Hundreds of thousands of internet strangers is different from lived experience.

I take the author’s opinion more seriously because they went out and tried it for themselves.

At the moment the only fix is likely a reimage, unless you can get to the registry to make some edits or deploy a Powershell script to delay the launch of Explorer.exe until the system is ready for it.

How has Satya Nadella not been fired for this dumpster fire of a rollout?

Guys, I don’t think we should use this for work.

It’s not safe.

December 2, 2025 02:52 PM

It looks up to me right now.

If you VPN into the UK or Australia, you’ll run into the same restrictions.

As more countries pass this kind of legislation, VPNs become less and less of a solution, and they were only ever a solution for people who can afford them.

TL;Dr: Browser extensions are malware sleeper agents.

The systemic problem isn’t just one malicious actor. It’s that the security model incentivizes this behavior:

1. Build something legitimate
2. Pass review and gain trust signals (installs, reviews, verified badges)
3. Collect large user base
4. Weaponize via update
5. Profit before detection

ShadyPanda proved this works. And now every sophisticated threat actor knows the playbook.

The app is mainly designed to help users block and track lost or stolen smartphones across all telecom networks, using a central registry. It also lets them identify, and disconnect, fraudulent mobile connections.

With more than 5 million downloads since its launch, the app has helped block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones, while more than 30 million fraudulent connections have also been terminated.

The government says it helps prevent cyber threats and assists tracking and blocking of lost or stolen phones, helping police to trace devices, while keeping counterfeits out of the black market.

There has to be a way to do all of this without installing something on your phone that you didn’t ask for.

Something weird about corporations spending billions on “the Comic Sans of technology”

The link just brings me to the front page of a web app. Is there a direct link to the original article ?

Schrödinger’s Surety

I saw the furry art and that’s how I knew they were a pro*.

“No Way To Prevent This” Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens*

Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.

Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”

Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.

The memo did not provide any further details about the individual or their alleged past calls for violence and offered no specifics or evidence to explain why the FBI characterized them as “anarchist violent extremists”. The courtwatch efforts have been non-violent, and the FBI did not respond to an inquiry seeking specific examples of violence and did not answer questions about whether law enforcement had ongoing access to the private group.

While the analysis suggests ChatGPT — one of the most widely used text-based forms of generative AI — is rapidly changing the mix of occupations on offer to tech workers, it is not shifting the composition of jobs throughout the entire US economy at a much swifter pace than the arrival of computers and the internet.

The wording vs the actual graphs is suspicious.

Is it

“AI is not killing jobs”

or

“AI is not killing jobs much faster than [things that have definitely killed jobs]”

You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.

“Feature”

If someone was going to accept a $500 pastry, I’d put my money on the gay guy.

(It’s me.)

It was a Reddit comment in response to this video (Catbox alt).

In a different time, it was popular to think that capitalism would be better if minorities were winning at it.

A few girlbosses and Diddys later, I’d like to think we know better.

Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.

We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn’t insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.

That’s important, too.

I think people are seeing only the negatives in this merely because of the association with Altman’s name and ignoring the potential benefits out of cynicism.

I don’t know about what other people see, but I see negatives because it’s associated with a billionaire.

If Taylor Swift put her name on it, my opinion would not change.

Billionaires don’t build, they finance machines that extract value from human beings.

Actual scientists have been working on using CRISPR to fight hereditary disease in the US and around the world.

This money should have gone to them instead of into yet another billionaire’s pet designer baby startup.