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Just got #InFUNity Tiles, and my 4yo is excited and I'm excited
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I'm gonna level with you guys.

This weekend, cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs supportively posted a quote on his Mastodon account, by a politician who suggested LGBTQ people commit false-flag bomb threats against themselves and their own drag story hours.

A few trans people including myself called him out on it. He didn't address any of our concerns. Instead, he tone-shamed and muted us.

I got pissed and wrote several toots, tagging him in some and not others. Thank you, anyone who read and boosted them.

Where was everyone else?

I can't help but feel if Krebs had quoted a politician suggesting Jews threatened their own synagogues for attention, or POC swatted themselves to "raise awareness" of racism, the response against him would be MUCH louder and carried by more than just a few trans people's voices.

99.9% of the time, attacks and threats against LGBTQ+ people -- particularly trans people -- are not "disinformation ops".

Is it because he's a tech bro, and one of the infosec field's designated mascots or what? Where are you at, cisgender mufos? Some words of support or acknowledgment of this hurt would go a long way.

Where are the reports against his instance, all the outcry I've seen on here for five years when someone egregiously fucks up and doubles down? I thought this place was trans-supportive.

I'm not hurt that he shamed and muted me, that part is just how it goes.

What hurts is the silence and inaction of mutuals on here. Disinformation, prejudice, and abuse of a journalistic platform just slid on by, already mostly buried in the timeline.

Trans people remember shit like that. We know what it means. My question is, do you know?

@jerry
@briankrebs
#infosec
#cybersecurity

I don't follow Krebs, so I didn't understand what was going on. Thank you for taking the time to explain.

@screwtape Is there somewhere with short description for each archived episode? That's useful since, I, timezone, can't.
@iacore
alright so hypothetically there are extensive mastodon toot threads tagged with #lispyGopher each week (formerly, #lispyGopherShow). However in practice I find the mastodon server really doesn't like to produce these.

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@screwtape thanks. the tag seems to show up here more or less.

@screwtape @iacore

See, I use the ASFO (Wordpress) Web site to create pages for each of my episodes, with a little synopsis and a link to the recording. Like so :

https://anonradio.net/asfo-2024-03-23/

@publius
Yeah, I should actually use that. But I like the tootversations that happen pro/retro spectively as well as the damgud cyberchatting.

I guess I'll use shinmera's tooter to textify the show plans. I was planning to start talking about the topics at the beginning of the week, rather than just a few hours before the show as well.
@iacore


Have you seen the Kropotkin cartoon in this series?
psychologist: "Punk rocker Kropotkin isn't real, it can't hurt you"
Punk rocker Kropotkin:
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reasons you should defederate threads


  1. it's meta
  2. it's meta
  3. IT'S META

#FediPact #meta #threads

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Me: "Imagine being king?! You'd be like anything I can do Democracy can do better, and democracy fucking sucks"
My Wife: "I forgot you were drunk"

My mind immediately went to "Cult of the Dad Chat"
@emma best 🏳️‍🌈 🏴 Mx. Yzptlk I would 100% join the "Cult of the Dad Chat"
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I don’t know why Meta haven’t been public about this, but you can now hide any of your posts from Threads users by just adding the word ”pixelfed” anywhere in it. Nice to give the option to opt out so easily, but a somewhat strange way to do it and a very random choice of keyword imho.

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(Explaining the joke to peeps who’re out of the loop:

Meta is censoring their competition, Pixelfed, an instagram-like fediverse site.

Not sure if it’s really happening:

Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available


https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-threads-hiding-pixelfed/ )


More than a few Meta employees showed up at FediForum earlier this week, doubling down on their commitment to open protocols and “being a good neighbor on the Fediverse”. While there were some demos and fruitful conversations, one public concern flew under the radar.

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An eagle-eyed Threads user noticed that their status giving Pixelfed a positive mention was seemingly hidden from the tree of a public conversation. From there, coverage picked up across the network, and even made it back to Daniel Supernault, Pixelfed’s creator.

“Meta is free to do whatever they want on their platforms,” the developer mentioned, “and I hope this is a bug.”

For now, no one’s quite sure. Various people have tried to recreate the same situation with their Threads accounts, and their comments are still publicly available. We have yet to see a statement from the Threads team on the situation.
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Bug or not, a vocal part of the network is apprehensive about Meta’s true intentions with the platform, ranging from pessimism on how much effort Threads is really putting in to the Fediverse, to accusations of hostile behavior. Dropping the ball like this can hurt user confidence, especially when building community goodwill is so crucial.

