It's worth thinking of app stores in general - and Google's upcoming Android mandatory developer registry process - as threats to national sovereignty as well as individual software freedoms.

If the orange madman can mandate on a whim that ICC judges be digitally unpersoned from American-controlled systems, people should be thinking really, really carefully about whether or not the same thing can happen to, say, their electrical grid.

https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/116194021058394545

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@attackanddefense/116115800055258835

Watch this documentary and hear me say that I am not nervous at all and just a tiny bit excited while speaking really fast and gesturing like a mad man. This was awesome!

I’ve been on a few mushroom forays recently. The advice is clear: if you’re in California (especially north and central coast) do not put any wild mushrooms in your mouth especially this year

We have many lookalikes that look ‘safe’. More than 40 people have been poisoned, 3-4 dead, since Nov. many of them immigrants who are misled by some of our deathly mushrooms looking exactly the same as the ones they know

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-08/california-mushroom-poisonings-are-on-rise-heres-whats-being-done-to-curb-exposure

#Mushrooms #California

The Joy of Coding returns today with Episode 427! Come join me while I #livehack on #Firefox !

Today, I'm going to break down a very subtle crasher bug that I was investigating last week. Spoiler alert: it was cache invalidation.

After that, if there's time, I might review some patches!

Starts at 1PM ET:

https://mikeconley.ca/joc/

As always these days, I'm the only person 😷'd on my flight.

The air is awful on this equipment: 1925 ppm of CO₂ at my seat.

Person next to me has a productive cough …😮‍💨… (can tell by sound), yet she isn't masked. 🙄

Welp, whatever 🦠 she's spewing on this row, I guess I'm bringing it to #FOSDEM.😔

As a reminder for those coming to @fosdem … please mask! It's not life-or-death anymore for most, but I lost a month of work (& missed my OWN keynote) last year when I got #COVID at FODSEM.

As Wikipedia turns 25, @404mediaco talked to the Wikimedia Foundation's Chief Product and Technology Officer Selena Deckelmann. Listen to Emanuel Maiberg's conversation with her here.

https://flip.it/2iq_c9

#Wikipedia #Wikimedia #Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…

Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.

“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”

Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.

Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.

CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.

The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.

What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.

You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.

Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt