molly0xfff

molly0xfff, 3 days ago to ai

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to Wikipedia

Have you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRHR1NEOqE

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

fuck i love blogs. if i had nothing but time i would just read blogs all day.

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

There goes @caseynewton with Platformer, one of Substack's largest newsletters 👋
https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

molly0xfff, 10 months ago to twitter

twitter's self-ddos is worse with tweetdeck 💀

#twitter #twitterdown

video/mp4

molly0xfff, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

it's time to seriously question if guys are too emotional to hold political office

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4309080-gop-senator-teamsters-president-nearly-brawl-in-senate-hearing/

#USpol #USpolitics #GOP

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to random

can someone please ask michael lewis to stop referring to the sam bankman-fried trial as a "lynching" holy shit

#SBF #SamBankmanFried #MichaelLewis

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

My article for The Guardian just dropped.

"With no changes to how the industry operates and no watchdogs to check the abuse and greed that have defined it over its now-15 years of existence, we are doomed to see history repeat itself. More Bankman-Frieds will emerge to take his place, drawn by the promise of easy money and the low likelihood of consequences."

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation

molly0xfff, 6 months ago to random

that's the kind of statement you make as the shadow of the other shoe dropping above you begins to blot out the sun

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

In case it might be useful to anyone else, I just wrote a quick Chrome extension to download all PDFs on CourtListener when there are multiple attachments to one docket entry.

https://github.com/molly/courtlistener-download

#CourtListener #PACER

molly0xfff, 11 months ago to random

when i'm elected president i'm making it illegal to use "right-size" as a verb.

you're not "right-sizing your organization", you're laying people off

molly0xfff, 1 year ago to random

coming out with a .zip TLD seems like a real chaos move

molly0xfff, 10 months ago to random

twitter and reddit beginning down the paths of self-destruction in the name of preventing scraping and AI abuse demonstrates that the solution to that problem is not going to be a primarily technological one

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to web3

Review: In "Read Write Own", the Andreessen Horowitz general partner and web3 superfan Chris Dixon lays out an unconvincing argument that blockchains are what it will take to fix the web.

https://www.citationneeded.news/review-read-write-own-by-chris-dixon/

#web3 #blockchain #cryptocurrency #crypto #AndreessenHorowitz #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

lol at the guy who was shocked when i asked for a consulting fee when he wanted me to give him feedback on his idea for a web3 project

it's apparently "ironic" to do so based on... my talk about how web3 is bullshit

molly0xfff, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I just finally deployed something I've been working on for a few weeks now: a feed of my writing, posting, reading, and other various activity that lives on my website at https://www.mollywhite.net/feed!

I've admired the POSSE (https://indieweb.org/POSSE; "Publish [on your] Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere") model for a long time, but only finally found the time and energy to put something together that I'm actually happy with.

#indieweb #POSSE

molly0xfff, 1 year ago to random

welcome to the #crypto industry, where the bar is on the floor

I’m suddenly being reminded, not of Coinbase’s missteps, but of the good times. The boring times. The times when Coinbase did absolutely nothing. The times when, for instance, CEO Brian Armstrong didn’t secretly send my money to an affiliated hedge fund. Or the time he didn’t gamble my funds away on his own exchange, then go to India and die in possession of the only keys to what was left over. Or the time he didn’t lie about Coinbase’s finances. Or the time his entire system didn’t collapse and he didn’t flee to Serbia.

molly0xfff, 3 days ago to ai

"it's all stored locally" is not a panacea for these alarming privacy-invading products!

what exactly is stored locally? what data is extracted from that local data and sent to the company's servers? is that local data being backed somewhere?

#AI #privacy

molly0xfff, 7 months ago to random

Yes, the enthusiasm for NFTs has cratered, but we shouldn't use junk analysis to make that point. Too many news outlets uncritically reprinted a bad "study", and the resulting eye-catching headline was widely shared.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/news-flash-95-of-nfts-have-always

molly0xfff, 11 months ago to random

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

http://indieweb.org is a terrible influence

#indieweb

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to Wikipedia

something gives me the sneaking suspicion there's been some controversy over spelling at the #Wikipedia article on Beetlejuice

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

#substack was helpful enough to come up with some catchy quotes to share from my most recent newsletter

#SubstackMigration

molly0xfff, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

• enter password for password manager
• verify from email that it's me signing in from a "new location" (VPN)
• use security key
• use password from manager to sign into actual service
• complete image CAPTCHA
• receive text message with 2FA code
• unlock phone with fingerprint to get code
• access service

molly0xfff, 1 month ago to random

it's interesting how the "let the markets decide" guys so often seem to think critics shouldn't factor into that decisionmaking at all