@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

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🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

AI risks to the Internet: More AI caution from a friend of mine, this one about the danger of automated AI attacks against poorly funded open source infrastructure
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html
#anthropic #glasswing #security #badtech #raffi #llm #ai #+
Opinion | After Mythos, the Future of the Internet Is At a Crossroads

In the race to patch up cybersecurity holes found by the newest A.I. models, we risk leaving too many people to fend for themselves.

The New York Times

Dear #KLM, why in the universe do you want me to scan my passport using my computer webcam a week before my flight? What kind of info do you need that is not already provided by my full name, date of birth, and passport number?

#BadTech

Botnets for AI: Residential PCs used to be used for DDOS attacks, now they're being hijacked and leased to AI companies to scrape websites
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/
#venturecapital #investment #badtech #botnet #aisuru #llm #ai #vc #-
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies – Krebs on Security

NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-
Telefoncek.si • How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by the Chinese company Sipeed. Released last year, it enables remote control of a computer or server using a virtu...

AI is not safe, especially for the emotionally and psychologically vulnerable. We need to not bury these news articles like we bury all news that harms Si valley bottom lines.

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/

#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #ai #BadTech

People Who Say They’re Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help

The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot.

WIRED
Cursed Knowledge: A set of hard-won tech lessons building an open source image hosting product
https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
#programming #javascript #software #badtech #tech #+
Cursed Knowledge | Immich

Cursed knowledge we have learned as a result of building Immich that we wish we never knew.

Immich — Self-hosted photo and video management solution. Easily back up, organize, and manage your photos on your own server. Immich helps you browse, search and organize your photos and videos with ease, without sacrificing your privacy.

This is why we need #tech literacy. This recipe site wants you to pay $2.99 USD to “print” the recipe.

To print. The recipe. That’s literally on the web page. For free.

Super+P and “Save as PDF.” You’re welcome.

Wut? Am I missing something?

#BadTech #LateStageCapitalism #StupidTech

Account disasters: Problems logging in to various sites. The author is an expert in the involved technologies, having spent many years helping write the Chrome browser
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/09/accounts.html
#passwords #badtech #chrome #login #+
Tech Notes: Account disasters

🔍🤦‍♂️ Ah, yes, the shocker of the decade: bad folks using bad tech to do bad things. Next up, water discovered to be wet. Meanwhile, the real fake CAPTCHA here is pretending this revelation is newsworthy. 🚫📰
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/ #badtech #badnews #cybersecurity #satire #technews #HackerNews #ngated
Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs – Krebs on Security