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Boston-area meat construct ␥ I just do what the plants tell me ␥ I'd rather be undermining the client-server paradigm

This is the more tech-y alt of https://cybersecurity.theater/@varx

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that cavern thing I'm always nattering abouthttps://codeberg.org/cavern/docs

#Gandi just sent me an email notifying me that they've disabled my security keys and switched me over to email #MFA.

But don't worry, I can just re-add them!

I have... several concerns.

Well, *we* suggest shoving carrots up your nose.

#Discord #passkeys

When I turned on `privacy.resistFingerprinting` in #Firefox, I didn't expect it to work *this* well!
Big improvement to my phone's map "app": A button to allow using numpad as directional keys by typing in a hidden text field. (No more mousing around!)

I noticed something upsetting(?) in my search results yesterday. Search engine listings for a Wiktionary article had some weird text sort-of-summarizing the page. This text is *not* present in the page itself.

Is this from an LLM? If so, which party is generating the summary?

I don't *think* it's DDG, or Wiktionary. (More in thread.)

Signal *really* doesn't like having desktop users, do they?

Apparently the only way to get this working without a smartphone is to install their desktop app (which *does* exist—this screenshot is from before I enabled JS) but then also install a third-party tool called "signal-cli" that uses a hacked-up version of Signal to provide functionality like creating an account based on an SMS or voice call.

It's kind of appalling. There's no reason the desktop app couldn't have this functionality. Why are Signal forcing people to use a third-party utility? It's very weird in juxtaposition to their tight central control of Signal in other ways.

#signal #desktop

Absolutely wild to see the degree to which AI slop-brain has taken root in some places.

A team at Microsoft rejected a documentation PR because LLMs might have trouble reading tables.

https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/pull/2021#issuecomment-2546627586

WSL/wsl-config.md: rewrite lead for clarity by multiplealiases · Pull Request #2021 · MicrosoftDocs/WSL

This is a rewrite of the lead section, as I feel the previous one was overly long-winded, yet did not meaningfully summarize the most important points of the article in a way that enables readers t...

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Finally got my status bar clock set up the way I want it again.

(And when you hover each one, it shows you the time zone in effect, i.e. UTC or EDT.)

Whoa, cool that Mastodon now will announce to you when there's a local fediblock that affects you, and *how* it affects you!
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