Mastodawn

it’s been 0 days since I’ve been asked to accept the LGPL… and the first time the author got so emotional after I declined it for shits and giggles

Douglas 2d ago

evacide 5d ago

In other news, sometimes shame works: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-removes-face-recognition-code-meta-ai-app-smart-glasses/

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

WIRED

Douglas Jun 6

Mel Jun 4

The enemy in feminism is the patriarchy and toxic masculinity.

Not men.

Read that again.

Men also suffer under patriarchy and plenty of women reinforce toxic masculinity in men.

Hating men is not in fact part of feminism.

Douglas Jun 4

The Calyx Institute Jun 4

Android 16 introduced a bug that allows a malicious app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel, including with “Always-On VPN” + “Block connections without VPN” turned on. At the time of publishing, this affects all VPN apps. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/5/12/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic #mobilesecurity

Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

A recently discovered bug in Android 16 allows any app to leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel.

Mullvad VPN

Douglas Jun 2

Lou Cyx Jun 2

Google 2004: “Don’t be evil”.
Google 2015: “Do the right thing”
Google 2026: Evilmaxing.

Douglas Jun 2

evacide Jun 2

Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder.

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/starbucks-quietly-retired-ai-agent-192259096.html

Starbucks quietly retired its AI agent just months after deployment after it miscounted coffee shop inventories and slowed down baristas

“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” one Starbucks employee told Fortune.

Yahoo Finance

Douglas Jun 1

Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅May 29

https://github.com/robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet/issues/967

There needs to be a law that makes root based attestation, play integrity, and unified attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/other vendors - illegal. There is only one use for this technology right now, and it is to prevent people from doing what they want to do with the devices they own, while also making interoperability cryptographically impossible. This is anti-competitive and should simply be illegal.

[BUG] Login no more possible, Android App still works · Issue #967 · robinostlund/homeassistant-volkswagencarnet

Before you post a new issue - you must first check the following (and check the boxes with an "X" below) [x ] 1.) Can you login using the smartphone app Volkswagen/Volkswagen Connect and interact w...

GitHub

Douglas Jun 1

revolutionary girl erin May 31

There is no ethical use of Generative AI. Some are forced to use it for work, and I would never tell someone to risk their housing or food security to avoid it. Beyond that I find it simply inexcusable.

Douglas May 31

levelbot May 30

punk rock levels are 45% and steady

(45%) ■■■■□□□□□□

Douglas May 31

Mike Sheward May 30

that's how i've always done it, Microsoft