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  "A certain AI researcher said of recent AI hacking inci­dents: “AI agents … took actions that would be consid­ered as crimes if a human took them”—seem­ingly taking it as axiomatic that these were not human-controlled activ­i­ties and there­fore cannot qualify as crimes. But they were and they do. ... So let’s call this narra­tive what it is: an attempt to thwart the rule of law." https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/drop-dead.html

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  “Bloomberg ($) reports lawyers are already finding that Apple's always-listening tech is at odds with the law in several U.S. states. Some states require all parties' consent before being recorded, setting up the feature for potential legal battles down the line. This comes amid the rise of smart camera-enabled "pervert glasses" like those made by Meta and Snap, which have supercharged abuse and harassment against people by recording them without consent.”—@zackwhittaker@mastod...

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  Thousands of years ago, literally several lifetimes ago, I wrote a blorg post about configuring Chrome for security and privacy. Might do a new one, and/or for Firefox. There are some high-value knobs you can twiddle these days.

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  Meta profiting from AI-generated CSAM: “It’s important to point out that this isn’t content posted by third parties on Facebook or Instagram, these are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars.” https://periscope.corsfix.com/?https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-that-contained-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-imagery/

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/117009941185565746 Google can no longer perform even trivial searches for exact strings.

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  Man no wonder the chuds hate The Odyssey. It’s a kick straight to their nards

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  RE: https://beige.party/@gildilinie/116999697694903234 Reminds me of when Suno CEO Mikey Shulman who said nobody likes making music. Yeah we do. Humans are creative people who love to create anything — books, music, software, paintings, … cyber and/or acoustic socks … It’s a fundamental part of the human condition. When people don’t want to create anything, I gotta ask some questions

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  Just got my first Sponsored™️ autocomplete result in the (iOS) Firefox address bar I am going to become the Joker

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  GrapheneOS in the news (yikesily): https://web.archive.org/web/20260724175443/https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/

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  “The next day, when Suzanne followed up to ask whether I’d considered the options she’d suggested, I told her that I was seeking outside counsel. I’d been in touch with a labor lawyer, and we began drafting a demand letter. Before we could send it, Marion’s boss called me and said that I could keep my responsibilities after all.” https://periscope.corsfix.com/?https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google

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  Privacy is security is quality is expensive

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  You had one (1) job, Mitre.

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  The open web is being further ruined. Basic privacy protections are at odds with anti-bot/anti-scam protections and at odds with (naturally) surveillance and ads. This is a choice that we are making as a society. "Increasingly we’re being presented with a choice that is no choice at all: get rid of all your precautions and let us get our hooks in, or we’ll shut you out of the internet, bit by bit." https://flaminghydra.com/403-forbidden/

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  My “member of a cat cult” t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my shirt

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  "And the answer is that you make foundational investments in systemic prevention of entire classes of vulnerabilities, even at the expense of having marginally high latency to fixing individual vulnerabilities. While in the very short run this can be painful, on longer time scales, it’s essential. ...like any good engineering project you should structure you work towards incremental deliverables that add value, not one giant big-bang that won’t materialize for forever." https://alexga...

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  Sir Loafington

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  USA Today woke up and chose violence this morning and I am *here for it* “These new candidates don’t understand the crucial role centrist Democrats play in America’s political system. We appeal to "the center," which is an ambiguous blob-like thing that exists only in the minds of Democratic strategists whose brains stopped working in the 1990s.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/28/centrist-democrat-mamdani-progressive-socialist/90681634007/

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/116414298428707393 “WARNING: This article is meant to be informal and fun!”

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  Mac Neo by the (fascinating) numbers: https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/macbook-neo-benchmarks-analysis/

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  Wait — Darmok and Jalad were at Tanagra? Holy shit

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  Yambic pentameter: A sweet potato pie is good to eat

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  RE: https://troet.cafe/@Bonetti/116512792319381033 Plot twist: IPAs are Good now

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  Oh, you know, just committing some syntactic crimes. How's your Sunday goin’? ``` #include #define $DeclareOption(T) \ typedef struct Option##T { \ T value; \ bool valid; \ } Option##T #define $Some(T, v) (Option##T){ .value = v, .valid = true } int main() { $DeclareOption(int); auto o = $Some(int, 42); printf("%d %d\n", o.value, o.valid); } ```

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  "The same industry that once called you family is now using the fruits of your labor to commit war crimes. The same industry whose leaders once posted front-page missives to their sites about doing a better job in terms of diversity and inclusion are now selling their technology to fascists who use it to bomb schools. The industry has decided what it wants to be." https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-do-the-work/

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  “We do not need to understand these criminals in order to try to contain and ultimately remove them. They will not last for ever, and we need to think about what happens when they’re gone – to talk about the kind of reconstruction the US will face for the first time since the civil war, the reconstruction a ravaged and corrupted country has to go through to return to functionality. But not to return to the way things were.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/12/united-states-tru...

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  Yes, yes, Mastodon hates LLMs and all that — sure. I probably hate them at least as much as you. But LLMs really are finding vulnerabilities and really are developing exploits for them. There are ways, both by using and not by using LLMs, to make more resilient software, and we absolutely must do so. Ignoring empirical reality is not going to result in success for engineers or the people who depend on software and information services.

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  Explaining to the cat that coffee is a special kind of water that makes humans puff their tails out

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  Does being the proud owner of a USB CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive count as retrocomputing?

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  Behold! The Stretchmaster General #cats

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  “how fast could the system move from detection to decision? The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds.” https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the...