How’s them vibes?

(Almost like it’s good to know what you’re doing when you do something.)

Via @stefan (Web Weekly newsletter #155 – https://www.stefanjudis.com/blog/web-weekly-155/)

#vibeCoding #coding #tech #bullshit

When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...

The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.

It’d sure be a shame if everyone read this memoir that Facebook isn’t a fan of.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams/1147093187

Such a shame

https://read.macmillan.com/fib/careless-people/

Won’t someone think of the corporations??

https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/9781250391230.html

😔😔😔

"When you proclaim that anti-Zionism is antisemitism and then Zionism murders tens of thousands of children, you are naturally going to see a rise in “antisemitism” as you have defined it. That’s all this whole “antisemitism crisis” narrative has been from the very beginning.

Zionism is not a religion, it’s a fucking political ideology. It’s always legitimate to criticize a political ideology. Saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for Zionism is the same as saying it’s evil forbidden speech to express disdain for white nationalism. Zionism is the political ideology which supports the west’s decision to drop an apartheid ethnostate on top of a pre-existing population and maintain that apartheid ethnostate by any amount of violence and abuse necessary.

You can’t butcher children by the tens of thousands with the backing of the most powerful war machine on the planet in the name of supporting this political ideology and then legitimately cry victim when people have something to say about it. That’s not a thing."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-is-bombing-yemen-for-israel

#ProTip: if you have to use #Google (for $reasons 👀), add custom search engines to your web browser to avoid the #AIslop summaries at the top of the results page & / or to constrain to recent results only (to avoid irrelevant older info for technical queries, etc.)

Google doesn't let you disable "AI" (🙄) summaries unless you first log in to Google, so if you refuse to log in (or just don't have an account) then by default you're stuck with it 😫

but wait! there's a solution (for now, at least)

for no "AI" (🙄) slop summaries but all results from the beginning of time, use: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14

for no "AI" (🙄) slop summaries & only recent results, use: https://www.google.com/search?q=%s+after%3A2023-12-31&udm=14

&udm=14 is the magic param that gets you web results without the garbage "AI" (🙄) summaries up front 💁‍♀️

after:2023-12-31 gets you results from 2024 onwards only (tweak as required)

in desktop browsers you can assign a shortcut to use in the search bar - I use [@]g for all results & [@]gn for recent results but you do you 🙃

(the [ ] here are just to prevent tagging in someone on masto, remove when you add the shortcut 🤪)

the %s syntax for query string works in Edge & Chrome (so it should work in any Chromium-based browser) as well as Firefox

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.

I am afraid what they will do with that.

Called it. Wrote this back in Sept. 2024, about a clever Windows Powershell phishing scam that was targeting developers at the time. It uses a fake CAPTCHA that asks visitors to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware. Everyone said, bah, devs will never fall for this. Maybe, I said, but your average user would for sure.

Judging from the number of recent media reports, it appears this one is pretty widespread at the moment.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/this-windows-powershell-phish-has-scary-potential/