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My camera can’t capture the glowing orangey-pinks and violets of these flowering bushes on the sidewalk.

Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users:

This is utterly despicable. “Scientists” perform human research on unconsenting persons, and reported that they successfully persuaded some people to change their views by lying to them with AIs.

Did they contact all those people later to explain that they’d been lied to? Or are they still wandering around with their changed opinions, persuading their friends, and voting?

1. Screenshot your LinkedIn app home screen.

2. Make a web page with that background.

3. Add a link at the top to display the QR code of your choice.

4. Add a link to that on your home screen.

Voila. Now you can make anyone at any tech conference open the QR code of your choosing. “Hey, let’s be buddies!”

Sharon Osbourne calls for Irish band’s U.S. visas to be revoked after Coachella show - pennlive.com

“At a time when the world is experiencing significant unrest, music should serve as an escape, not a stage for political discourse.”

This is the stupidest possible take on music and art. Her husband sang “War Pigs”.

California is now 4th-largest economy in world, surpassing Japan

Some Americans constantly talk about how much CA supposedly sucks and is on the edge of collapse. My favorite criticism is that “no one wants to live there because it’s so expensive”, although the fundamentals of capitalism explain that it’s so expensive because so many people want to live there.

Meanwhile, back in reality…

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome

Summary: Synology wants to force users to buy Synology-branded HDs in even their consumer NASes. If they do this, I’ll never buy another NAS from them, ever.

Imagine Toyota requiring you to use Toyota gasoline. No way, no how.

Locked out of your Credit Karma account’s 2FA? No problem! Here’s how I can log into mine:

1. Log in with my username and password.
2. Try the 2FA challenge once and let it fail.
3. Navigate to accounts.creditkarma.com

Ta-da! I’m in. I reported this a month ago but they haven’t acknowledged it as an issue yet. If I stumbled across this, you can bet the bad guys are already using it.

Street art in Berlin.

The afternoon’s adventure: Traveler’s Notebook aficionado nerdery.

CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract, leaving security flaw tracking in limbo | CSO Online

This is fine.