2025.

Search on the internet is dead.

The web is almost completely useless.

All corporately owned social media should be jettisoned immediately. Yes, even that new one that feels like the old one.

We all saw it coming. It's here. Start over.

This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google.

And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation.

I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).

https://freeourfeeds.com

#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit

Dear Autocorrect,

My name is Alice, not Alive or Slice.

Thanks in advance,
Slice

If billionaires are upset with bias in Wikipedia, why don't they just spend a billion dollars or so and commission their own encyclopedia?

If they're interested in the marketplace of ideas, then they should get into the market.

Thinking of starting a pixelfed instance that only allows photos of Pixel being fed.

#cats #catsofmastodon

Wait, what?

"planet-warming pollution".

#LAFires
#ClimateCatastrophe

Having a second massively centralized copy of the big index, that costs tens of millions of dollars to run, is not decentralization.

Duh.

It can't be decentralized because it costs millions of dollars to run a node.

https://freeourfeeds.com/

#freeOurFeeds #bluesky #decentralization

Apple's "Siri: Learn From This App" feature is enabled by default for every app on your device.

Siri is analyzing your interactions with apps, including banking, email, and messaging apps, unless you manually opt out one app at a time.

To turn it off:

1. Go to Settings.
2. Open Apps.
3. Select an app, then go to Siri settings.
4. Disable "Learn From This App".

There's NO global toggle.

#Apple #Siri #privacy

Big fish

Visitor viewing fishes in the aquarium at Montréal Biodôme.

Fujfilm X-T3, 18-55
20240725_DSCF8687

#montreal #fujifilm #fujifilmxt3

6 new CVEs in "rsync".

"In the most severe CVE, an attacker only requires anonymous read access to a rsync server, such as a public mirror, to execute arbitrary code on the machine the server is running on."

That would be CVE-2024-12084 (9.8) AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H, a heap-based buffer overflow in rsyncd.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/01/14/3