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@Bigshellevent the entire idea of copyleft is to be the Satanic Temple of rights on immaterial things, claiming any protection afforded to commercial enterprises also for themselves.
Without that context, we risk becoming the Church of Satan.
If art can be fed into a neural net for training despite the authors' wishes then so can everything else. Reverse engineering with an LLM that ingests the input and answers questions just became legal.
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Zscaler has a hard dependency on systemd on linux
This causes so many issues, any minor change in modules and defaults causes my user's computers to lock up and completely lose internet. A basic local vpn (which is all zscaler is) is trivial to implement without systemd.
By depending on systemd, they are making my life worse as an admin, for no gain.
I don't get the systemd cult.
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it's running as a service or daemon right? So you need a system that controls your daemons....
Like a firewall, or any other service.
How's the tunnel know when to come up if something doesn't tell it?
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New funding model for Open Source just dropped.
InfoSec starts screaming about a 9.9 CVSS and then the open source maintainer sells the vuln on the dark web.
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The best IMDB pages are these kinds
imdb.com/name/nm0870439/
Just a jobber who has acted in shows I'd love, it's like a To Watch List and a Resume
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I mentioned months ago that a large West Coast muni whose name rhymes with "Fee Battle" would be hiring a Cybersecurity Specialist.
That job posted 2 wks ago! I learned about today! Closing is 4 PM 8 Oct.
This is a union-represented position and will earn .. more than me. And I'm no pushover.
It will have a substantial OT role.
Come help a utility survive in the wilderness while delivering drinking water to 1.6M! Push back against the AI onslaught!
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#infosec #jobs
Cybersecurity Analyst
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) is seeking a dedicated and skilled Cybersecurity Analyst (IT Professional A, Exempt) to join our team.www.governmentjobs.com
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Bob Young on LinkedIn: #cybersecurity #jobs #seattle
The City of Seattle is looking for a Cybersecurity Analyst. This is a nice position. Take a look. #cybersecurity #jobs #seattle https://lnkd.in/guQ_h96pBob Young (www.linkedin.com)
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diogenes is the only man in history to ever own a cat.
(the cat was so ashamed at losing the argument.)
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If pentesters were to write „Outdated protocols (IPv4) enabled, increased attack surface“ into their reports, could they coerce companies through compliance into supporting IPv6? 😆
Unfortunately I hear „disable IPv6 to mitigate this and that“ all too often, which is equally stupid as my not-so-serious suggestion.
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@jima @f2k1de yeah, I count 739,594,983,636,992 x /64 nets. That 172,200 times more than 2³².
The largest IPv6 network that I can see is from Deutsche Telekom: 2003::/19.
Even if we leave out everything bigger than (but including) /29, it's still 324,534,932,078,592 x /64 nets.
Damn, there must be many small nets. I had expected some extremely large ones that when left out, make scanning ::1 feasible …
@jima @f2k1de 16 bytes for the address + 2 bytes for the TCP port per result, potentially less when compacted or stored in a tree.
Collecting the data and making use of it appear to me as the harder challenges.
Some leakix.net, search.censys.io or shodan replica, but community hosted. How expensive and challenging would hosting a large Elasticsearch index be?
@f2k1de Disagree with two assertions here:
1. Why store 16 bytes of address when the last eight are :0000:0000:0000:0001?
2. Why hit a TCP port, when in all likelihood it'll be blocked? Better to use ICMP echo. (It may still be blocked, but it's still LESS LIKELY than a TCP port.)
3. (bonus) Are you storing negative results? If so: why? Log the BGP-announced prefix as done when done (with a timestamp, so you know when a rescan might be useful).
@f2k1de Err, after 24 years of doing business IT, I'm not sure how much proselytizing I need, but...
I get the trope of "dumb orgs block ICMP," but exactly what TCP port do you think is a) going to be commonly listening on most hosts bearing x::1 IPs, and b) going to not be subjected to firewalling from the WAN, that c) is going to be more prevalent than getting a response to an ICMP echo request? 🤨
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Ran into family friends from childhood while out last night, and all they could talk about is that my dad had a heart attack a few months ago.
My family is downplaying it so much, and it was the first time I got to talk to someone who took it seriously (except my wife), and it was nice.
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So the Hamburgler used to steal burgers, mostly for redistribution, but after years realized he needed to make systemic change. This is why he disappeared, he attempted to unionize several McDonalds.
McDonalds Corporation cannot stand a Robblerouser.
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“AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself”
bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-…
> Now analysts and agencies are quietly revising their decarbonization goals downward, gas and coal plants that were slated for retirement are being kept online, and now utilities are building more gas plants in the first half of 2024 than were built in all of 2020 combined.
Again, a sincere fuck you to everybody who has had a hand in inflating the AI Bubble.
AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself
Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major waysBrian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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remember, it's not Surfing the Web
You cerf the net
You berners-lee the web
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I wonder what the 4th big grift that involves a huge amount of GPUs is going to be, after cryptocurrencies, metaverse and generative AI models. Because there will be a large amount of unusued GPUs left with Big Tech after the current bubble bursts.
I don't think cloud gaming would be able to use up that much capacity. There are data centers being built now which won't be completed before the bubble bursts.
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For @Becky 's birthday, our 5yo wanted to make a custom PvZ mod where everything is rainbows.
