AliExpress caught fingerprinting visitors after sending inaudible sounds to browsers

Is the technique outdated? Yes. Is it still creepy? Also yes.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/aliexpress-caught-fingerprinting-visitors-after-sending-inaudible-sounds-to-browsers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Second week of school off to a rough start since I caught some kind of cold.

Still we're managing at least a bit. Kid is learning about the Benin bronzes today as a mix of art and history class. He doesn't like doing art, but enjoys learning about it. I love being able to customize his learning like this.

#homeschool

Raspberry Pi Shares Its Official Tutorial For Making a Cyberdeck https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/24/1853204/raspberry-pi-shares-its-official-tutorial-for-making-a-cyberdeck?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Drs. #MarkPerlmutter and #ThaerAhmad Discuss The #HORRIFYING Reality In #Gaza #tyt #yt

https://youtu.be/Ga8GVxbC5L8

@happyborg Thanks, exactly the breakdown I needed. I'm all Z-Wave so far (Zooz 800 controller) plus a Hue bridge that's Zigbee but closed to generic devices, so I've never run an open Zigbee net. £15 a sensor plus one SONOFF dongle is a low enough bar that I've kept circling it without committing, and this might finally tip me. Helps that my MQTT broker's already there for Zigbee2MQTT. The placement point tracks too, moving the coordinator off the server is underrated.

This is a Ruckers mother-and-child virginal—a 17th-century keyboard instrument with a second, smaller instrument built into it, tuned an octave higher. The “child” could be pulled out to play duets or set on top of the “mother” to add a jangly, buzzing color to the main sound—a Renaissance-era layering trick, centuries before mixing desks. Antwerp instrument makers were doing this in the 1600s.
@BrianRoemmele #globalmuseum #museums #musicalinstruments

@jeremyg merci Jeremy pour ces messages qui me font très plaisir !

Twitch AI class action: inept and written with ChatGPT

chatbot bad court thingy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzyI8pUmsfg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260824-twitch-ai-class-action-inept-and-written-with-chatgpt - podcast

time: 5 min 50 sec

J'ai enfin lu Véloruptopia,
je l'avais commencé lors d'une nuit blanche il y a au moins un an, m'étais arrêté au chapitre 3 en vu de le finir plus tard, un jour. Bah enfin c'est fait, j'ai tout lu en 2 jours, hier je m'étais dit, ne pas lire plus de 2 chapitres par jour, 74 pages peut se lire très vite, trop vite. Un peu comme pour les séries que j'apprécie, je suis de la vieille époque, prendre le temps de digérer les épisodes, y repenser le lendemain, se demander, comment pourrait être...

Still searching for that holy grail of ongoing design work.

I don't know why it's apparently mythical...

In nearly 20 years of working professionally creating logos, 2D illustrations, app icons, and a lot more besides... I have yet to find it 🤷‍♂️

https://andycarolan.com

#Design #Illustration #Icons #Logos #RemoteWork

@slightlyoff what is that notes icon supposed to be? Looks like an emoji person holding a phone and the glow of the screen on their face

Mediocre folks endorsing AI isnt a flex, its an indictment of their mediocrity.

Ze laten in dit filmpje verdomme letterlijk een speech van Hitler zien, waarna ze een instemmende stelling gaan bespreken.

HET. ZIJN. NAZI'S. Het KAN verdomme niet letterlijker!

Bron screenshot: Bluesky Jesse Klaver, origineel afkomstig van site ON.

@BlairMountainWarrior You mean they're gonna collaborate in derailing the election?

Kitsune Tails, the sapphic fox girl SMB3-like, is 35% off on Steam and itch https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Or help our queer studio survive into the future by getting all our games as a bundle for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/199085/kitsune-games-end-of-summer-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)

Includes:
- Kitsune Tails and its prequel Kitsune Zero
- MidBoss, a possession based top-10 rated traditional roguelike
- Ultra Hat Dimension, an adorable push puzzle game about hats and getting punched for wearing them

@mrgawrjuhs it should be good but it isn't, why?

When I was younger, I became quite known in my country for being an avid backpacker. I was sometimes in the newspapers, with pictures of me on camels or in auto rickshaws.

My grandpa didn’t read a word of English, but when he passed I found a file of every single newspaper clipping about me that he had cut out carefully, in all languages.

I miss that deeply autistic man so much. He used to write my Chinese name all over my bags, umbrellas, anything I would take with me to travel. He collected clocks, and flashlights, and even today when we go to visit him at the columbarium, we still bring little clocks and flashlights and leave it there for him, instead of flowers.