Nostr notes by Patrick

but one's multiplayer and the other has been single ...

2026-10-30T18:11:42Z

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but one's multiplayer and the other has been single player....oh wait that's harder to monetize as well.

which means they made more than that on the data most likely

2026-10-30T17:40:23Z

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which means they made more than that on the data most likely

"It is better for our business because we will have more ...

2026-10-30T17:38:51Z

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"It is better for our business because we will have more signals for ads targeting, and being logged-in leads to higher engagement generally," he wrote. "It also allows us to protect access to Reddit's extremely valuable corpus of data, and helps us better adapt to emerging regulations around the world."

Translation it protects our bottom line better. Not necessarily a better user experience.

Russia just added Apple to its surveillance registry: store ...

2026-10-30T15:34:33Z

Russia just added Apple to its surveillance registry: store users’ messages and records in-country, hand them over on request. iMessage is encrypted, sure. The backup keys and the metadata? Different story. Russia’s a big country but a small market for Apple, which makes it the cheapest place for Apple to say no. So why the silence?

https://blog.ppb1701.com/no-comment-that-s-iphone

#apple #russia #privacy #encryption #surveillance #imessage #icloud #bigtech #userhostile #blog

oh totally, it was only going to get worse, due to how the market ...

2026-10-30T15:10:10Z

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oh totally, it was only going to get worse, due to how the market and industry were investing and funding crap.

problem is it liable to wreck a lot of retirements as it pops as ...

2026-10-30T15:03:58Z

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problem is it liable to wreck a lot of retirements as it pops as collateral damage.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117515007042378549 So ...

2026-10-27T22:27:45Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117515007042378549

So you know hypothetically IF AI ends the world....they realize if we're all dead no one's going to sue them right? Also they realize that's not ringing endorsement to fun them?

even if you don't, but are paying a manager....it's quite ...

2026-10-27T19:27:46Z

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even if you don't, but are paying a manager....it's quite possible they did for you OR invested directly a portion into some of them. In their defense, that's where it looks the money is. The problem of course is if it crashes a lot of folks are going to be down a lot of value at the very least, at worse it cascades thru the economy and decimates a lot of things that you wouldn't even think were connected.

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2026-10-27T19:24:13Z

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On Sunday, Mozilla put out an ad campaign asking you to come back ...

2026-10-27T15:45:35Z

On Sunday, Mozilla put out an ad campaign asking you to come back to Firefox and escape corporate tracking. Meanwhile, Mozilla engineers are co-writing an on-by-default, no-consent ad tracking standard for browsers at the W3C. With Meta.

Come back to Firefox, they said. Meta never left.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/come-back-to-firefox-meta-never-left

#bigtech #mozilla #firefox #meta #privacy #adtech #w3c #tracking #userhostile #blog

honestly that was partly why I went with that wording lol

2026-10-26T18:24:23Z

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honestly that was partly why I went with that wording lol

if they put in core code/libraries. it could. Depends on how it ...

2026-10-26T18:21:12Z

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if they put in core code/libraries. it could. Depends on how it set up. if it's a config option based or isolated enough they can likely remove it like some of the other customizations they have done. if it's like a fungus root system scattered into everything that may be more of a problem to disable or remove.

That is also going to be a pain probably for the forks to try and ...

2026-10-26T17:58:25Z

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That is also going to be a pain probably for the forks to try and make sure meta's little hooks don't sneak in

And just like that I will nevermore return to Firefox itself. ...

2026-10-26T17:39:50Z

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And just like that I will nevermore return to Firefox itself. Meta cannot be trusted. PERIOD, full stop. they will find ways to bypass protections and settings and hoover up all the data they can.

I saw him at a convention years ago, like back in the 90s. I ...

2026-10-26T17:37:23Z

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I saw him at a convention years ago, like back in the 90s. I recall he told us he had wanted to say something for Star Trek 4 like " Admiral, Can we goto Disneyland?"

like seriously, it saves everyone so much time and energy if you ...

2026-10-26T15:24:41Z

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like seriously, it saves everyone so much time and energy if you don't like or agree with someone to the point it gets on your last nerve to see their stuff....block them lol it's not that hard.

As they say on Alone “Hey bear” #wildlife #virgina ...

2026-10-23T03:35:20Z

As they say on Alone “Hey bear”

#wildlife #virgina

Meta’s board just restructured the whole company so Zuckerberg ...

