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Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical.
>follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web.
adopt from a rescue if you can.
humanity comes first.
enshittification of technology is real.
support foss applications.
be kind, it takes nothing.
dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Wow. Today, I woke up to see some incredible stats. The 49MB Web Page hit several places like HN and Reddit and brought in 20,000+ visits overnight.
We served 19.24 GB of bandwidth in a few hours. Because of aggressive cache-control headers and edge caching, my origin server had a 98.5% cache hit ratio.
Really appreciate you folks reading it. The discussions about DNS-level blocking, Pi-hole and uBlock Origin are spot on.
Thanks for the shares and thoughtful comments 🙏🤗
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Is this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.
When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.
I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit
#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Before you buy that nice hoodie online, ask yourself, "Am I willing to delete one extra email every day for the rest of my life?"
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Nature is the ultimate designer. I was looking at these blooms in my garden this morning and couldn't get over the natural color shades.
This weekend, if you are making an artwork, designing an interface or a personal site and want it to feel inherently human and grounded, skip the flat tech-blue. Steal these color palettes (hex values in alt).
Happy weekend! 🌸😊✨
#photography #blooms #flowers #web #design #css #colortheory #ux #nature #bloomscrolling #art #painting
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
I'm so tired. People, I am not interested in reading *blogs* generated with claude, gemini or chatgpt. No, not even ones proofread by AI. Do it yourself. I do not wish to even accidentally click on "one-shotted" dummy projects. Don't show me your AI-generated analysis of anything. Above all, I do not wish to see images/artwork someone prompt created.
I value real content, with all its good and bad quirks, from actual human beings.
Somebody please normalize auto-tagging of AI generated content across all formats - text, images and code so I can blanket ban them from my personal computer.
This is a plead for help I never thought I'll have to make.
#noai #enshittification #writing #bookstodon #reading #books #quotes #quote #cybersec #mentalhealth #adhd #art #cooking #blog #indieweb
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Things are meant to be used. Paint is meant to stain. Perfumes are meant to be sprayed. Candles are meant to be burned. Clothes are meant to be worn. Stop waiting for a good day to use things; use good things you have to manufacture good days.
#quotes #showerthought #reading #books #art #fashion #cooking
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
They finally did it. Microsoft has successfully over-engineered a text editor into a threat vector.
This CVE is an 8.8 severity RCE in Notepad of all things lmao.
Apparently, the "innovation" of adding markdown support came with the ability of launching unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.
We have reached a point where the simple act of opening a .md file in a native utility can compromise your system. Is nothing safe anymore? 😭
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-20841
#noai #microslop #microsoft #windows #programming #writing #windows11 #enshittification #cybersecurity #infosec #technology
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
PSA for job seekers, freelancers and artists across fediverse, you can subscribe to hiring related hashtags to have those show up on your feed daily.
Or you can bookmark this to monitor most posts directly!
💡 https://fedi.thatshubham.com
Earlier today, I made a couple of UX improvements and how posts are filtered. Added more tags in monitoring list. Good luck!
#jobs #jobs #hiring #hired #remotework #freelance #commission #writing #getfedihired #opensource #commissionsOpen #commission
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
GUIs are very nice yes, but nothing makes you feel quite as powerful as a successfully chained command line pipeline.
For example, taking a massive log file and filtering it through cat | grep | awk | sort | uniq -c to find the exact problem in seconds is a form of wizardry that modern UI simply cannot replicate.
Sometimes I believe the pipe | might be the single greatest invention in computing history lol 😋
#bash #shell #linux #terminal #cli #grep #tui #sysadmin #curl #debian #arch #nixos #ubuntu #linuxmint #fedora
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
I've personally grown to hate the security theatre of rotating my bank passwords every six months, especially because of requirements like "must contain one uppercase, one symbol, one lowercase, one special case and the blood of a unicorn."
When mathematically, a simple, grammatically incorrect sentence of 25 characters is much harder for a machine to crack than a gibberish 8-character password with symbols.
Entropy loves length.
I love the idea that the most secure key to your digital life could just be a weird little poem or an inside joke that only you know. Security doesn't have to be painful.
#infosec #passwords #cybersecurity #UX #security #sysadmin #programming #foss #linux #privacy #enshittification #reading #finance
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.
These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.
As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."
If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.
#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Certified genius adjacent. My intelligence is like a unicorn, nobody has seen it and it's probably mythical. >follow for my takes on tech, life, flower pics and occasional projects I make for the open web. adopt from a rescue if you can. humanity comes first. enshittification of technology is real. support foss applications. be kind, it takes nothing. dp:diana penty
Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
#creativity #hobbies #art #depression #socialmedia #newyear #resolution #happynewyear #MentalHealth #Culture #enshittification #creative #design #writing #reading #books #drawing #music #gardening #nature #running #fitness
