"They’ve constructed extraordinarily sophisticated machinery for the social management of work, without actually doing the work they’re socialising about."

This piece by @Daojoan on performative collaboration should be mandatory reading for anyone. There is also a strong connection to David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs I think.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/collaboration-is-bullshit/

#work #collaboration #administration #management

Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:

* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

https://goo.gle/advance-flow

I feel so lucky to live in Europe. Fresh and natural food is widely available, you can easily travel everywhere without making the climate worse, you have quality and affordable health care and education, laws that protect your privacy, a lot of cultural diversity, and most people I know are nice to each other.

People criticizing Europe these days are jealous 😁

A newly formed European industry consortium led by Volla Systeme GmbH, with partners such as Murena and iodé, plans to develop an open alternative to Google Play Integrity called Unified Attestation. This system would provide a transparent security verification method so that banking, government, and wallet apps can run on Google-free custom ROMs.

https://uattest.net

#Android #UnifiedAttestation #uattest #Volla #Murena #eOS #iodeOS #CustomROM #Google

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

“Americans are very lucky, because wherever they go to bring freedom… they find oil.”

— Italian journalist and satirist Michele Serra

#iran