#badtech — Public Fediverse posts

AWS GovCloud leak: US CyberSecurity department publishes 800+ MB of security credentials to the public on GitHub
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
#security #badtech #github #uspol #cisa #leak #keys #aws #-

AWS GovCloud leak: US CyberSecurity department publishes 800+ MB of security credentials to the public on GitHub
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
#security #badtech #github #uspol #cisa #leak #keys #aws #-

AWS GovCloud leak: US CyberSecurity department publishes 800+ MB of security credentials to the public on GitHub
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa-admin-leaked-aws-govcloud-keys-on-github/
#security #badtech #github #uspol #cisa #leak #keys #aws #-

This is a great episode!

Sandy and Nora talk politics: Fuck AI. All our friends hate AI.

Episode webpage: http://www.sandyandnora.com

Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/sandy-and-nora-talk-politics/e/6a04763d9ea03fc75fe73632/media.mp3

#noAI #canpolitics #BCpolitics #freecash #badtech

This is a great episode!

Sandy and Nora talk politics: Fuck AI. All our friends hate AI.

Episode webpage: http://www.sandyandnora.com

Media file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/sandy-and-nora-talk-politics/e/6a04763d9ea03fc75fe73632/media.mp3

#noAI #canpolitics #BCpolitics #freecash #badtech

@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

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🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

- - - - -

🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

- - - - -

🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

- - - - -

🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

@cmconseils

🚾 The use of QR-code-as-menu is bad for several reasons:

🚫Don't create burdens for your customer.
🚫Don't use tools that put customers at risk or require they vet your lazy use of a gimmick.
🚫Don't allow tech dorx to mine customer data with a "virtual menu" hosted on quikmenu.ai.biz.xyz.blah

- - - - -

🏆🏆🏆 Here is a good use of a QR code:

When attending a play, a theatre hands you a small, printed, business-card-size show program with logo and basic details about the show.

Scanning the QR code on the card opens a full size show program. 🎶🎭🎨

✔️The show's program is hosted on the theatre's website.

✔️The full URL is printed alongside the QR code.

✔️The URL remains active as long as the theatre exists.

✔️Patrons may download a PDF of the full program.

🔸You trust the source.
🔸The physical card is a souvenir.
🔸Save $$$ / environment by not printing large full color programs.
🔸Can add much more info to the bios of cast / crew - even clips of them performing should they choose - for future casting opptys.
🔸Theatre can still feature sponsors of their org and also include static NON-tracking links to their advertisers.

🧡 Users WIN | Theatres WIN | Environment WIN

#badTech #goodTech #thinkGooder

AI risks to the Internet: More AI caution from a friend of mine, this one about the danger of automated AI attacks against poorly funded open source infrastructure
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion/mythos-open-souce-internet.html
#anthropic #glasswing #security #badtech #raffi #llm #ai #+

Dear #KLM, why in the universe do you want me to scan my passport using my computer webcam a week before my flight? What kind of info do you need that is not already provided by my full name, date of birth, and passport number?

#BadTech

Botnets for AI: Residential PCs used to be used for DDOS attacks, now they're being hijacked and leased to AI companies to scrape websites
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/
#venturecapital #investment #badtech #botnet #aisuru #llm #ai #vc #-

NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-

NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-

NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-

NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-

AI is not safe, especially for the emotionally and psychologically vulnerable. We need to not bury these news articles like we bury all news that harms Si valley bottom lines.

https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/

#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #ai #BadTech

Cursed Knowledge: A set of hard-won tech lessons building an open source image hosting product
https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
#programming #javascript #software #badtech #tech #+

This is why we need #tech literacy. This recipe site wants you to pay $2.99 USD to “print” the recipe.

To print. The recipe. That’s literally on the web page. For free.

Super+P and “Save as PDF.” You’re welcome.

Wut? Am I missing something?

