The computer did what we told it to do. Eek!
Hank Green on Threads
I feel very alone in the way I see the hugging face hack which is that openAI trained a bunch of super effective hacker bots to act like the only thing that mattered in the world was winning a hacking challenge and then gave them hacker tools, removed a bunch of
Boost more cool shit
FlohGro in response to my post asking if we're happy with Mastodon being an ever-shrinking social network: Be Generous With Boosts
No. I joined Mastodon in the same first wave that Matt Birchler describes, and I've enjoyed it every day since. At the same time, it's sad to
Passkeys are a trap. No they're not!
Shot: Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.
Like the Trojan Horse, passkeys are legitimately elegant on the surface, but there is something troubling inside.
Chaser: Passkeys Are Not a Trap
The post holds up TOTP as "already" a great solution. TOTP is better than a password alone, absolutely, but it has
X has all the jerks
Lex Friedman (on what has to be the best new tech blog of 2026) writes I can’t believe we’re still arguing over whether X is for jerks, which you should just go read:
People can post wherever they want to post. I’m not trying to dictate where John spends his time online.
The iPhone Duo is too damn small
John Gruber: ★ The iPhone Duo
The Duo name is perfect. It truly is like having two devices in one. The outer device is, by far, the worst iPhone Apple has ever made. It’s a miserable fat little thing. The inner device is a splendid, joyful, beautiful tablet, with a UI that out-iPads the
How to become a mark for con artists
Hank Green in a video about Theranos:
We should not be complacent about the ways in which our world sucks. But if we're convinced that everything sucks and it's because people are terrible and nothing works when that's obviously not true, then we become the marks for con artists.