2026-10-22T20:15:30Z

Meta’s board just restructured the whole company so Zuckerberg can pay a $12B tax bill without losing a single vote. Same day: a $9.9B teen mental health settlement charge, a $25B privacy penalty, 15% fewer employees. They called it a Founder Alignment Agreement. Honest, at least. We know who it’s aligned with.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/founder-alignment

#bigtech #meta #zuckerberg #prop40 #wealthtax #billionairetax #corporategovernance #userhostile #privacy #kidsonlinesafety #blog

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/117479320988394064 Seems ...

2026-10-21T15:09:48Z

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/117479320988394064

Seems like this like the slider before it, should have been a day one item.

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note1y24…7g5u

iPhone Duo will add Reachability feature ‘later this year’ https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/21/iphone-duo-will-add-reachability-feature-later-this-year/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117474467687730434 ...

2026-10-20T17:57:50Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117474467687730434

Right....no one made that call...It all just magically appeared.

so circle back in a few months after it "dies down" and ...

2026-10-20T17:56:34Z

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so circle back in a few months after it "dies down" and see what they are really doing.

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2026-10-20T17:33:51Z

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💯 bank notification? random work email about a new training or ...

2026-10-20T17:04:52Z

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💯

bank notification? random work email about a new training or whatever? Go to source, log in directly and look. Someone supposedly sends you a weird teams, email, slack whatever, or submitted a help desk request "on your behalf". Go directly ask them if it's legit.

At this point is more sensible to hang up on, ignore a a message. And use the official channel to go verify and possibly get transferred back than to risk it.

true, but in general those sites get navigated away from by me.I ...

2026-10-20T16:59:34Z

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true, but in general those sites get navigated away from by me.I might have to use a few here and there when there's no choice (telehealth visit or something) but in general my motto is I block ads, block me blocking that, then I'll find it elsewhere.

Or better strategy BLOCK 'EM! 😀

2026-10-20T16:54:48Z

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Or better strategy BLOCK 'EM! 😀

They are porting....but it's not a fork...so it's a one ...

2026-10-20T16:46:31Z

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They are porting....but it's not a fork...so it's a one off you hope they don't get bored with one day?

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2026-10-19T15:35:27Z

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sounds legit

2026-10-19T14:30:24Z

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sounds legit

This feels like a day where Morning came toooooo early and there ...

2026-10-19T13:35:18Z

This feels like a day where Morning came toooooo early and there needs to be a LOT of Coffee...🥱

Someone (maybe like an Adam savage) is going to hack it and get ...

2026-10-17T15:50:28Z

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Someone (maybe like an Adam savage) is going to hack it and get it doing something like “grok come around to 212 mark 8. Full impulse”. And then we will get waves of “I bricked my tesla” and “I can’t believe it crashed”

oh it’s probably like the water capabilities and cybertruck. ...

2026-10-17T15:37:21Z

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oh it’s probably like the water capabilities and cybertruck. There’s a giant * covered in lies and marketing.

I assume someone will try to “jump” bridges and parking ...

2026-10-17T15:32:12Z

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I assume someone will try to “jump” bridges and parking garages too.

technically once in the air yes.

2026-10-16T18:57:44Z

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technically once in the air yes.

what dmv is going to allow that on the roads with the thrusters?

2026-10-16T18:54:24Z

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what dmv is going to allow that on the roads with the thrusters?

if they do, they aren't saying so far.

2026-10-16T15:19:43Z

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if they do, they aren't saying so far.

Oh they should as well as from competitors....but they also ...

2026-10-16T15:13:53Z

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Oh they should as well as from competitors....but they also should be concerned their training and testing ones getting loose attacking other companies and countries. Someone's eventually going to hold them liable for that.

OpenAI’s terms say you have to be 13. The marketing says ...

2026-10-15T16:38:32Z

OpenAI’s terms say you have to be 13. The marketing says ChatGPT keeps teens safe by default. A 12-year-old told it she’d just turned 12 and the chat kept going. Yesterday eight states sued. Florida already asked a judge to hit stop. Read the terms. They’re more honest than the marketing.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/click-continue

#theranasai #openai #chatgpt #kidsonlinesafety #aisafety #privacy #stateags #bigtech #userhostile #blog

Well for the right application of it, it can do some cool things. ...

2026-10-14T18:23:08Z

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Well for the right application of it, it can do some cool things. But lets be real this is the man that promised self driving and getting to mars and I've lost count of other unkept as of yet promises. He's just as likely trying to up sales, subs, or stocks....or just wanting to troll the "peasants".

My complaint on passkeys for the longest was that it tended to ...

