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Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:
When there's a housing shortage and right-wing parties tell voters that asylum seekers are to blame, what other parties should do is come up with appealing and realistic plans to address the housing shortage.
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noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:
The moment Estonia disconnected its power grid from Russia has been shared online. A historic step toward energy independence.
Mastodon FeedThe Cyberizer is underappreciated.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
malwaretech@infosec.exchange ("Marcus Hutchins :verified:") wrote:
Oh man, I have so many stories about the "startup" (Path Network), which the 19-year-old DOGE employee, Edward Coristine previously worked for.
https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/My first interaction with the founder, Marshal Webb, was in 2016 when the company was called "BackConnect'. I'd recently posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet, which lead to him harassing me online, simply because he considered himself to be the sole authority on Mirai.
It later turned out, that a lot of his knowledge came from the fact that he was personally hosting the threat actors' infrastructure, therefore had direct insight into the botnet. He tried to play it off as an "intelligence gathering operation". Everyone knew he was really just in bed with the threat actors, but nobody could prove it enough to make a case against him.
At some point shortly after, a DDoS-for-hire service got hacked and its entire customer database along with all DDoS attack logs was leaked online. One of the records traced back to an employee of his DDoS mitigation firm, and from a combination of attack logs and corroboration with customers, it was determined that they had been launching DDoS attacks against businesses, then cold calling them to sell DDoS protection services.
It was fairly apparent from the fact the emails coincided with the DDoS attacks, but did not originate from the the employee performing the attacks that the company was in on it, and this wasn't the work of some rogue employee. Nevertheless, said employee got thrown under the bus, convicted, and was unsuccessful in proving that his employer was in on the conspiracy, although they most certainly were.
Eventually, the founder ended up being named in some kind of criminal complaint or other FBI related court document. The specific wording seemed to imply that he'd gotten caught doing something illegal enough that he'd become an informant to save himself. Amusingly, when the document surfaced, the company just issued a press release about how they were "helping the FBI stop crime" and nothing become of it.
The company has always been shady as hell, and while it's not abnormal for cybersecurity firms to hire reformed hackers, I've not seen a single employee who was not directly involved in cybercrime immediately prior to getting hired. Furthermore, multiple of the employees have been caught committing cybercrime while working for the company.
Originally, when I posted this thread on February 6th, I stopped short of any allegation that Edward himself was involved in cybercrime. Since then @briankrebs was able to trace his aliases back to a known cybercrime organization and confirm he indeed was directly involved in cybercrime as recently as May 2024.
You can find Brian's Mastodon thread on the matter here:
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113965646509637016
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/113957683483583881
Mastodon Feedhttps://huggingface.co/blog/smolagents
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Multiple research papers have shown that having the tool calling LLMs in code is much better.
The reason for this is simply that we crafted our code languages specifically to be the best possible way to express actions performed by a computer. **If JSON snippets were a better expression, JSON would be the top programming language and programming would be hell on earth.**
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Most of the damage Musk can do now is premised on his wealth, which comes back to Tesla. This is gonna be a bumpy ride, but to all my EV-loving peeps who aren't down with the fash, I salute you:
https://insideevs.com/news/750076/tesla-sales-tanking-globally/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
My site hasn’t been as stable as I’d like the past few weeks so I moved it. I did write a couple things worth sharing though so if you missed it because my site was down, On Culture/Religion/Rise of CN: https://krrd.ing/posts/what-in-the-world-culture-religion/ and the sermon on the mount and fascism: https://krrd.ing/posts/sermon-on-the-mount-anti-fascism/
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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:
Our sweet two year old asked "why?" for the first time today. Specifically he was asking why we couldn't use a broom to sweep up guacamole that he'd thrown on the floor, but still, it's a big milestone.
Mastodon FeedThe Japanese series “The Hot Spot” (ホットスポット), about a middle-aged alien living in small town Japan, is delightfully weird. Really enjoying it.
It’s airing on Nippon TV and streaming on Netflix: https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/hot-spot
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ (quiet time)") wrote:
Gosh, what a surprise! https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/08/we-didnt-click-consent-on-any-gambling-website-so-how-did-facebook-know-where-wed-been
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
@keenan @adam https://rknight.me/blog/my-first-digital-photo/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:
Libertarians are just babybigots taking their first steps into fascism. Unrealistic ideas of independence and individualism in a world that thrives on community. Usually because the future nazi is mad they have to share resources with others, usually of a different background and race.
