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rysiek, 3 days ago (edited 4 hours ago) to infosec

Lukewarm take:

When I see general* "security advice" that mentions "do not use public WiFi" or "use a VPN", I am immediately suspicious about all other advice offered.

Yes, a decade ago that was a consideration, because most sites were not using HTTPS. Credentials were flying cleartext on the wire.

Today, almost all sites use HTTPS. Doesn't mean the risk is zero, but it's way lower.

*) "general" meaning "without a very specific threat model in mind", meant for general public, etc.

#InfoSec

GossiTheDog, 4 days ago to random

I strongly believe we're within 5 years of the generative AI boom collapsing almost completely, and it will have a profound economic impact, as the use cases for the products being sold almost entirely suck arse.

Miriamm, 4 days ago to random

These are the type of statues we should be putting up. Danuta Danielsson hitting a neo Nazi (1985).

augieray, 4 days ago to random

80 years ago today, 2,501 Americans died at Normandy to protect lives and democracy.

Some were black, knowing they would return to a racist US.

Some were gay, knowing they could be court-martialed for who they were.

They fought anyway for what was best and right.

I don't care what you think of Biden. A world with Trump in the White House will be a disaster. In 151 days, you can do what is best and right without risking your life.

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue #DDay

djlink, 4 days ago to random

Ah, I wonder why Photoshop wants access to users work? 100% sure it's for training "AI" stuff. Just with more people tried alternative software, Adobe has such a huge monopoly, might be one of the worst cases in software.

Strandjunker, 4 days ago to random

80 years ago, the greatest generation of patriotic Americans and Allied forces stormed the Normandy shores on D-Day to throw out the Nazis.

This year, all you have to do is “storm” the polls and vote.

docpop, 4 days ago to random

Happy #NationalYoYoDay, y'all!

Me playing with a yo-yo in my living room. The first shot is extremely close up to the yo-yo and shows a complex string trick called "Bus Flow". Then it switches to a shot from further away. You can see that I'm smiling and having fun will doing the trick. The rest of the room is dark, with some cool lighting behind my back that changes colors. I'm wearing a black t-shirt with the yo-yo emoji on it.

slashdot, 4 days ago to random

NewsBreak, Most Downloaded US News App, Caught Sharing 'Entirely False' AI-Generated Stories https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/06/06/0157205/newsbreak-most-downloaded-us-news-app-caught-sharing-entirely-false-ai-generated-stories?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

chris__martin, 4 days ago to random

Without making any statement about what "agile" "really means," I'll just say that I cannot imagine why anybody would begrudge spending an hour every two weeks letting engineering and product confer about the relative priorities and difficulties of upcoming work.

mjg59, 6 days ago to random

The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

cstross, 6 days ago to random

Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

mekkaokereke, 6 days ago to random

Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

TheWarOnCars, 6 days ago to Podcast

"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

#thewaroncars #podcast #paris

marick, 6 days ago to random

I am, for no particular reason, rereading the multi-author anthology /Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos/¹. I sometimes make up little short stories as I go to sleep. Influenced by the book, I conceived of an AI doomerism story. The premise was:

1. We know that large language models (henceforth, “AI”) have a “dumping sewage upstream of where you get your drinking water” problem in that their output at time N will be used as training input at time N+1. (1/4)

overholt, 6 days ago to random

I’ve got some practice with 17th century English orthography but this one throws me every time.

b0rk, 7 days ago (edited 18 hours ago) to random

I know $12 USD is a lot of money for some people, so to celebrate 1000+ sales (!!!), I'm giving away 1000 PDF copies of How Git Works (honour system: only if $12 is a lot for you!)

Here's the link, enter code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free copy https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

(it'll ask you for a billing address but you can enter a fake address if you'd prefer)

gutenberg_org, 6 days ago to Aviation

#OTD in 1783.

The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).

#OTD in 1784.

Élisabeth Thible becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her flight covers four kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres altitude (estimated)

#aviation #hotairballoon

njr, 6 days ago to random

If you use Git, no matter how expert you are, you should probably buy (or download, if it’s too expensive) @b0rk ‘s amazing zine about git.

I bought it mostly to support Julia, thinking it probably wouldn’t help me, but I was wrong: I learned tons.

What’s really great about the way Julia approaches git it is that she goes kind-of bottom up, looking at actual files to explain how git works. And it’s super clarifying.

Just buy it!

From: @b0rk
https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112552672907642693

tofugolem, 6 days ago to random

This is why there are no funny conservative comedians.

GossiTheDog, 20 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

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