And also, again and again — people need to know this! — I get these messages too:

ICE started to gather, but dispersed when too many observers showed up.

ICE vehicle headed back to base after being tailed in circles for an hour.

ICE started abducting someone, but let them go as the gathered crowd got larger and larger.

These people •really• do not want to be observed. Typical bullies: they cosplay tough guys, they waggle their gear around, but they •behave• like they’re afraid.

I've been configuring a new android phone for my aunt and boy, it is horrific:

- tons of preinstalled applications including wtf games, linkedin, netflix, spyonme-soft, duplicate-this-stock-functionality-but-worse, spyonme-hard and much more

- more apps that can't be uninstalled yet are clearly spyware (xiaomi cloud? mimusic?) plus standard google spyware

- gemini this gemini that, "yes please" vs "ask me later", "make your phone your wallet" with "yes please" vs "ask me later" and much more (again!)

Then I proceed to install the only application of her choosing -- whatsapp, but whatever, so I open play store (there is also a mistore:) and type 'whatsapp'

The first result is a green icon similar to 'whatsapp's, I install it, but no! it is actually "telephone" with overreaching permissions that wants to replace the standard application for calling.

Only the second result is the application with the name that exactly matches the query. Apparently 'telephone' is sponsored, but it is only very subtly hinted.

I wouldn't call it a circus - it is an animal experiment facility.

"Let us be the repository of your passkeys" and "We may terminate your account at any time and permanently refuse to communicate with you" ... seems like a bad combination?

> "Is the docker daemon running?"

I hope not.

It's wild being able to jump while playing Knee Deep in the Dead.

Lol why am I just now finding out about QDOOM.

The best part about beating Quake and all of the expansions is I get to start Quake again.

A picture is worth a thousand words... or in this case, it's worth 139 billion 😒

Here's a visualisation of Jeff Bezos' wealth by scale: https://eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

#TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay

“As a thought experiment,” she asked, “what might happen if you stop telling me how much you love me, and start asking how loved I feel?”

❤️

Self-hosting does not make your data safe.

If you don't put in place, review, *and test* backup and recovery plans,,and security measures appropriate to the risk, your data are not "safe".

Your data might be less affected by the whims of third parties, which can be valuable for sure, but don't confuse that with your data being "safe".

And I say this as someone who loves self-hosting.

Any "beginners' guide to self-hosting" which doesn't lead with, or at least focus on, security and resiliency, is getting it wrong, IMHO.

#SelfHosting

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

If you know your way around the #PHP docs, please help fix the token list:

1. T_PIPE, T_VOID_CAST are missing

2. no PHP version info per token (available as of PHP x.y.z).

https://php.net/manual/tokens.php

How to use local packages in Composer: a guide for PHP developers

When working on a PHP project, it’s common to rely on external libraries published on Packagist. Composer makes installing and managing these dependencies effortless. But what if you need to work with a dependency locally, outside Packagist?

https://dev.to/robertobutti/how-to-use-local-packages-in-composer-a-guide-for-php-developers-h89

#php #packagist #composer #opensource

There are plans to require applicants of travelers to the US to provide a long list of personal data including:

✓ social media

✓email addresses from the last 10 YEARS

✓ all of this data:
• names
• birth dates
• places of residence
• birthplaces

of

• parents
• spouses
• siblings
• children

So if your close relatives travel, they would have to give up YOUR personal info, including where you live.

But everyone is focusing on the social media part.

Yeah, ok.

/1

#Privacy

@11ty is continuing to get smaller and less dependent on third-party dependencies. This is what all tools should aspire to do.

https://www.11ty.dev/blog/dependency-watch/

The "use cases" I hear about for "AI" get dumber by the day.

@vidak The Usborne books inspired a generation of programmers! I've still got my ones from when I was a kid...

Please bro, we're so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro.

@carnage4life fuck these people

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