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  1. Drew Crecente (they) @[email protected] ·

    @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

    #badtech #goodtech #thinkgooder
  2. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

    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
    nytimes.com/2026/04/15/opinion
    #anthropic #glasswing #security #badtech #raffi #llm #ai #+

    #anthropic #glasswing #security #badtech #raffi #llm
  3. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

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

    #espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm
  4. Tushar Chauhan @[email protected] ·

    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.

    wired.com/story/ftc-complaints

    #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #ai #BadTech

    #sivalleygrift #usersarefodder #ai #badtech
  5. Tushar Chauhan @[email protected] ·

    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

    #macrant #apple #badtech #richpeopletoys #absurdtech #wastedtech
  6. Grumpy Old Techie 🕊️ @[email protected] ·

    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
    digipres.club/@timixretroplays

    #tech #entshittification #ethics #badtech
  7. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

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

    #security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop
  8. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

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

    #security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop
  9. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

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

    #security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop
  10. Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog @[email protected] ·

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

    #security #truncate #badtech #android #posix #crop