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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"> <channel><title>Flutterby!</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/</link><description>Last updated 2025-07-18 23:44:42.507088+02</description><language>en</language> <image><title>Flutterby</title><url>https://www.flutterby.com/adbanners/175x24base.jpg</url><link>https://www.flutterby.com</link></image><item><title>Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 &#8216;visa integrity fee&#8217; &#8212; what to know</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34277.html</link><description><html><body><p>Because the US tourism industry hasn't been hit hard enough yet: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html">Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 &#8216;visa integrity fee&#8217; &#8212; what to know</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T23:44:42</pubDate></item><item><title>disclosed through 0din</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34276.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-gemini-bug-turns-gmail-summaries-into-phishing-attack">PC Mag: Google Gemini Bug Turns Gmail Summaries into Phishing Attack</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-gemini-flaw-hijacks-email-summaries-for-phishing/">Bleeping Computer: Google Gemini Bug Turns Gmail Summaries into Phishing Attack</a></p> <blockquote><p>A prompt-injection attack on Google's Gemini model was <a target="target" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini">disclosed through 0din</a>, Mozilla's bug bounty program for generative AI tools, by researcher Marco Figueroa, GenAI Bug Bounty Programs Manager at Mozilla.</p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T19:39:12</pubDate></item><item><title>&#8234;Dr. Davey F. Wright &#9935;&#65039;&#129429;&#129516;&#8236; &#8234;@daveyfwright.bsky.social&#8236;</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34275.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/daveyfwright.bsky.social/post/3lu7lefajmc2z">&#8234;Dr. Davey F. Wright &#9935;&#65039;&#129429;&#129516;&#8236; &#8234;@daveyfwright.bsky.social&#8236;</a></p> <blockquote><p> "i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge &#129514;</p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T19:22:48</pubDate></item><item><title>Via</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34274.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250718.html">NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency</a></p> <p><a href="https://lobste.rs/s/l8a8zq/nih_is_far_cheaper_than_wrong_dependency">Via</a>.</p> <p>I'm finding that a hell of a lot of "just npm install ..." comes from people not actually understanding coding. </p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T19:22:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Restored VW van goes up in flames near downtown Petaluma</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34273.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2025-07-18SmokeOverDowntownPetaluma.jpg"><img src="https://www.flutterby.net/files/images/2025/07/18/160px-2025-07-18SmokeOverDowntownPetaluma.jpg" style="float: right; " alt="" width="160" height="120"/></a>That's not good. Office mate just came in and said it was more black smoke just a moment ago. Hard to tell from here where it's coming from: McNear building? Further?</p> <p>Addendum: <a href="https://cityofpetaluma.org/recent-alarms/">City of Petaluma Recent Alarms page</a> suggests it's a vehicle fire at B St &amp; Petaluma Blvd.</p> <p>Double addendum: <a href="https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-vehicle-fire/">Restored VW van goes up in flames near downtown Petaluma</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T19:10:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34272.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://housefresh.com/beware-of-the-google-ai-salesman/">Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies</a></p> <blockquote><p>Exposing the overly salesy AI Overviews that will push you to buy bad products and exploring the system making it possible.</p> </blockquote><p>I've been trying to investigate AuraCast and the new Bluetooth broadcast technologies for my square dance calling, to create some better hearing enhancement above the FM broadcast that requires people to take out their hearing aids and put in ear buds, and Google's getting pretty worthless, burying the equipment manufacturer's pages in favor of Amazon links, and the links to eBay resellers taking advantage of the Amazon aversion by marking up 30% and drop-shipping from Amazon.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T18:53:44</pubDate></item><item><title>Just deleted a Google Maps API key that</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34271.html</link><description><html><body><p>Just deleted a Google Maps API key that Google was complaining was exposed. I have no idea where I was using it, if I still am. If anyone notices anything broken, please say something to me.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-18T01:20:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language.</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34270.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/mozilla-now-only-seems-to-speak-using-creepy-gibberish-lunatic/m-p/16863/highlight/true">Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language.</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-17T22:39:04</pubDate></item><item><title>The Big LLM Marketing Myth: Visibility Isn&#8217;t About Schema/Tricks&#8212;It&#8217;s About the Query Fan Out</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34269.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://primaryposition.com/blog/query-fan-out/">The Big LLM Marketing Myth: Visibility Isn&#8217;t About Schema/Tricks&#8212;It&#8217;s About the Query Fan Out</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-17T18:30:40</pubDate></item><item><title>India Dispatch: The Great AI Land Grab Reaches Peak 'Free Lunch' in India</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34268.