RE: https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/116255862979155448

JFCONAPOGOSTICK

if am in nyc, why would i have to comply with a stupid California law? I DON’T. there is a reason CA lawyers cannot practice in NY state. there is no correspondence with their state bars.

so how is systemd even going to work this out? am i going to be geolocated? this doesn't make sense at all from a legislative POV ―unless you are being palm-greased by Gates/Zuckerberg dark money, out to kill FLOSS & democracy.

FLOSS devs need a National Lawyers Guild corps of tech lawyers.

Malicious Chrome extension brings its own JS interpreter to bypass Chrome's MV3 limitations

https://www.okta.com/blog/threat-intelligence/disrupting-shieldguard--a-security-extension-primed-to-drain-cry/

FBI director Kash Patel confirms the FBI is buying location data and histories that can be used for tracking people. It's the first time in recent years that the FBI has said it's actively buying this information, without needing a warrant.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-track-people-patel-00834080

It had to happen, eventually. My AI crawler antagoniser, https://www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/spigot/ has been seeing sustained traffic of between 300 and 500 thousand hits per hour. I've not been particularly bothered by that, but a couple of days ago, my provider, @bitfolk, sent me a bandwidth warning: I'm on track to hit 2TBytes of outbound bandwidth this month and end up paying for the excess.

So I've added firewalling - if more than 5% of machines in a /23 network hit spigot within an hour, then the entire network gets a temporary block until it completely stops hitting my server. Hopefully that will cut things back enough to avoid charges.

The thing that amazes me is that the list has already accumulated nearly 10,000 entries. Put another way, I'm already blocking 0.12% of the whole IPV4 address space because it's being used for web crawling.

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.

The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.

https://www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-lawyers-asks-chatgpt-how-to-void-250-million-contract-loses-terribly-in-court/