Could almost certainly drink another cup of coffee.

Want to relieve yourself from that icky I-visited-twitter feeling?

1) Install the libredirect browser extension and
2) In settings, choose to redirect twitter links to any of the plethora of nitter instances.
3) Wean yourself gently off of twitter while preserving some privacy.

What is it: Nitter is a free and open-source alternative Twitter front-end that uses the unofficial API. You can even run your own instance.

FMI: https://nitter.net/about
#twitter #privacy #psa

C'mon Bing get in the spirit of the thing.

"Arm wrestling is a human sport that involves two people using their arms to try to push each other’s hand to the table. Since mice and hippopotamuses do not have arms and are not capable of participating in an arm wrestling contest, it would not be possible for either animal to win."

Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well known is this: “Never go in against Disney lawyers, when...full stop. Never go in against Disney lawyers.”

Looks like we picked up a hitchhiker

Puppy's squeaky* toy stops squeaking. Wash AND dry it; squeaks again.
What the heck.

*for training b/c he's not very food-y

If you like plastic pollution (who doesn't), this new EPA effort will bum you right out. You can let them know and/or attend a webinar in May.

Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution
https://www.epa.gov/circulareconomy/draft-national-strategy-prevent-plastic-pollution

Missouri Attorney General: We're terribad people and dumb enough to advertise our cruel harassment campaign by launching a form on the public internet.
(24 hours later)
Missouri Attorney General: Our form got eat by a grue. halp.

context: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/20/tweets/yes-missouri-attorney-general-has-a-website-for-re/

Ran some questions through Bing's LLM and noticed the link text _never_ matches the link.

Also the articles sometimes have nothing to do with the narrative.
I don't need _less_ reliable search results, even worse if they try to look authoritative.

This is not the way.

Kinda neat use for LLM (chatGPT).
* dinosaurs come to life on an island
* picture book where kid goes to island with strange creatures

GPT3 is great, but unreliable, "hallucinating" information about books—or whole books—that don't exist. To get reliable results, we ask for titles and authors alone, and verify each item on LibraryThing. So while LibraryThing’s AI Search can get things wrong, it doesn't invent books.

https://www.librarything.com/search.php?searchtype=ai

nosanitize

I like Bitwarden.
But I also like Proton
What to do...

Proton, the open-source company behind privacy-focused services such as Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and Proton Drive, now has a new service to offer.

...they have added an open-source password manager called 'Proton Pass'.
https://news.itsfoss.com/proton-pass/

Same day as SpaceX's RUD, Russia bombs Russia.

Wait no, sorry, it wasn't a bomb, it was an ADoAA:

"On April 20, during the flight of the Su-34 aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces over the city of Belgorod, an abnormal descent of aviation ammunition occurred." - Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Ukrainian exhibiting extreme adaptability. Their drone game is seriously berserk.

#Ukraine

The Merlin mobile app has some amazingly great bird song recognition. Can watch it happen in real time.

Good Robot! Tell me who's chirping!

(It also can ID by photo) (good robot)
https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

And you know what else, the software company Missouri is using might be a little _concerned_ too, what with their publicly stated views.

Wonder if they even know about this usage? Someone could tell them.

https://www.progress.com/inclusion-diversity

Seems to me that Missouri government "concerns" form is just hanging out there completely unprotected on the internet where who knows what could happen to it.
Bots. People with a million "concerns".

Why that thing could become useless! That would be terrible for them!

https://ago.mo.gov/file-a-complaint/transgender-center-concerns

Want to do an energy audit and the power company website is _almost_ useful. But.
Stupid download button does nothing. Tried two different browsers.

I blame vm.downloadMyData()
Yeah, I pressed f12, I'm going to jail now.

Well that blowed up real good

#starship

Win this raffle! Do It!

Forbes Ukraine released a special issue in English for its third anniversary. It contains all the materials of the Ukrainian-language edition, translated by ChatGPT. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is on the cover of Forbes. The President of Ukraine signed this commemorative copy.
...you can win the only copy by donating $33 to support Ukrainian defenders.

https://u24.gov.ua/news/forbes_raffle

#Ukraine #United24

FSB seems to be conducting “a large-scale overhaul of domestic security organs,” the Institute for the Study of War, a US thinktank, reports in its update today. The overhaul appears to be related to leaks of data to Ukraine, the ISW reports.

Stupid insecure little boy. Pun intended.

Meanwhile in Washington the obvious is disclosed, "...too many people have too much access to too much information without safeguards or guardrails."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-frustrated-classified-briefing-pentagon-leak-rcna80561

#Teixeira #leak #politics #infosec