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helma

@helma@mastodon.social

Information Security Officer @ SURF | privacy | typoqueen | Grunn | Veluwe | wine | food | Venezia | Ducati | cats 😊 | ♡ CC0, art, books, movies, literature | motorbike trails & camping | Woman of WICCA | own views and silliness
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Unfriendly people = block
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Toots vaporise after a month

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beasts, to random

Another large language model scraper blocked. This graph is from a site which runs a tool generating answers for people doing important research work. The AI scraper sent hundreds of thousands of lookup requests evading rate limits by using about a thousand IPs and pinned multiple webservers at 100% CPU (graph from one attached). This is a massive waste of electricity to train a hallucination machine.

echo_pbreyer, to random German
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🇩🇪Hacker haben sämtliche Personalakten des EU-Parlaments erbeutet, einschließlich Gesundheitsdaten, Strafregisterauszüge usw. auch meiner Mitarbeiter. Leak ist erfolgt.

Wir werden Druck machen, damit IT-Sicherheit endlich Priorität bekommt! https://www.piratenpartei.de/2024/05/24/datenleck-im-eu-parlament/

echo_pbreyer,
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🇬🇧Because of an insecure app hackers have stolen all of the EU Parliament's staff files, including health data, criminal records, etc. of my own staff. It's circulating.

We will put pressure on the Bureau to finally prioritise IT security! https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/passports-criminal-records-leaked-in-eu-parliament-data-breach/

JoeUchill, to random
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Can I use gasoline to cook spaghetti faster?

RickiTarr, to random
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It cracks me up when people say that people with ADD and ADHD don't actually need their meds, they are just addicted to Adderall. Have they even met a person with ADD or ADHD?
My friends forget to take their meds all the time!

KatM,
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@RickiTarr People who don’t know what they’re talking about should just shut TF up about other people’s challenges. My hubs can barely get through a workday if he skips his ADHD meds. Let me at ‘em. 😠 Judgmental snobs.

@ImmedicableME

randahl, to random
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In our real life enactment of the Downfall movie, Putin has now reached the frustration with his generals scene, and has arrested

— Deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov
— Lieutenant-General Yuri Kuznetsov
— Major-General Ivan Popov
— Lieutenant-General Vadim Shamarin

The official charges are corruption, but since the entire regime is corrupt, the charges are likely chosen to get rid of the people rather than the corruption itself.

Putin has also removed his Minister of Defence, Sergei Shoigu.

johannesbeers, to random Dutch
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Eetschrijver, to random Dutch
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I have just realized that this whole 'AI' thing may be nothing but a ploy to eradicate the overly gullible.

_Irma_, to f1
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The perks of working from home ❤️ 🏎️ 🏁

hart, to random German
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Drei Zeichnungen zur Bewirtschaftung von agrarflächen und deren Folgen aufgezeigt im Zeitraffer von 1950 über 1980 bis 2020 das Sterben der Artenvielfalt

roelgrif, to random Dutch
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met dank aan @poldermanie

astefanowitsch, to random German
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  1. Take a random story from the Onion. 2. Ask MS Copilot about it. 3. Enjoy.
phoenyx, to random German
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Ein Erdbeerenleben:

nluug, to random Dutch
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Na een zeer gezellige en leerzame conferentie afgelopen dinsdag, is een start gemaakt met de najaarsconferentie 2024. De Call for Papers is geopend.

Graag zien we bij deze conferentie meer diversiteit binnen het programma, zowel qua onderwerpen, maar zeker ook qua sprekers. Vrouwelijke sprekers worden nadrukkelijk uitgenodigd om een abstract in te dienen.

Meer informatie: https://nluug.nl/nieuws/cfp-najaarsconferentie-2024/

ScienceDesk, to Birds
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"A drake mallard has set a speed record of 103 mph while migrating across southern Minnesota and southeast North Dakota [in the U.S.] on April 6, breaking the Cohen Wildlife Ecology Lab’s previous record of 99.3 mph set on the same day."

Outdoor Life reports: "The two GPS-tracked mallard caught the same weather front that helped them reach top speeds on their return flights to Canada."

https://flip.it/lA_nWT

#Birds #Ducks #BirdWatching #Ecology #Wildlife

paulsilver, to DuckDuckGo
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If you're using for privacy reasons, this might be a good day to try https://www.mojeek.com/ (if you're Sussex based, they're a local company.)

GossiTheDog, to random
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Rishi Sunak announces 394 new Oracle CVEs

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echo_pbreyer, to random German
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🇬🇧 🚨Alert: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share pictures/videos! Read all about it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yourself-be-monitored-eu-governments-to-agree-on-chat-control-with-user-consent/

intidc, to random
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🔥NEWS: How I was able to hack the Belgian social welfare and justice system by buying cheap domains 👇
https://inti.io/p/when-privacy-expires-how-i-got-access

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog,
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I got ahold of the Copilot+ software.

Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default.

It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage.

The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file.

The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen.

GossiTheDog,
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And if you didn’t believe me.. found this on TikTok.

There’s an MSFT employee in the background saying “I don’t know if the team is going to be very happy…”

They should probably be transparent about it, rather than telling BBC News you’d need to be physically at the PC to hack it (not true). Just a thought.

molly0xfff, to ai
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"it's all stored locally" is not a panacea for these alarming privacy-invading products!

what exactly is stored locally? what data is extracted from that local data and sent to the company's servers? is that local data being backed somewhere?

molly0xfff, to ai
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back in my day we called this spyware

osma, to Cybersecurity
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I'm ever so slightly annoyed (= raging mad) that IT has managed to leave the personal details of every age kid, their parents, and every city employee on an unsecured network drive, allowed them to be stolen, and now is trying to wiggle out of the responsibility to inform every impacted person (= just about everyone) or offer anything but stupid generalities as protection for .
fail of the year. Perhaps several.

osma,
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The city dares to say that "those affected should take steps to protect their identity". What's to protect, you already exposed it all?! Besides, no identity protection services cover minors, so half the people impacted have nothing to lean to.

You. Fucking. Idiots.

stevengeurts, to random Dutch
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Zo, in Europa weten ze wel hoe ze met dit aanstaande kabinet om moeten gaan: VVD uit de liberale fractie gezet vanwege coalitie met "extreemrechts".

https://www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikelen/roekeloze-yesilgoz-brengt-europese-positie-vvd-en-liberale-eenheid-in-gevaar

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