Prior History


Pixelfed has something of an established history with being at odds with Meta. Some of that points to Pixelfed’s form factor, which bears more than a passing resemblance to Instagram.
48129474812949Left: my Pixelfed, Right: my Instagram
In the past, the project was warned by a Meta employee about using the same filter names and styles for images, citing a potential violation of Meta’s intellectual property. Pixelfed complied, and changed their image filters and styles in hopes of sidestepping the issue. It never came up again.

4812951Pixelfed filters

Additionally, there have been situations in the past where both Twitter and Facebook have censored posts linking to open source Fediverse alternatives. Even if Threads is an effort to right wrongs of the past, these situations don’t reflect well on Threads or its parent company.

When is a bug just a bug?


For all we know right now, this is very likely an unfortunate bug. However, it’s important for the Threads team to nip this in the bud, if they really want to establish good vibes about their efforts.

FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta’s ActivityPub Platform


https://wedistribute.org/2023/06/fedipact-blocking-meta/embed/#?secret=7cLoHjF70r#?secret=2YsFyid9V9

On the other hand, it’s important to acknowledge that there’s a segment of the network that won’t be satisfied with an explanation, no matter how much evidence is presented. Some people will block Meta no matter what, and that’s their choice.

Regardless, we’ll keep you posted if we learn anything more.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/is-threads-hiding-pixelfed/

#Meta


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Call out to any and all email protocol specialists and adjacent areas. I’d like to announce a new instance in the fediverse for the exim project.

https://ehlo.exim.org/

We have an announcements bot at @announce mirroring the announce email list.

And as the initial human contingent

Lead Developer - @jgh Jeremy Harris
Social Antagonist - @bernardq - my email head.

Other members of the project may eventually turn up.

We’re still trying to work out how the project interacts with the fediverse so any other projects out there that give some suggestions please chime in.

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I’ll let you in on a secret: I love sporadically updated weblogs. I subscribe to over 1200 feeds and most of them are sporadic or even technically “inactive”. Months often pass between updates

It means that every post published was important to the writer

Back in the days of snail mail, letters that began with “It’s been a while since I last wrote to you” were the ones people cherished the most

You don’t need to post every day or even every week to have a blog that matters

Which app do you use for sites with no rss?

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@muratk5n Nothing. Sites without RSS don't want me to read them so I don't.



LLM generated text is fascinatingc because there's two groups managing it.
1) I am going to call the SpamAssassin side, now I know that you've likely not has email that wasn't Office365 or Gmail for a decade or more, and those are Category Two email services, but we scrappy underdogs filtering email with SpamAssassin have an effect where LLM generated text looks like garbage, and so if you generate your words or images with a GPT engine, it's gotta be scored as garbage
2) the Google/Facebook/Microsoft stance that you should allow all LLM text and diffusion images! They're great! It's the AI revolution!

The problem with Category 2 is that it rapidly makes all your stuff garbage (people only see spam), because if people can generate stuff no one wants to see, but gets past the filter, they will. Google will literally pay them to do that.

If you block that stuff, people who claim there are ethical uses for LLMs (a lie) will be caught, and those generating human supervised text carefully will be blocked.

The goals of people-who-make-money-on-clicks (read: everyone) are only served if:
We only use category 1 filters
The people making money on clicks create things that pass category 1 filters

And the whole "what is happening to facebook" is just the culmination of this obvious point

this post is incomprehensible because the point is obvious but impossible to explain
@silverwizard It looks like a post written by a LLM. Syntax is correct but the point is muddled.

@Hypolite Petovan The problem is the phantom concept of AI polluting the decisions.

If you could say:
If a platform allows AI then it will become nothing but spam
If a platform blocks AI then it will block people using Ethical AI

But, part of it is that Ethical AI isn't real, and AI is a problematic branding term.

But part of it is that Google/Microsoft/Facebook are allowing AI posts because that way their AI marketing is easier, but it's ruining platforms.

It's really obvious but it's so hard to put into words.

@Hypolite Petovan I mean, it's not so hard - it interlinks things I don't wanna interlink, because part of the issue is the ridiculousness of banning one kind of spam but not antoher
https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-shrimp-jesus/
Yeah! Exactly! This!
Facebook is boosting fake content and now is a mess of spam, and that's it. Filter it like bot content, or ruin your site.

