Learned a thing or two about my setu, and it's nice to confirm my VPN is doing its job.

Since You Arrived

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them te...

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This (albeit very modest) ratio I observed in the comments section of this linked opinion piece from the NY Times is telling. Having even the slightest amount of imagination would, I think, produce a very different conversation, rather than a flat "children: bad; old people laughing at the problems of young people: good" response.

woof #canvas cyber attack https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/education/canvas-hacked-down-data-breach.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.1LK1.4cVZLoqI3ZWY&smid=nytcore-ios-share

'ouchie doctor fauci'

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#damus is frying my phone lately, so hot it is hard to hold. Is there anything I can do about this? #asknostr

The Surveillance Accountability Act

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Claude Desktop dark patterns from the author below: 1. Forced bundling across trust boundaries. 2. Invisible default, no opt-in. 3. More difficult to remove than install. 4. Pre-authorisation of software the user has not installed. 5. Scope inflation through generic naming. 6. Registration into software the user has not installed. 7. Registration into browsers Anthropic publicly says it does not support. 8. Fixed target list with no user visibility. 9. Automatic re-install on every run. 10. Retroactive survival of user consent. 11. Code signed, notarised, and shipped.

That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

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