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Tech Backgrnd: Grew up in a HUGE IBM 402 80cc card shop, Burroughs B700 sales, Wang image capturing, pre-ordered Windows v1, registered domains through the US Dept of Commerce, in Search years before Google. 1st Admin major tech forum late 90s. New to LLMs

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Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs We measure the capabilities of LLMs to deanonymize users online.

Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs
simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scal...

26.02.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some Graykey (iPhone and Android unlocking tech) pricing and licensing I haven't seen before. From emails with LAPD that bought the tech

26.02.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations | New Scientist

www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
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Pentagon sets Friday deadline for Anthropic to abandon ethics rules for AI β€” or else - POLITICO

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

25.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML...

Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/good...

Will this interfere with *monkey userscripts?
#WebDev #userscripts #tampermonkey

24.02.2026 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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After 16 Years, Walmart Loses Top Spot to Amazon E-commerce giant is now the largest company by revenue

Amazon is now larger than Walmart by revenue

After 16 Years, Walmart Loses Top Spot to Amazon
www.newser.com/story/384106...

21.02.2026 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

try inoreader

20.02.2026 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under? Connected car servers won't be online indefinitely, and startups often go bust.
17.02.2026 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 4

Note the "UL Certification" --not some obscure foreign company's printing a CE on the box. If you're going to backfeed, it has to be right. I have seen one balcony solar product with UL cert.

17.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cheaper, cleaner energy drives Germany's balcony-solar boom The home-fitted renewable-energy sources are inexpensive and easy to install, and reduce electricity costs. Here's what can be learned from their surging popularity in Germany.

Gov staffers manning Bsky, here's an article for the Gov to review:
Cheaper, cleaner energy drives Germany's balcony-solar boom
www.dw.com/en/boom-smal...

17.02.2026 00:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Governor, the easiest, quickest boost is to authorize UL certified 'balcony solar.' Germany allows 800watts without getting approval by the respective utility company. Utah was the 1st US state to approve it.

16.02.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Driverless freight hits a new milestone with Aurora's 1,000-mile route The journey takes Aurora's autonomous trucks roughly 15 hours, or about half the time a human operator could legally drive under federal hours-of-service rules. Existing regulations limit...

Driverless freight hits a new milestone with Aurora's 1,000-mile route | TechSpot
www.techspot.com/news/111323-...
#Tech
#Jobs #Employment

16.02.2026 04:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I see them concrete molds once or twice a month on yeggi.

Click thru here to get some ideas
www.yeggi.com/q/concrete+m...

16.02.2026 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Good story:
Once, big alligator gars were there. I landed one with a dip net, flagged my mom who happened by while driving home. I opened the car's trunk & tossed in a huge, 5ft long, vicious-looking gar. Mom wasn't happy but was used to this sort of thing with me. I released it soon thereafter

15.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up on the banks of a wide estuary but, better yet, there was a shallow, narrow, meandering creek within easy biking distance at the end of our road. I all but lived there for years.

15.02.2026 22:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
To Scale: TIME
YouTube video by To Scale: To Scale: TIME

...take a tiny, infinitesimally small minute or two to watch this
It is stunning

youtu.be/nOVvEbH2GC0?...

15.02.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

IMO, the likely answer to the Fermi Paradox is that the lifetime of intelligent civilizations is short given the scale of time and the period where they might achieve warp speed space travel even shorter. The chance that two blips it time might coexist and intersect is very, very small. Now....

15.02.2026 04:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"Although the chance of a disaster to planet Earth in a given year may be quite low, it adds up over time, and becomes a near certainty in the next 1,000 or 10,000 years" --Stephen Hawking. Oxford Speech 2016

15.02.2026 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm assuming your index fingernail is 10mm-ish. Great idea, and useful for 3d printing too. I could get a 90mm ruler tattooed on the side of both index fingers but it likely wouldn't set well with my wife.

14.02.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I represent that profile but I usually don't see viral posts since I've rewritten Bsky UI client-side. I wouldn't reply, though, because Bsky is already balkanized regarding LLMs. I do have deep concerns about the existential threats many are -or will be- facing sooner that their denial allows.

14.02.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I strongly agree with HC's 2010-ish assessment of 'the shift.' I also very much share your concern about being strong enough to resist *this time*.

14.02.2026 21:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

>pawns
FTFY: consumer pawns, laborers for tasks that robots can't do yet pawns

>we have to make it so
Denial is an extraordinarily powerful force amongst humans

14.02.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

but it allows me a much different, 'ticker-tape' UI using the 'push' feed of the Firehose which I prefer over the slab view of everything a user I'm following posts.

So, Follow if you'd like but you won't see a Follow-Back if I do so client-side. Sorry.

14.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

After 13 months of building feed/filtering scripts, re-building those scripts, and adding support & development scripts I've hammered the Firehose feed into shape as my primary feed while abandoning the social concept of "Following" or friending. I DO have a Watch List client-side that is similar

14.02.2026 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you haven't already done so, I suggest adding 'Louisiana Tabasco Peppers in Vinegar' to your medicine cabinet. Available on Amz in a 6-pack.

Excuse me while I go ping someone I know that is enroute on I-95. I now need them to stop at Buckee's for your anti-stress Rx.

14.02.2026 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scary Agent Skills: Hidden Unicode Instructions in Skills ...And How To Catch Them Β· Embrace The Red There is a lot of talk about Skills recently, both in terms of capabilities and security concerns. However, so far I haven’t seen anyone bring up hidden …

Scary Agent Skills: Hidden Unicode Instructions in Skills ...And How To Catch Them Β· Embrace The Red
embracethered.com/blog/posts/2...
#Tech #LLM

13.02.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The anti-immigration version; The company could not sell products when the massive number of displaced consumers no longer had money to spend in this economy.

13.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is related to the "Henry Ford Dilemma." His famous statement was that he could not afford to produce a product that his employees could not afford to buy. He raised wages and cut the work week.

13.02.2026 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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13.02.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Apparently, my 90s internet background (search, seo/sem) didn't settle well with Claude. It wouldn't approve me for an account.

12.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0