@paco@infosec.exchange cover
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

paco

@paco@infosec.exchange

Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some video games. I am #covid cautious and I still #wearamask. Opinions are my own, but they can be yours too.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

DaveMWilburn , to random
@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange avatar

What should be in the Surgeon General's warning label for @jerry 's instance?

Caution: May contain excessive quantities of llamas.

Warning: Exposure to orchid pictures may exceed safe daily exposure limits established by the FDA.

Danger: Purchase of domain names is habit-forming and may result in personal bankruptcy.

Notice: Exposure to posts from Threads[.]net is known to the state of California to cause unrelenting interpersonal conflict.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/06/17/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-labels/

paco ,
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

This story is why is sorta fractured for me. I can’t follow taweret and see the official toots. I can’t vote in the official polls because octodon blocked infosec exchange in this frenzy. It’s why I often copy/paste the monsterdon alert for folks who might be here or on similar servers and be blocked.

I wonder if there is ever any way to get someone to reconsider. Probably not.
@jerry @cyboracle @DaveMWilburn

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

What horrifying thing is in the egg!?

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

I got a coffee mug from . It says “good morning human servant. Your tiny furry overlord, Mr Mittens”

wdlindsy , to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Today journalist Lauren Windsor released damning audio of Justice Alito that leaves no doubt about his Christian nationalist bias and inability to be an impartial justice.

In the first recording, Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito admits he can’t be impartial with the Left: 'One side or the other is going to win … There are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.'”

~ Scott Dworkin

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/justice-alito-exposed-in-undercover

paco ,
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

@wdlindsy He moves on them like a clerk and grabs 'em by the appeals. It's all just chambers room talk.

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

An insightful blog post from @cstross summarising a lot of the furor over #microsoft #recall. The snark at the end about Microsoft making 2025 the year of Linux on the desktop made me realise a small thing that I think is important:

MS is the last hold-out still charging money for a consumer operating system. Obviously Linux is free and Apple tries to prevent their OS running on non-Apple hardware, but only MS charges you for the privilege of enduring their #AI force feeding. You’re paying them money and you’re STILL not the customer.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

Asking for on

Me: I really want to cook vegetarian lasagne for dinner. Does anyone have any good veggie lasagne recipes?

Reply 1: why make lasagne yourself? Just buy it frozen at the store.

Reply 2: I would never make veggie lasagne. Spaghetti is a better with vegetables.

Reply 3: here’s my mom’s meat lasagne. You could probably leave out the bacon.

Reply 4: find a good Italian restaurant in your neighborhood and see if they deliver.

Reply 5: Don’t fall for . You’ll find better recipes if you use Linux.

Thanks everybody.

jschauma , to random
@jschauma@mstdn.social avatar

Wikipedia ain't asleep.

paco ,
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

@jschauma Here's the video of people going to update the page.

video/mp4

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

Shoving in users' faces is a symptom of a larger problem in tech right now. Until recently there was this idea that tech served its users. If you were writing , you tried to figure out what your user wanted the software to do, and you wrote software that tried hard to do what the user wanted.

Today huge swathes of software and online services have pivoted to doing what the owning companies/shareholders want it to do. In bygone days, software developers used to see how they could get the user's experience down to the least amount of friction. Hell, Amazon even patented "one-click" shopping.

Today is literally trying to INCREASE the number of clicks before you get what you want because each time you click, they earn a bit more revenue.

Look at any or video streaming app. If you're willing to watch whatever they put in front of you, you can do THAT with just a click or two. But if you're specifically seeking one particular thing because it is what YOU WANT to watch, the minimum number of clicks skyrockets, including ads, previews, and suggestions that you need to take action (like clicking "skip") to avoid.

Software and services are prioritizing what THEY want as the lowest-friction result and are making what YOU want the highest friction result. crap is just one of the many things they want you to interact with, and so they abandon any pretense of listening to you and just force it on you.

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

Tonight's #monsterdon plot line, visualised.

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

The “Department for Preventing Running with Scissors” is not very popular when a company’s business plan is running-with-scissors-as-a-service.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/what-happened-to-openais-long-term-ai-risk-team/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

I’d like some suggestions (feel free to boost). I run a small club (80-100 people) and we need to collect annual dues. The actual payment processing I want to use PayPal (or similar). But for the membership management, tracking who has paid, emailing reminders, etc I want to . I want to run a web site where people can login, see their dues status, get a link to go pay, cancel their membership, update their details, etc.

Anybody know some software I can run in like a or environment to manage club membership and stuff? The only constraint is that it can’t be Windows based. I don’t have any Windows infrastructure.

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

Start your #caturday with a sink full of #MrMittens #cat #mastocats

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

I have one final comment on the plot of #LogansRun #monsterdon

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

My son is rarely absent or late to class. His sent this email where they had to resort to scientific notation to explain his performance. Chronic is not a problem.

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

A lot of the no-fucks-given pillaging of web content to train and doesn't surprise me. But this revelation actually shocked me. Automattic has been pulling data from SELF HOSTED blogs by means of its JetPack plugin and then selling it.

The truth is that Automattic has been selling access to this “firehose” of posts for years, for a variety of purposes. This includes selling access to self-hosted blogs and websites that use a popular plugin called Jetpack; Automattic edited its original “protecting user choice” statement this week to say it will exclude Jetpack from its deals with “select AI companies.”

paco , to random
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

I am crying I am laughing so hard at the #AI generated colours from @janellecshane 's blog: https://www.aiweirdness.com/new-ai-paint-colors/

paco OP ,
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

@Tim_Eagon @janellecshane Not sure. I thought my doctor prescribed me a cream to get rid of a benign Clardic Fug

GottaLaff , to random
@GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

“Garvey should hope nobody watched…

Porter: “Well, #California, I think what they say is true, ‘once a Dodger, always a Dodger,’” she zinged…”Ballots go out in 6 weeks, Mr. Garvey, this is not the minor leagues…Who will you vote for?”

Others joined in the pile-on before Garvey tried to swing back.”

https://apple.news/AvJ5ZhWd3T8aeqShbMsN9Jg

paco ,
@paco@infosec.exchange avatar

@GottaLaff I tell ya who didn't win? The journalist that wrote that article for politico. Embarrassing errors.

My favourite being the reference to the Senate seat being "one of the country’s 50 most powerful offices". I think there's at least 100 offices in the US Senate, if you exclude the 4 non-voting shadow Senators.

And then there's the classic typo: $.50-cent words: They're either 50-cent words, or $0.50-words, but I don't think the intent was half-cent words.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • test
  • worldmews
  • mews
  • All magazines
    •