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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

(public toots CC By-SA 4.0 if applicable)

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alberto_cottica, to random
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This is a deep intuition from @pluralistic : any platform's game is rent extraction ("enshittification"): insert yourself as a middleman in a transaction, then extract money from both sides. 1/3

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/21/bondage-fees/#doorman-building

rysiek,
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@alberto_cottica @pluralistic

I've been thinking about that and came to the rough conclusion that it's because of digital services being incompatible-by-default.

If you learn that your favorite bakery is owned by, say, a bigot, you can switch to any other bakery and you can assume the goods will be "compatible" with your "interface" (i.e. mouth, gastric tract, etc).

If you learn a service is owned by a bigot, a competing service will almost always be incompatible with your interface (app).

rysiek,
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@alberto_cottica this is less of a problem in case of services built around open protocols, obviously. But building an open protocol and then building a service around it takes more effort, time, and resources, than building a walled-garden service.

Which is the opposite in case of, say, bread. How do you even make a "walled-garden bread", without going to jail for causing harm to people?

@pluralistic

rysiek, to internet
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I guess one could say :birdsite: now has "sparks of verification." :thinking_rotate:

rysiek, to random
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Hey @internetsociety nice to see you here on fedi. Any chance for a verified link to prove this is an official account? 👀

panoptykon, to random Polish
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W Panoptykonie zajmujemy się przestrzenią cyfrową, ale przecież nie jesteśmy jedyni. W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Panoptykon 4.0 Wojciech Klicki rozmawia z Kubą Orlikiem @kuba, współzałożycielem inicjatywy Internet. Czas Działać! @icd

Posłuchajcie rozmowy o Internecie naszych marzeń, który, o dziwo, nie różni się tak bardzo od aktualnego.

https://panoptykon.org/internet-czas-dzialac-podcast

rysiek,
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@panoptykon @kuba @icd

rysiek, to internet
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This one-liner will instantly make your :birdsite: experience improved and more truthful, at least as far as the "verified checkmark" thing is concerned:

javascript:void([...document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid=icon-verified]")].forEach((iv)=>{iv.replaceWith("💩")}))

You can save it as a bookmarklet, or paste it directly into the developer console. Before/after below.

You're welcome. :blobcatfingerguns:

rysiek,
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@Niterux not at all, go for it. It's pretty trivial.

rysiek, to random
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I guess now fedi has a better verification system than :birdsite:

🤔

rysiek,
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@robryk oh I just meant the accounts, but yeah an org's social media presence in their own domain is the way to go.

rysiek,
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@ButterflyOfFire better.

rysiek,
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@robryk nope. I am saying: the ability to verify your account by having a verified link to another source of identity that might already be established (even if it's not your own domain) is better than whatever :birdsite: is doing these days.

rysiek,
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obviously the whole :birdsite: verification thing could have been trivially solved by hexagonal NFT profile pics. :thaenkin:

rysiek,
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@0xBEA :blobcateyes:

quinn, to random
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My instance is borked again wheeeeeeeee

rysiek,
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@quinn this is bizarre. It seems as if your instance is not sending the notifications to accounts that follow you?

You are not blocked here (I can see your profile), and you don't seem muted as well. I can interact with your toots if I use the exact link. Has the instance admin looked into this maybe?

rysiek,
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@quinn pinging @admin I guess? :blobcateyes:

jhilden, to random
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This webstore has a great Stock of ”Sorry, as an AI” products.

https://www.proshop.fi/?s=sorry+as+an+AI

rysiek,
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@randomgeek @jhilden :blobcatsweats:

rysiek, (edited ) to random
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So apparently there is this report about that's been published about a month ago:
https://nitter.net/brendancarrfcc/status/1636773917670137856

Try as hard as I might, I just cannot download it. Found the source of the link in some other place, the link is the same. But te download always fails with around 200KiB to go, for example with wget:

> Read error at byte 23232234/23497814

or curl:

> curl: (56) OpenSSL SSL_read: Connection reset by peer, errno 104

Edit: people were able to download it, and shared it. Thanks!

rysiek,
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Yes, I also tried using the browser to display the PDF directly, and tries a browser download manager, too.

All to no avail.

rysiek,
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@Codified that worked. Thanks!

rysiek,
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@travisfw seems so!

rysiek,
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@wariat ciekawe. Mam już, inni podesłali. Ale dzięki za chęć pomocy. 🙂

rysiek, to random
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Schumacher family planning legal action over AI ‘interview’ with F1 great
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/20/schumacher-family-planning-legal-action-over-ai-interview-with-f1-great

> Michael Schumacher’s family are planning legal action against a German weekly magazine over an “interview” with the seven times Formula One champion that was generated by artificial intelligence.

Who the fuck thought this is a good idea?

rysiek,
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@robryk can there be slander if there is nothing explicitly negative about the subject?

rysiek,
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@robryk I think the crux here is that there is definitely harm, and that it does not fit nicely into the categories of harm we already have.

rysiek, to random Polish
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Dziś znów piszę dla o , , i bajerowaniu nas "superinteligencją" i "egzystencjalnym zagrożeniem":
https://oko.press/sztuczna-inteligencja-open-ai

Po co ta bajera? By wyciągnąć pieniądze od inwestorów, a jednocześnie odwrócić uwagę od realnych problemów z wielkimi modelami językowymi (LLM) i szkód przez nie wyrządzanych już dziś.

Oraz by nikt nie pomyślał pytać, kto je kontroluje, i jaką władzę mu to daje.

Tekst niestety za login-wallem. Ale wcześniej czy później powinien zostać uwolniony.

rysiek,
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@brayozz o ciekawe. A czemu?

rysiek,
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@brayozz a jakiś konkret może? A nie same inwektywy?

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