avuko

avuko, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

#Threads doesn’t seem to become available in the EU (and IE) for the foreseeable future:

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html

avuko, 1 year ago to random

TIL: when you set up PayPal to link with your bank account, then –according to my bank’s privacy statement– you will give PayPal:

• Access to 90 days of payment information, not only of things you do with PayPal, but EVERY SINGLE TRANSACTION OF THAT BANKACCOUNT
• access to YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT DETAILS for ANOTHER 90 DAYS, for a total of 180 days
• one-time access to ALL of YOUR TRANSACTIONS IN YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT FOR AS FAR BACK AS THAT GOES, in my case for a…

wait…
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wait for it…
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… MAXIMUM OF 8 YEARS!

Am I just the last to know?
Is everybody else okay with this?

#PayPal #Privacy #WTF #TIL

avuko, 1 year ago to infosec

looky what I found...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

#infosec

@jerry

avuko, 11 months ago to random

This is an actual thing that actually happened…

Must be most of us cishet men simply don’t get enough practise, but dear gods are we easily butthurt!

avuko, 1 year ago to random

This is (again) absolutely worth reading, even if just for this quote from the article:

By @pluralistic

“If, on the other hand, the problem is that AI systems just suck and shouldn’t be trusted to fly drones, or drive cars, or decide who gets bail, or identify online hate-speech, or determine your creditworthiness or insurability, then all those AI companies are out of business.”

https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

🔥🙏🏻

krypt3ia, 3 months ago to random

So yeah, last night I was in a funk due to the whole applying for jobs fuckery, asking me my sexual preferences (once again, how is this fucking legal to even ask?) Then, the whole call from a recruiter but an email from the automated system saying nyet, no interview.

My friends, it is definitely fucked up out there and it's only gonna get worse.

I tell you though, I took a nice pot gummy (half of one, mango flavored) and within a half hour, I was mellowed out and helped.

If you are stressed, half a gummy can do wonders.

Today, I am getting back on the horse and gonna tilt this fucking windmill of unemployment again. This time, I have been working with the LLM to game the fucking automated application systems.

Fuck this, gonna hack this shit and get a job.

avuko, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

TIL (well, yesterday really):

Don’t say “yeah? You and whose army?” To people with private armies.

#Russia

avuko, 11 months ago to infosec

“300,000+ Fortinet firewalls [still, Ed.] vulnerable to critical FortiOS RCE bug”
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/300-000-plus-fortinet-firewalls-vulnerable-to-critical-fortios-rce-bug/

#IAmSoTired #InfoSec #MoppingWithTheTapOpen (with compliments from the Dutchies)

avuko, 9 months ago to random

https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=417TM

Anybody got insight into who/what is behind:

CPJ2 LLC
317 ELLINGTON AVE E
GARDEN CITY
NEW YORK

#JustAskingQuestions

CNN screenshot with the banner GIULIANI LANDS IN ATLANTA TO SURRENDER YouTube text: CNN reporter notices an important detail about the plane Giuliani traveled in

avuko, 4 months ago to CASIO

Okay, dear #Casio, please bring the F-91WC-8AEF back.

#CasioCult

avuko, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

The end of Dutch politics, in two images.

avuko, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to infosec

#infosec RFC: does anybody know of an offline tool (so nothing cloudy please) that makes good visualisations of a #timeline? I’m hoping for something I could feed a CSV and get a way to visualise what happened, with zoom in/out etc.

This is before I yet again start a project to later discover I’ve redone something, probably less well.

Thanks in advance!🙏🏻

avuko, 4 months ago to random

That whole story about toothbrushes and the way it was regurgitated across all kinds of “news outlets” (I’m using that word sarcastically) just makes me so sad about the state of journalism.

It’s crashed to the level of click/ outrage generating content. That’s all it is now.

And actual journalists doing the actual work are squeezed out by these click bait companies flooding the zone.

avuko, 11 months ago to animals

#SummerStorm #FediCats #CatsOfMastodon
This is how you say “kthxbai” to storms in cat.

The cat calmly sleeping as everything is uprooted around her. Cat sleeping on a couple of sheep skins as one of those cute little curled up fur balls.

avuko, 11 months ago to random

CrossFit introduced us to the Russian Kettlebell Swing, but the #RussianWindowDrop is quickly becoming even more famous!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/29/2178319/-Another-Russian-falls-out-of-a-window

avuko, 5 months ago to random

Dear @EU_Commission,
Could you maybe put a clean HTML version of the NIS2 directive online, for us to easily parse and have read by a machine or process?

Because I’m sorry, but this ain’t it:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32022L2555

avuko, 9 months ago to test

Is there a technical reason behind the decision to have hashtags break on hyphen [#test-test], but not underscore [#test_test]?

