@marekfort I hope that the kids will obey and refuse to use corporate products, contributing to free software instead.

Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Hahaha das ist ja perfekt
https://bahn.bet/

No, Your Honor, all of the torrented Blu-ray rips on my Plex server were being used to train AI.

2022: We need to figure out a way to stop AI from wanting to kill humans
2026: We want AI to kill humans

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

a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116160637051672728

the question you should be asking yourself is not “what's the best way to verify the age of every single computer user on earth”

but rather “why the fuck are we trying to verify the age of every single computer user on earth????”

and the answer to that is: fascism
stop. complying.

Getting sucked inside the jumanji game for 30 years doesn’t sound so bad at this point

2 de març, 2026.

Anybody want to hire a fullstack js/ts dev with decades of experience and no "ai" taint? I do it all, I look good doing it, I'm cheap as hell, and I don't use rented coding tools so you can own all the code I write for you.

Remote from Canada, Eastern time zone.

#GetFediHired

@autonomysolidarity

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

> Our agreement with the Department of War

This is just beyond any dystopian artwork.

#OpenAI is now officially data supplier for the Pentagon and is very proud of it!

Your Data flows directly to the U.S. Department of War! #ChatGPT

--> Delete your Account!

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-of-war/

#US #Surveillance #KI #AI #Technology #Tech #War #Data #Privacy

@autonomysolidarity Can’t delete something that didn’t exist in the first place. The shared article is absolutely insane, though.

Engineers are also understanding the contents of their codebases less, leading to "cognitive debt".

https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

"Technical debt" is where technical issues and mistakes pile up without being fixed. This is happening too, but "cognitive debt" is where more of your codebase has been produced without you knowing or understanding how it works, leading engineers often to become helpless in terms of being stewards of their own codebases.

And it's not just happening to software engineering. Workers everywhere are suffering from cognitive debt as AI rolls out across their workforces.

AI made writing code easier. It also made being an engineer harder. https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/ai-made-writing-code-easier-engineering-harder/

Early CodeGen enthusiasts talked about "I can accomplish code while walking my dog / taking my kid to the park". Shock and surprise, capitalism doesn't work that way.

Engineers are working longer hours, doing less fulfilling work, are expected to ship faster, often after their org experiences major layoffs, and the quality of output is lower.

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