FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

This is scary. It's (strong) SafetyNet for websites.

Every now and then I run into another Android app I can no longer run because someone decided my phone, running an official build of my choice of OS, that isn't even rooted, is "not trustable".

Now they want to start doing that for websites.

This kills open Linux on the desktop (including Asahi Linux). It kills alternative browsers. It is a backdoor to kill ad blockers.

No. Just no. Please.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.

Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea.

Read more: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

#tech #twitter #x #elonmusk #socialmedia

Just figured out how to rebrand smbc for the modern moment

ok cool but that’s not the status code i wanted to know about

Some things I drew for people’s user icons. You can request yours here:

https://ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/commissions

If you want I mean

This was floating around somewhere and I had the urge to remake it at a higher resolution and with a more appropriate font.

From my archives... this is what the command center of a mid-1990s dialup ISP looked like.

Later iterations would be more advanced, but this is how it started. A natural progression and leap of faith from the multi-line BBS it replaced.

#retrocomputing

OpenAI talks about ensuring AI is "aligned with human values" but if the CEO doesn't understand there are downsides to building a nuclear bomb and didn't even notice Mark Zuckerberg was the villain in The Social Network then it's unlikely the company is aligned with human values.

for just the price of a small silicon fab and injection molding equipment, we can deflate retro game costs to even lower prices

Elon Musk is about to ditch the “Twitter” branding.

This is literally not a joke.

“Today In X” sounds like an algebra equation.

I made a website today, by installing Microsoft FrontPage 98 on a 26-year-old laptop. And that website is about golf simulators. Well, more specifically, that website is about two bookshelves that contain golf simulators.

Get to know the Golfshrine at https://netizen.club/~wildweasel - retro browsers welcomed!

I’ve created a new C++ build system: g++ *

i was just locking down the office when in comes this dame. she looks desperate. husband's dead and coroner calls it an accident. his estranged brother was just made successor on his github she says. i take a drag. little did i know my life was about to git reset -- hard

i have found the patron saint of remote code execution