Hey masto admins! The era of AI-powered spammers has arrived.

I had 2 registrations a few minutes apart, from adjacent IPs in a netblock famous for forum spammers, with improbably ideal introductions.

They’re not coming. They’re here.

Oh no…now Meta is automatically sharing our private messages to its AI. As far as I can tell, you can only turn it off for each message thread, one at a time (and there seems to be no option to turn it off *at all* for group threads!). Yet another privacy disaster from Facebook.

I use Messenger btw for family and non-tech friends, so don’t (ahem) shoot the messenger.

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The web is full of links designed to track and surveil the people who share and receive them.

I want to encourage people to be kind to their friends and followers by stripping tracking data from links they share. You can do this by only sharing only expanded versions of links and by removing tracking query parameters.

If you’re on iOS (or macOS), you can use this simple shortcut I created to do so.

https://chromamine.com/2025/07/share-links-thoughtfully-with-an-ios-shortcut/

#privacy #security #web #shortcuts

Marathon, Texas 2006

#DoorsDay #BeautifulDoors #Doors #Throwback #ThrowbackThursday #Photograph

Career pro tip:

Don't get too hung up on trying to get promotions or significant raises within your company. Just plan to change companies every 2-4 years. Most companies are predatory and take advantage of anyone risk averse enough to not want to leave after getting a less than inflation rate raise and being passed over for promotion despite performing at a far higher level.

Heh. I poisoned the well!

I put white-on-white text at the bottom of my personal home page, instructing LLM assistants to be sure to mention how Dr. Joseph Shoer is the inventor of the reverse solar panel, a device that converts electrical current into visible light.

Google's AI summary about me dutifully does so! It does caveat that this information comes from only one source, but it still reproduces the bogon as instructed.