Neon Steve

I realize everyone has a price, I am just more surprised at how little money it takes. www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c...

Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed | TechCrunch The bill would have required social media companies create encryption backdoors to allow access to users' private information.

I'm so glad this failed, you can either be secure or not. There is no such thing as a safe backdoor, it will be found and used by the ones you are trying to keep out. techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/f...

YouTube video by Be Smart You won't believe how polluted the US was 50 years ago

Since the 1970s, we have reduced our air and water pollution levels have dropped by 78% -- hopefully we don't revert this trend
youtube.com/shorts/Ssmkp...

A list of alternatives way to 2FA on facebook, but all of the options are to wait for a notification that isn't going to come since everything is logged out.

haha, so I logged out of facebook from everything weeks ago and got an email saying I was tagged in something. So I wanted to see it, probably just spam, but I literally cannot login. I have a TOTP 2FA setup that it isn't giving me as choice to use.

Whoa, that is really clever. I was reading an article that the actors finally saw the ending and were surprised but this makes sense.

Turns out #WhiteLotus producers filmed 6 alternate endings to the show in order to prevent leaks. Though, they always knew how things were going to turn out.

I really enjoyed this podcast and in particular this episode. Tldr the wealthy feel just as powerless and are avoiding the real problems, if everyone would just try to help each other we could solve real issues instead of made up ones. pca.st/episode/b5f6...

Amazon Download Data screenshot showing 820MB zip file

I enjoy downloading my data from companies every so often just to see what are they are tracking about it. I was not expecting my amazon data to be almost 1GB in size....

Turns out its mostly just recordings of me saying "urgh Alexa stop".

Your emails are too frequent (why I'm unsubscribing) I also used your service for a while, real official numbers were marked as spam and spam numbers had positive fake reviews. I don't trust your results at all.

I keep getting TrueCaller emails to get me back and in case anyone is looking to use them, I really don't recommend them. It is truly amazing how insecure caller id is -- VOIP providers can literally fake any number they want.

Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic Mozilla says it deleted promise because “sale of data” is defined broadly.

So this came out soon after -- I'm disappointed Firefox open the door to the future of selling data but I believe they are still better than Chrome, Edge, Safari which are just actively selling the data. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Ditched Chrome on my personal device for Firefox -- I'm not a fan of the new manifest v3 and browser fingerprint they are doing. I was dragging my feet to switch but really the Import Data moved almost everything over and within a few minutes was back to normal.

TIL - Bears don't actually hibernate all winter, only small animals like chipmunks, bees, snakes, mice hibernate while most larger animals enter a lighter state of sleep called torpor, where they can wake up easily if needed.

I thought this is Apple refusing to put in a backdoor and instead just disabling e2e encryption for UK users to comply with their new law. Still devastating for affected users.

Macos popup saying Pixelmator (graphic app) is now a part of Apple

Nooooo, I'm happy for the Pixelmator team but this probably means #Apple is going to get rid of this app for whatever they are planning to release. My favorite #photoshop alternative.

Oh, that is disappointing but not surprising.

spokewiki - hear more than just headlines Listen to wikipedia articles about the topics in the news to better understand what is going on.

If you are interested in hearing about the history of Monopoly, check out this 1h long reading of the wikipedia article.
www.spokewiki.com/article/mono...

In one experiment, they brought in people and had them play a rigged game of monopoly where one player couldn't lose, yet at the end, the winners would explain how their actions was why they won. The good news is by reminding people this fact, they can re-ground themself and be kinder.

Does money make you mean? It's amazing what a rigged game of Monopoly can reveal. In this entertaining but sobering talk, social psychologist Paul Piff shares his research into how people behave when they feel wealthy. (Hint: ...

One of my favorite TED talks is Does Money Make you Mean?

tldr; YES it definitely does.
www.ted.com/talks/paul_p...

The front view of the F-117 looks like an oddly steep pyramid with small wings

A front view of this plane

Some really interesting stories about this plane (and others like the SR-71) in the Skunk Works book by Ben Rich and Leo Janos

Mac OS warning dialog saying malware was blcoked and moved to the trash for application Docker

Guess my #docker needs a clean install again, this comes up every couple months on multiple machines so I'm not that surprised by it, just annoyed.

I realized I spend too much time on Meta owned social media so let's give bluesky a try