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smeg@assortedflotsam.com

<p>Armchair intellectual, sometimes philosopher, all-around learning junkie, cybersecurity and sysadmin, parent, and gamer. Everything is political.</p><p>A chicken in every pot and free poetry for all.</p><p>Admin of assortedflotsam.com</p>

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  • Post #4498816

    Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: &#39;They Need To Be Banned https://www.fashiontimes.co.uk/patient-privacy-concerns-meta-smart-glasses-1762492 #smartglasses #meta #metaglasses #pervertglasses #glassholes #privacy #medicine #doctors #medicalethics

  • Post #4494861

    Goed. https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/10/half-dutch-ordering-shein-temu-less-frequently-since-eus-import-tariff #Nederland #tarief #eueconomie #economie #temu #shein #aliexpress

  • Post #4465164

    I&#39;ve learned that you cannot rent a #bakfiets with the intention to use it for moving. This is very unfortunate. I have movers scheduled for later this month, but I have some stuff I would prefer to move myself. It&#39;s a little over 1km #moving #carryshitolympics

  • Post #4112207

    See how /e/OS protects my device from tracking attempts! Mobile apps trackers are one of the most impactful threats regarding your privacy and your freedom. #privacy #tracking #AppTracking #apptrackingprotection #eos #surveillancecapitalism

  • Post #3725600

    Most underrated feature of the Wikipedia app: the Places feature that shows you articles based on your map location. #Wikipedia #travel #travelguide

  • Post #3651260

    De-Googling: My chosen alternatives for leaving Big Tech My recommended apps and services list for leaving Big Tech and Google. It&#39;s possible to have the conveniences of a modern life while leaving behind the vendor lock-in and corporate dystopia being created by Big Tech. https://thespecter.net/blog/b/4jY

  • Post #3294626

    Does anyone have an opinion of #HereWeGo as a mobile #map app? I can&#39;t believe something owned by a car company would be any good at cycle routing, pedestrian pathing, or public transit. I&#39;ve been using a combination of #MagicEarth / Magic Lane that comes natively on /e/ OS, #CoMaps, and NS or a couple other train apps. #maps #degoogle #navigation

  • Post #2527822

    Hey #London folks! We&amp;#39;re making a family trip to your city this summer, and I&amp;#39;m wondering: are any of the bikeshare services available for (older) children, or a person without a smartphone? My 11yo kid can probably ride an adult bike with the seat fully down, but he doesn&amp;#39;t have a smartphone (nor do we want him to have one). Do any accept a tap-and-pay debit card? #uk #cycling #bike #bikes

  • Post #2451094

    2 days with my #Fairphone running #e_os and I can do ALL of my essentials (and more) in life without Google. For the handful of apps trying to send analytics data to Google, it&amp;#39;s refreshing to see how the Advanced Privacy is blocking all of those connections. Folks, it&amp;#39;s time to #degoogle Big Tech has exploited us long enough. #eos #android #google #bigtech #smalltech #foss #keepandroidopen

  • Post #2075529

    &quot;We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can&#39;t have both.&quot; -- Louis Brandeis #newbrandeis #antitrust #democracy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #wealth #wealthconcentration #politics #politicaltheory #autocracy #corporatism #corporatismisfascism #fascism #supremecourt #hipsterantitrust #ftc #regulation #regulatorycapture

  • Post #1972954

    Behind every AI action is hundreds, if not thousands, of human hours. It&amp;#39;s a game of smoke and mirrors. And if you have anyone in your life with AI glasses, expect that everything they&amp;#39;re doing is being fed to a corporation who is spying on both of you. Don&amp;#39;t spend time with glassholes. Meta is alo discouraging contractors from telling the truth Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yv...

  • Post #1779123

    ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/ #ai #llm #aibubble #labor #labour #swe #claude #chatgpt #anthropic #openai #noai #stopai #fuckai

  • Post #1692240

    My spouse was recently asking me what comes next after capitalism. My answer was techno-feudalism or techno-fascism And here is its manifesto Palantir posts mini-manifesto &amp;quot;The Technological Republic&amp;quot; denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/palantir-posts-mini-manifesto-denouncing-regressive-and-harmful-cultures/ #fascism #techbros #technology #palantir #surveillance #billionaires #tech #bigtech #bigbrother

  • Post #1437340

    We know. Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value #ai #llm #microsoft #copilot #chatgpt #openai #claude #anthropic #gemini #AIfraud #AIscams #hype #hypetrain

  • Post #1436556

    Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/ #claude #ai #llm #privacy #cybersecurity #spyware #fuckai #stopai #dataprivacy #anthropic

  • Post #1356947

    Elephants are born weighing 250 Ibs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for Motorists when one bike lane is added in their city. #urbanism #bikes #bikecommuting #fuckcars #motonormativity #cars #transportation #trucks #highways #roads #bikelane #bikelanes

  • Post #1347856

    Temba, On the Canal #startrek #trek #memes #startrekmemes #tng #obscurereference #startrektng #linguistics

  • Post #1347850

    MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/ #maga #brainrot

  • Post #1347846

    I&amp;#39;m not so upset about jet fuel costs skyrocketing. Flying is an extremely high polluting activity. Conserve the supply for real needs only. Stop leisure flying. Ground all private planes. Business people can use a video call. I see this price crunch as an incentive to push the energy transition.

  • Post #1347843

    If I recall, inability to maintain supply lines is usually a sign of a critical failure to plan a military campaign US-Iran War: US Troops Given Small Food Portions, Nearly Empty Trays On Warships Deployed In Iran Conflict https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-iran-war-us-troops-given-small-food-portions-nearly-empty-trays-on-warships-deployed-in-iran-conflict-11369665

  • Post #1015041

    At a school district I worked at, a school board member was found to be sexting a student. Your local school board is not composed of academically minded people - they&amp;#39;re mostly local business leaders ensuring they get a cut of district contracts. And a lot of pedophiles. ‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting https://www.wsmv.com/2026/04/06/god-youre-hot-tennessee-school-board-member-says-student-during-board-meeting/ #education #publiced...

  • Post #1015037

    Private transportation should not be subsidized by the public.

  • Post #740144

    People keep asking, &amp;quot;what is Trump&amp;#39;s angle with suddenly striking Iran?&amp;quot; They were guessing regime change, or helping Israel, but the answer has just revealed itself: Helping Russia. Trump is lifting sanctions on countries buying Russian oil. Giving the Russian economy and war effort the most powerful assist possible short of demanding the world capitulate to Russia. It should be obvious now that he&amp;#39;s compromised. #iran #russia #trump #kompromat #iranwar #o...

  • Post #598004

    Investors are tired of being duped. This bubble couldn&amp;#39;t pop any sooner. Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-openai-end-plans-expand-201106441.html #FuckAI #StopAI #AIBubble #aidatacenter #datacenter #AI #OpenAI #Oracle

  • Post #515610

    French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English. But we learned a hack! If you accidentally respond to them in Dutch, they&#39;ll quickly ask you to speak English instead!

  • Post #24873

    What is wrong with Windows?! I keep a small Win partition on my 2022 gamer laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it. Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes. No wonder MS is losing users #Windows #Windows11