Libertarianism is just a gateway drug to full on authoritarian nazism. It always was. That includes Ayn Rand’s weird self.
Run with it.
From: @errleigh
https://mastodon.social/@errleigh/113970938370257996
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coachgowron@tenforward.social ("Coach Gowron") wrote:
It is natural to know despair in dark times, to feel dread and uncertainty. But do not immerse yourself in doom. Seek out joy and light, wherever you can find it, to keep despair from being the only feeling you have space for.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr") wrote:
Putting positive energy into the Universe.
Mastodon FeedEverything is Reagan's fault.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
matt@isfeeling.social ("Matt Birchler") wrote:
100% agreed.
https://cosocial.ca/@john/113963130445226457
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“said U.S. officials would take steps to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program for Afrikaners in South Africa, who are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers.”
not even bothering to disguise the racism
Mastodon FeedProject 2025,1988 Edition.
"Our projections show that by the year 2025, not only America, but the entire planet will be under the protection and the dominion of this power alliance. The gains have been substantial both for ourselves and for you, the human power elite."
https://jwz.org/b/ykhk
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
thepru ("Rodney Pruitt") wrote:
Little/big improvement: Turn on the hi-contrast focus style on AppleTV.
Should be the default.
https://www.podfeet.com/blog/2021/06/tiny-tip-high-contrast-focus-apple-tv/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
More details on censorship at the CDC from Alexander Tin. TLDR; Trump officials stopped CDC scientists from publishing data on bird flu in the MMWR. Instead, at the last minute they forced CDC scientists to publish on the health risks of wildfires to bolster Trump's attacks on California Governor Gavin Newsom's handling of the wildfires.
Story: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-officials-influence-cdc-mmwr/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
kind of sucks that the best way to "buy" digital books at the moment is typically to pirate the book, then buy some shitty DRM-locked e-book you never open
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
simonstl ("Simon St.Laurent") wrote:
This seems to me like the core of contemporary US politics.
"Crime for members of the political appointees of the executive branch is now "legal" in the sense that there is no agency to prosecute it. Until reporting reflects this explicitly, journalists are just talking about a fantasy country." https://www.eschatonblog.com/2025/02/the-purge.html
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Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy ("Kees van der Leun") wrote:
Global sea surface temperatures were already rising 4.5 times faster in 2019-2023 than in 1985-1989. New study by researchers at University of Reading.
Correcting for effects of ENSO, volcanoes and solar radiation, they found an accelerating trend.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/adaa8a/pdf
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
An interaction on a different platform caused me to boil down a central result of the past decade of web app consulting: high-functioning organisations should ban SPAs and the technologies that are premised on SPA architectures.
Some should add exception processes for specific products, but that must come with heightened oversight. And any org that can't rattle off what that oversight should consist of should *never* adopt SPA tech.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jwz:
jensorensen ("Jen Sorensen") wrote:
Latest comic: Plutobrats
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
nullagent@partyon.xyz wrote:
A group of neo-Nazis went to Cincinnati Ohio this week to wave Nazi flags off of highway overpasses.
Only problem is they did this in a Black neighborhood that's had enough of their hateful bullshit.
Police were unwilling or unable to keep the crowd of pissed off Black Americans from running off the Nazis.
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
I've started posting on LinkedIn all the unconstitutional shit Trump and Musk are doing to undermine the security and integrity of our government. Mainly because that crowd needs to hear it most. It's incredible how many people in the infosec space are still defending the actions of DOGE and its dear leader(s). And they're not all crypto bros and AI peddlers; we're talking about people in some pretty important roles, tech-wise.
But at least when they reply with the inevitable "stay in your lane" or "I used to like you when you stayed out of politics," they are on record as complicit and totally okay with what is going on.
Mastodon FeedApple Pass push notifications.
Dear Lazyweb, do I need to care about this, and if so, what do I do about it? "Apple Push Notification service server certificate update". Currently I send push notifications for Apple Wallet updates like so: $ctx =...
https://jwz.org/b/ykhi
Mastodon FeedCookbooks with recipes that require 3 to 4 hours of preparation time don't seem to have the slightest idea how my appetite works.
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TheSpaceshipper@socel.net ("The Spaceshipper 🚀") wrote:
Planet of the Apes premiered 57 years ago today.
"You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!"
