Paywalling the API and therefore killing 3rd party apps killed reddit… banning anyone with an opinion killed reddit…

ITT: People who don’t realize the advanced nature of fingerprinting that makes VPNs nearly useless in an authoritarian environment

https://www.browserleaks.com/

and meanwhile, the american supreme court is ruling on terminating online access due to piracy today. I wonder what they’ll rule…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/12/01/daily-briefing-music-piracy-supreme-court-stockton-shooting-world-aids-day/87505607007/

Hold your forearm out so I can compare it to this color palette. We’ll go from there. /s

took all of 5 minutes to convert plex-on-pi to jellyfin-on-pi. Probably harder to rename the host than install… fstab’s already set up and errything

sooner than later, “agentic AI” will replace the “employee cost burden”. I presume they’ll charge per AI agent and produce revenue at scale.

everything you see in politics nowadays is a race against the clock to create infrastructure to “deal with” the unwashed, unemployed, hungry masses. UBI is not going to win out over soylent green.

Here’s the first admission I’ve found of what’s on the way: https://fortune.com/2025/11/20/gen-z-college-grad-unemployment-could-hit-25-percent-warns-us-senator-unprecedented-disruption-ai/

Can’t wait for the “FOSS enables the bad guys to download 2 marijuanas” headlines from MSM.

The age of accelerated enshitification is upon us (has been for a minute)

They really didn’t think the unwashed masses would figure it out in time. Ego is a hell of a drug.

Bold to assume your registry won’t restore last known ‘good’ config. Linux mint with quickemu is a great way to use Windows if you have to.

windows 11 big button status confirmed.

I usually just look to see if they have a cord coming out of their guitar

gamblers duck in and out over the course of hours and days with leverage

it’s like gaydar, but for eye contact (or lack thereof)

hot take: end users will be more likely to adopt security keys (or device attested passkey which = security key). Physical security, out-of-bounds cryptography to defeat AitM attacks (fake landing pages where six digit codes are stolen and silently used in perpetuity by the bad actor)

source: my job is to try to get end users to put strong MFA on all the things.

I spend way too much time living with this obvious truth-to-come’s future impact on my children. The AI bubble will pop and bring the market down with it, and there will be a net to catch everyone just like the ones that prevent suicides at the FOXCONN factories. I truly hope my children never taste (or become) soylent green but literally everything is on the table after seeing how greedy and cowardly nearly every human is when push comes to shove over the last 5 years.

The dehumanization frog is being boiled right in front of us, and its way less sophisticated than I ever thought it would be. project2025.observer does a great job at tracking the totality of the christofascist endgame IMO. Dehumanization being normalized will allow them to move on to political opponents heading into midterms.

As someone who consults in the IT Security space, It’s bad out there. Contractors and BYOD companies are downright sheepish in asking their outsourced employees to do anything security-related to their devices. The biggest attack vector is allowed unfettered remote access (and therefore the whole company and any bad actors are also granted unfettered remote access)

I still can’t get over how quickly companies-at-large have abandoned VPN Servers (removing network trust from the list of options as well)

I’m down to managed browsers via IdP, and I just can’t wait for the objections to that as well. People out here offering their faces to leopards. Certificate-based MFA on all the things IMO - passwords shouldnt matter (but six digit MFA codes aren’t immune to fake landing pages and siphoned MFA tokens that don’t expire)

We’re all far too dumb to be sharing our thoughts so widely and easily. The internet needs to go.

I went to school in Canada. I think I met her once.

Assimilate to the one true time zone. Resistance is futile.