2026-10-14T15:48:58Z

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My complaint on passkeys for the longest was that it tended to get locked to an ecosystem. But lately that's been getting better portability or support to store them to something like Bitwarden/Vaultwarden and go anywhere with it. Currently my iggest complaint is the companies going set up a passkey. Ok set it up. Go back username->password->if applicable mfa. Set up a passkey! Like come on, lets not prompt us till it works🤦‍♂️

Going out on a limb but maybe that's from all the bleeping ...

2026-10-14T15:45:06Z

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Going out on a limb but maybe that's from all the bleeping circular financing and stupid investing via the retirement/index funds into this stuff. Sure I get go where the money is but how about some risk assessment in there before going let's do this

And probably in irony shove most of it into their ai projects.

2026-10-14T15:40:15Z

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And probably in irony shove most of it into their ai projects.

oh totally. I'm surprised Adobe hasn't already. But that ...

2026-10-14T15:37:52Z

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oh totally. I'm surprised Adobe hasn't already. But that might depend on how much was changed just a bit to avoid being too exact legally.

well you know apparently we have vibe coded adobe and vibe coded ...

2026-10-14T15:03:45Z

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well you know apparently we have vibe coded adobe and vibe coded microsoft coming....wonder when someone will vibe code the unreal engine. Maybe it'd be more efficient 🤣

(not that I'm condoning basically ripping off someone software)

Oh I haven't really expected much from them sometime after ...

2026-10-14T14:59:12Z

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Oh I haven't really expected much from them sometime after UT3. Hindsight I realize they'd gone to do a few other things like focus on the engine. But to me it was like they'd vanished off the planet for years.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/117439742368550335 So ...

2026-10-14T14:50:46Z

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/117439742368550335

So I'm confused are they saying AI can do a vastily better job than their own teams or are they trying to be like "look at us, we jumped on the AI bandwagon too!"? 🤔

quoting
note1qmz…3uy7

Epic unveils a refresh of its Epic Games Launcher for PC in preview, saying that the new version is "vibe coded" and "way faster", and now supports Linux (Jay Peters/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/games/1010751/epic-games-launcher-vibe-coded-ai-linux
http://www.techmeme.com/261014/p28#a261014p28

ugh fun times, internet went down last night. ISP claimed ...

2026-10-14T14:47:59Z

ugh fun times, internet went down last night. ISP claimed they'd have it back by 5 am....it's almost 11 am and still down.

yep, and while it would be stupidly easy for them to add they ...

2026-10-13T19:12:28Z

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yep, and while it would be stupidly easy for them to add they conveniently left off a select/deselect all

yeah those reports are helpful, but their ai while perhaps being ...

2026-10-13T18:36:59Z

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yeah those reports are helpful, but their ai while perhaps being user allowed to do so is riffling thru the device to do or tell you whatever. and to me it became even less trustworthy when it became part of it now goes amuck to accomplish whatever. one misconfig update could lead to all that data going somewhere it shouldn't.

for most of the audience intrigued....they already do. Most ...

2026-10-13T18:24:06Z

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for most of the audience intrigued....they already do. Most probably have an iphone/ipad, and an apple tv. Possibly a mac/macbook. What does this actually provide they don't? Cause I do see much benefit other than yet another always listening device from big tech.

pretty much

2026-10-13T18:20:47Z

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pretty much

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117434932599536902 ...

2026-10-13T18:18:40Z

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117434932599536902

I meant that they made their name with the antimalware scanning. ...

2026-10-13T18:00:54Z

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I meant that they made their name with the antimalware scanning. hunting down malware, adware, spyware.

given what they are known for their scanners doing....seems pot ...

2026-10-13T17:57:21Z

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given what they are known for their scanners doing....seems pot meet kettle....

I'll add a clarification note on the post itself when I get ...

2026-10-12T19:19:51Z

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I'll add a clarification note on the post itself when I get off from work later.

yeah that's a little weird looking in hindsight. I was trying ...

2026-10-12T19:18:33Z

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yeah that's a little weird looking in hindsight. I was trying to say they weren't told when they change was decided and in force. Only when it came up at the renewal point (15 days before the charge occurred). Which would be easy to miss or ignore if you just glanced saw "oh Bitwarden's renewing...ok"

💯 I don't mind them adding good things like kill switch or ...

2026-10-12T14:54:01Z

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💯 I don't mind them adding good things like kill switch or mandatory reporting of incidents. But you are 💯 right, it needs to be handed down by law and enforced so it's not a they do it when they feel like or wont tank the shareholder/ipo meeting

yeah, crazy and infuriating how it's that "wild west" ...

2026-10-12T14:46:39Z

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yeah, crazy and infuriating how it's that "wild west" do about whatever you want the industry is.

