@yelp@bird.makeup has started hiding reviews and comments from their mobile-optimized website to continue their practice of forcing people to use their surveillance app.

Enshittification is the worst, time to block these assholes at the pihole.

We live in a society that blames the poor for their poverty while tolerating the existence of leeches who become billionaires (and trillionaires) by stealing the wages of others. We are expected to believe this is fair and the result of choices made by individuals.

It is all wrong.

Living your values in the real world is tremendously difficult.

Shame on Nintendo for refusing to make the new StarFox two-player split screen. The two-player mode they implemented instead is utter shit.

Bought a house, moved in, but the flipper who sold the house installed a stove with a gas leak and sent a repair technician who is making _me_ source the parts. They don't have a part number, they don't have the name of the part, they just told me to call the manufacturer.

I'm mad at the flippers, I'm mad at my home inspector, and I'm especially mad at this repair technician who charged me $49 for the privilege of sourcing parts when I am not an appliance repair person.

I cannot stress enough how _not an appliance repair person_ I am.

You found a vulnerability in a vendor's product at work. You reach out to your TAM and they tell you that they won't accept your findings through any path but their bug bounty path. The bug bounty rules explicitly declare your _good findings_ out-of-scope of the program. There is an executed NDA in place.

You've already argued with the vendor, they're not budging.

What do you do?

If you want to be a good programmer, don’t use generative AI tools to program. Instead, learn.

RE: https://defcon.social/@HamRadioVillage/116818418146906648

I did ham in a day last year, it was such a great time!

I do appreciate that all of these creepy-ass companies are giving me the heads-up to submit delete requests.

I have a hard time trusting people who express a belief in the benevolence of robber-barons and tech bro dipshits.

Fuck Judge Mark T. Pittman and Judge Reed O’Connor.

Elon bought Cursor. Folks should stop using it, as Elon does not care about the harms caused by the products his company sells.

Anybody know a good phone option with these requirements:
1. I can buy it right now
2. It only does calling and texting, maybe calendar and maps
3. _NO_ web browser or app store
4. Works on T-Mobile (VoLTE)

I've been looking and I can't find a fuckin' thing.

Reminder: You're being surveilled when you use corpo tech.

A better world is possible.

The 2020 Presidential election was not stolen, Trump is just a pathetic sore loser. Please voice your opposition to unconstitutional federal interference in elections.

https://www.lwv.org/take-action/oppose-proposed-mail-and-absentee-ballot-regulations

Using AI takes so much of the fun out of hacking. It's not _not_ fun, but there's something special about figuring stuff out for yourself.

Stand back! I'm using `libcurl` in C!

I'm sorry, Anthropic, given your shit record on security I'm gonna go ahead and believe the hacker. Add some API scopes, FFS, that shit is embarrassing.

https://www.securityweek.com/anthropic-disputes-fable-5-ai-jailbreak/

Good morning, friends. Let's be silly today.

I suppose technically, it is Be More Paranoid Day, but I'm already rather paranoid. I'll put in the effort, though. R'amen.

Have you read my friend Rania’s book? It’s really great and I think you’ll enjoy it.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-jinn-daughter-rania-hanna/395cbda157dbdcae