Dear #KLM, why in the universe do you want me to scan my passport using my computer webcam a week before my flight? What kind of info do you need that is not already provided by my full name, date of birth, and passport number?
#BadTech
Botnets for AI: Residential PCs used to be used for DDOS attacks, now they're being hijacked and leased to AI companies to scrape websites
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/
#venturecapital #investment #badtech #botnet #aisuru #llm #ai #vc #-
NanoKVM microphone: Small computer management system comes with bugs and a microphone hidden on the circuitboard
https://telefoncek.si/2025/02/2025-02-10-hidden-microphone-on-nanokvm/
#espionage #security #badtech #nanokvm #china #kvm #-
AI is not safe, especially for the emotionally and psychologically vulnerable. We need to not bury these news articles like we bury all news that harms Si valley bottom lines.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
Cursed Knowledge: A set of hard-won tech lessons building an open source image hosting product
https://immich.app/cursed-knowledge
#programming #javascript #software #badtech #tech #+
This is why we need #tech literacy. This recipe site wants you to pay $2.99 USD to “print” the recipe.
To print. The recipe. That’s literally on the web page. For free.
Super+P and “Save as PDF.” You’re welcome.
Wut? Am I missing something?
Account disasters: Problems logging in to various sites. The author is an expert in the involved technologies, having spent many years helping write the Chrome browser
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/09/accounts.html
#passwords #badtech #chrome #login #+
🔍🤦♂️ Ah, yes, the shocker of the decade: bad folks using bad tech to do bad things. Next up, water discovered to be wet. Meanwhile, the real fake CAPTCHA here is pretending this revelation is newsworthy. 🚫📰
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/ #badtech #badnews #cybersecurity #satire #technews #HackerNews #ngated
Hertz data breach: Yet another disaster of a major consumer site
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/hertz-says-hackers-stole-its-customer-data-2025-04-14/
#privacy #badtech #breach #hertz #-
4chan pwned: Very serious hack: hosting account compromised, users and moderators doxxed, source code released.
https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/4chan-the-internets-most-infamous-forum-is-down-following-an-alleged-hack-142516392.html
#rightwing #security #hacking #badtech #4chan #-
Interesting. So zoom held my login hostage until I updated the software to whatever idiotic form it has morphed into now. I was late for the meeting, and zoom started showing an unasked for AI, UI-element that I can't get rid of. Data-theft by holding your communication hostage.
Is there a way around this situation? Some modded version of the software?
Who thought gestures are a good pattern for navigating a web browser!?! My daughter just lost her spelling practice progress because she was showing me the cursor move with the touchpad.
Gestures like that are so imprecise and flaky, make it opt-in for people who like that sort of thing.
akam.ne: A particularly valuable typosquatting domain was available, Mastercard and others were vulnerable
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/
#via:hackernews #typosquatting #mastercard #security #badtech #akamai #dns #-
lol, @protonprivacy #protonmail wont issue me a refund because I’m a couple weeks outside of the 30-day refund window. How fucking convienient for them that issues only came up after that window.
What a fucking lesson I learned 😅
This is so terrifying. What has become of the internet. Certainly not the information highway anymore, that's for sure.
#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #generativeAI #ai #dystopia #badTech
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html
My apple machine is unable to maintain a stable wireless connection to my TV (pronounced audio lag). Today I decided to give up and just connect via a dongle (another idiotic apple intermediate) and HDMI. Now I have a strange audio stutter that just doesn't go away.
A little more digging and it seems like it's a 3-year old bug. My disappointment in programmers and computer-savvy people who recommend apple continues to grow ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/renvbh/really_strange_issue_when_connecting_to_tv_via/
MacOS vs. software: Reports that MacOS 15.1 now *requires* applications be signed to be runnable. End of Macs as general purpose computing?
https://hackaday.com/2024/11/01/apple-forces-the-signing-of-applications-in-macos-sequoia-15-1/
#antitrust #signature #security #badtech #apple #macos #-
1/ After much hullabaloo and insistence from multiple folks, I finally caved in and decided to see if the newest ChatGPT offering can actually do some sensible coding.
TLDR: If going from point A to point B is all you care about - go ahead and knock over those 100s of litres of water so you can copy/paste the inefficient, probably outdated code.
No alt-text, but the task is detailed in unlisted chain-posts.
Is there a nifty way to clear the extra icons macos keeps adding to the dock ? More importantly, is there a way to exit the software when I close an instance ? On a limited, low-RAM device like this it makes no sense. Only abets data theft by companies like Adob e and MS.
So many idiotic UIX decisions without switches. It is clear to me that this hardware and software was designed by someone with no intention of doing any serious work.
An extremely worrying development for anyone who cares deeply about technology. It continues to be driven down a path that is both socially destructive and morally repugnant.
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