Jascha C.
jaschac.bsky.social
Jascha C.
@jaschac.bsky.social
linux, linux gaming, infosec, privacy, programming, cats, soccer
I see how it is with you people.
When a business does it, it's a state-of-the-art just-in-time inventory management principle.
When *I* do it, it's "oh you waited until the last minute to buy your xmas gifts, you troglodyte".
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Introvert language translated:

“Maybe I’ll come” - I’m not coming

“I’ll let you know” - I’m not coming

“I’m not sure yet” - I’m very sure that I’m not coming

“I’ll try and come” - I won’t try anything

“I’ll think about it” - I won’t think about anything, I’m not coming
December 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Havent visited the family during the holidays for over a decade due the risk of weather-related travel issues. I finally decide to come up and visit for TG and... shocker... I'm getting 100% fucked by the weather. 😠
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Remember when Amazon held a sale during Independent Bookstore Day in an effort to undercut indie bookstores?

We didn’t forget. Support local bookstores during Small Business Saturday and beyond.
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Ah I guess it really isn’t thanksgiving if you don’t walk away regretting the whole experience. 😠
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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🚨 BREAKING #Google just activated #Gemini on #Gmail - without asking you.

Turn it off now; here's how!
tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

✊️ Fight AI & fight Google

You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.

Share so everyone is aware. ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Okay I’m just gonna post Jim Rockford voice messages for the next 24 hours

“Hey Jim, it’s Darryl, remember when I said the check’s in the mail? Well it still is because I forgot to put the little flag up on the box”
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Driving up to visit the fam' next week. Already starting to have "driving" dreams. Ugh.
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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The same kind of people who’ll tell you to “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” will also say it’s cool to push an AI button to make art or music because trying is too hard.
January 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ever feel like you're trapped in the Matrix, but not like a good quality Matrix. More like the Temu/"we have a matrix at home" version?
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Researchers tried plugging every possible phone number into WhatsApp's web app. They found they could collect 3.5 billion users' phone numbers, plus photos for half and profile text for more than a third, the biggest personal data exposure ever by some measures. www.wired.com/story/a-simp...
A Simple WhatsApp Security Flaw Exposed 3.5 Billion Phone Numbers
By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more.
www.wired.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Can’t believe it’s Desert Bus time again.
Hey, come and hang out while we raise money for children in hospitals.
Going live in ~20 minutes, and then staying live for like a week.

DesertBus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
DesertBus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:42 PM
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“We should have banned government use of face recognition when we had the chance because it is dangerous, invasive, and an inherent threat to civil liberties,” EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social told @404Media.co. www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech
www.eff.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Go to pay the over-priced annual member fee for one of my professional certs. Web site can't add the renewal to its cart. AI chat bot "support" system is down and non-responsive.

Sigh.

Technology. :(
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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improving movies with mr. bean: thread
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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A little message from our CEO and founder @andyhunter777.bsky.social ahead of Anti-Prime:
What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!
October 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
August 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm just going to say it: The theme to "Race for Your Life Charlie Brown" is 100% a class-A banger and I'm tired of us pretending it isn't.

#truthbombs #peanuts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2xC...
Race For Your Life Charlie Brown Theme Song
YouTube video by wildbaldmonkey
www.youtube.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
This might be a good time to remind those of you that have a recent hole in their streaming budget that PBS has had its funding gutted. Just $5/mon for PBS Passport, their extended streaming service & library. Staggering amount of top-qual' content for pennies.

video.gpb.org/passport/lea...

#pbs
GPB | Passport
Get extended access to thousands of full episodes and award-winning films. Stream top food shows, dramas, histories, documentaries, and more.
video.gpb.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Controversial opinion: I don't actually think Hackers was all that great. Even ironically. It's not the worst movie out there, but it's not good.
September 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM