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Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026.

I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hell this is.

If I had a penny for every time I heard something like

"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"

1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?

Dear Co-Worker: Please stop asking Gemini to tell you how to do the thing, and just LOOK UP HOW TO DO THE THING. WITH A SEARCH ENGINE. You are not stupid, THE TOOL IS. If you look up instructions, they tell you how to do the thing correctly.

#OldManYellsAtCloud #AIIsNotASearchEngine #JustLookItUp #LessAIMoreBrainPlease

Like a community saying "nah, your tired old sexist, homophobic and racist jokes aren't welcome" is on the comedian to keep pace with society's changing tastes. But the government/state shutting you down & threatening you because they don't like you? That's limiting free speech.

You can advertise on Big Tech, but
Don't organize using Big Tech.

Don't use Big Tech services to support vulnerable populations, this is putting their safety at risk.

Use alternatives that respect your and their privacy. This is essential for safety.

#Privacy #BeTheResistance

@ppaluchowski64

As much as I like brave, I hate the stranglehold chromium has on the internet.. A browser with a different rendering engine is good. I still use Firefox a lot. Dont forget Privacy Badger add on from the @eff

I have been recommending mailbox.org for email for quite some time now. It is well worth what they charge and they have some cool privacy feature.

@hosford42 @Em0nM4stodon @pixelfed @peertube @signalapp @matrix @Tutanota @brave @StartpageSearch @bitwarden @GrapheneOS

@paul_ipv6 @nixCraft been using 1P for ... 15+ years? Since before there were family subscriptions, since before 1P for Teams, since before the service-based option or cloud storage for vaults ... still think they are the best option of what's available, for what they do, but *man* was this a bad look. *Really* inconsistent with their brand and entire value prop. It's confusing, *at best*.

(I like perplexity as a research assistant well enough but boy howdy do I not want any of that anywhere near my password manager, and it doesn't need a browser of any kind built in, let alone this kind. Y'all need to double down on simplicity as a differentiator, not adding flashy features just because.)

/cc @1password

Visited my friend's (CitroΓ«n) mechanic out in Yucca Valley on Saturday; his business is importing and repairing Range Rovers, but his collection is absolutely insane (1/2)
#weirdcarmastodon
Well yes, soylent green _is_ people, but you can't just apply existing homicide laws to a business like ours. The entire humans-as-nutritional-sludge industry would be out of business.

Just received an email with the usual boilerplate "if you received this email in error, please delete instantly, burn your mailbox to the ground, and notify the sender immediately" ... that was sent from a "noreply@" address.

Said it before, I'll say it again: noreply@ addresses need to go away. Permanently.

#SayNoToNoreplyEmails