So our first attempt all the work we did got eaten because the game didn't like the files. So we redid it, and then had to test.
And my son is being a proper game dev, having all his work ruined and needing to fix it
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If a candidate for Prime Minister surrounds himself with lunatics, crooks, and agents of hostile foreign powers, the patriotic response is not: ‘Oh no, he might cost himself the election!’
The patriotic response is: ‘He damn well should lose the election.
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I have a friend who is being harassed and threatened semi-anonymously via Facebook. She knows *who* it is, but Facebook and Police are characteristically being uselss.
I am kinda useless at this side of deanonymization, but does anyone have advice or resources for deanonymizing enough to get cops to move?
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if you can host a file on a site where you can look at the access logs and then post a link to that file, you might be able to bait them into downloading the file which could give you their IP address in the access logs. A whois search for the IP address.could get you their ISP and geolocation information on the IP could get you the general area.
That's a lot of "ifs" and "coulds", though.
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How To Bait and Catch The Anonymous Person Harassing You On The Internet
Leo Traynor, an Internet user in Ireland, had a problem. More specifically, he had a troll, a very nasty troll.Kashmir Hill (Forbes)
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from there, if the police still won't do something, it turns to filing court orders to get information from the IP holders about who had the IP at the time of access and harassment.
Good luck.
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Programming language power efficiency always feels like the tech industry green washing if I'm being honest. It always comes and goes on a pretty predictable year or two cycle.
A data center switching everything to Rust won't use less power than running Java, as the companies running these resources hogging computing warehouses will just use the reduced overhead to further expand their through-put.
Training AI crap will always use astronomical compute resources because they'll use everything they can usurp regardless of language.
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This article happened to cross my path. It's largely just reporting over the articles findings, but the opening paragraph irked me:
One metric that has become more important over the years is that of energy efficiency, as datacenters keep growing along with their power demand. If picking one programming language over another saves even 1% of a datacenter’s electricity consumption, this could prove to be highly beneficial, assuming it weighs up against all other factors one would consider.
hackaday.com/2024/09/10/assess…
The problem in this case isn't the choice of programming languages, but the unrestricted growth of data centers. With the introduction of LLMs, the training of them has seen titanic jumps in power usage. Additionally, data centers have a much, much more destructive cost to them: water usage. We don't even know how much water some companies use because they have managed to label that a trade secret...
If you are researching low power computing, keep pushing that field forward. We will need low-energy tools. I want to see extreme efficiency in computing. But, there is no future where a privatized centralized data center, trying to extract patterns and monetary value from god-knows-how-much-data, is not a resource hog.
Assessing The Energy Efficiency Of Programming Languages
Programming languages are generally defined as a more human-friendly way to program computers than using raw machine code. Within the realm of these languages there is a wide range of how close the…Hackaday
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DNS jokes are difficult.
It can take at least 24 hours for everyone to get it.
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The visigoths on their way to sack Rome circa 410
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in reply to evacide • • •> "23andMe and/or our contracted genotyping laboratory will retain your Genetic Information, date of birth, and sex as required for compliance with applicable legal obligations, [...], even if you chose to delete your account. 23andMe will also retain limited information related to your account and data deletion request, including but not limited to, your email address [...]" - Retention of Personal Information
Does this mean they'll keep DNA and identifiable info even after deleting account?
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in reply to evacide • • •a note: before you delete it, you may want to request downloads of your data for your own use. The means to do so is on the same page as the deletion request is.
You paid for it, you might as well get your FASTA and VCF out of it!
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in reply to evacide • • •Agreed
I think a lot of us fell into this trap simply out of ignorance. We've all, OK most of us, learned a lot in the last 20 years about corporate invasion of privacy and in many cases it's just too late to undo it. All we can do is help others make better choices.
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in reply to evacide • • •for less than $100 I found my biological fathers family, the answer to why drugs weren't working for my heart condition (genetic resistance to cardioselective beta blockers), and that my family history wasn't at all what I'd been told.
I didn't ask for any of the rest of this.
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in reply to evacide • • •Oh God, the stories ... One needs to be savvy about genealogical & genomic research. (Full disclosure: I wrote this article. Never used 23 & Me myself.)
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American nonprofit organization
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)b00tl00ps
in reply to evacide • • •Like all collection services, they're happy to take your info in at breakneck speed, but once you request a copy of it, well, that'll take days. Sometimes weeks. And then they piecemeal it to you in the least digestible form, individual .CSV files. (just completed the download and closed the account)
You can do a lot with the raw CSV data if you're savvy, which they're quick to note was not parsed for errors or accuracy, but this is not the majority of internet citizens. Thanks for the reminder to kill this off. Much appreciated.
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in reply to evacide • • •When they go the rest of the way bankrupt, they will sell off the data, probably multiple times
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in reply to evacide • • •It's not like they were ever that careful with the data.
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23andMe agrees to $30 million settlement over data breach that affected 6.9 million users
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)Kyle Judd
in reply to evacide • • •Really? What’s wrong with it? I’m curious to know.
Though I was more of an #ancestrydna guy than a 23 & Me user.
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in reply to evacide • • •“Andy Kill, a spokesperson for 23andMe”
Possibly the worst name for a spokesperson
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Been on my to do list for ages.
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