@tinker @Jer @Gargron they’re not insecure because they’re “end of life and no longer supported”. They never *were* secure. Those devices should never have been connected to an adversarial network, but the Internet is a lot cheaper to use than a private network and everyone wants to cut corners and lower costs.

@ajroach42 tired: learned helplessness
wired: monetized helplessness

@ajroach42 tired: learned helplessness
wired: monetized helplessness

@ajroach42
I am thinking building more intentional relationships with humans might help.

Tomorrow morning I’ll sign in for my 16 hr shift as a NYS election inspector.

I’ll boot up the machines.

I’ll provide voters w the correct ballot for their precinct.

I’ll make sure every ballot is cast and counted.

I’ll do this for every registered Democrat, Republican, Third Party voter, and Independent.

Because voting is an inviolable right of citizenship.

Because #democracy depends on free and fair elections.

Because we are the caretakers of this Republic.

#midterms2026

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@pflegende

Is this a profile from a different server?

If no one on your server has followed the profile's account before, its profile may look blank.

Some parentheological musings upon religion and aliens, although stopping well short of considering Pleasure Saucers from Planet X. (Of course always clear cookies to preserve yourself within eternal First Gift Article status, itself a form of neoreligious practice)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-the-worlds-religions-survive-the-existence-of-aliens/
#alien #religion #neoreligion #cookies #Subgenius

I wish that I could wrap this in a neat little bow and say "here's a 5 step plan for fixing our current technological problems and encouraging literacy" but I'm still very much trying to figure it out.

I believe there is a path forward. I believe it starts with re-framing our relationship with technology to be more intentional.

What do you think?

In Poland, Romania and Germany, the Trump administration is openly supporting pro-Russian and anti-EU parties, some opposed to defense spending. It's as if they wanted to destroy European security https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/11/trump-europe-guilfoyle-afd-meddling/689226/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3_AEg0z-LmZ7dmkZ063_hhw

I'm not suggesting that we all turn off youtube and facebook and abandon windows and mac en mass for linux and the fediverse.

Well, I'm not *not* suggesting that, but I think it's unlikely to happen and even if it did happen, it's likely that we would just see the same dark patterns replicate themselves on other platforms.

I'm not even suggesting that we stop consuming Youtube specifically. I'm on youtube a lot, honestly. It's the closest thing we have to an ubiquitous community media platform.

The core of my hope here is that we can re-introduce some intention and agency to our relationship with technology.

So what's to be done?

Intention.

Right now, most people's relationship with technology is either transactional (I need to use this in order to accomplish this task, do my job, talk to this person) or impulsive (I got a notification, let me check tiktok) but rarely is it intentional.

We can do this at an individual level. I think that, for many of us, being on the fediverse is part of this quest for intentional computing.

For myself, I'm a Linux user because that allows me to preserve more of my own agency than Mac or windows (conversely, if also frequently demands that I exercise my own agency more than Mac or windows.)

I've disabled the vast majority of notifications on my phone. I will spend my attention where I choose to do so.

But this is a very 1960s hippie argument. This is the whole earth catalog argument. "I can fix this for myself, so that's good enough."

Nope. This is a community problem and it's going to take a community solution.

Technology isn't a force for food or a force for evil. It's a force multiplier, an accelerator.

Right now, it's mostly being wielded by people who want to extract as much attention and value out of you as possible. Or by people with money who are trying to concentrate their power and squash dissent.

And, along the way, they're trying to convince you that tech is a young person's domain, too expensive and complicated for you to worry about, and that the current technological landscape is inevitable and inescapable.

And lots of folks are getting hurt in the crossfire.

It doesn't have to be like this.

Technology isn't a force for food or a force for evil. It's a force multiplier, an accelerator.

Right now, it's mostly being wielded by people who want to extract as much attention and value out of you as possible. Or by people with money who are trying to concentrate their power and squash dissent.

And, along the way, they're trying to convince you that tech is a young person's domain, too expensive and complicated for you to worry about, and that the current technological landscape is inevitable and inescapable.

And lots of folks are getting hurt in the crossfire.

It doesn't have to be like this.

This harassment by FBI agents up in Alaska is insane. Some lawyers better get together and file a big-ass lawsuit. 😠

I'm not saying this whole ballot stacking fiasco is fine and a good idea, but as per usual the Trump Regime is taking things way-ay too far.

#uspol
https://apnews.com/article/dan-sullivan-peltola-alaska-senate-dirty-trick-ebb965811fbc1c894089071b37e0011b

The cinema by me keeps moving their earliest showings later and later and now they’re at 3pm! I might have to move

@davidgerard @umbu @zzt

That sounds like something that should be detectable, even by those not "in the know" on the exact watermarks, by things like latent semantic analysis.

That's pretty good about detecting choices made in near-synonym groups and the like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_semantic_analysis

@davidgerard

oh “the cost is high” is it? who could have thought! what a revelation! 🙄