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Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you
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Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.

Ars Technica

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

GitHub - actions/setup-java at releases/v4

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java - actions/setup-java

GitHub

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods"

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

If you need Java 8 on an Apple Silicon Mac (arm64), I would suggest installing zulu@8 with Homebrew, as openjdk@8 and temurin@8 are only built for x86_64.
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: 'If we don't feed the advertisers, then we'll be forced to pay artists for their creative work'

The Register
Decision tree how to build Linux software from source:
1) If there there is a `Makefile`, run `make`;
2) else if there is a file `configure`, run it via `./configure` and go to 1)
3) else if there is a file `autogen.sh`, run it via `./autogen.sh` and go to 1)
• else if there is a file `CMakeLists.txt`, google it (I can't remember)
• else pray
I'd like to have a gobal setting "never give me a f*cking AI translation from English" cc @reddit

RE: https://mastodon.social/@amutable/115967747219090945

Today, we announce Amutable, our ✨ new ✨ company. We – @blixtra, @brauner, @davidstrauss, @rodrigo_rata, @michaelvogt, @pothos, @zbyszek, @daandemeyer, @cyphar, @jrocha and yours truly – are building the 🚀 next generation of Linux systems, with integrity, determinism, and verification – every step of the way.

https://amutable.com/blog/introducing-amutable

#amutable #linux #systemd #⊼mutable #integrity

IMO accessibility should also include using services without being force to accept Apple's and/or Google's app store conditions, e. g. by offering a web version for all services, not only an app