molly0xfff

molly0xfff, 8 months ago to random

it was the fuck aroundiest of times, it was the find outiest of times

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks

(headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says")

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

super cool that all these companies have decided to make customers opt OUT of having their data sold for AI training purposes

"but no one would do it if it was opt-in!"

yeah, THAT IS THE PROBLEM

molly0xfff, 6 months ago to random

i appreciate whoever writes the @signalapp release notes

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to random

If you want all the gory details on how I migrated my Citation Needed newsletter from #Substack to self-hosted #ghost here they are:
https://citationneeded.news/substack-to-self-hosted-ghost/

Happy to try to help anyone else making this move!

#SubstackMigration #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 10 months ago to random

wikipedia editors hard at work on the article about the titan submersible implosion

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to random

font-size: 3000%;
[hacker voice]: i'm in

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molly0xfff, 4 months ago to twitter

twitter not paying whitehats. what could go wrong?

this one recently disclosed a vulnerability that would have allowed people to gain control of the twitter accounts of users who merely clicked malicious links

#twitter #birdsite

Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 10h And we got the full JS exploit to chain with this XSS vulnerability! In another word, visiting this link earlier today would take over your account: Chaofan Shou @shoucccc 10h It is highly irresponsible for Twitter to ignore these security issues and not pay the whitehats. The architecture and design patterns also need to be corrected.
x_austin X (Formerly Twitter) staff closed the report and changed the status to Resolved. Updated 6 hours ago X (Formerly Twitter) has decided that this report is not eligible for a bounty. 6 hours ago No award due to program ban
rabbit @rabbit_2333 I submitted this bug report and didn't receive a bounty. You told me that this bug has existed for a year. Seeing that you haven't fixed it for so long, it seems that this bug is not important, so I made it public. Screenshot of conversation from HackerOne: x_austin X (Formerly Twitter) staff posted a comment. a minute ago @rabbit2333 why are you publicly disclosing security issues instead of submitting them to our bug bounty program? Would you mind deleting this post? This is something we're aware of and are addressing. Image F2918855: image.png 26.90 KIB

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to random

My Citation Needed newsletter is no longer on Substack!

https://citationneeded.news/citation-needed-has-a-new-home/

#substack #SubstackMigration

molly0xfff, 9 days ago to web

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to twitter

as a passionate supporter of free speech, i'm going to sue a publisher and author to force them to take down an article i didn't like

#Twitter #ElonMusk #MMfA

PRAYER FOR RELIEF WHEREFORE, Plaintiff X Corp. prays for judgment in its favor and the following relief: 1. Actual and consequential damages caused by Defendants’ misconduct, including but not limited to all general and special damages; 2. A preliminary and permanent injunction ordering Defendants to immediately delete, take down, or otherwise remove the article entitled “As Musk Endorses Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory, X Has Been Placing Ads for Apple, Bravo, IBM, Oracle, and Xfinity Next to Pro-Nazi Content From Its Web” from all websites and social media accounts owned, controlled, or operated, directly or indirectly, by Defendants; 3. X Corp.’s costs and attorneys’ fees to litigate this action; and 4. For such other and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper

molly0xfff, 5 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIEthics #EffectiveAltruism #EffectiveAccelerationism #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to Wikipedia

Have you ever wanted to start editing #Wikipedia, but got overwhelmed or felt like you didn't know where to start? Every time I encourage people to start editing, I hear that, so I'm trying to help.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRRHR1NEOqE

molly0xfff, 4 months ago to Wikipedia

Since Bill Ackman and his followers have so many questions about how Wikipedia works now that his wife has been accused of plagiarizing from it, I figured I'd help him out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_jM6aoTDK0
#Wikipedia #BillAckman #plagiarism

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to Blog

When people say you should "own your own data", or that the future of the web is "ownership", what does that mean?

We need to talk about digital ownership.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-need-to-talk-about-digital-ownership/

#CitationNeeded #newsletter #blog #web

molly0xfff, 10 days ago to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

molly0xfff, 3 months ago to opensource

"If no one tries to do it, it for sure won't be done."

https://www.404media.co/this-guy-is-building-an-open-source-search-engine-in-real-time/

#OpenSource

molly0xfff, 24 days ago to random

i am so over the web design trend where every piece of text on the page has to animate in

A webpage for a "Noble" crypto project, where each piece of text slides into view on scroll

molly0xfff, 23 days ago to ArtificialIntelligence

I spent a long time experimenting with AI before finally writing about it in depth. It can be pretty useful — but is it worth it?

https://www.citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useless/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 18 hours ago to fediverse

"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."

is this feeling... hope? https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/

#ActivityPub #Ghost #fediverse #OpenWeb

molly0xfff, 2 months ago to random

it takes a lot to get me to willingly pick up the phone, but i just called my senators to urge them to vote no on #KOSA and you should too.

there are some script templates going around if you prefer to have a reference, here's one:

molly0xfff, 2 days ago to random

"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

h/t @dangillmor

molly0xfff, 7 months ago to random

in hindsight it may have been a mistake to google "gimp mask" to try to figure out how to do a layer mask in gimp, the free and open source equivalent of photoshop

#gimp