Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves
#USpol
Looking at this property description in Glasgow on #Rightmove. The clouds from one photo to the next seemed strangely similar so I took a screenshot of them from each different room and outside POV...
they're all the same clouds
They have CGI-ed the clouds?? Why?? Is this even legal?
I'm definitely not going to trust this agency in future.. "Keys estate ag…
Happy 32nd birthday to the Philippine Internet! 🎂
https://technology.inquirer.net/145804/how-the-philippines-was-connected-to-the-internet-32-years-ago
Yowzer, there is so much infosec news that you can't afford to skip today's Metacurity which highlights all the critical developments, including
--The FBI seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum,
--Google took down dozens of domains related to mysterious threat actor Ipidea,
--China executed 11 people linked to Myanmar scam centers,
--Moltbot AI assistant can leak sensitive information,
--ShinyHunters hit Bumble, Panera, Match and CrunchBase,
--P…
In 2011 I made this song for the RPM Challenge and used a drum loop from @… because he published a blog post.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2011/03/0
This foreign policy series by @… is quite revealing. Chakrabarti has by far the best answer to the IMF/World Bank question: "the role of the IMF and World Bank has been to try to implement austerity measures on countries by creating pressure from outside creditors...It’s been a way to impose neoliberal policy on countries, and also a way to force countries to lose t…
Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.
This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.
But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.
(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)
From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: Why I Made the Switch
What's better than a devil you don't know?
The devil you do.
🐧 #linux
Israel hacked a popular Iranian prayer app
to send notifications to potentially millions of phones Saturday morning
urging the country’s military personnel to defect from the regime and join a fight to liberate the country,
according to people familiar with the matter.
The app, BadeSaba Calendar, is intended to help Muslims keep track of prayer times