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Arch AUR attack ongoing: Major package repository keeps getting infected with new malware
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1u3tn4e/tons_of_new_infected_aur_packages_were_just/
#security #badtech #linux #arch #aur #-

Arch AUR attack ongoing: Major package repository keeps getting infected with new malware
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1u3tn4e/tons_of_new_infected_aur_packages_were_just/
#security #badtech #linux #arch #aur #-

Arch supply chain attacks: Arch Linux has a popular package repository called AUR. It's a frequent target of attacks to inject malware, so KDE is going to stop including it
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Linux-Drops-AUR
#supplychain #security #badtech #linux #arch #aur #kde #-

Arch supply chain attacks: Arch Linux has a popular package repository called AUR. It's a frequent target of attacks to inject malware, so KDE is going to stop including it
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Linux-Drops-AUR
#supplychain #security #badtech #linux #arch #aur #kde #-

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

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

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 #-

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

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

🔍🤦‍♂️ 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

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 #-

lol, @protonprivacy #protonmail wont issue me a refund because I’m a couple weeks outside of the 30-day refund window. How fucking convienient for them that issues only came up after that window.

What a fucking lesson I learned 😅

#tech #badtech #shady

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've come to the conclusion that the bane of my existence, the one thing that may cause me to pop a vein and die, is the fraking so-called clipboard built into Windows.

Look at the laptop wrong and the clipboard loses whatever you copied to it. Why are the contents of the clipboard hidden?

If physical clipboards worked this badly, we would have abandoned them for something better a long time ago.

#MicrosoftSux #FirstWorldProblems #badtech

Sainsbury's in Truro has been working hard on adding pocket dimensions to its ground level parking. I really would like to know how they do it 🤔

(Seriously though, if you know what likely software vs sensor vs configuration error that's going on here, please give me your theory in the replies. This has been going on for months but the photo is from today.)

#Cornwall #Truro #BadTech #SoftwareError

Not the advice I would expect from Awair on a day like today. With PM2.5 being at over 400 outside, opening windows does not strike me as a good idea.

#nyc #badtech

@TechDesk can only be used indoors/lower light, your palm is a crappy, wrinkly place to read anything.
Most of what people do on a phone is consume content/SM. So it’s not possible for this to replace a phone. #llm #badtech

Google / Samsung phone hack: Significant security hole; silent remote takeover of a phone based on a bug in the modems used by Google's flagship phones. There is no fix.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23644013/samsung-exynos-modem-security-issue-project-zero
#googlepixel #security #badtech #hacking #samsung

Melancholy day in spite of the sun shining. I think a nap is on the schedule for today (as well as a massage). The new laptop work sent me still doesn't work correctly. You would think that a tech company could figure out how to provision hardware for their own employees, eh? #mh2023 #depression #badtech

🏦 #EpicGames fined US$520,000,000.00 for collecting personal data from children without parental consent; exposing children and teenagers to bullying, threats, harassment, and trauma; and tricking people into buying credits through #darkPatterns.

#BigTech #BadTech #SurveillanceCapitalism

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/fortnite-maker-epic-games-fined-520-million-accusations-exposed-child-rcna62369