Brad Smith says your milk is more regulated than AI, and he wants ...

2026-10-12T14:10:56Z

Brad Smith says your milk is more regulated than AI, and he wants binding rules: kill switches, incident reports, telling victims. Honestly? Good list. It’s also the same Brad Smith whose company still hasn’t named a number in Granger. Self-regulation only works on the good companies, he says. He’d know. Good intentions don’t pasteurize anything.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/got-milk

#ai #bigtech #microsoft #bradsmith #regulation #aisafety #copilot #openai #anthropic #accountability #blog

I do like vivaldi...but there's days I really consider moving ...

2026-10-11T15:34:04Z

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I do like vivaldi...but there's days I really consider moving my backup waterfox browser to primary. Just had issues last time I tried to main browser a firefox based with some of the sites I have to use for work. Parts were hit or miss or just didn't render. Granted that's been a while so might be worth another go, well assuming Mozillla can keep from destroying itself and thus the upstream.

Sounds like the common web gotcha. Let us store a cookie to honor ...

2026-10-11T15:26:54Z

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Sounds like the common web gotcha. Let us store a cookie to honor your setting or we need a login to store the setting. Either way how do you possibly expect us to honor your setting choices without knowing it's you? I'm not using their browser so I do not know, but perhaps their browser can store it similar to the mobile? Granted if I recall it's chromium forked so that also might depend on how much you trust a chromium based browser.

thanks, I try to keep matching stuff up to date but I guess I get ...

2026-10-11T14:55:59Z

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thanks, I try to keep matching stuff up to date but I guess I get hit by the dreaded "Squirrel!" and side tracked more often than not lol

I've noticed it feels like every time I think it will be ...

2026-10-11T14:54:08Z

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I've noticed it feels like every time I think it will be quick....it takes like 3 times as long 🤣

All I wanted was Gitea 28. Instead: Nextcloud hit EOL and needed ...

2026-10-10T15:38:52Z

All I wanted was Gitea 28. Instead: Nextcloud hit EOL and needed two upgrade hops, the disk filled up mid-rebuild twice thanks to a Syncthing share I forgot existed (187GB of .stversions!), and home-manager drifted again. Just a few hurdles on what I thought would be run a couple commands before lunch...

https://blog.ppb1701.com/i-just-wanted-gitea-28-part-20-of-building-a-resilient-home-server-series

#blog #homeserver #nixos #selfhosting #gitea #nextcloud #syncthing #homemanager

Well also they probably don't wanna pay for the compute to ...

2026-10-09T16:20:29Z

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Well also they probably don't wanna pay for the compute to process it either. but yeah, they apparently are running into a problem of abusers and jerks. Beyond the proverbial "are you stupid/why the bleep did you do that" when it screws something up.

The irony also being OpenAI was like stop being ...

2026-10-09T15:54:35Z

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The irony also being OpenAI was like stop being polite....it's expensive.

Also lets be real 3 days for him is vastly different than 3 days ...

2026-10-08T17:59:16Z

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Also lets be real 3 days for him is vastly different than 3 days for your average person.

It's done. Paramount closed on Warner Bros. Tuesday, and the ...

2026-10-07T14:46:30Z

It's done. Paramount closed on Warner Bros. Tuesday, and the new company is just "Skydance." The states settled for production money and an editorial board, the FCC waved through the Gulf stake at staff level, and CNN's still fighting to get into the White House. The first post in this series said the streaming wars got boring. I stand corrected.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/settled-closed-skydance

#streaming #paramount #warnerbros #skydance #antitrust #fcc #consolidation #streamingwars #mediaconsolidation #blog

Five days. Again. OpenAI went from "too dangerous to go ...

2026-10-05T20:12:03Z

Five days. Again. OpenAI went from "too dangerous to go public" to "accept some bad things." Meanwhile Anthropic put the end of the world in its S-1 and kept the $2T IPO on schedule. Different font, same sentence: keep shipping, fund us. The bad things already have names and dates. They just don't happen to the people accepting them.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/some-bad-things

#theranasai #openai #anthropic #altman #amodei #aisafety #agents #ipo #bigtech #userhostile #accountability #blog

Similar experience on the running once. I was going over to ...

2026-10-02T15:15:35Z

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Similar experience on the running once. I was going over to friends when I was a kid. Lightning hit his back yard maybe 50ish yards ahead. I swear I rotated and ran back to my house and my feet did not touch the ground till I hit the steps.🤣

It's Clippy's master plan to take over the world.

2026-10-01T18:46:30Z

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It's Clippy's master plan to take over the world.