My context: CVE numbers are formatted with hypens (CVE-2017-0144), not underscores.

avuko, 11 months ago to random

TIL #manosphere

I knew of its existence, but today I discovered this is the term covering the far reaches of our male shitshow.

And I have to say gents, I’m not impressed by us. As a matter of fact, I am deeply disappointed.

avuko, 11 months ago to random

A jackdaw came right up to me just now. Clearly lots of experience with people eating croissants, and the ensuing mess.

I decided to throw it a little piece, when I noticed its insane accuracy catching it. It wasn’t just a deep grasp of winds, trajectories and speeds of objects. I figure that’s a necessary skill for birds.

This little bird with its piercing sky blue eyes was extremely precise and quick in its movements and eye-beak coordination. I threw it some more, and it caught them all flawlessly.

After I stepped away, it also somehow remembered exactly where to find the other flakes I hadn’t even noticed I dropped.

#Corvids continue to intrigue and amaze me.

avuko, 11 months ago to random

Okay. Weirdness.

Looking up the symbol 🇮🇷 on my iPhone (quick way of knowing the country), and I get a Wikipedia reference to a Sovjet are D-30 howitzer?!

Doesn’t seem to matter which App I use.

Does the flag of Iran somehow contain something which can be interpreted as “D30?” Or is this a massive troll I don’t understand?

I checked how the emoji is created, and it is a combination of regional indicator “I” (U+1F1EE) and regional indicator “R”(U+1F1F7), so that’s my TIL covered.

Screenshot showing the Wikipedia entry rendered in the Look Up feature: 🇮🇷 D-30 1960s towed 122 mm howitzer of Soviet... About The 122-mm howitzer D-30 is a Soviet howitzer that first entered service in 1960. It is a robust piece that focuses on the essential features of[…]

avuko, 1 year ago to random

The $500 billion ‘Office real estate apocalypse’: Researchers find remote work’s effect even worse than expected | Fortune https://fortune.com/2023/05/25/office-space-crash-harder-than-expected-remote-work-economy-cre-crash/

“And in their model, that equates to a $500 billion “value destruction,” nationwide.”

In case you wondered: That’s value for someone other than you and me, the office workers.

Did even a single one of all of those C-level people, their HR, sycophant managers, the newspapers, the real estate companies, brokers etc.

Did even a single one of those who insisted you and I should go back to the office, ever have the courage to tell you it was for their profits, and for their profits only?

All those times you and I ventured out, without a vaccin, with flimsy screens between desks, pretend masks, hand sterilisation dispensers, arrows taped to the ground, warning signs… all to keep us away from our colleagues but IN THE OFFICE; sick, scared and dying.

All of that just so their wealth, stuffed into office buildings, the very buildings enclosing you from all sides, literal death traps, would keep its value. Value for them. Never for us. Because they don’t care about us.

#ItWasAllALie

avuko, 11 months ago to random

For that person who thought it a good idea to send a whole bunch of your employees’ PII and tax forms over email on a Friday afternoon—to a personal email address—without thoroughly checking whether you have the correct email address: maybe wait til Monday-after-coffee?

And maybe count your blessings it went to my inbox.

The PSA of this: please don’t.

avuko, 11 months ago to RedHat

I have no detailed opinions about what #RedHat is doing, because I don’t know about the ins- and outs of their ecosystem or what may or may not be GPL etc.

But reading the whole blog post at https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes, it struck me that what started as:

“[…] there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.”

ended with:

“Simply rebuilding code, […] represents a real threat to open source companies.”

I’m seeing a company, in this case #RedHat, considering #CentOS, #RockyLinux and #AlmaLinux etc. as a “real threat” to their profits, and deciding to kill them off.

This is completely expected behaviour, because for-profits exist for one thing only: Profit.

Can we please stop believing companies when they say they are pro-FOSS (or for-people)? Those companies simply don’t exist.

avuko, 9 months ago to random

Burning Man 2023 rain keeps burners confined to camps https://www.rgj.com/story/life/arts/burning-man/2023/09/02/burning-man-2023-rain-keeps-burners-confined-to-camps/70749751007/

BLACK ROCK CITY, Nevada -- Burning Man has closed its entrance and exits gates and told its approximately 73,000 attendees to conserve food, fuel and water as continuing rains make driving off the Black Rock Desert near-impossible.

Cracking Up (green shirt dude laughing) Reaction GIF by MOODMAN

avuko, 11 months ago to random

Hello #stationery fans & freaks!👋🏻

My preferred stuff:
• BIC Criterium 2mm aluminium refillable pencils
• X17 a5 notebook (with dotted filler)
• LEUCHTTURM1917 Hardcover a6 notepad pocket (dotted, reporter style/flip-over)