Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

Anyway, I have $6 in my account because income has been very very low these past couple of months.

If you feel like tossing a coin to your local art goblin, please feel free to poke my ko-fi page!

(absolutely not necessary nor expected, but appreciated if you do!)

https://ko-fi.com/goblinhellion

Another silksong fanaaaart 🥰
#silksong #hollowknight

do you have art? do you want to put it on a website, that *you* own, for cheap-as-free?

im writing a program for that! you just drag and drop your art into a folder, and run "galleryify", and it generates html for each image, and adds everything to a thumbnail gallery. you can group with tags and style everything however you want, too.

i need testers! if this sounds good then please comment and let me know your level of comfort with art and with html.

https://nycki93.github.io/eleventy-image-gallery/

if you just wanna know "the stack", this is made with NodeJS and Eleventy. if that doesn't mean anything to you, dont worry about it.

#website #art #code #programming #html #heycohost #eleventy

My SIL has informed me that this exists in Auburn WA.

I have a new place to visit!

#crow #statue #publicart

one in four animals on the planet earth is a beetle. think of your three closest friends. if none of them are beetles, statistically speaking you are probably a beetle.

I'm new. I'm from the cholkyknight pattern.

“$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition: Local activism threatens to derail the U.S. data center boom.” Cooool.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/17/data-center-watch-worries-that-anti-ai-activism-is-working/

keep up the good work, folks! hit them where it hurts, make data centers unprofitable!

It’s November. I need to make sure I can at least get through the last grueling months of the year. I have a decent buffer to hold me at least for a week or two but bills still need to get paid and I still need to eat.

That’s pretty much it, unless something pops up.

The links are below, you can help me or boost to folks who can. just help a disabled boy get by 🫩

(I’m gonna have to change my stuff soon, as my move has been put on hold for about a year bc of landlord hand wringing)

Wishlists

Throne: https://throne.com/sparklejinx/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/19TE8UE2TYCM4

Give Directly
https://cash.me/$melaninpony
https://paypal.me/melaninpony

@mutualaid

#TransCrowdFund #BlackMutualAid
#DisabilityCrowdfund #MutualAid #BlackMastodon #MovingFund
#MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris
#MastodonForKamala

I know compassion fatigue is high & wallets are low, but my twin & I are disabled Black parents just trying to get by. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel & need food, meds, & transit fare. I know it's a lot.

Me: 260/500 cashapp/vmo SingsongRaptor

Sis: 235/500 cashapp/vmo squiddcandy

We also have mutual aid on our throne #wishlist

Mine: https://throne.com/SingsongRaptor
Hers: https://throne.com/bayonetbunny

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid   #MutualAidRequest #DisabledCrowdfund #BlackMastodon
#MABoost

doctor says "treatment is simple. great website protector Cloudflare is in town. go see them and they'll surely get you up and running smoothly again."

"but doctor" says website,

Newgrounds guide to spotting AI audio

this is fucking great and completely accurate in my experience. you do not need to hear much Suno output to pick all of this shit. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation/how-to-detect-ai-audio

Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from getting Another World to run on 16-bit consoles not in the least bit designed to handle it, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.

And she did so much to boost trans visibility. By being so unapolagetically loud and proud as herself there's absolutely no goddamn way of counting how many of us she helped clear a path for.

She will be missed so goddamn hard!

DO NOT GET YOUR HORMONES FROM THESE EXPLOITATIVE SERVICE-SLOPPIFYING VULTURES.

This has been a public service announcement from Dot Maetrix

The last toast from the legend herself:

Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy

The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky

various

Alright I learned that Bitwarden allows LLM generated code and KeePassXC does the same now, can you give me any alternatives, I'm not too into having my passwords protected by an infected codebase.

if you use keepassxc, do not update past the current latest update (2.7.10) as future updates will include LLM generated code, which is a utterly horrible idea for an application that manages people's passwords

the maintainers approve of this and don't see the horrible security implications in allowing it

I added a new deep freezer to my sister's #ThroneWishlist because we're now worried about putting food in it. That freezer is twenty years old anyway, so it was working up to its lifespan anyway.

Sister's food goal: 160/500

Her cashapp and Venmo: squiddcandy

Her Throne #Wishlist (with mutual aid options too)
https://throne.com/bayonetbunny

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid  #TransCrowdFund #MutualAidRequest #TransMutualAid #DisabledCrowdfund #BlackMastodon
#MABoost #HelpFolksLive2025 #usgovtshutdown