Oh yes Big Tech mantra. Do as we say, not as we do.

2026-10-01T15:11:21Z

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Oh yes Big Tech mantra. Do as we say, not as we do.

translation, we wanna make more money off users for their answers ...

2026-10-01T15:06:38Z

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translation, we wanna make more money off users for their answers to questions.....and yes all the random bs trolling too. The big bad ai companies weren't signing up fast enough and we think they were scraping the old rss/old.reddit.com. The fact this also forces more user eyeballs on ads or paying us too is gravy.

oh indeed. If I were too I'd be hunting for a degoogled one. ...

2026-10-01T13:58:31Z

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oh indeed. If I were too I'd be hunting for a degoogled one. I avoid google like the plague for the most part.

oh totally

2026-10-01T13:13:57Z

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oh totally

also the flip side, you order from Amazon listed as prime and ...

2026-09-30T18:30:38Z

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also the flip side, you order from Amazon listed as prime and then it takes days and a days to even ship because surprise! it was not actually amazon doing anything but the storefront work.

yeah, worries me as while apple isn't a saint company for the ...

2026-09-30T17:58:27Z

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yeah, worries me as while apple isn't a saint company for the most part the hardware has been good and software has been pretty good too. That said if it becomes meh enough inertia or not I'll likely switch phone platforms.

Would not be surprised that also leads to faster no longer ...

2026-09-30T17:34:10Z

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Would not be surprised that also leads to faster no longer supported....

Well you know....imagine that governments and companies might ...

2026-09-30T17:33:04Z

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Well you know....imagine that governments and companies might lean towards they need more than "our bad" when that happens

Good News, Everyone: DLSS 5 Only Needs One GPU Now. Bad News: ...

2026-09-01T14:36:25Z

Good News, Everyone: DLSS 5 Only Needs One GPU Now. Bad News: That GPU Costs What a Laptop Used To. In other news the also learned not to spotlight cranking the tech up to insane levels for the news release...

https://blog.ppb1701.com/good-news-everyone-dlss-5-only-needs-one-gpu-now-bad-news-that-gpu-costs-what-a-laptop-used-to

#ai #blog #dlss #gaming #gpu #nvidia #user-hostile #insertcoin #bigtech #blog

Made a page listing all Capy UI releases and most recent changes. ...

2026-06-18T14:46:18Z

Made a page listing all Capy UI releases and most recent changes.

Capy UI is a set of dark themes with Tricorn Black background and Electric Blue accents. Usually has a gradient background with subtle blue radial gradient if possible and where I can add it an adorable Capybara mascot logo.

Currently spanning Mastodon, Kagi, Pagecord, Vivaldi, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code. Who knows, it could pop up somewhere new down the road.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/capy-ui-releases

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit ...

2026-05-16T05:49:44Z

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

unknown...hopefully. but if not I guess the router thing will be ...

2026-05-11T02:48:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…ldct
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unknown...hopefully. but if not I guess the router thing will be a moot point 🤷‍♂️

So on Friday, the FCC quietly extended the foreign router ...

2026-05-11T02:22:34Z

So on Friday, the FCC quietly extended the foreign router firmware deadline to 2029. Why you may ask? Well the said that enforcing it would create cybersecurity risks.

I mean imagine that, unpatched hardware might be an issue....who knew? 🤷‍♂️

The new deadline lands 20 days before the next inauguration. Oh and I believe TikTok says hi.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-firmware-cliff-just-got-quietly-pushed-to-2029

#fcc #routers #policy #security #geopolitics #netgear #eero #tplink #tiktok #userhostile #blog

Proton built their entire brand on one promise: Swiss law means ...

2026-04-10T13:41:55Z

Proton built their entire brand on one promise: Swiss law means government agencies can't touch your data.
Their own Terms of Service, their own infrastructure contracts, and a federal court case from March say otherwise.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/not-even-government-agencies

#bigtech #blog #infosec #privacy #proton #protonmeet #security #surveillance #userhostile

Building a Bulletproof Home Server (Blog Series Page) My Journey ...

2025-11-22T01:01:02Z

Building a Bulletproof Home Server
(Blog Series Page)

My Journey from a broken Adblocking Server to a fully functional NixOs Home Server running Adguard Home, Syncthing, Nginx, and Tailscale.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/building-a-bulletproof-home-server-series

Passwords to be 7-9 chevron symbols. 8 and 9 symbol codes for ...

2025-01-21T23:40:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…lud8
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Passwords to be 7-9 chevron symbols. 8 and 9 symbol codes for more advanced functions and they require a lot more power each.