Mastodawn

Microsoft in 2022: All your old computers are too unsecure to run our new flagship windows OS.

Microsoft in 2026: Vibecoded kernel & cybersecurity, YOLO!

Geclassificeerd onder slechte logica:
"Ik ben sigaretten gaan roken om te kunnen stoppen met vapen. De drempel voor een sigaret ligt namelijk hoger, omdat je het niet altijd kan doen." Toch hielp de tactiek niet; ze doet nu beide.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/03/17/studenten-alcohol-en-druggebruik/

"Indrinken draait om gezelligheid, niet om alcohol": Leuvense studenten relativeren risicovolle drinkpatronen uit VAD-onderzoek | VRT NWS Nieuws

"Samen indrinken is het belangrijkste deel van de avond, maar niet omdat er veel alcohol is, wel omdat je gezellig kan samenzijn." Dat zeggen Leuvense studenten in een reactie op nieuwe cijfers van het VAD, waaruit blijkt dat risicovol drinken weer in de lift zit. Voor de studenten draait het echter vooral om de sfeer, en minder om de drank. Wat hen wél zorgen baart: de opmars van de vape, die ze als verslavender en schadelijker ervaren dan de klassieke sigaret.

VRT NWS

The Seven Voyages Of Steve 6d ago

I saw a young person ask ChatGPT how long their flight was today when they were literally holding the boarding pass with that information on it in the same hand that had the phone in it. ChatGPT spat out about 4 paragraphs on the subject when the answer was “40 minutes”. What a time to be alive

Edit: this blew up so I’m muting it now to save my notifications. No, I didn’t make it up for clicks, I’d have preferred fewer. Just a little anecdote from a tiring day that I’m trying to relax from now

Desikner 6d ago

Randahl Fink Mar 16

The man who did not care about the war in Ukraine because this was Europe's war, now wants Europe to join the war he started with Iran, while he is lifting sanctions on Russia, so Putin can scale up the Ukraine war.

Trump is not playing chess. He is just eating the pieces.

Desikner Mar 12

𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬 Mar 11

In 2015 I was on a beach in Hawai'i helping build the prototype of what became Signal. I argued that the app needed pseudonyms because abusers know their victims' phone numbers. I lost the fight that day. History proved me right, and Signal would move to usernames under @Mer__edith's stewardship.

In this new essay, I trace the line from Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace through smart-home forensics, metadata killings, and Archive Team's non-consensual Tumblr scrape to ask: when did we decide that a jpeg is a photograph, that a profile is a person, that storage is memory?

The answer involves a boat off Honolulu, the early days of Signal, Iran's missiles over Amazon's Dubai AWS facilities, and the communities already building for a world where the server goes dark. This is an essay about infrastructure, memory, archiving without consent, and what we lose when we mistake the filesystem for memory.

It is also the angriest and most personal text I've ever written. I'm furious, and you should be too. We bet an entire civilisation on a brutal and unreliable stack. Now, fate has come to collect that wager.

California has a lot to fucking answer for.

https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/who-will-remember-us-when-the-servers-go-dark/