I am disappointed that we still have to have this conversation in 2026, but apparently we do. Listen and heed:
When you get off an escalator, get the hell out of the way.
I don’t want to have to say this again.
Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
“We built the agent […] to give experts new ways to share their knowledge and reach new audiences.”
I couldn’t care less about a disembodied clone of myself running on someone else’s servers reaching new audiences. Bluntly, whats in that for me?
A vendor asked us to “add a quick DNS record for them”:
TXT _dmarc v=DMARC1; p=none;
Basically, this says “turn off all of your domain’s anti-impersonation features so that any phisher can trivially trick your customers and employees”.
Nope. Time to find a new vendor.
In a shop window in Berkeley.
Frozen BBS v1.5.0 is out now. The biggest new feature is multi-node accounts. If you access the BBS from 3 different radios, you can see the same unread messages on each and write new messages from the shared account. Check the changelog for more updates.
“Hey Droid, generate 10 random AKC show dog names.”
- Stormfield’s Crown Imperial
- Belcanto Dancing With Thunder
- Windhaven’s Midnight Sonata
- Greystone Park Avenue Affair
- Donamire’s Royal Proclamation
- Silverpine Leap of Faith
- Braeburn’s Whiskey Business
- Halcyon Starlight Express
- Thistledown’s Grand Illusion
- Cedarbrook Fortune Favors
Nailed it.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
This is a definition of “privacy-focused” with which I am not acquainted.
Use Snyk? Use OpenTofu or Terraform and wish you could use it to manage which repositories your Snyk monitors? Sure you do! We did, too.
I just shipped the first public release of Factory’s Snyk provider. It adds the snyk_monitored_repo resource that the other Snyk providers miss.
This is really cool and they’re going to sell a gazillion of them. It’s what I’ll tell my relatives to get to upgrade off old Windows laptops.
And yet, I’m kind of bitter that for years I’ve been told that my iPad Pro can’t have a Terminal.app because it’s not powerful enough and it would be a bad experience and that’s why Apple’s saving me from myself.
This weekend, I agent-coded a two-way sync between Linear and my favorite task manager. Now all my work tasks live in our company’s project manager, but I can use a fast, local UI to work through them.
I’ve wanted these to play well together for ages. This feels magical.