#userhostile — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #userhostile, aggregated by home.social.
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Last week Apple settled a lawsuit that might net you some money. For what, you ask? For not delivering the new Siri as promised. It got buried under everything else happening but I feel it's important — especially since it could put real money back in the pocket of qualifying iPhone users.
[Fun post coming soon: I take a Legion Go S Z2 I grabbed on sale from Windows to SteamOS.]
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-settlement-is-real-the-features-werent
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #appleIntelligence #settlement #siri #blog
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Last week Apple settled a lawsuit that might net you some money. For what, you ask? For not delivering the new Siri as promised. It got buried under everything else happening but I feel it's important — especially since it could put real money back in the pocket of qualifying iPhone users.
[Fun post coming soon: I take a Legion Go S Z2 I grabbed on sale from Windows to SteamOS.]
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-settlement-is-real-the-features-werent
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #appleIntelligence #settlement #siri #blog
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Last week Apple settled a lawsuit that might net you some money. For what, you ask? For not delivering the new Siri as promised. It got buried under everything else happening but I feel it's important — especially since it could put real money back in the pocket of qualifying iPhone users.
[Fun post coming soon: I take a Legion Go S Z2 I grabbed on sale from Windows to SteamOS.]
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-settlement-is-real-the-features-werent
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #appleIntelligence #settlement #siri #blog
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Last week Apple settled a lawsuit that might net you some money. For what, you ask? For not delivering the new Siri as promised. It got buried under everything else happening but I feel it's important — especially since it could put real money back in the pocket of qualifying iPhone users.
[Fun post coming soon: I take a Legion Go S Z2 I grabbed on sale from Windows to SteamOS.]
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-settlement-is-real-the-features-werent
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #appleIntelligence #settlement #siri #blog
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Last week Apple settled a lawsuit that might net you some money. For what, you ask? For not delivering the new Siri as promised. It got buried under everything else happening but I feel it's important — especially since it could put real money back in the pocket of qualifying iPhone users.
[Fun post coming soon: I take a Legion Go S Z2 I grabbed on sale from Windows to SteamOS.]
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-settlement-is-real-the-features-werent
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #privacy #ai #appleIntelligence #settlement #siri #blog
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So on Friday, the FCC quietly extended the foreign router firmware deadline to 2029. Why you may ask? Well the said that enforcing it would create cybersecurity risks.
I mean imagine that, unpatched hardware might be an issue....who knew? 🤷♂️
The new deadline lands 20 days before the next inauguration. Oh and I believe TikTok says hi.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-firmware-cliff-just-got-quietly-pushed-to-2029
#fcc #routers #policy #security #geopolitics #netgear #eero #tplink #tiktok #userhostile #blog
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271 real bugs. Real Firefox. All patched.
The scariest thing about this week's Mozilla post isn't in the bug table.
It's in the methodology section.https://blog.ppb1701.com/better-rivets
#ai #anthropic #blog #firefox #glasswing #infosec #mozilla #mythos #security #userhostile
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OpenAI nearly merged with Anthropic during the November 2023 crisis. A board member argued dissolving the company was "consistent with the mission."
Also: the 52-page document that triggered the CEO firing was built primarily on one person's unverified account. That person just testified "No" under oath about a different claim.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/disappearing-emails
#ai #altman #blog #brockman #murati #musk #openai #sec #theranasai #userhostile #zilis #sutskever
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OpenAI nearly merged with Anthropic during the November 2023 crisis. A board member argued dissolving the company was "consistent with the mission."
Also: the 52-page document that triggered the CEO firing was built primarily on one person's unverified account. That person just testified "No" under oath about a different claim.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/disappearing-emails
#ai #altman #blog #brockman #murati #musk #openai #sec #theranasai #userhostile #zilis #sutskever
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OpenAI's former CTO testified today. One question. One word.
Did Altman tell the truth about safety clearances?
"No."
Also: "Proxy Elon" (seriously that was stated in court) took the stand. Purple boxes went unresolved. A woman in the gallery tried to sleep through it.
Day seven. Still going.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/close-and-friendly
#ai #altman #murati #zilis #blog #brockman #musk #openai #sec #theranasai #userhostile
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Your 401k probably holds Microsoft. Your savings might be in JPMorgan. Your mortgage servicer is probably on this list.
None of you were in that Oakland courtroom. None of you chose any of this.
$40 billion unsecured. One repayment path. Eight global banks. 100,000 retail investors locked up until September 2026.https://blog.ppb1701.com/house-of-cards
#OpenAI #IPO #SoftBank #bigtech #AI #finance #TheranasAI #wallstreet #userhostile #blog
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OpenAI's CEO and president both held personal stakes in a chip company they then signed a $10 billion deal with. Neither disclosed it. Ever. Confirmed under oath.
The CFO went to the Journal. Two sets of numbers. California AG watching. Eight banks holding a $40 billion unsecured loan with one repayment path.
Musk stumbled into being accidentally correct. That's almost worse.https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-ipo-just-got-complicated
#openai #altman, #brockman #musk #cerebus #ai #sec #theranasai #userhostile #blog
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Great news everyone! Sony settled the class action accusing them of monopolizing PlayStation digital game sales.
Bad news: your share is $1.78. In store credit. For the store they allegedly monopolized.
The UK looked at the same conduct and said $2.7 billion.
Funny how that works.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/sonys-monopoly-fine-gets-paid-in-monopoly-money
#bigtech #blog #drm #enshittification #gaming #playstation #sony #userhostile
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Greg Brockman testified today. Zero dollars invested. Stake worth $30 billion. His own journal asked "what will take me to $1B?" in 2017.