#BadTech #LateStageCapitalism #StupidTech

Account disasters: Problems logging in to various sites. The author is an expert in the involved technologies, having spent many years helping write the Chrome browser
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/09/accounts.html
#passwords #badtech #chrome #login #+

🔍🤦‍♂️ Ah, yes, the shocker of the decade: bad folks using bad tech to do bad things. Next up, water discovered to be wet. Meanwhile, the real fake CAPTCHA here is pretending this revelation is newsworthy. 🚫📰
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/ #badtech #badnews #cybersecurity #satire #technews #HackerNews #ngated

Hertz data breach: Yet another disaster of a major consumer site
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/hertz-says-hackers-stole-its-customer-data-2025-04-14/
#privacy #badtech #breach #hertz #-

4chan pwned: Very serious hack: hosting account compromised, users and moderators doxxed, source code released.
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/4chan-the-internets-most-infamous-forum-is-down-following-an-alleged-hack-142516392.html
#rightwing #security #hacking #badtech #4chan #-

Interesting. So zoom held my login hostage until I updated the software to whatever idiotic form it has morphed into now. I was late for the meeting, and zoom started showing an unasked for AI, UI-element that I can't get rid of. Data-theft by holding your communication hostage.

Is there a way around this situation? Some modded version of the software?

#UsersAreFodder #SIValleyGrift #zoom #ai #BadUIX #BadTech

akam.ne: A particularly valuable typosquatting domain was available, Mastercard and others were vulnerable
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/
#via:hackernews #typosquatting #mastercard #security #badtech #akamai #dns #-

This is so terrifying. What has become of the internet. Certainly not the information highway anymore, that's for sure.

#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #generativeAI #ai #dystopia #badTech

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html

My apple machine is unable to maintain a stable wireless connection to my TV (pronounced audio lag). Today I decided to give up and just connect via a dongle (another idiotic apple intermediate) and HDMI. Now I have a strange audio stutter that just doesn't go away.

A little more digging and it seems like it's a 3-year old bug. My disappointment in programmers and computer-savvy people who recommend apple continues to grow ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/renvbh/really_strange_issue_when_connecting_to_tv_via/

#apple #macos #badTech #hdmi #audio

MacOS vs. software: Reports that MacOS 15.1 now *requires* applications be signed to be runnable. End of Macs as general purpose computing?
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/
#antitrust #signature #security #badtech #apple #macos #-

1/ After much hullabaloo and insistence from multiple folks, I finally caved in and decided to see if the newest ChatGPT offering can actually do some sensible coding.

TLDR: If going from point A to point B is all you care about - go ahead and knock over those 100s of litres of water so you can copy/paste the inefficient, probably outdated code.

No alt-text, but the task is detailed in unlisted chain-posts.

#LLM #chatgpt #coding #AI #BadTech #IrrespnosibleTech

So while lecturing today I was plugged in via HDMI and my sound refused to work. Obviously, I had to get on with things, and made a large hall full of students listen to the tinny speakers on this air.

Coming home, found this : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254736333?sortBy=rank&page=5. Apparently it's a known issue for more than 18 months. What a POS company and software considering the price =.="

Can't wait to not have to use this garbage for 'seamless' integration with colleagues.

#macos #BadUIX #BadTech

Is there a nifty way to clear the extra icons macos keeps adding to the dock ? More importantly, is there a way to exit the software when I close an instance ? On a limited, low-RAM device like this it makes no sense. Only abets data theft by companies like Adob e and MS.

So many idiotic UIX decisions without switches. It is clear to me that this hardware and software was designed by someone with no intention of doing any serious work.

#macos #apple #BadUIX #BadTech #BadDesign

An extremely worrying development for anyone who cares deeply about technology. It continues to be driven down a path that is both socially destructive and morally repugnant.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/29/california-governor-gavin-newsom-vetoes-ai-safety-bill

#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #BadTech

We are extremely visual creatures, and we are choosing to destroy the planet to fool our senses.

Here's a thread analysing generative art used for an election campaign. All they want is an illusion of art, not art.

https://scholar.social/@SylviaFysica/113198007866265099

They know nobody will notice because nobody really looks at these images. We are choosing to waste many many gallons of water running a large statistical model when a simpler poster would have suffised.

