This particular example goes a bit far but adding a few spelling and grammar errors to text might be a good way to signal that it wasn't written by AI.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · last mo."Envoke", eh?
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · last mo.Everyone with ambition to rise within the Party must carefully study Donald Trump Thought on Capitalism with Fascist Characteristics for a New Era.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Sen. Roger Marshall: "Everyone should go read his 'Art of the Deal' book. I made entire staff read it, and I refer back to it all the time. It shows you who Trump was in his raw state."
In case you missed it, "World Password Day" is now "World Passkey Day" www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
World Passkey Day: Advancing passwordless authentication | Microsoft Security Blog
This World Passkey Day, read how Microsoft is advancing passkey adoption to replace passwords, cut phishing risk, and deliver simpler, more secure sign-ins.
microsoft.com
The first question imo is a really hard but important problem. Most users don't really even have a concept of password manager or passkey provider. This leads to cases of people wanting to sign in and the passkey isn't there and they don't know why.
Tim Carmody@tcarmody.bsky.social · 4mo agoDid I save it to 1Password or the Apple Keychain (now Passwords)? If it wants my fingerprint, why am I scanning a QR code? How does it only work 1/10th of the time, but is always the first option and hard to get around?
A lot of stuff on the web works on the model that a large community can contribute work and a smaller group can verify the integrity and quality of the output. AI has caused the contributions to scale by orders of magnitude and overwhelm the maintainers. Bug bounty programs also feeling this pain.
404 Media@404media.co · 4mo agoNEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. lyra.horse/x86css/
x86CSS
x86CSS is a working CSS-only x86 CPU/emulator/computer. No JavaScript required!
lyra.horse
Gerson: "What I thought was interesting about that column, is that at no point did you stop to consider whether America is a country worth joining." Douthat: "That's true. I did not." The 63-minute podcast should really have been condensed to that 20-second exchange.
Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 8mo agoOh please just fuck off
this also led to Mossad burgling my gran's flat in Coogee.
Behold my favorite weird Chrome security bug of 2025 so far! A jaw-dropping URL / omnibox spoof via ligatures, specifically the googlelogo ligature. issues.chromium.org/issues/39178...
Chromium
issues.chromium.org
One thing about browser notifications is that it was a huge lesson learned by the web platform community. For all the abuse and annoyance, consider that it may have averted worse catastrophes to follow.
Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · last yr.Push Notifications xkcd.com/3074
Feel old time: Blink's fork of WebKit is now as long ago as WebKit's fork of KHTML was before that.
Bramus@bram.us · last yr.12 years ago today Chrome's rendering engine Blink (forked from WebKit) was announced. blog.chromium.org/2013/04/blin...
If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol
I'm looking for analysis on the possibility of Canada stopping the tariffs through litigation and injunction. The amount of fentanyl entering from Canada is close to zero, but "cuz fentanyl" is a required justification because POTUS tariff authority is only for emergencies. This is not one.
Trudeau invites Zelensky to friendly pick-your-brain coffee chat about being invaded by warmongering neighbour
Trudeau invites Zelensky to friendly pick-your-brain coffee chat about being invaded by warmongering neighbour
KYIV, UKRAINE - Citing a desire to “connect face to face”, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently reached out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with an aim to “share some insights” a...
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I bet high school students would take more history classes if we renamed them all to "lore".
Some places have used internet naming contests to name snowplows, which might be the only thing that they are actually suited to. Other jurisdictions that enjoy wintery weather have used: The Big Leplowski Yer a Blizzard, Harry Han Snowlo Snowba Fett Sled Zeppelin Better Call Salt
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2y agoNew names for Vermont snow plows 2024, selected by Vermont schoolchildren. Some selections... Skibidi Scooper No More Mr. Ice Guy The Snowy Pl-Owl Clearopathra Snoah Kahan Salt-O-Saurus vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow
As a new blueskyer, I don’t have a lot of followers here, but posting here anyway (if you build it, they will come?). Today we’ve expanded the scope and rewards for the Chrome VRP V8 sandbox bypass rewards to include any demonstrated memory corruption outside the sandbox. g.co/chrome/vrp#v...
Keep seeing versions of this take, “Trump voters had concerns, legitimate or not, about their feet being grabbed by a ‘freaky arm’ if they dangled them over the edge of the bed at night. Harris appeared weak on the spooky limb issue and the Dem’s sole response was to turn the lights on and check.”
Canada turns off all lights in hopes US will think we're not home www.thebeaverton.com/2024/11/cana...
Canada turns off all lights in hopes US will think we're not home
OTTAWA - With Americans voting today to determine the next President of the United States, every single Canadian has announced plans to keep their lights shut off in hopes that they will not get drawn...
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This is a feature I've been working on over the last year or so, with a few other members of the Chrome WebAuthn team. It makes passkeys a lot more convenient to use if you have an Android phone and use Chrome on a desktop machine. developer.chrome.com/blog/passkey...
Chrome to sync passkeys on Google Password Manager between desktop and Android | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Chrome on desktop will soon be able to create passkeys in Google Password Manager (GPM) and synchronize them across those platforms in addition to Android.
developer.chrome.com
in the same vein, implementation of HTTPS everywhere was a quiet social revolution that will go unheralded because the actual very dire collective action problem never fully surfaced
A story by @dougsaunders.bsky.social that gets everything right about Julian Assange. (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0597199...
Julian Assange was never a journalist or a whistle-blower. But they’re right to free him
The WikiLeaks founder’s guilty plea for stealing government secrets gives him too much credit for his middleman role
theglobeandmail.com
Make a movie milder: All the Secretary of Agriculture's Men
Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 2y agoMake a movie milder: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Inconvenience
sick of normal things being given grandiose epithets? you might be part of the great oh fuck off now
<The next person is checking out the book> Librarian <intense gaze>: Are you sure you're ready for this?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y agoIn 1987, someone checked out the book "Psychedelics" from a library in Colorado. 37 years later, the book was returned with its original library checkout card, and a yellow post-it note that read, "Sorry so late!! It's been a long strange trip!!"
reading online discussions about git is always really funny because 50% of the people are like "i don't understand git" and the other 50% say “no you just have to understand git is a directed acyclic graph where branches are pointers to commits" and nobody learns anything