Same Monday: Musk settled an SEC case about misleading investors for one cent on the dollar.
I cannot make this up.https://blog.ppb1701.com/zero-dollars-in-thirty-billion-out
#openai #brockman #altman #musk #AI #bigtech #SEC #TheranasAI #userhostile #blog
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OpenAI's CFO went to the Wall Street Journal during trial recess. Two sets of revenue numbers. Two sets of spending commitments. A joint denial that made things worse. Musk's lawyers read the Journal. Altman still has to testify.
I cannot make this up.https://blog.ppb1701.com/two-sets-of-numbers
#friar #altman #openai #trial #bigtech #userhostile #theranasai #blog
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Evil vs Evil, or: How Two Billionaires Accidentally Told the Truth in Oakland
https://blog.ppb1701.com/evil-vs-evil-or-how-two-billionaires-accidentally-told-the-truth-in-oakland
#musk #altman #openai #xai #trial#bigtech #userhostile #tesla #spacex #blog
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Three companies approved under the FCC router ban. One makes sense. One is already in the government's server cabinets. One is Amazon — and you don't tell Amazon no when they run your classified workloads. Also I pulled the SEC filing. Funny story.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/heres-that-detailed-us-manufacturing-plan-indonesia-vietnam-and-thailand
#fcc #routers #netgear #eero #amazon #adtran #policy #security #geopolitics #sec #blog #userhostile
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Ok #appreview I give up. I will no longer make it easy for my users to grant camera and photo access on the first launch during onboarding. You win.
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Pelos vistos a #CP não quer saber dum inconveniente que encontrei numa viagem. 🤷♂️
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The FCC router ban approval queue is starting to answer questions nobody was willing to ask out loud. Netgear got approved with no explanation. TP-Link's CEO wrote a million dollar check and told investigators about it as a credential. Total coincidence, I'm sure.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/total-coincidence-im-sure
#fcc #tplink #netgear #geopolitics #networking #policy #routers #security #selfhosting #userhostile #blog
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Character Flaw: A Postscript (Bonus Mini Post)
Apple removed a character from the Czech keyboard and locked people out...They found out supposedly from Reddit...
https://blog.ppb1701.com/character-flaw-a-postscript
#apple #bigtech #blog #ios #liquidglass #security #userhostile #oops
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the dumbness of sites signing you out in 2026.
- one time text
- one time email
- passwordchoose password because you know I self host a password manager...
"For security we must send a one time code to...."
Then why the hell did you offer "just password" 🤦♂️
#userhostile #login #badui #firstworldproblems -
Big Tech preaches privacy. Meanwhile the signal that says 'do not track' arrives at their servers and they issue a two-year cookie in response.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/read-receipt
#gpc #privacy #ccpa #cookies #google #meta #microsoft #userhostile #bigtech #blog
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Big Tech preaches privacy. Meanwhile the signal that says 'do not track' arrives at their servers and they issue a two-year cookie in response.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/read-receipt
#gpc #privacy #ccpa #cookies #google #meta #microsoft #userhostile #bigtech #blog
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Big Tech preaches privacy. Meanwhile the signal that says 'do not track' arrives at their servers and they issue a two-year cookie in response.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/read-receipt
#gpc #privacy #ccpa #cookies #google #meta #microsoft #userhostile #bigtech #blog
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Big Tech preaches privacy. Meanwhile the signal that says 'do not track' arrives at their servers and they issue a two-year cookie in response.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/read-receipt
#gpc #privacy #ccpa #cookies #google #meta #microsoft #userhostile #bigtech #blog
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Big Tech preaches privacy. Meanwhile the signal that says 'do not track' arrives at their servers and they issue a two-year cookie in response.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/read-receipt
#gpc #privacy #ccpa #cookies #google #meta #microsoft #userhostile #bigtech #blog
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Apple sells you their judgment. The 30% cut is for your security. The compliance maze is for quality. The walled garden is for your protection.
Let's check the work.
Part 2 of the Apple series.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-walled-garden-is-a-business-model-apples-other-war-on-users
#apple #bigtech #userhostile #blog #appstore #developer #lockin #icloud -
Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.
I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.
Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.
It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.
Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.
"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".
#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac
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"To replace the battery in your <BRAND> vehicle key (i.e. fob), we recommend you bring it to your nearest <BRAND> authorized service center" ...
Ah great, the $85 CR2032 replacement? Sounds like a plan. 👊
I've never had to replace the battery in this fob before, and boy howdy is it terribly designed for that. Almost like they wanted it to be more difficult than it needed to be. I wonder why they would do that?
#Stealership #vehicle #car #CarCompany #company #CR2032 #battery #replacement #UserHostile #service #consumable
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@Gina exactly why Symas dumped Matrix. We have mortal humans and even the Tech Founder got bit by that. #SymasCorp #matrix #userhostile
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I got notified though the misleadingly named website "CoverMyMeds" that a patient's insurance doesn't cover a particular medication. It's odd, isn't it, that the website knows enough about the formulary to tell me that the medication isn't covered -- but not enough to tell me what would be?
And the suggestion to call support or check online, without providing a phone number or a link, really makes my weekend work so much more productive.
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@vfrmedia @ak I usually head for open source tools when a company is showing signs it is becoming #userhostile. Or if I don't already use a closed source tool. This may be the last closed source tool I still reach for. Usually the threshold to switch is 2x better in some category. In this case I'm struggling to see what 2x improvement they can offer. Even the risk of #futureproofing is a low risk here as #ltspice doesn't phone home for #licenses or save things on the #cloud. #enshittification?
