Ixirsii
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"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."
- Anderson's Law
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- Anderson's Law
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Post a banger that's not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnF...
September 23, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Post a banger that's not in English
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPnF...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #239,696!
September 23, 2024 at 12:56 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #239,696!
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.
May 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.
New episode of Our Lie in April is out now wherever you get your podcasts!
March 29, 2024 at 8:37 PM
New episode of Our Lie in April is out now wherever you get your podcasts!
I'm @ixirsii@mastodon.social on #Mastodon! Come follow me at mastodon.social/@ixirsii
March 27, 2024 at 7:35 PM
I'm @ixirsii@mastodon.social on #Mastodon! Come follow me at mastodon.social/@ixirsii
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Avast told customers its products would prevent online tracking, then they sold their browsing data to data brokers. Now the FTC is making them pay $16.5 million.
techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/f...
techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/f...
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers | TechCrunch
Avast closed its Jumpshot subsidiary in 2020 after the antivirus giant was caught selling the browsing activity of millions of its customers.
techcrunch.com
February 22, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Avast told customers its products would prevent online tracking, then they sold their browsing data to data brokers. Now the FTC is making them pay $16.5 million.
techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/f...
techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/f...
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a watched DNS record never propagates
February 10, 2024 at 4:14 AM
a watched DNS record never propagates
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Tech Guy: I got these new VR goggles
Me: Whoa cool, what are you gonna do with them? Turn your living room into the Enterprise bridge? Ooh, or go back in time and see dinosaurs! Or-
Tech Guy: I am going to read emails while driving
Me: Whoa cool, what are you gonna do with them? Turn your living room into the Enterprise bridge? Ooh, or go back in time and see dinosaurs! Or-
Tech Guy: I am going to read emails while driving
February 5, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Tech Guy: I got these new VR goggles
Me: Whoa cool, what are you gonna do with them? Turn your living room into the Enterprise bridge? Ooh, or go back in time and see dinosaurs! Or-
Tech Guy: I am going to read emails while driving
Me: Whoa cool, what are you gonna do with them? Turn your living room into the Enterprise bridge? Ooh, or go back in time and see dinosaurs! Or-
Tech Guy: I am going to read emails while driving
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These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires
January 6, 2024 at 6:40 PM
These throwable fire extinguishers seem like a real-life example of xkcd.com/937 — they have really good reviews from everyone except the few people who tried using them to put out fires
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"If you, as a Toyota customer, ever had sex in an automobile we manufactured and, as a result, had a child, that child is officially ours now."
Toyota Reveals That Any Babies Conceived In Backseats Of Their Cars Belong To Them Now
TOYOTA CITY, JAPAN—Noting that the policy was clearly stated in the purchase agreement for every vehicle it sold, Toyota revealed Thursday that any babies conceived in the backseats of their cars be...
www.theonion.com
December 14, 2023 at 3:16 PM
"If you, as a Toyota customer, ever had sex in an automobile we manufactured and, as a result, had a child, that child is officially ours now."
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When I say that privacy is not just a legal/compliance problem, but an engineering problem, this is the sort of thing that I am talking about: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Is This the End of Geofence Warrants?
Google announced this week that it will be making several important changes to the way it handles users’ “Location History” data. These changes would appear to make it much more difficult—if n...
www.eff.org
December 14, 2023 at 8:20 PM
When I say that privacy is not just a legal/compliance problem, but an engineering problem, this is the sort of thing that I am talking about: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Omegle has ended its service with a brutal good-bye message
www.omegle.com
www.omegle.com
Omegle
www.omegle.com
November 9, 2023 at 2:33 AM
Omegle has ended its service with a brutal good-bye message
www.omegle.com
www.omegle.com
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Happy Halloween from god's favorite princess - this time in pumpkin stockings! 🎃
#BaldursGate3 #BG3 #shadowheart
#BaldursGate3 #BG3 #shadowheart
October 31, 2023 at 7:46 PM
Happy Halloween from god's favorite princess - this time in pumpkin stockings! 🎃
#BaldursGate3 #BG3 #shadowheart
#BaldursGate3 #BG3 #shadowheart
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LE SSERAFIM X SOMBRA 💜
October 29, 2023 at 6:41 PM
LE SSERAFIM X SOMBRA 💜
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spectacular resource allocation
October 26, 2023 at 1:17 PM
spectacular resource allocation
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it's convenient that y'all have decided that everyone who works in tech is More Privileged than u bc then y'all can treat them like trash while benefiting from their labor. "i'd like to speak to ur manager"-ass leftism
October 25, 2023 at 10:41 PM
it's convenient that y'all have decided that everyone who works in tech is More Privileged than u bc then y'all can treat them like trash while benefiting from their labor. "i'd like to speak to ur manager"-ass leftism
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Sources across the nation found that if you simply post this article featuring the grinning visage of the Israeli politician to your personal social media account, your boss will see it, love it, and presto, you’ll be employed once more.
Report: Share This Image Of Smiling Netanyahu To Get Your Job Back
EVERYWHERE—In response to multiple reports of people being fired for criticizing Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza, an encouraging new report confirmed that you can share this image of smiling Israeli p...
www.theonion.com
October 25, 2023 at 7:22 PM
Sources across the nation found that if you simply post this article featuring the grinning visage of the Israeli politician to your personal social media account, your boss will see it, love it, and presto, you’ll be employed once more.
Get ready for the shitshow that's going to be 2024
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
October 6, 2023 at 4:44 PM
Get ready for the shitshow that's going to be 2024
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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I've yet to see an argument for how LLM output amounts to "plagiarism" that wouldn't also apply to a human author reading a bunch of her favorite writer and writing a book heavily inspired by it. But if *that's* plagiarism, then huge swaths of fantasy novels are illegally plagiarising Tolkien or D&D
September 26, 2023 at 1:55 AM
I've yet to see an argument for how LLM output amounts to "plagiarism" that wouldn't also apply to a human author reading a bunch of her favorite writer and writing a book heavily inspired by it. But if *that's* plagiarism, then huge swaths of fantasy novels are illegally plagiarising Tolkien or D&D