WP Engine sends cease and desist to Automattic
The plot thickens 👀
I’ve always been one of those people who use ‘lol’ too much but I’m also one of those people who laugh too much in real life. My awkward and excessive laughing falls somewhere between Kitty Forman and Kamala Harris, I think.
Start auditing and controlling the AI models accessing your content
I don’t use Cloudflare anymore but I think this is pretty cool. They have a new thing where you can filter and block AI crawlers and even, somehow… charge them for the data you allow them to use?
Site owners will have the ability to set a price for their site, or sections of their site, and to then charge model providers based on their scans and the price you have set.
Half of it kinda sounds too good to be true and the other half just sounds like an ad for a new Cloudflare product but I’m intrigued 🤔
Caffeinated ramen in a squeeze tube…
Boost Noodle is a new kind of ramen for players who “want to eat easily with one hand while playing games,““not get their expensive and important gaming equipment dirty,” and “want to eat something closer to a meal rather than a jelly drink or beverage.”
We are living in the dumbest possible timeline. Or the smartest. I’m not sure anymore 🤷
A Bay Area boy was kidnapped from a park in 1951. He’s just been found alive.
Whoa. You always hear about cold cases like this but never ones where they actually find them
Researcher reveals ‘catastrophic’ security flaw in the Arc browser
Arc has a feature called Boosts that allows you to customize any website with custom CSS and Javascript.
Unfortunately our Firebase ACLs were misconfigured…This allowed any Boost to be assigned to any user (provided you had their userID), and thus activate it for them, leading to custom CSS or JS running on the website the boost was active on.
This kinda stuff is why I stick with Safari and Firefox
Squid Game Season 2’s First Clip Brings Bullets, Fire, and Fresh Meat
Netflix has shared a tantalizingly brief look at what to expect when the smash hit series returns in December.
Don’t even care about the trailer tbh. Just stoked to hear it’s finally coming back in December!
Documentary about the largest cave system in the world, Son Doong in Vietnam. I’ve gotta find a way to watch this! There’s live showings at a few theaters but streaming is only in the UK right now
Watching Star Trek: The Original Series for the first time ever. Will update in a couple weeks lol 🖖
YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads
YouTube claims that the pause ads are actually designed to let the company offer you a “less interruptive” experience, but it didn’t tell us that its normal ads will appear any less frequently as a result.
I watch YouTube more than any other streaming service but it’s unusable if you don’t pay for Premium. Or have uBlock Origin. Premium is worth it to me though. I wanna support the creators in some way but definitely not through being spammed with ads every five minutes
The “Third State” That Lies Beyond The Boundaries Of Life And Death
“Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites,” Noble told IFLScience. “However, the emergence of new multicellular lifeforms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a ‘third state’ that lies beyond the conventional boundaries of life and death.”
There’s always a secret third option
Void Text Editor: Open-Source Alternative to Cursor
VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original.The latest to join the fray is Void.
Void is positioning itself as a free, open-source rival to Cursor, albeit with notable differences.While Void is AI-centric it’s not chained to a specific set of cloud-based, proprietary LLMs like Cursor it. It aims to work just as well with locally hosted LLMs through Ollama.
[Void] 👀
Mozilla is shutting down its Mastodon instance
We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta.
They’re awfully wishy washy these days
Ohio sheriff instructs residents to list homes with Harris-Walz campaign signs
“When people ask me … What’s gonna happen if the Flip – Flopping, Laughing Hyena Wins??” Zuchowski wrote, referring to Harris. “I say … write down all the addresses of the people who had her signs in their yards!” Referring to immigrants as “Illegal human ‘Locust’”, Zuchowski added: “We’ll already have the addresses of the their New families … who supported their arrival!”
Of course this shit head is from Ohio. This is who we elect to uphold the law here, I guess 🤬
Jobs should have surprise paid days off every once in a while. Especially on Tuesdays. (I wanna go home)
Inclusive advertising boosts sales & increases brand loyalty, new study finds
The research, based on an analysis of 392 brands across 58 countries, reveals that inclusive advertising can boost short-term sales by nearly 3.5% and drive long-term sales by over 16%.
Inclusive advertising also persuades 62% of consumers to choose a product and enhances brand loyalty for 15% of shoppers
Being inclusive and respectful of marginalized customers, like… actually treating them like people can be good for business? What a concept
My experience on Vanilla OS so far
A lot of people assume Linux users are all hackers or at least have some background in programming. I do not. I’m part of the other demographic - the people who grew up poor and started using it to revive obsolete hardware.
I know enough shell scripting and other terminal stuff to (usually) get by if I break something, but I’m too dumb to use a distro like NixOS. I actually prefer using the commandline to add and remove programs and do little system maintenance things but I’ve never built my own version of Linux or even compiled anything.
The blockchain is like digital COVID. We couldn’t stop it because people kept exposing themselves to it and it grew out of control, so now we just have to coexist with it online
Lately I’ve had an obsession with Brutalist design. Stuff like The Brutalist Report and back when I used Mastodon, Brutaldon. I discovered brutalistwebsites.com this morning. I think I’m going to spend a lot of time here today.