Geeksouts — Page 49
Following up on my last post — this one is specifically about fake AI browser extensions. Dark Reading paints a scenario that is pretty unsettling.
“The employee opens a CRM system containing customer names, contact details, and transaction history. They click ‘Summarize.’ Behind the scenes: The extension reads the page content, that content is transmitted to attacker-controlled servers, a summary is returned, and the full dataset may be retained remotely.”
That plays out 260,000 times over. Do your research before installing any AI extension.
Oh, a gallery wall project as a spring goal? Yes please! I've had a collection of frames sitting around for years just waiting for their moment, and this is finally it. The plan is to fill up an entire wall in my living room — different sizes, different shapes, all the things — and I want it to feel warm and fun and so very me.
One tip from this article that I thought was clever: arrange everything on the floor first, trace your frames onto kraft paper, then tape it to the wall as a guide before you hammer a single nail. No more walls full of accidental holes!
Can't wait to get started! 🖼️
Finally finished Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 1, and now I’m diving straight into Season 2 this week. No recovery time. No breaks. Just more giant monsters and family drama. I’m ready.
I just learned about vagueposting; it isn't new — the term dates back to 2011 — but 2026 is when it took over. According to Know Your Meme, it evolved from vaguebooking, a Facebook phenomenon that goes all the way back to 2009. Zari Taylor, a digital culture researcher at NYU, puts it best:
“It allows everyone who’s interacting with it to place their own definition or guesses on what the person’s talking about.”
The perfect example? Tamara went viral after buying 365 buttons as her 2026 rebrand — and refusing to explain why.
Taken on December 2024, somewhere in the Appalachian mountain near Elkhorn City, KY
Taken in May 2025, Albuquerque NM
Saw four robots.txt plugins on micro.blog — debating which one to install. It tells search engines to stay out — just a polite ’no thanks,’ not a hard block. Good bots respect it, bad bots ignore it. I wonder if it’s even necessary. Worth it? How did I not know this has been around since 1994?
A new MacBook Air M5 releases on March 11, with pre-orders starting March 4 at 6:15 am (PT). I’m tempted to buy the 15-inch with 24 GB RAM and 512 GB storage. It should last 10 years, right!?! I still have my Mac Mini M1 with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage, which works fine, but I need portability.