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rysiek

@rysiek@mstdn.social

Hacker, activist, free-softie ◈ techie luddite ◈ formerly information security and infrastructure at https://isnic.is/ and https://occrp.org/ ◈ my opinions are my own etc.

(he/him)

profile image: drawing of a head and shoulders of a cat-person, in a space suit.

banner image: long-exposure photo of a large tent, brightly illuminated from inside, looking as if it is made of lava

#foss #libre #privacy #infosec #fedi22

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rysiek, to mastodon
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:blobcatpeek:

rysiek, to random
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Random reminder this exists and is indeed excellent:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZOHGC0zptGQ

Thank you for your attention, carry on.

rysiek, (edited ) to telegram Polish
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Czy jest bezpieczny?
(nie, nie jest)
https://oko.press/komunikator-telegram-bezpieczenstwo

> Na stronie internetowej komunikatora znajdziemy informację, że „wiadomości są silnie szyfrowane”. Podobnie Telegram promuje się m.in. w mediach społecznościowych.

> To mocno sugeruje, że wiadomości wymieniane za pomocą tego komunikatora są dostępne tylko dla ich nadawców i odbiorców – i że nikt poza nimi nie może odczytać. Takie szyfrowanie nazywane jest „end-to-end”.

> W kontekście Telegrama jest to jednak mylące.

1/🧵

rysiek, to random
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A system's purpose is what it does.

https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/112514829176613312

rysiek, to Facebook
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We are getting ready to expand our Torment Nexus experiences in your region.

To help bring these experiences to you we will kidnap your firstborn, based on our legitimate interest.

This means you have a right to object. If your objection is honored we might return your firstborn at some point.

We have updated our firstborn policy. Pray we don't update it any further.

#Facebook #Instagram #AI

rysiek, to RaspberryPi
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Remember that surveillance tech adjacent cop that had hired a while back?

I wonder how that went.

rysiek, to ai
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This just randomly came up and I cannot not share this again

> Mark J. Girouard (…) says one of his clients was vetting a company selling a resume screening tool, but didn’t want to make the decision until they knew what the algorithm was prioritizing in a person’s CV.

> After an audit the resume screening company found that the algorithm found two factors to be most indicative of job performance: their name was Jared, and whether they played high school lacrosse.

https://qz.com/1427621/companies-are-on-the-hook-if-their-hiring-algorithms-are-biased

rysiek, to random
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Maybe, hear me out here, maybe it was not the best of ideas to put all Web eggs into a single Google basket? 🤔

But who could have known, right? :thaenkin:

sigh

rysiek, to random
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> Look, I'm no luddite…

First of all, why do tech writers feel they need to be apologetic when criticizing bad technology decisions by Big Tech?

I don't see similar hedging when the piece is about the tech underdogs – say, small FLOSS projects. Being a vicious critic is then somehow okay?

Secondly, just embrace your inner Luddites. Luddites were not against all technology per se, they were against how technology was being used to abuse people:
https://techwontsave.us/episode/187_the_real_history_of_the_luddites_w_brian_merchant

Sounds damn valid to me!

rysiek, to telegram
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Telegram in 2020[1]:

> Q. Will you have ads?
> No.

Telegram in 2024[2]:

> Q. Will you have ads in my private chats and groups?
> No.

…but also:

> In 2021, Telegram launched Sponsored Messages – minimalist, privacy-conscious advertisements that can appear in certain public channels.

Hey, but at least they still promise not to sell your data, so that's fine. I'm sure they would never go back on this one. 🤡

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200229080907/https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-out-of-this

[2] https://telegram.org/faq?setln=en#q-how-are-you-going-to-make-money-out-of-this

rysiek, (edited ) to Polska Polish
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Nie da się e-zarejestrować do głosowania za granicą bez skryptów od Google. 👀

Strona rejestracji[1] pobiera czcionki bezpośrednio z serwerów Google – te można zablokować bez utraty funkcjonalności.

Ale uruchamia też skrypty bezpośrednio pobrane z infrastruktury Google. Zablokowanie ich uniemożliwia rejestrację. 🤦‍♀️

Nie ma o tym słowa w "Informacji dotyczącej przetwarzania danych osobowych". A link do "Polityki Cookies" przekierowuje na niezwiązaną stronę. 🤡

[1] https://ewybory.msz.gov.pl/nowa-rejestracja

rysiek, to random
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as PC, is in fact, a Windows laptop, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Copilot plus PC.

rysiek, to random
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Something tells me once she's done with Sam, he's going to be pretty scarlet himself.

rysiek, to random
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It's so weird watching The Dropout – a TV series about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes – while also watching OpenAI and Sam Altman happen IRL. :blobcat0_0:

Wondering who's going to play Sam Altman in the series about the implosion of OpenAI. 🤔

rysiek, to random
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I am now verifying a @QubesOS installation ISO I am going to use very soon, and I need a trusted source of their master signing key fingerprint.

/me looks at the 10-year anniversary t-shirt I physically got from QubesOS team at :blobcateyes:

Right. :blobcatcoffee:

rysiek, to random
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who called it "war of attrition" instead of "battle of Endure"

/I am so sorry, Star Wars fans

rysiek, to random
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There is no AI, just somebody else's glorified Markov chain.

rysiek, (edited ) to infosec
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Wondering if anyone has already started adding malicious LLM prompts to their User Agent strings and hammering sites of companies that might be expected to use "AI" for log analysis. 🤔

Inspired by:
https://tweesecake.social/@weirdwriter/112441889190313713

rysiek, to random
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"S" in "LLM" stands for "Secure"

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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"ChatGPT [prompt] consumes (…) up to 25 times more than a Google search"
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

> Making sure your electricity comes from wind, solar or nuclear power is a logical first step. Google itself, for example, says it has been running entirely on green electricity since 2015.

Story misses a crucial point:

👉 The goal isn't just to add green power. The goal is to emit less CO2!

New green capacity needs to replace old dirty stuff. Not be gobbled up by new data centers for AI.

🧵

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Whenever a manager at a company (especially a large one) says:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you at this time

…ask yourself if what they really mean is:

> I'm sorry, we cannot afford a raise for you and a huge payout (dividends, bonuses, etc) for the management and stockholders simultaneously, and our priorities are obvious.

You'd be surprised how often that's the case.

Oh, and get into the habit of reading any available financial disclosures before having that talk! Just sayin…

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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Hey @nextcloud I see you made "AI" the "centerpiece" of #Nextcloud Hub 8?
https://news.itsfoss.com/nextcloud-hub-8/

What model are you using?
What data has it been trained on, and by whom?
Can I recreate your model from scratch?

Edit: the "centerpiece" part might have come from It's FOSS News, although Nextcloud messaging around AI is similarly excited.

rysiek, to random
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I cannot wait for the next hype cycle. The AI one is so dank and tired.

rysiek, to random
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We will all have to one day explain what we were doing during the Gaza genocide.

And a lot of us will have to atone for it.

rysiek, to random
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Okay, so, podcasts are great but sometimes I prefer to read instead of listen. 🤔

So what if – hear me out – there was a thing like podcasts, but for text! 🤯

It would still be distributed via RSS, you could still follow them and automagically pull them to your device. But instead of audio, there would be text. ✏️

👉 We could call them: textcasts!

And get this: I already have one! It was super easy to set up, actually. You can find it here:
https://rys.io/en/feed.rss

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