Faintdreams

cstross, 4 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

binbows, 4 days ago to random

reminder:
you should block/mute/unfollow people who make you feel uncomfortable, make you feel horrible about yourself, feel weird to see on your timeline, etc. there is no shame in it.

ALSO IF YOU’RE A MINORS DNI ACCOUNT THEN DON’T INTERACT WITH THIS POST (OR ME IN GENERAL) IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM!!!

SomeGadgetGuy, 5 days ago to windows

It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

radicalrobit, 5 days ago to random

honestly feel like I'm losing my fucking mind reading this shit. how does this make any fucking sense? you send an AI bot to a video meeting you're not attending where presumably other coworkers will also send their bots?????? to what fucking end? what is the point of this? why are we having NPCs video chat with eachother? what gets done with this? what is the purpose? how is this not just a fucking email? is this what jokerfication is? this doesn't make any fucking sense!

daveley, 5 days ago to cargobike

Me [walking into hardware store wearing bike helmet]: I’ll take two of the 18kg of organic dirt.

Sarcastic guy at counter: You gonna ride them home on your bike?!

Me: Uh ... yeah actually ....

#CargoBikes are such a superpower you forget how impossible everything seemed before.

#BikeTooter

ElleGray, 5 days ago to random

ai has entered its roast era. large scale mockery signals the beginning of the end. good. 🙂

clarkesworld, 5 days ago to random

We're still rebuilding subscriptions (since Amazon abandoned them) and pushing back against the generated submissions on a daily basis. We'd like to keep doing so. The path forward requires us to keep shouting from the rooftops, so...
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/
Thank you!

karohemd, 4 days ago to random

@Jennie Saw this and thought of you (from a bsky post, art credited to "JohannesVIII")

gutenberg_org, 4 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

touaregtweet, 4 days ago to random

#teamLEGO

(also, cats are assholes)

Heliograph, 5 days ago to random

also my #zebraplant seems happy on my balcony 😯 :awesome:

anvit, 5 days ago to random

TIL that someone made a "Literary podcast for cats" (every episode is just a guy saying "meow" for about 25-40 mins 😅) — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meow-a-literary-podcast-for-cats/id1642762603

Mxzzyzx, 5 days ago to animals

😅🫠 me, tired, heading to bed early, only to find the dog has tucked himself into my bed to sleep already. Yes he has his own pillow (semi shared with the cats), yes he figured out how to tuck himself under a blanket, and yes he is spoiled #DogsOfMastodon

zakharov, 5 days ago to random

Adventure Location: Cruel Dens of the Amorphous Beast.

tennyson, 5 days ago to movies

Why is the book always better than the movie?

It's the screenwriter, and we can fix it: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-adapt-stories-from-page-screen-tennyson-stead-7hzfc/?trackingId=Incmxi%2F2SCK8p3GVaqbrAQ%3D%3D

#film #filmmaking #screenwriter #filmmaker #Hollywood #indie #screenwriting #breakingin #acting #directing #finance #fakeittillyoumakeit

btravern, 6 days ago to mtg

To no surprise, #WoTC/Hasbro has gone back on their word about not using #GenAI in #DnD or #MTG.

#ttrpg

grickle, 7 days ago to art

Animal behavior. #grickledoodle #frog #cartoon #judging #art #drawing #funny

kfogel, 8 days ago to random

So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?

Asking for a friend.

Also adding tags at the request of @femme_mal : #FabricArts #Fabric #SecurityByObfuscation #Obfuscation_Techniques #CodeObfuscation #Nulling #NullingVideo

eclectech, 8 days ago to animation

WE MADE IT TO A YEAR!!!

Every Friday for the last 52 weeks I have added a new dancer to the canvas. I now claim my crown as Queen of Pointless Projects & hope that you all have a splendid weekend, if you possibly can 👑

#FridaySparklyDancers #sillyScribbles #animation

Hand drawn animation loop. There are 52 simple figures each doing their own dance move. The main body of the screen is teal, with a cloud framing the top and across the bottom. 49 dancers are on the top cloud, quite small, doing their thing. The new dancer for this week is larger, and centre stage on the cloud at the bottom, with a dancer either side for company.

davidrevoy, 8 days ago to random

Happy 25th anniversary, Krita!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/krita-25-years/

#krita

GossiTheDog, 8 days ago to random

Very big cyber incident playing out at Snowflake, who describe themselves as “AI Data Cloud”. They have a free trial where anybody can sign up and upload data… and they have.

Threat actors have been scraping customer data using a tool called rapeflake, for about a month.

cybeardjm, 8 days ago to Cats

As an example, all kittens in NYC have 0 conviction...

#Cats #Caturday

fluffel, 8 days ago to opensource

Cool, all my #2FA tokens are gone. Because an #OpenSource project got bought by a shady company, which now, after almost a year of owning it, broke the app with their first(!!) update to it!

Oh and of cause they want money in form of a subscription now. Can't make this shit up.

In short: DON'T USE #Raivo!

The issue tracker on Github is fun though: https://github.com/raivo-otp/ios-application/issues

keefmarshall, 8 days ago to random

If I'm going to play in the #progRock pool on #Mirlo, I'm going to have to do a lot better with my cover art :)

Hey, at least it makes everyone else's artwork look even better by comparison!