacy settings often and lock them down. Never ever…
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attack of the commas
Look, I’m all for the Oxford comma, but what the actual fuck is this dictation nonsense with random commas inserted everywhere? What’s the point of dictating a response only to have to spend more time editing than dictating? I might as well just type the damn response. Jesus. Dear Tech companies: Actually, you DO need…
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Geniuses
The geniuses at DOGE left their database unsecured. So, what do you think is happening to US government databases?
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my proudest internet moment
My proudest internet moment was when I contacted the host of a persistent spammer and got them shut down. This jerk was spamming dozens of times a day. I am 97% certain I know the spammer was a semi-legitimate service for a time, potentially because it allowed him to collect emails. And then it became…
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Sometimes I Hate Tech
I hate it when tech throws an error message that makes no sense. I especially hate it when it’s for something that non-tech people use. Your average person trying to do something with software does NOT understand what to with your stupid error message that is meaningful only to the bro who wrote the message…