I don't want to work smarter or harder and I have zero fucking interest in either The Hustle or The Grind. I want to work the exact amount I need to afford a normal life, which used to be possible, and now apparently requires a podcast??

Please, please stop supporting gen AI companies. It’s not worth it. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-ai-claude-bombing-elementary-school

Phew, that spun people up on BlueSky

Under maritime law, particularly the principle known as the duty to rescue, there is an obligation for those at sea to assist individuals in peril, including drowning sailors. This is often referred to as the Good Samaritan Law in many jurisdictions

THE #USN let unarmed sailors drown after they sank their ship. #RCN exercises with USA ships. We should stop that, they aren't trustworthy

The Iranian warship that was sunk by a torpedo was returning from a joint exercise the #USA pulled out of on the last moment.

Per protocol joining ships were unarmed. Ships were unarmed
The murderers, #USN, knew they were unarmed, sank the ship and offered no help to the survivors.

#TrumpWar #Iran

LOL true Mastodon verification:

YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:

- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post

https://bsky.app/profile/sdekalb.bsky.social/post/3mg4f7i6rhs2q

None of these stressors can be "therapy-ed" or medicated away either. There is no mental health resource that currently exists that will alleviate these stressors.

Stress has a physical effect on the body. The housing crisis is a mental health crisis is a physical health crisis.

Lack of systemic protections for renters is making people unwell.

And the capitalist class has done this on purpose. To keep a significant portion of the labor pool exhausted and afraid so they can demand more and more.

This is not ok

@BigTittyBimbo we've already seen purposely restrictive platforms cause a dearth of technically competent folks. many kids who grew up using ipads & chromebooks in school don't understand file/folder structure, where to find things, how to use productivity software, and on and on.

i hear the same feedback from team leads a few times a month. and they're not "yell at cloud" or "blame everything on youth" people. the "only folks 25-50 years old know how to PDF" meme is disquietingly accurate.

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
• Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

(UPDATE: I think i've got this one answered, thank you everyone!)

People of mastodon!

Super weird question, but ...

... is anyone out there conversant in Assembly for a 1960s-era IBM 7090, or machines of that lineage?

I'm working on an article that includes some Assembly of that vintage ...

... and want to make sure I'm describing what it does correctly

if this describes you or someone you know ...

... hit me up, I'd love to tap your expertise!

clive@clivethompson.net is the fastest

B.C. to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time
March 8 will be the last time most British Columbians have to change their clocks, B.C. Premier David Eby announced Monday.
#time #daylightsaving #BritishColumbia #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657?cmp=rss

🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER. 🚨

Currently there are scammers who want you to click a link by acting like #Mastodon staff

Please REPORT these accounts so we can ban them across the #Fediverse

WE DO NOT VERIFY PEOPLE ON MASTODON :mastodon:

RT: @NicholasGuyatt Every journalist should be reporting the facts, as Jeremy Bowen just did on the BBC:
🚨 This is a war of choice, not a 'pre-emptive' war
🚨 It's against international law
🚨 Trump and Netanyahu don't care about that
🚨 It threatens the security of the world

We need to break out this quote again #Iran

Tony has this to say about the attempt to change regimes in Iran by waging violence and warfare. page 4/5