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I lurk on an NZ-based school IT manager email list. It's fascinating to watch these poor folks wrestle every day with the proprietary rubbish they've had foisted upon them - it's all they know, actually - complaining about vendor policy & pricing changes, bad support, EOL'd systems, byzantine licensing headaches, proprietary non-standards compatibility issues, and the lack of capabilities & money to afford stuff they need. They're trying their best, but the school IT status quo is totes broken.
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I need to remember BSides Toronto this year - it's always at a time of year when I'm not thinking about things
Of course, that's dependent on their Mask policy, and I assume SecTor's will suck


Talking to my son recently made me realize that most famous Knight in history is probably John Lennon, or Paul McCartney


Does anyone remember the RPG that looks like Castle of the Winds - but the gameplay is just managing the windows that are popping up?
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goal met tysm!!!!! 🖤

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#MutualAid #TransCrowdFund


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i'm currently doing my best to job search. after having an utterly sanity-destroying time working in fast food pre-pandemic, that drove me to the brink of suicide, i am extremely wary of fast food or retail and have basically set the hard limit that i can't do anything public-facing for my own mental health's sake. my various mental illnesses further complicate matters, but i'm trying my best to find something that will work for me. my work portfolio is at https://vanta.work

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Not a fan, at all, of tech talks making generalizations about teachers being "unprepared" instead of amplifying the real experiences of teachers and the real work they're doing in this moment, which is tremendous.

#monkigras

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Here are things my teacher friends have done to take genAI seriously and more importantly take its impact on students seriously:
- developed an entire course project for students to collaboratively "test" and experiment with genAI tools and also see where they replicate misconceptions about scientific knowledge
- spent hours helping students who were on a group project being sabotaged by other students who were insisting on the wrong answers because of relying on genAI

#monkigras

- developed new collaborative classroom exercises helping students learn how to read and triage code that was generated so that they'll be prepared as they encounter it
- held early course ethics and justice discussions where the students were able to surface their concerns and collaboratively think about their values wrt how people's data are used, how artists are treated, how we might think about data surveillance and privacy

#monkigras

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At Code Your Future, we’ve had to work really hard with trainees who see all the nonsense about gen AI “removing the need for junior engineers” to get them to see their own value (!) and learn to use gen AI as a useful learning tool
It’s very understandable that trainees are conflating said nonsense about gen AI and the massive and unfortunate downturn in junior engineering hiring. Which makes the sentiment about gen AI and juniors all the more frustrating for me

I am so glad to hear that students are learning to think critically about AI in particular and more generally about ethical application development.

I think we have had enough of EdTech telling us that learners will be left behind if educators don't use what they are selling right now.

Our brains got us where we are, let's learn how to use them more effectively :-)



One Ring to Kern them all
One Ring to Process Isolate Them
One Ring to Allocate Resources
And In The Process Stack Bind Them?
CISSP is trying to make me care about the Windows Ring Security model

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If you’re angry about EU regulations because of cookie banners then malicious compliance has worked on you.


I need to invent JaaS, pronounced Jazz, which is secretly just Jenkins as a Service, but is the CI everyone is hoping and wishing for.

Everyone out here with their cobbled together hell of YAML and docker containers trying to build the perfect CI system, and Groovy is just sitting there being simple.

where do you get that last one? Specially one for Groovy and Jenkins?

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STOP DOING ELECTRON

- WEB PAGES WERE NEVER MEANT TO BE SEPERATE BROWSERS THAT TAKE UP 1GB OF RAM
- MILLIONS OF YEARS OF CHROME EMBEDDED FRAMEWORK AND YET NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND FOR MAKING YOUR MUSIC PLAYER A WEB APP
- "hello yes please take away 1gb of my ram for Discord" statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
- WANTED TO PUT YOUR WEB APP AS A SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP? WE HAD A TOOL FOR THAT - WE PUT THE LINK INTO A SHORTCUT FILE
THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

stop writing in only uppercase

@txt.file Unhinged Time Cube style ranting is the idiomatic format for this particular meme template.

