I'm pretty sure if Dante could have seen the future he would have added a circle for "influencers"

Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Pixels to slow you down if you move too fast at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

"The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.

building a little log analyser thing and testing it out on my site and blog

holy shit people are not joking about the AI bots. 92.2% of my total site traffic is from eight user agents directly affiliated with AI. another 6.1% is from SEO related companies that have some sort of AI offering.

only 0.3% of my traffic comes from a regular browser. most of the remaining 1.4% is fedi servers pulling previews, plus some RSS readers grabbing posts.

When Brad and I first got together, we couldn’t have imagined that one day we’d be able to celebrate Pride Month so openly, let alone post about it on the internet. But here we are, joy and all. Happy Pride, everyone! Let’s keep showing up, speaking out, and marching forward (glitter optional, but encouraged). 🌈✨

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/headline-to-come/

> both Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica are performing a “weird protocol misuse” to gain unvetted access that Android provides to localhost ports on the 127.0.0.1 IP address.

🎵Burn it to the ground🎵

Meta and Yandex for this creepy, likely illegal privacy violation, and Android’s Chrome for letting browser tabs talk to each other through localhost networking without requesting access.

@petrillic if the shoe fits... 😛

@pluralistic

I hate leafblowers

@devopscats @mike @mherbert similarly, some clones of Hayes modems didn't require the 1 second delay between ATTENTION and the AT command, so you could ping their PPP IP address with the payload '+++ATH0\n' and when their IP stack sent the echo reply their modem would dutifully hang up. 🤣

Son of SAML

We need a throwback synthpop / avant-garde festival. Something like:

Ladytron
Gary Numan
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Ionna Lee / iamamiwhoami
Clan of Xymox
Dead Can Dance
Miki Berenyi

... who's in? 😛

@cR0w Seems like it'd be just as appropriate from the gastroenterology department. 😜

I'm reluctant to dignify LLMs with a term like "prompt injection" because that implies it's the unusual case

prompt injection is a thing that's just gonna happen with LLMs as they stand

the security model is fundamentally stupid

1. build a great big pile of all the good and bad information in the world
2. feed it to a nondeterministic stochastic parrot
3. put a filter on the output of the parrot and block the bad stuff
4. wtf did you expect to happen, you're doing security by regex on an input you can vary freely

#CookieLaw #DataProtection

@rk tell you what, man.

If you don't hear from me for some time just know this is why

#Meme #Nature #Wizard

Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Do Androids Replace The Batteries In Electric Sheep?

Electric Sheep Need A Firmware Update

Electric Sheep Discontinued By Manufacturer. Click Here To Install OpenSheep.

@spacerog Also, "Motorola FLEX" is just POCSAG with thousand island dressing on top.

Idiocracy (2006) was an optimistic view of our future.