#SiValleyGrift #BadTech #GenAI #ecocide

Do you know what pause-screen advertising it?

I just learnt about it. What a repulsive concept. A dishonest way to bite off yet another chunk of our waking hours so we can be sold useless things.

Adverts on your phone lockscreen ? Adverts every time you pause a video ? Unless you pay the ransom (subscription) of course.

Disgusting.

#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #BadTech #TechDoneWrong

PKfail bigger than thought: The debacle of Secure Boot just keeps getting worse, every major PC manufacturer has shipped devices with insecure keys.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/secure-boot-neutering-pkfail-debacle-is-more-prevalent-than-anyone-knew/
#secureboot #security #badtech #pkfail #uefi #pc

Laptops with AI, phones with AI. Products are being engineered so the hardware is LSM (large statistical model) friendly. This is alarming.

It reminds me of so many SiValley grifts like everything-as-subscription, smart devices, etc. The process starts benign, dependence for basic services is created, and then the user-as-product model is deployed at scale.

AI/LSM integration into basic devices are the setup for the next big rental and data-theft scams.

#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #BadTech

Ahahaha. Well done apple!

I have just had to make a really tough call: whether to use mouse+keyboard, or mouse+storage, or keyboard+storage. This is amazing. WWYD?

My display has usb ports, but obviously they are not picked up by macOS (the Debian machine picked them up just fine...).

The storage is non-negotiable because I'm working with large datasets (shocking, I know, that one would try to work on this toy-machine).

#MacRant #apple #BadTech #RichPeopleToys #AbsurdTech #WastedTech

Ahahaha. Well done apple!

I have just had to make a really tough call: whether to use mouse+keyboard, or mouse+storage, or keyboard+storage. This is amazing. WWYD?

My display has usb ports, but obviously they are not picked up by macOS (the Debian machine picked them up just fine...).

The storage is non-negotiable because I'm working with large datasets (shocking, I know, that one would try to work on this toy-machine).

#MacRant #apple #BadTech #RichPeopleToys #AbsurdTech #WastedTech

Ahahaha. Well done apple!

I have just had to make a really tough call: whether to use mouse+keyboard, or mouse+storage, or keyboard+storage. This is amazing. WWYD?

My display has usb ports, but obviously they are not picked up by macOS (the Debian machine picked them up just fine...).

The storage is non-negotiable because I'm working with large datasets (shocking, I know, that one would try to work on this toy-machine).

#MacRant #apple #BadTech #RichPeopleToys #AbsurdTech #WastedTech

Ahahaha. Well done apple!

I have just had to make a really tough call: whether to use mouse+keyboard, or mouse+storage, or keyboard+storage. This is amazing. WWYD?

My display has usb ports, but obviously they are not picked up by macOS (the Debian machine picked them up just fine...).

The storage is non-negotiable because I'm working with large datasets (shocking, I know, that one would try to work on this toy-machine).

#MacRant #apple #BadTech #RichPeopleToys #AbsurdTech #WastedTech

NPD data breach: Detailed analysis of the data in a recent high profile data dump that alleges to include the SSNs of all Americans
https://www.troyhunt.com/inside-the-3-billion-people-national-public-data-breach/
#security #privacy #darkweb #badtech #ssn #npd #-

The amount of people that look at me as if I lost my mind when I launch in essentially the same rant is astounding. Don’t people think anymore or have they just given up.
Most tech companies getting rid of their ethics departments (if they had one) doesn’t help as well.
#tech #entshittification #ethics #badtech
From: @timixretroplays
https://digipres.club/@timixretroplays/112630830459040204

aCropalypse: Android image editor doesn't correctly truncate the original file, which means in some cases the original image data can leak through
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html
#security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop #open #-

aCropalypse: Android image editor doesn't correctly truncate the original file, which means in some cases the original image data can leak through
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html
#security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop #open #-

aCropalypse: Android image editor doesn't correctly truncate the original file, which means in some cases the original image data can leak through
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html
#security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop #open #-

aCropalypse: Android image editor doesn't correctly truncate the original file, which means in some cases the original image data can leak through
https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html
#security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop #open #-