Austin

This is a parody twitter account, it parodies the real life of Austin Anders which is not that amusing.

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

the precedent that this sets sucks; however, probably the right call as the damages from class action will exceed whatever they are paying right now. the problem is that every payout further validates data extortion as a profitable business model.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[metal gear facts @MetalGearFacts1]

Do you know what day it is today?

[CyberCPU Tech @cybercpu]

This is what's happening to YouTube. This is one of my most popular videos. It's how to fix a UEFI bootloader. As you can see the traffic has been cut in half over the last 6 months.

But if you Google how to fix a UEFI bootloader, Gemini will give you my exact step by step process. Even the commands it cites are copied directly from my video.

I got no royalty payments and don't even get a link to the original video. I simply lost the traffic and Google is able to provide more value from stolen content.

AI is going to destroy the content industry on the internet and when it's gone, there will be nothing left to train the AI. Since AI can't come up with anything original it relies on stolen content and it can't steal what doesn't exist if it puts creators out of business.

[Austin @austinanders]

@NIN_Archive Any chance you have a torrent or magnet link? I wasn’t able to pull a download from IA the other day.

[Austin @austinanders]

@ChuckWilkerson I’m doing okay, I just hit the 6 month seizure free a few days ago. So hoping I can keep this streak going strong!

How are you doing? Also, merry Xmas to you and your family!

[Austin @austinanders]

@LitMoose As a Mac user since 10.4, I’ve always come back to recommending https://t.co/sD6RBYcPBw to more GUI focused end users.

It’s under GPL and has a lot of other bells and whistles like WebDAV support for mapping and transferring to cloud and SaaS file shares

[Austin @austinanders]

@gabsmashh

[💻 Sherrod @sherrod_im]

It is your patriotic duty as an American, on this holy Black Friday to update the firmware on your parents’ router. 🇺🇸🦃🛜

[Austin @austinanders]

Well, it’s currently the only one I know, I don’t imagine this is a very large vampire-mobster hybrid genre.

[Austin @austinanders]

Currently watching Innocent Blood, and it might be one of the most bonkers vampire mob movies I have ever seen.

[Austin @austinanders]

@gabsmashh Awesome, what a small world!

[Austin @austinanders]

Welp, this is a bummer. https://t.co/eAWZelcHas

[Austin @austinanders]

Yeah, and humanity has only been aware of polio for about the same length of time the U.S. has existed. Doesn’t mean we were doing just fine before the vaccine in the last century.

But again, Rand’s probably the type to want to do away with that too…

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

United States Politician Rand Paul wants to cut, or entirely eliminate, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

He said: “While it’s unlikely we could get rid of CISA, we survived for what, 248 years without them”

https://t.co/t7PTdcE9bj

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

2016: $250 motherboard has 8 SATA ports
2024: $250 motherboard has 2 SATA ports

I get why Trump won now

[Big Boss @LordBalvin]

Metal Gear Solid 2 released today 23 years ago in 2001. 🎂

A script written in 1999 delivered one of the most eerily accurate descriptions of our current social and political climate so, all the way to the message delivered by an AI.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@Kojima_Hideo @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN

[@mikko @mikko]

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[Austin @austinanders]

@ChuckWilkerson Damn, I’m sorry to hear that man, thinking of my own parents I can only imagine how tough that must be on you.

Lately I’m just work all the time trying to convince people not to click on phishing emails.