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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
mttaggart@infosec.exchange ("Taggart :ifin:") wrote:

Indirect prompt injection attacks are really in their infancy. As we enable more agents and more tools/integrations, the possibilities for this fundamentally unfixable vulnerability get scarier.

Imagine giving all your secrets to an assistant and expecting them to get phished. That's what this is.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-attack-turned-microsoft-365-copilot-into-1-click-data-theft-tool/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

The SpaceX IPO Is A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster. “He’s endlessly mythologized by a shitty corporate press, eager to ignore his virulent racism & financial fraud bc he’s accumulated obscene amounts of money.” https://karlbode.com/the-spacex-ipo-is-a-giant-unworkable-con-orchestrated-by-an-overt-white-supremacist-huckster

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Had a minor epiphany about some really basic Caddy functionality and wrote it up. https://www.neatnik.net/blog/single-page-plaintext-caddy-sites/

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
dpp ("David Pollak") wrote:

@aredridel @TeamMidwest one could also argue that the rent extraction by the journals made discourse pay to play/pay for promotion

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

wow it even brings up per martin-lof

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

LOL, MQTate has a video about stephen wolfram's shitty book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO9iRDPXvT4

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Trade offer

jwz wrote:

Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn.

The judge found that Meta's attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees "strains credulity." Strike 3 Holding first filed its lawsuit...
https://jwz.org/b/yk8Y

Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
queenofsquiggles@transfem.social ("Silly Fae Squiggles") wrote:

I'm looking for some help finding a career path into writing media criticism/analysis articles.

Is there a way I can submit articles I write to be published somewhere? Or is that not a thing anymore? I know in the days of yore people could submit articles to magazines and newspapers to have them published but no doubt that knowledge is seriously out of touch.

Since I am genuinely hoping this ask "breaches containment", about me: I'm a queer creative and one of my more recent side-gigs / hobbies has been to write media analysis articles on different pop culture elements usually with a heavy emotional connection. I have two articles in the works, One about "I'm on observation duty" and "Human shaped", one asserting that Weiss Schnee from RWBY is a trans woman and the canon proves it. The one that is out now is about how Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works saved my life. I like drawing on that creative lenses and media analyses to give a relatively interesting viewpoint to something that many others might have passed by. If you wanna read the article I have out now: https://queenofsquiggles.codeberg.page/personal-essay/fate-stay-night-saved-my-life/

Also like is there a better term for all this I can/should use? Does this count as journalism? Even if my articles are largely opinion pieces? (Is "Op-Ed" something???)

​:boosts_okgay:​

#GetFediHired #DuckDuckFedi #Writing #Journalism

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Whenever someone enters my home, one of our dogs gets so happy that she makes a gutteral scream and I wish I had the music skills to mix it into a heavy metal track

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

low-enriched fuel called 'caramel'

okay i really don't think we should be naming nuclear fuels after delicious things

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

yeah, no shit

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/america-trump-iran-ceasefire-agreement-war-hormuz-b2995971.html

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.

I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.

This is not a drill.

If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.

They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Ok well I downloaded one of the beta builds! I got the new Sample Sound Frequencies node running! This is basically from just hooking up the default settings and controlling the Z position of a cube, nothing exciting.

Threw Marmalade Coast by @encryptedwhispers / @vv into it

Unfortunately the daily Blender build doesn't support Pulseaudio as an output so I had to render it to hear it (because I don't know JACK, heh ;P) but it "Just Worked". There is also some nice FFT support so you can break up a song really nicely for visualizations. This seems like it's going to be pretty exciting tbh

Attachments:

• video: A Blender cube hopping up and down to the first ten seconds of EncryptedWhispers' Marmalade Coast

cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

Oh shit, Blender 5.2 is really gonna rule, huh? Am I reading this right, that we get two new geometry nodes which open up some pretty huge things?

- Sample Sound Frequencies: this makes Blender a heck of a lot more useful and adaptive for live performances / VJ'ing https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/156247
- A bevel node!!! This is one of the big things that felt like it was missing to me, lots of procedural modeling felt not quite feasible to bring all the way in geometry nodes alone without this. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/bevel-node-feedback/45375

Really excited for this upcoming release! #blender3d #b3d #geometrynodes #geonodes

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org ("Open Rights Group") wrote:

A social media ban won't fix online harms.

That's because the business model creating them is left untouched.

It just makes every user do an ID check to prove they’re over 16.

Instead we should tackle the attention capture economy of targeted ads and personalised algorithms.

Sign our petition ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech

#socialmediaban #onlinesafety #socialmedia #stopKillingInternet #ukpol #ukpolitics #privacy #censorship #bigtech

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
newsguyusa@flipboard.social ("Steve Herman") wrote:

Big banner with a Teddy quote about courage on the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, headquarters of OPM. Only discrepancy is that the 26th president never said this.

