Mastodawn

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

🐘🕊Dec 2

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James Brown Dec 2

Here's the build video for the new volumetric display! Lots of swivelcam footage of it doing its thing.

https://youtu.be/wrfBjRp61iY

Solid State Volumetric Display

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🐘🕊Oct 19

Terence Eden Oct 19

🆕 blog! “Improving PixelMelt's Kindle Web Deobfuscator”

A few days ago, someone called PixelMelt published a way for Amazon's customers to download their purchased books without DRM. Well… sort of.

In their post "How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked" they describe the process of spoofing a web browser, downloading a b…

🐘🕊Feb 18, 2025

IntentToShip Feb 14, 2025

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🐘🕊Jan 9, 2025

jwz Jan 1, 2025

Comrade Workwear's "Most Wanted CEO" playing cards about to become extremely popular after deplatforming: Comrade Workwear has launched a card game in which "each card shines a spotlight on a different titan of greed, complete with a QR code linking to...
https://jwz.org/b/ykfY

🐘🕊Jan 9, 2025

Grant Brookes Jan 8, 2025

https://theshovel.com.au/2020/05/28/mark-zuckerberg-dead-at-36-says-social-media-fact-check/

Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts — The Shovel

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg – who died of a drug overdose in his Californian home today – says it is not Facebook’s role to be the arbiter of truth for everything people post online.

The Shovel

🐘🕊Dec 30, 2024

Jeff Johnson Dec 28, 2024

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

🐘🕊Nov 14, 2024

Jan Miksovsky Nov 12, 2024

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with #amnesia https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard.html

#eink #eldercare #diy

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

Today marks two years since I first set up an e-ink display in my mom’s apartment to help her live on her own with amnesia.

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🐘🕊Sep 7, 2024

@whitequark It's probably possible to have a sustainable open-source personal defense drone startup.

A potentially ethical profit source could be to build out a drone charging network across city rooftops and lease access to drone operators.

🐘🕊Aug 22, 2024

Matthew Garrett Aug 22, 2024

What the fuck is SBAT, why did it break your dual-boot setup, it's not strictly my fault but if you need a scapegoat whatever: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/70348.html

Run as admin	https://dangerous.link/virus.exe
GitHub	https://github.com/eligrey
Twitter	https://twitter.com/sephr
Bluesky	https://bsky.app/profile/eligrey.com

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Mark Zuckerberg – Dead At 36 – Says Social Media Sites Should Not Fact Check Posts — The Shovel

Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

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