Ubique Media Daemon

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i generally agree, although for some reCaptcha-using websites there actually aren’t alternatives. eg many governments, healthcare providers, public utilities, etc are using it :(

A Motorola phone soon shipping with GrapheneOS isn’t just a rumor but it doesn’t help with the problem of Google making their very popular robot detection service classify deGoogled Android users as non-human.

OK. Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period…

more info here: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

that kernel release (which most distros have still not shipped yet) fixes only one of the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284); afaik even upstream still doesn’t have a patch for the second one (CVE-2026-43500) at this time.

(for people relying on Linux privilege separation, here are mitigation instructions.)

amazing! it’s great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

you could try renaming sideloading to “freedomloading” or maybe “freeloading”

freeloading is already a verb in english, and not the one you’re looking for

Interesting that someone like Asimov has not seen how technology would make this possible

He did. A few paragraphs later he says:

Orwell was unable to conceive of computers or robots, or he would have placed everyone under non-human surveillance.

Some recommended reading about George “I should like to put it on record that I have never been able to dislike Hitler” Orwell:

• Isaac Asimov’s 1980 review of Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Orwell’s 1940 review of Mein Kampf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwell's_list
• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/George_Orwell

one could say the widespread misperception of who he actually was and what he stood for is rather… orwellian 🙄

also, using Perl is a difficult habit to break

also it’s from the spammer’s “staging” instance, so the payload is a URL with a staging hostname which doesn’t even resolve 🙄

twitter (via cloudflare) is serving HTTP 403 {"error_code":2,"error_response":"Dmcaed"}

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https://stopcitingai.com/

😬

That website was made by someone suffering from some cognitive dissonance. They correctly observe that LLMs “can produce convincing-sounding information, but that information may not be accurate or reliable” and then somehow immediately afterwards conclude that “summarize this for me” is the type of thing which LLMs “might” be “good at”.

Oh ffs we’re calling the word “manual” a micro aggression now?

sorry, did my comment trigger you? 🙄

nobody called anything a microaggression or said anything about the non-abbreviated word manual; jokes based on UNIX’s abbreviation of it being homonymous with the common noun man have existed since the man command was created.