#userhostile — Public Fediverse posts

Everyone's cheering users for rejecting AI search by switching to DuckDuckGo. Ask AI is right on the search bar on the homepage, the DDG app Has AI in its official name. There is a no-AI option--on a subdomain most may never find. They didn't reject AI. They rejected Google and no choice. That's a real and meaningful distinction — it's just not the one being celebrated.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-escape-that-wasnt

#google #duckduckgo #search #ai #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #googleio #kagi #searxng #blog

Everyone's cheering users for rejecting AI search by switching to DuckDuckGo. Ask AI is right on the search bar on the homepage, the DDG app Has AI in its official name. There is a no-AI option--on a subdomain most may never find. They didn't reject AI. They rejected Google and no choice. That's a real and meaningful distinction — it's just not the one being celebrated.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-escape-that-wasnt

#google #duckduckgo #search #ai #privacy #bigtech #userhostile #googleio #kagi #searxng #blog

(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)

Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-game-was-never-free-how-the-industry-learned-to-sell-you-the-same-thing-twice

#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog

(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)

Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-game-was-never-free-how-the-industry-learned-to-sell-you-the-same-thing-twice

#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog

(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)

Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-game-was-never-free-how-the-industry-learned-to-sell-you-the-same-thing-twice

#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog

(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)

Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-game-was-never-free-how-the-industry-learned-to-sell-you-the-same-thing-twice

#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog

(Dropping this on out there as not sure if I'll be online much for Memorial Day)

Valve is in court arguing loot boxes are fun surprises. So how'd we get here? Deep dive from cartridges to horse armor to live service graveyards. The history matters if you want to understand what's happening now.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-game-was-never-free-how-the-industry-learned-to-sell-you-the-same-thing-twice

#gaming #lootbox #dlc #gamehistory #microtransactions #liveservice #stopkillinggames #steam #userhostile #gaminghistory #insertcoin #blog

A security researcher warned Microsoft in December about the exact attack vector that just got used to breach 3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories. They disclosed it in five tweets. Not their blog. Not their status page. Five tweets.

Let that sink in.

Apparently we've hit Act III of the ongoing decline of GitHub.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-act-iii-the-building-is-on-fire

#github #microsoft #security #vscode #vscodium #bigtech #userhostile #blog #privacy #opensource #selfhosting #supplychain

A security researcher warned Microsoft in December about the exact attack vector that just got used to breach 3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories. They disclosed it in five tweets. Not their blog. Not their status page. Five tweets.

Let that sink in.

Apparently we've hit Act III of the ongoing decline of GitHub.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-act-iii-the-building-is-on-fire

#github #microsoft #security #vscode #vscodium #bigtech #userhostile #blog #privacy #opensource #selfhosting #supplychain

A security researcher warned Microsoft in December about the exact attack vector that just got used to breach 3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories. They disclosed it in five tweets. Not their blog. Not their status page. Five tweets.

Let that sink in.

Apparently we've hit Act III of the ongoing decline of GitHub.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-act-iii-the-building-is-on-fire

#github #microsoft #security #vscode #vscodium #bigtech #userhostile #blog #privacy #opensource #selfhosting #supplychain

A security researcher warned Microsoft in December about the exact attack vector that just got used to breach 3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories. They disclosed it in five tweets. Not their blog. Not their status page. Five tweets.

Let that sink in.

Apparently we've hit Act III of the ongoing decline of GitHub.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-act-iii-the-building-is-on-fire

#github #microsoft #security #vscode #vscodium #bigtech #userhostile #blog #privacy #opensource #selfhosting #supplychain

A security researcher warned Microsoft in December about the exact attack vector that just got used to breach 3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories. They disclosed it in five tweets. Not their blog. Not their status page. Five tweets.

Let that sink in.

Apparently we've hit Act III of the ongoing decline of GitHub.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/phase-3-act-iii-the-building-is-on-fire

#github #microsoft #security #vscode #vscodium #bigtech #userhostile #blog #privacy #opensource #selfhosting #supplychain

I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google

#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog

I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google

#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog

I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google

#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog

I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google

#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog

I wrote about Apple's privacy promise yesterday — then Google held I/O and made the whole thing worse. They didn't build a better search, they built a cage out of the old one funneling you right into their AI and likely away from the actual sources of what you searched for.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/every-road-leads-to-google

#google #apple #ai #privacy #gemini #search #googleio #bigtech #userhostile #agentic #blog

So I realize the Evil v. Evil trial wrapped and it will have a mini post a bit later, but a little more has been surfacing on Apple's deal with Siri and it doesn't look great for that privacy brand Apple works so hard to maintain.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-promise-is-starting-to-look-like-a-marketing-slogan

#apple #siri #privacy #AI #bigtech #appleIntelligence #userhostile #google

So I realize the Evil v. Evil trial wrapped and it will have a mini post a bit later, but a little more has been surfacing on Apple's deal with Siri and it doesn't look great for that privacy brand Apple works so hard to maintain.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-promise-is-starting-to-look-like-a-marketing-slogan

#apple #siri #privacy #AI #bigtech #appleIntelligence #userhostile #google

So I realize the Evil v. Evil trial wrapped and it will have a mini post a bit later, but a little more has been surfacing on Apple's deal with Siri and it doesn't look great for that privacy brand Apple works so hard to maintain.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-promise-is-starting-to-look-like-a-marketing-slogan

#apple #siri #privacy #AI #bigtech #appleIntelligence #userhostile #google

So I realize the Evil v. Evil trial wrapped and it will have a mini post a bit later, but a little more has been surfacing on Apple's deal with Siri and it doesn't look great for that privacy brand Apple works so hard to maintain.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-promise-is-starting-to-look-like-a-marketing-slogan

#apple #siri #privacy #AI #bigtech #appleIntelligence #userhostile #google

So I realize the Evil v. Evil trial wrapped and it will have a mini post a bit later, but a little more has been surfacing on Apple's deal with Siri and it doesn't look great for that privacy brand Apple works so hard to maintain.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/apples-privacy-promise-is-starting-to-look-like-a-marketing-slogan

#apple #siri #privacy #AI #bigtech #appleIntelligence #userhostile #google

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

So…Bitwarden quietly swapped their CEO for a PE exit specialist, dropped “Always free”, rewrote their values, then half-scrubbed a 4 year old blog post to cover it. Post still contradicts itself. I looked. There was no announcement.

https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden

#bitwarden #passwordmanager #selfhosting #userhostile #privacy #blog #vaultwarden #privateequity

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

Microsoft’s current strategy for getting people to use Bing: fake a Google homepage to trap users who are trying to leave, AND offer a million dollars in a sweepstakes.

That’s the grand plan, act like browser hijacker and wave a bribe.

🔗 https://blog.ppb1701.com/same-spots-same-leopard

#bigtech #bing #blog #darkpatterns #edge #google #microsoft #searchengines #userhostile #windows1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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