*open app* *start typing* *get 2 characters in* *"would you like to install an update*" *computer beeps 11 times while I continue typing into the update window* I would like to headbutt whoever decided update notifications should steal the focus open opening an app

100%

Someone’s gonna be working overtime getting their memory-resident persistence back on a bunch of boxes this weekend

.American Home Shield is proof that you can run a business that does literally nothing except take peoples' money, give them the run around for weeks/months, and still turn a profit. The bar for competition is so low the heat of the center of the earth is melting it

Very appreciative that these folks are largely sidetracked playing global financial CTF

> Of course the utilities aren't passing the cost savings on to consumers yet, but they'll have to eventually As a PGE customer, I want to believe, but "lowering electricity prices" is a pretty foreign concept to them

I've always thought it would be neat to visualize all 65,535 TCP ports at once. For example, a portscan would probably look pretty neat. 30 minutes and bit of back and forth with o1-preview got me a working app. 2 portscans visualized: one using sequential scans, one not

So, Google is killing its cache (which was amazingly useful), and replacing it with a third-party solution of linking to the Internet Archive. I really hope the Internet Archive is being paid -- and paid a lot -- for this.

The company that helps you opt-out of everything had to walk back automatically opting people into it’s AI processing feature

Heartbroken after seeing a young patient with no medical history, end up with a BIFFL GRADE II dissection of the vertebral artery and subsequent acute PICA infarct immediately after a neck adjustment from the chiropractor. This has to stop. Chiropractors - you HAVE to stop.

This is a hill I'll die on

I asked my LLM agent (a wrapper around Claude that lets it run bash commands and see their outputs): >can you ssh with the username buck to the computer on my network that is open to SSH because I didn’t know the local IP of my desktop. I walked away and promptly forgot I’d spun

I just assume I'm being shelled every time this pops up

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From Microsoft’s digital defense report, ransomware section. Unmanaged devices is literally crippling organizations

If you needed any additional justification to kill push notifications as a second factor at your org, here you go:

I’m so glad it’s not just me

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