https://xerbo.net/posts/investigating-transit-pt1/

Over the years I’ve seen people in high profile roles resign in protest, but I’ve never understood it. I still don’t.

Is the whole point to bring attention to an issue and then what, hope for the best?

Is it not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and resigning with extra steps?

Is it a public dummy spit?

How does resigning actually fix something, or is that not a consideration?

As I said, I don’t understand.

Anyone?

This is by far the fastest, safest and most complete option.

One tip: Make sure that all the things you want to export are ticked because by default they’re not.

You can even set this up as a regular process if you want.

Source: long time user

… and nothing of value was lost …

Nothing quite like creating a specific incentive for researchers to seek “alternative” sources of income as payment for their research efforts.

Microsoft tried this … seems to be working out for them … not.

Just like every website has a cookie alert. Meaningless, annoying and extra work for everyone.

AI remains top reason excuse for US job cuts for third straight month as employers axed 97,000 workers in May

Not at all.

A law that isn’t enforceable or actually enforced is stupid.

This is in my opinion a good example of a stupid law.

Yeah, that’ll work.

Edit: Truth in advertising … there’s a novel concept.

I run my browser in incognito mode. Each launch a script creates a new profile directory specifically for that launch. When I quit the browser it deletes that profile directory.

For every activity, email, a specific search, an online purchase, an issue report, accessing personal information, etc., I’ll launch a separate instance and within that instance I’ll restrict my tabs to only that purpose.

I don’t save passwords or bookmarks, both of which are stored elsewhere.

I’m not particularly worried about tracking by being fingerprinted, I’m much more concerned about data leakage, either inadvertently or maliciously.

Rebooting is an utter pain in the arse, but I put up with it and use the opportunity to clear my slate.

Edit: I don’t create the profile directory manually, it’s a little bash script.

FYI

https://ea.rna.nl/2026/06/07/anthropic-openai-may-be-spending-more-than-1000-for-every-100-you-pay-them/

Of?

US tech industry cut 123,653 jobs since January 2026, up 66% from last year during the same period — AI now the most cited reason excuse for cuts by US employers: report

GitHub Microsoft just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

Bean counters too stupid to understand Assumed Intelligence bought into the hype and thought that they’d save money. Just like with drugs, the first one is free, now that they’ve fired all the expensive experienced employees, they’re in for a serious amount of hurt, which they’ll pass on to us as “increased operating costs”, which they did to themselves.

You are not comparing like for like.

Twitter is pretty much 20 years old, so are Facebook, Reddit and YouTube.

In addition, they were essentially first of a kind in their niche.

The fediverse is not even a teenager and the growth spurt hasn’t set in and may never. In addition, the fediverse is utilitarian by comparison, not much beyond proof of concept. Apps, platforms and instances are fragile and evolving.

Basic things mostly work, but it’s not “cool” enough to tempt organisations to join, media companies, etc.

We barely agree on how things interact with each other, for example, Mastodon uses hashtags, Lemmy doesn’t.

Lemmy has communities, Mastodon doesn’t.

It’s not that one is better than the other, it’s still being worked out by the community.

You also have to remember that there have been many “failures” along the way. Geocities, MySpace, Usenet, AOL, bulletin boards and bang path addressing. The fediverse might succeed, whatever that means, or it might not.

I’m a user on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, they’re evolving day by day. I’m not sure if I could tell you what I like or dislike about each, they’re just different.

I suspect that this is about to get very interesting.

I can’t decide if this is real or an advertisement for the linked article service. I don’t see any CVE in the article which seems to be a good indication of the quality of the content.

I’m not saying that this is misinformation, but I’m extremely sceptical about the nature of this article.

Scott Manley has a couple of things to say about the fallout. It’s not good.

https://youtu.be/aaR6yEE-Myo

With a little luck it will experience a “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” before the IPO 😁