FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"purity test" this "purity test" that but we never use the opposite framing of a "corruption test" where bad actors will test how much bullshit you will tolerate to figure out if you're a weak enough target to let into their spaces

this coffeeshop is playing the theme to Serial Experiments Lain

something I was not expecting

In a rapidly AI slopifying world, there is hope after all.

The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice, the most frequently recommended free alternative to Microsoft Office, listed its *lack* of AI integration as a product feature in the newest version: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

It broke their previous download record for the first week post-release: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/02/one-week-of-libreoffice-26-8-the-stats/

How I found out: https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/

@simontatham

Harvesting data from copy/paste clipboards for 3rd party use, seems to be a trend in surveillance adtech for apps too?

https://www.makeuseof.com/innocent-windows-settings-actually-spying-on-you-how-stop-them/

https://maketecheasier.com/android-privacy-dashboard/

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!

RE: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

I once led an online banking team responsible roughly 3.5 million customers. Just three of those customers used WebTV to do their banking: WebTV was less than one ten-thousandth of one percent of their customer base.

And yet... I personally fixed a WebTV bug, because both the bank's product manager and I believed that everyone should be able to access their bank online regardless of what technology they needed or wanted to use to do so.

It’s sad that this is a story and not how it always goes.

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

Staff at the Eiffel Tower are on strike.

A Hindu religious group booked for a private tour demanded that female staff were "set aside" during their visit. Management complied.

"As ‌the delegation passed ⁠through, women were asked to leave their workstations so that men could take their places."

Hopefully the strike will help management realise that misogyny and religious fanaticism should never be allowed to infect their workplace again.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/strike-shuts-eiffel-tower-after-female-staff-hidden-during-religious-visit/PR7CCHFO4FHYBJHTPCBTSHAJAY/

#Paris #Eiffel #Hindu

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@misty Did I mention our oven had an RF chip in it that was broadcasting an open wifi network with the password in the SSID, 24/7, and the only way to turn it off is to either sign up for an LG account and use "the app", or just... take your wall mounted oven out of the wall, open up the casing, remove more casing, then remove even more casing, and then you rip that stupid chip out?

Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...

#truth

the desire to be the Operator, in the control room, at the controls, airliner cockpit, power plant, studio with racks of synthesizers, devices all around you, screens showing you the latest updates, in the lain nest where you have assembled the computers routers servers boxen: it masquerades as a fantasy of control where you are powerful at the center, but it is actually a fantasy of comfort where the machines surround you like a blanket and their screens and buttons are what command your action

as do most of us