Some security issues, Steam as a monopoly, and some blog posts. Start of a new week and I once again have had a bit of time to catch up with my rss feeds. Unfortunately the time I was going to use on putting together this post on Monday got delayed by me having to prep for a phone job interview which happened on Tuesday (today) morning. Google buys Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents (Axios) for the purpose of ingesting it into AI. Once again a reminder to not use corporate communication channels for anything personal. 'Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam by Jay Castello (Aftermath) I know a lot of people believe strongly that Nintendo is evil for its heavy-handed copyright practises and therefore won't buy them. But people do not seem to have the same awareness of Steam as a computer gaming monopoly. Right now, Steam seems fine because it has so many games and offers them cheaply and of course you can always run whatever you want on a SteamDeck or PC, you don't have to use Steam. But the reality from the game producer standpoint is that if you aren't on Steam you might as well not exist. Therefore Steam controls what games people buy and play just as much as Nintendo does with their consoles. The superficial openness of the systems you can install Steam on doesn't change that they are a monopoly and monopolies are never in the interest of consumers except incidentally. Turns out more bars are collecting and sharing people's IDs (CBC) than even I thought. This story starts out talking about one in Winnipeg but apparently a whole lot of bars and clubs in Vancouver use it too. If you've been to a bar and had your ID scanned your PPI is probably in this system. AliExpress webpage keeping multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting by laserphile If AliExpress is using audio for browser fingerprinting other sites probably are as well. The disability in the ADHD by folkmoss thinking about friendships by ava MONDAY CLEANING: KITCHEN, HALLWAY, CHAIR RACK I by Peige (pretendtypewriter.net) Adventure reading list by Fran (What the Fran) ⇄ Reply: mastodon+email ＄ Tip: ko-fi+liberapay 2026 Week 35 Links was last edited: 1 week, 5 days ago