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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 45m

When you choose the most incompetent and corrupt people to lead.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 51m

I like how the clouds roll.

technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

ok, thanks!

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 2h

John Oliver sounded the alarm this week on how secret donations to presidential libraries provide cover for bribery. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s time to close the library loophole — and you can help.

Read this story and much more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

John Oliver rips presidential library loophole

Plus: There shouldn’t be secret law. Pam Bondi didn’t get the memo

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 1h

Can anyone translate this to a blender noob? ☺️

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 7h

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 6h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 6h

Microsoft garbage.

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

bitch what

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Spurcus Fera @spvrcvs.bsky.social · 1d

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Rayhunter: What We Have Found So Far

Rayhunter is a program that runs on a variety of mobile hotspots and watches for cell-site simulators—a tool police use to locate or identify people's cell phones, also known as IMSI catchers or Sting...

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 1d

An IMSI is a unique 15-digit code tied to your SIM card that networks use to identify you.

Because your IMSI can be used to track you, cell networks, once they obtain your IMSI, assign you a temporary IMSI, or TMSI, that rotates as you move from tower to tower.

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 6h

" #AI tools when applied with human intelligence by someone with meaningful domain experience, can be quite helpful."

#curl #opensource

Slashdot @slashdot.org · 7h

AI Slop? Not This Time. AI Tools Found 50 Real Bugs In cURL

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/10/12/0619247/ai-slop-not-this-time-ai-tools-found-50-real-bugs-in-curl?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

AI Slop? Not This Time. AI Tools Found 50 Real Bugs In cURL

The Register reports: Over the past two years, the open source curl project has been flooded with bogus bug reports generated by AI models. The deluge prompted project maintainer Daniel Stenberg to publish several blog posts about the issue in an effort to convince bug bounty hunters to show some r...

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 8h

You can never trust the people with power.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8h

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

www.eff.org

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Vivaldi Browser @vivaldi.com · 11h

We don’t sell your data. We’re from places where that kind of thing gets you kicked out of the sauna. 🧖‍♂️🦵

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 10h

🤯

#SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience

Aleksey Shipilëv @shipilev.bsky.social · 12h

(looks at another hair-raising concurrency bug and taps the sign again)

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 10h

The deportation order derives from the crime of which he has now been exonerated.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

we need to abolish this shit

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

This Is Fascism

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 20h

"Apple is loaning its monopoly on iOS software to yet another authoritarian regime without a fight, painting a stark contrast: when profits are on the line, Cupertino will gaslight democratic regulators and defy pro-user laws with all the $1600/hr lawyers Harvard can graduate."

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 20h

"The #DMA holds the power to unlock true, safe, interoperability via the web... Web applications that can challenge the App Store."

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 20h

"This helps to explain why Apple simultaneously demands control over all browser technology on iOS while delaying, constantly breaking foundational web APIs, and gaslighting developers about Apple's unwillingness to solve pressing problems."

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 20h

"Apple understands browser choice is a threat to its rentier model. The #DMA holds the potential for developers to finally access the safe, open, and interoperable web technologies that power most desktop computing today."

#eu #bigtech

Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 22h

At a critical moment, the tech press are failing to connect the dots between Apple and Google's craven capitulations and the authoritarianism they have nurtured within their own ecosystems:

infrequently.org/2025/10/the-...

The App Store Was Always Authoritarian - Infrequently Noted

Apple bent the knee for months, leaving many commentators to ask why. But the reasons are not mysterious: Apple wants things that only the government can provide, things that will defend and extend…

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technerd @techviews.bsky.social · 21h

"Analysts and members of the media: please, do your job and be clear about how unrealistic and ridiculous things have become."