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This bus contains:
- me
- my 3 new best friends
- 37 people who want to murder me
- and a gray-and-white cat who doesn't want to be in her carrier and doesn't mind letting everyone know about it at the top of her voice
This French kitty lives beside the Escalier Mermet in Lyon, France.
Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.
Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.
My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!
Ugh. As a heavy Pocket user, this is bad news.
The 'export’ function gives you a CSV with titles, URLs & tags, so the text of saved articles is lost (which means some older articles that can't be refetched may be lost forever). Pocket itself seems half-broken right now.
So … https://raindrop.io/, or a self-hosted https://linkding.link/ instance? Raindrop looks like less work, but the death of Pocket (like del.icio.us) is a reminder not to trust 3rd parties.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114553016987826328
@flq@freiburg.social - in the shorter term, red dwarf stars considerably smaller than our sun keep going for 100 trillion years and have earth-like planets which we might maneuver into the habitable zone. Right now many have annoying flares, but as they age they probably settle down. I've advertised them here: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/02/14/earth-like-planets-near-red-dwarfs/ White dwarfs last longer, though!
For a long time, you could assume any email address you used to correspond with Windows users would eventually get spam, because info-stealing malware was so ubiquitous on Windows boxes.
Recall takes the threat to the next level. ANY information you exchange with someone on a Recall-enabled PC is potentially accessible, if not to spammers & scammers, certainly to law enforcement.
Info-stealing is now an OS-level feature. Who exactly asked for this?
https://mamot.fr/@Khrys/114550070711703037
“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/signal-resorts-to-weird-trick-to-block-windows-recall-in-desktop-app/ Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat by Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store almost everything a user does every three seconds.
“Hi. We've increased the price of Thing You Want so that we can pay for the huge cost of adding Thing No One Wants because our MBAs tell us it's Thing We Must Have and all our competitors offer This Thing even though it doesn't seem to be good for anything.
P.S. Part of the 16.7% price rise will also go to covering the costs of a series of ad campaigns made with Thing You Don't Want aimed at persuading you that you actually want it, even though no one does.”
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114541175151204075
Fuck it. The ARM Cuauhtémoc, a tall ship used as a sail trainer by the Mexican navy, just collided with the Brooklyn Bridge. I've always liked that ship, and the video of it striking the bridge is horrifying. Apparently there are critical injuries among the crew -- it looks like the yards were manned when she hit — as well as substantial damage to the ship.
Gabe Schuyler
spamnation