@veast / Chloe :3



go into my older son's room because he wants us to come in every 5 minutes until he's asleep
"where's your tablet? why is it not playing?"
he smiles, I look under his pillow, he's cracked the password and is watching the 1999 Pikachu Shorts

Wow, this is some MAJOR gaslighting:

“We've made the company decision to terminate your employment. We feel you are not a good fit. I think you'll agree with how things were when you left that it wasn't going well. I don't think you were happy here.” – HR Director Termination phone call

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The confidence that tech trainers seem to have that all messaging over Port 80 is unencrypted baffles me

It's just so outside my experience

@silverwizard Oh, you meant on the client and then relayed through port 80.
@Hypolite Petovan yeah, end to end vs server to server and client to server

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If you're supposed to be doing security trainings, and you don't let me copy/paste into the password field. Why should I trust you?


CISSP Exam next week
Cat apparently suddenly is quadriplegic or something
Major DB upgrade at work

how this did this fall apart so fast

I totally feel this, had something at work completely fall apart and now I'm questioning my own competence.

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Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft ̶A̶u̶t̶o̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶ Autocomplete?
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The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door, and believe me, they've tried.

Voice from outside: This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and what I have for you today is a Type 40 TARDIS....

true, LPL is no Genghis Khan horde :)

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ed is the standard Unix text editor.
It's even more than Unix as Plan9 has it. (But Plan9's editor is more like acme)


Do you think I can crack my USB bluetooth dongle open and find some contacts to alligator clip an antenna to?

That's a shitty situation!

Maybe you can find some other BT dongle that has an external antenna?

@christian mock the issue there is that it would then cost me money, and take work that wasn't "stupid electronics hacks"


I want to play Burning Wheel in the Castlevania show universe. Just so many big ol vampires and nightmare monsters hanging out, and so many good options for trying to stop them from living. And lots of times to angst about it.

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fun project idea: make a fake SCADA panel with an “Explode Facility” button, put it behind an unsecured VNC server, and then count how many times the exploding button is pressed

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heard you liked containerization

Am I gonna need to block you?

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@Bob Jonkman I'm sorry, I had to share my intrusive thoughts

@rrwo @rkaj Someone else suggested that a better alternative would be a purely semantic markup language with no construct for layout at all, that all presentation should be left to the client. Markdown is adequate for that, obviously, but what seems the most important to me is the latter part.

We have collectively forgotten userstyles, instead we let ourselves be tossed around by whatever is fancy that day or worse whatever is the dark pattern du jour.

Think about it: if styling is entirely client-side there is no way to hide the unsubscribe link as tiny 2pt light grey text on white background, as everyone seems to be doing now. It would force authors to care about structure instead of presentation and hence make everything accessible by default.

I don't think phishing and spam can be solved with a different content-type. Phishing is a about trust, and even my physical mailbox gets unsolicited adverts despite the costs involved.

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@rkaj

Often people *want* to control layout. (Various kinds of virual artists and graphic designers and related industries, for example.)

And I don't mind that. Most of it is not dark patterns, it's someone trying to present content in a visual pleasing way.

But for accessibility, yes, clients need to be able to override the appearance.


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CISSP exam in two weeks, and I've no iudea how the exam compares to the practices

I feel like I know all the stuff, but feel like a 4 hour multiple choice exam I have to wake up at 6:30 am for is the least ideal way to test that

Any advice/assurances for someone who really just needs letters that tell well-meaning HR people that I am hirable?

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@silverwizard: if I can pass it, just about anybody can. There is certainly a lot of stuff to take in, but it is learnable.

I should admit that it took me two tries, but i got there 🙃

@BB :verified_cool: I really hope I don't have to find another fee, that's my main fear!

but thanks!


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😂
BNA @BNA V5 (Translated)

Situation of the Al art in China
-Use Al to reduce cost >>>
-Fire artists and hire Al user instead >>>
Al user charge more money, and now the price has no difference with the real artist>>>
-Now the company go back to reconcile the real artists again

LMAO

●緑川美帆/G.River @GR_River. 4d
少し先を進んでいる中国アート市場
AIアートでコストを下げられそうなので、絵描きを 解雇、AIアートを使いこなせる人を雇用

5:59 PM 03 Mar 24 5,108 Views
31 Reposts 104 Likes 9 Bookmarks

PS: This image ALT text created using Google Lens web app option. It may contain errors.

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I'm curious about OP in the screenshot being in Japanese while the QRT is talking about Chinese.

Edit: what little I can understand of the post is mentioning China and AI Art so maybe it's 2nd hand info in OP

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I suppose this is relevant again:
"You could not live with your own failure."
"Where did that bring you? Back to me"
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