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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Fascinating: https://pca.st/h0q2rggu
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Beautiful run this morning!
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Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Response posted by Chen: http://www.chenyilei.net/
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
"In this short note we point to an error in the claims of Chen’s paper." https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/583
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mttaggart@infosec.town ("Taggart :donor:") wrote:
The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not be an isolated incident as evidenced by a similar credible takeover attempt intercepted by the OpenJS Foundation, home to JavaScript projects used by billions of websites worldwide. The Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations are calling all open source maintainers to be alert for social engineering takeover attempts, to recognize the early threat patterns emerging, and to take steps to protect their open source projects.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO (Jan 2024) https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/artificial-episode-3-chatgpt/835fdc63-75ff-4ef1-b18c-f40537807cfe# :
> The honest answer is we have no idea. We have never made any revenue. We have no current plans to make revenue. We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you.
Deeply unserious people.
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scottarc@infosec.exchange ("Scott Arciszewski") wrote:
So funny story about this PuTTY vulnerability https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/vuln-p521-bias.html
Literally every time I've ever reviewed an ECDSA over P-521 implementation, this was the absolute first thing I thought to look for. I've never actually found an implementation in the wild that was susceptible to this sort of weakness, but it seemed like a foot-gun that someone would implement eventually.
Turns out, it was PuTTy. Incredible.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Any technology indistinguishable from magic is hiding something.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
reading “The Atrocity Files” by @cstross left me wandering around on the “First-order logic” page… of course it did
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jdp23@blahaj.zone ("Jon") wrote:
As a Jewish American, I grew up appreciating the Anti-Defamation League's work combatting antisemitism. But as I got more experienced with progressive activism, I realized that it's a lot more complex than that. #DropTheADL has a good summary at https://droptheadl.org/ -- signed by dozens of groups including If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, United We Dream, Mijente, Movement for Black Lives, National Lawyers Guild, Center for Constitutional Rights, and Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
"Many organizations in our communities find themselves in spaces with the ADL, using its anti-bias education materials, or counting on the ADL to support our political goals. In light of a growing understanding of the ADL’s harmful practices, many progressive groups are rethinking those relationships.
Even though the ADL is integrated into community work on a range of issues, it has a history and ongoing pattern of attacking social justice movements led by communities of color, queer people, immigrants, Muslims, Arabs, and other marginalized groups, while aligning itself with police, right-wing leaders, and perpetrators of state violence. More disturbing, it has often conducted those attacks under the banner of “civil rights.” This largely unpublicized history has come increasingly to light as activists work to make sense of the ADL’s role in condemning the Movement for Black Lives, Palestinian rights organizing, and Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar, among others.
We are deeply concerned that the ADL’s credibility in some social justice movements and communities is precisely what allows it to undermine the rights of marginalized communities, shielding it from criticism and accountability while boosting its legitimacy and resources. Even when it may seem that our work is benefiting from access to some resources or participation from the ADL, given the destructive role that it too often plays in undermining struggles for justice, we believe that we cannot collaborate with the ADL without betraying our movements."
Their primer on https://droptheadl.org/the-adl-is-not-an-ally/ goes into a lot more depth and is really worth reading.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
I think we're focused on the wrong thing when we look at what tech works for a company like Amazon or Facebook or Netflix.
We should be looking at what tech works when you *don't* have a small army of staff engineers optimizing it. I want to know what I can scale *without* paying someone a half million dollar salary to do it.
There should be more case studies on things that don't have a billion-dollar company propping them up, humming along quietly on a cheap-ass VPS somewhere.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Feel free to do your own
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
So. Don't k*ll me.
#decentralization X axis speaks to the centralization of power and authority, not just tech.
#federation Y axis speaks to ability to move from node to node- data, content, identities.
Note: This assumes BlueSky executes most of what they say they will. Not where they are now (which would be further down the Y axis).
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
I love this aesthetic:
“Harold Halibut is teeming with little details and detours. If you opt to sit down and watch a tiny television in a break room, you can catch eight minutes of a surreal, unsubtitled Turkish-language telenovela that the developers wrote, built from clay and animated from scratch.”
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
If your product is a docs generator, the one thing you should definitely have is good docs.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Does anyone else find it frustrating that tech news blogs refuse to do anything more than publish tech leaders' claims as is without a whisper of scrutiny or critical thinking?
Searching about any tech company, start-up, novel technology, etc. and you're met with a sea of long-form advertisements disguised as news articles.
How do we ever fix this?
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timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)") wrote:
Hello friends,
I am happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres, The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday, along with a set of terrific papers by our colleagues. I suggest you read all the papers in this issue.
https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Q: What effect has Apple's browser ban on iOS had?
A: https://ios404.com/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:
I'm also growing rather tired of wading through undisclosed advertorials from pretty much every outlet.
It used to be that journalists limited themselves to a few of those a year, taking a corporation up on their offer of an interview with an "expert" or a field trip to see some "innovation", or a celebrity on how they discovered some health concern "just in time" after a trip to some private screening clinic.
Maybe it's frequency illusion, but I feel like those articles are everywhere now.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
There really are Apple fans out there who will still uncritically lap up the meticulously engineered self-congratulation....in 2024. It's wild.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
four generations of us have taken the oath, and taken it seriously… it has no ‘sell by’ date.
I hope my grandnephew has the intestinal fortitude to refuse unlawful orders if this country elects a petty dictator to be his Commander-in-Chief.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this was a Regular Army unit… back then, units were not comprised of a mix of US & RA
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
my brother was with the 4th Infantry, but long after this gentleman defended the Union & fought against slavery.
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Mastodon FeedDeliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, you will soon be able to have a #Mastodon in your home:
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-stuffed-toy-coming-soon/
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Oxide has been called "a startup on hard mode", but today on Oxide on Friends, we are going to talk to co-founders of the Oakland Ballers, a startup that is not only on hard mode, but is doing a speed run. Join @ahl, @sdtuck and me, 5p Pacific:
https://discord.gg/tgmyE2NS?event=1227111016681443389
Those who happen to like both baseball and startups will naturally love this (@timbray, @sogrady: looking at you!), but I think this story is ALSO incredible if you haven't ever enjoyed baseball -- or even sports. Join us!
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Tulips. Everyone's posting tulips these days, here's mine. This is at Skagit Valley. Probably the most color saturated photo I ever edited :-)
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Terrance1022@mastodon.world wrote:
@jsonstein 1912, The Titanic sunk.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: 1912, The Titanic finally sinks around 2AM
h/t @Terrance1022
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@futurebird ICYMI: thought you might be amused https://gratefuldread.masto.host/@gratefuldread/112276343249766720