John Colagioia

@jcolag
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Hi, I'm John, and I work on things. I pre-schedule daily posts, but generally check in regularly to reply to people and occasionally post something else.
Personal Websitehttps://john.colagioia.net
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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. We know what these things are today; the iron teeth are our necessities, the thumbscrews are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the fire-trap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch on fire.

Rose Schneiderman

#Quotes #AAPIHeritage

The Atlantic’s Hasan Piker meltdown perfectly distills elite media’s warped priorities https://therealnews.com/the-atlantics-hasan-piker-meltdown-perfectly-distills-elite-medias-warped-priorities @therealnews

Clearly, property—and the preservation of Western norms around the sanctity of property—is an ideological line worth defending more so than the mechanized elimination of medical workers, children, doctors, and journalists in Gaza. The former impacts them and their wealthy readers.

#Media

🔥 While the FBI is raiding her office today, don’t forget who Louise Lucas actually is.

She grew up in Portsmouth during Jim Crow. Attended public schools that were shut down under Massive Resistance rather than let Black children be educated alongside white ones. She didn’t just survive that — she walked through it and kept going.

She became the first woman shipfitter at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

You can now search the Epstein data that has been released for image matches or near matches. You can search for photos that have the same face. And much more. Here is a ‘how to’ article by the PhD data scientist that wrote the software.

No paywall.
https://rhowardstone.substack.com/p/reverse-image-search-for-the-epstein
#Epstein #EpsteinClass

“the browser moves the passwords into memory in cleartext as soon as it opens, despite requiring authentication to view passwords. Edge exhibits this behavior with all passwords, even those that are never used during a session.”

“Furthermore, passwords remain visible in RAM if a user logs into another account on the same device without closing Edge.”

#Microsoft https://www.techspot.com/news/112310-microsoft-edge-stores-all-saved-passwords-unencrypted-memory.html

Microsoft Edge stores all your saved passwords unencrypted in memory

Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning recently shared evidence that Microsoft's web browser-based password manager stores all of its saved passwords in memory without encryption while running....

TechSpot
Many of you asked that I react to Richard Dawkins announcing that he fell for a chatbot. Instead of just pointing and laughing (my initial reaction obv) I dug into the “why” of it all: his obfuscations, insecurities, and utter sadness https://skepchick.org/2026/05/richard-dawkins-claude-delusion/

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116528596376127279

i remember when i was offered a beta of Chrome and the first thing that came to my mind was: if they control my searches and email, how are they not going to control how i experience the internet with a browser?

tried it for a few weeks and just deleted it.

when i said, around that time there was not going to be a free and open internet by 2025, i wasn’t wishing for it. i was warning that fanboying and blindly giving that much power to a handful of tech companies was going to be our ruin.

I recognize that this is not a *new* idea, but it occurred to me that if Google wanted to start pushing “51st State" propaganda (or any other disgusting ideas) to a whole generation of children in #Canada , we don't really have a viable alternative to Google Classroom and Chromebooks.

This is why I think data/technology sovereignty is so important, but from what I can tell it's not even a question for our schools/education ministries… seems like a very long uphill battle. 😴

Open Infrastructure Is Not Free. Part II is here.

10 trillion open source package downloads in 2026. More than 1 billion per hour. Still running on donations and volunteers.

AI is accelerating consumption and attacks. Registry leaders have formed the Sustaining Package Registries WG to change that.

Read Part II: https://openssf.org/blog/2026/05/06/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-part-ii-the-hidden-cost-of-running-package-registries/

#PreserveOpenSource #FreeSoftwareIsntFree