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
n1ckfg@merveilles.town ("Nick Fox-Gieg") wrote:

@cwebber Great talk yesterday--this is the export format for Grease Pencil I was talking about, it'd be great to know about any similar interested folks...this has so far mostly been for nonrealtime exchange between creation apps, but I'm increasingly using it for realtime https://lightningartist.org

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
vv@solarpunk.moe ("vv 💫 [follow my new artist profile!]") wrote:

The system is going down for reboot NOW!

Boosted by jwz:
galacticstone ("Galactic Stone") wrote:

Carbon before silicon.

#AI #ButlerianJihad

Boosted by jwz:
zhenyi ("Zhenyi Tan") wrote:

Traps

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Tomatoes field

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

Courgette plants

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!") wrote:

No time to code these days, the #garden is my priority !

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
jmccyoung@mstdn.social ("John McChesney-Young") wrote:

I recently discovered an online game hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Each day there's a set of 10 objects with anywhere from 1 to 10 photos and you're asked to identify the place from which they come & their approximate age on a timeline, with up to 5,000 points each for location & date. If you guess the opposite side of the world you might get 2 points out of 5k (as I did today) but despite my ignorance I usually total 60k-70k. You might enjoy it! https://anthropeum.com/.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
dumpsterqueer@superseriousbusiness.org ("tobi is writing bugs :terminal_cursor:") wrote:

re: https://explains.social/@veronica/statuses/01KTW08YP38T5GD80SXDBKZ70P

nice to see folks moving to #GoToSocial for their personal fedi needs, but also mildly horrifying to think of people relying on code that I contribute 🐛s to

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org ("GoToSocial") wrote:

Hello pals, here's the first release candidate for version 0.22.0 of #GoToSocial:

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.22.0-rc1

Admins who are feeling adventurous or desperate for the new stuff can try out this release candidate at their leisure.

As always, please read the migration notes carefully for instructions on how to upgrade to this version, in particular note that there are several config file changes that need to be addressed when you're updating from a previous version of GoToSocial to this version, and there are some quite long database migrations as well.

Release highlights

• Relay support: GoToSocial now supports subscribing to relays (as an admin action), and pushing posts to relays (configured per-user, with filters available).
  Documentation for admin-level relay subscriptions.
  Documentation for user-level relays pushes.
• Automated cleanup of old remote posts: you can now configure your instance to clean up threads of remote statuses that haven't been interacted with by anyone on your instance. This should save a lot of space in folks' databases!
  Documentation for post caching + pruning.
• Delivery error tracking for remote instances: there's now a page in the settings panel where admin can view errors encountered while attempting delivery of posts to instances that may be experiencing technical difficulties or may have gone offline. You can use this to get a quick view on possible "dead" instances that you can then remove from your database with a domain block.
• Accounts directory: there's a new setting to allow admins to expose (or not) a directory of accounts on the instance! Your account will only be shown in the directory if you opt in via your privacy settings.
  Documentation for inclusion in account directory.
• Better tracking of deleted statuses/status tombstones: GtS now stores tombstones for deleted statuses, allowing threads to remain intact even when a status in the middle of the thread has been deleted.
• Better status codes + info pages on deleted or hidden statuses: the old 404 page when you try to open a hidden status in the browser has been replaced with a more informative error page.
• Way more configurable http server + client options: we've exposed a whole shitload of settings that you can tweak on the HTTP client + HTTP server that GoToSocial uses. We don't recommend changing these, but if you really want to, now you can.
• Show your Träwelling status on your profile by setting your Träwelling page as a field value, similar to how our ListenBrainz integration already works.
• Allow setting a name for your tokens, and sorting tokens by last used time in the token view of the settings page. Should make it a lot easier to track which tokens you've created, and when they were used by which apps!
• Better layout for web view of profiles that hide all posts from the web: it just uses a single-column view now.

⚠️⚠️⚠️ This release contains a long-ass database migration to move status boolean columns (like pinned, local, etc) to a single bitfield column. This saves a lot of space in the database, but it also means on startup the migration has to iterate through all statuses in your database and set the new field. Please be patient and don't interrupt this process! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

@Postgres users: Following the migration, if you encounter slowdown on Postgres specifically (ie., timing out while loading home timeline) you may need to regenerate your Postgres visibility map. Please check our Postgres database maintenance documentation for steps on how to do this using the psql tool.

Thanks for reading <3

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

My Modest Proposal re: social media remains unchanged: if you're going to lop off access for an arbitrary amount of the bottom of the actuarial scale, do the same at the top. No under 16s in the UK? Great!, so long as no over-65s either (80.9 year avg lifespan, minus 16).

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@db I switched to jujutsu and its `jj undo` is so nice for this kind of thing.

(Though, for `git add` in particular, you'd use a different workflow in jj, so wouldn't run into this particular issue.)

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Unfortunately, this fight to protect our civil liberties isn’t over. Email your Members of Congress and demand they don’t vote to reauthorize FISA without major reforms like closing the loopholes that allow warrantless mass surveillance and the purchasing of private data: https://act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-congress-say-no-warrantless-ai-mass-surveillance/?source=mastodon