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://indiadispatch.com/p/perplexity-pro-airtel-free-india">India Dispatch: The Great AI Land Grab Reaches Peak 'Free Lunch' in India</a></p> <blockquote><p>This is no watered-down trial. The offer provides the full version of Perplexity Pro, a service that normally costs nearly $200 a year and gives users access to powerful AI models like GPT-4.1 and Claude Sonnet and Opus 4. The strategy specifically targets Airtel&#8217;s paying subscribers, one of India&#8217;s largest groups of commercially valuable internet users, in a market projected to surpass 900 million users in 2025.</p> </blockquote><p>So 350M customers times $200 is $70B, which says some combination of they're not losing as much as we think they are per customer, they don't expect usage to actually be that high and they're willing to accept the loss leader to pull those customers on board, and this is one hell of a Hail Mary flail.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-17T17:58:28</pubDate></item><item><title>qu1j0t3</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34267.html</link><description><html><body><p>Bwahahaha: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lyx6gj/how_to_download_a_487_mb_file_that_chatgpt_helped/">Reddit post begins</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>I worked on a book with ChatGPT and it&#8217;s around 487MB with all the text and visuals. ChatGPT has tried the Google Colab way but it&#8217;s not working (I don&#8217;t know whose fault it is).</p> <p>Is there a way that can help me resolve the issue and save months of work?</p> </blockquote><p>As we drop down in the comments, we find this exchange: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lyx6gj/comment/n318la2/">Professional_Job_307</a></p> <blockquote><p> You generated 700 images with chatgpt? How is it stitching them all together into a book?</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lyx6gj/comment/n31ar4v/">Emotional_Stranger_5 OP</a></p> <blockquote><p> After understanding a lot of things it&#8217;s clear that it didn&#8217;t. And it fooled me for two weeks.</p> <p> I have learned my lesson and now I am using it to generate one page at a time.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1lyx6gj/comment/n3ict8e/">qu1j0t3</a></p> <blockquote><p> that's, uh, not really the ideal takeaway from this lesson</p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-17T02:06:51</pubDate></item><item><title>Alex Komoroske's Why Aggregators Ate The Internet</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34266.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/16/how-one-1990s-browser-decision-created-big-techs-data-monopolies-and-how-we-might-finally-fix-it/">TechDirt: How One 1990s Browser Decision Created Big Tech&#8217;s Data Monopolies (And How We Might Finally Fix It)</a> quotes a lot from and resummarizes <a href="https://every.to/thesis/why-aggregators-ate-the-internet">Alex Komoroske's Why Aggregators Ate The Internet</a>.</p> <p>Unfortunately that piece seems to deeply misrepresent the notion of the "Same Origin Paradigm" that it talks about, or doesn't meaningfully describe what it is, because the larger issue is that everyone wants to own your data.</p> <p>When identity was working itself through the system, there was much discussion about how we were gonna own our own identities. How that fell apart into OpenID is a rant for another time (or, likely, many times previously on here), but the reality is that everyone wants to own your identifier, and nobody wants to help you reclaim it.</p> <p>Your bank? They sure as hell don't want to cede authentication to you, the consumer, who's getting popped by people impersonating your relatives and asking you to send bail money as gift cards.</p> <p>Google? Ditto, and, if they can convince other places that they can provide that security (or at least more than you alone) they can get data out of those other places.</p> <p>Apple? That's why they're pushing Passkey, 'cause it lets them get a little back from Google, and because it deeply locks you into a platform (lots of stuff about issues with migrating those identities).</p> <p>And once a company is able to be miserly with your identity, that gives them even more leverage to silo your data. Google doesn't want to share your calendar information. The only entities which do want to make it easy are small startups, who are gonna get tromped by asymmetry.</p> <p>This has not been a technical force, this has been a socioeconomic force. And no amount of AI boosterism is gonna tear down capitalism and replace it with something that works better.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-16T23:51:55</pubDate></item><item><title>Tim Pierce&#8236; &#8234;@unchi.org&#8236;</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34265.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/unchi.org/post/3lu3vm5jzp22c">Tim Pierce&#8236; &#8234;@unchi.org&#8236;</a></p> <blockquote><p>Today is the 30th anniversary of the Day that Newsweek Discovered Bisexuality. To mark the occasion, I&#8217;m going to tell you all a little story.</p> </blockquote><p>A Bluesky thread about becoming the face of bisexuality and mentioned into the records of the House of Representatives, with bonus illustration of a cover of the lamented magazine <cite>Anything That Moves</cite>.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-16T23:25:59</pubDate></item><item><title>Looking at Auracast transmitters</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34264.html</link><description><html><body><p>Looking at Auracast transmitters, and... electronics have really been reduced to Amazon, eBay reselling Amazon at a markup, and Alibaba, haven't they?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-16T20:20:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Wooh</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/34263.html</link><description><html><body><p>Wooh, 35 out of 36 on today's Timdl, and I can't believe I flubbed the iPhone vs the first Tesla Roadster timing.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2025-07-16T20:00:01</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
