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It's been a local issues kind of week with a tech solution (potentially)
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (1045+ words) tl;dr " idea I had to fix the problems with community based infrastructure reporting. Back in ye olden times I ran for city council and came in dead last. I was out-worked by both other candidates, and honestly my desire…...
My Gemini got really weird, and I kind of like it
2+ week, 5+ day ago (421+ words) About a month and a half ago I asked Google on my Pixel 10 Pro to play a news podcast, and instead of playing it it started reading me a bad summary of the news. I then specified I wanted it…...
Notepad++ delivered malware after server hack
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (150+ words) Starting sometime in June 2025 hackers broke into the shared server that Notepad++ runs on and redirected some traffic for update requests to their own "update" server, delivering whatever they wanted to deliver. Notepad++ is the best free text editor around,…...
Just spent the morning dealing with an AI bot swarm
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (195+ words) As mentioned before we're in the middle of an ice storm crisis in Nashville and we've been having some trouble with the sheer volume of not-people joining or commenting on the group and Facebook promoting disaster tourism. One thing became…...
So maybe you can help me out with a FB group
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (266+ words) We're in an ice storm emergency situation in Nashville. I happen to be an admin for a hyper-local Facebook group that is now being absolutely inundated by people searching for help, offering help, complaining about help, and then commenting from…...
Cloudflare was down, would have told you but we're on Cloudflare
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (182+ words) News and reviews for the hype weary Chaos ensued this AM as besides having issues with 3d printing every service I maintain that's behind Cloudflare started showing it was down at about 5:30am CST. Major players such as X, ChatGPT, spotify, Pocketables…...
YouTube unleashing AI to determine if you're a child
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (267+ words) News and reviews for the hype weary YouTube is unleashing a set of tools to determine whether an account is a teenager or adult and modify recommendations and digital wellbeing settings accordingly. While this is probably a good thing, parents…...