@GossiTheDog how many of the "Mythos Preview has already found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser," were created by Claude?
@stevefenton I like to think of the Internet as Ecosystem (had this in Drafts for ages). and the mixture of large and small fits with that. The number of software niches completely dominated by one product seem unhealthy to me.
Electromagnetic Field and Snikket
Mythic Beasts @beasts are sponsoring Electromagnetic Fields 2026 @emf. Potentially many people could experience #XMPP if every attendee received a Snikket @snikket_im invite for an instance set up for the camp. 'Send Location' is really useful, Concerned families can use Limited Invites for under 18s, programmers could try wring XMPP applications etc.
@yassie_j unfortunately I find Harry Harrison's War with the robots is probably closer to the way things will turn out.
I sign up to mailing lists and accounts with 'plus' addresses, except when disallowed, when I create aliases with a minus sign. Was interested to see two fail2ban postfix-sasl failures, close in time, but completely different sources for the same 'user', who only exists as a mail address. Suspect the attack sources are part of the same group,. Looking at logs for development of secinfo-xmpp, where if a system is attacked rest of group blocks
* Power plugs mostly solid, have internal, changeable fuse, so plug density lower. Techy friends have similar mess of extensions , but theirs take up far less space.
* Due to the shuttering mechanism in the socket, some can become almost impossible to insert or worse remove if they have been in place for decades.
* Switched sockets are good, though the switches can be a failure point.
* My aunt, in her late 90's switches gadgets on/off with her walking stick!
* Friends ditto
* Access to good fish and chips makes us aware that there are also many places with disappointing fish and chips
* Railway ticketing is almost incomprehensible, even to Brits, public transport integration is almost non-existent, timetables semi-fictional. Dutch friend directions from outer Haarlem, bus, train to Gronigen 5 min gaps, worked perfectly.
Wondering how long it will take for someone to appreciate that sprinkling the magic privatization pixie dust on everything is not a universal solution.
On that link I offer small UK charities donations towards trying out Snikket as a major issue is the nobody has heard of any alternatives, and 'if everyone uses it then it must be OK'
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@jim I sympathize with the people hoping the Online Safety Act will solve a variety of Internet related social problems. Safety legislation often involves finding a balance between personal freedom and public good. For example the Road Safety Acts result in reduction in Road Accidents 1/2