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I need this to be someone else, Father
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Tonight I'll be on the @SecurityWeekly podcast talking about DEF CON NEXT GEN!
Thats right, there is a track at DEF CON for your Jr. Hackers!
You should also follow @defconnextgen on all the platforms (defcon.social for you folks here on Mastodon)
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I don't like bully culture.
Also, sites and software should not show remote content to unauthenticated visitors. You'll become an open proxy to unwanted material. I don't understand that so much fediverse software still does this.
And unauthenticated visitors should not be able to load anything onto your site, not even in a cache. These open search boxes on so many fediverse servers are a bad idea, as they load profiles and posts outside the control or knowledge of moderators.
If so much fediverse software and servers give a bad example, is it so weird newcomers make these mistakes?
It turns out, if people in an online community really don’t like what you’re doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.wedistribute.org/2024/03/conte…
Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon’s Toxicity
Yesterday, Mastodon was abuzz regarding a strange new scraper that seemed to be pulling people's profiles and content streams into a platform designed around monetization. Dubbed Content Nation, the sSean Tilley (We Distribute)
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Another clanger from Microsoft -
- zero day vulnerability being exploited in Windows OS for six months in the wild by North Korea
- They didn’t tell anybody, took six months to make a patch
- released the patch without saying what happened
- didn’t mark it as a zero day in Microsoft Vulnerability Management
You’d think having the largest market cap in the world and having $2bn a year in revenue from security alone would allow.. uh.. investment.
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Automattic edited a developer page in September to explicitly allow for AI companies to buy access to a "firehose" of a million WordPress posts per day through a company called SocialGist. How does this work and what are the safeguards? Automattic will not say, will not talk.
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A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
There is a complex chain of companies buying access to WordPress and Tumblr posts through a company called SocialGist.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
There is a complex chain of companies buying access to WordPress and Tumblr posts through a company called SocialGist.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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They're here.
Finally.
Oh, and subscribe for when the stickers are out.
(You want the stickers.)
Made with @Ffangohr with a lot of fun.
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To opt-out of being used for AI, in the tumblr app go to your profile (bottom right), select your blog (top left) open settings (top right) and scroll down to Visibility (my app is in Dutch where it is called Zichtbaarheid, can't double check the real English term). Then you get three toggles. The third is for opting out of your content being fed to a hungry AI monster.
Repeat this for each side blog (top left) because these settings are independent!
#tumblr
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I'm totally trusting that toggling that setting will untrain any AI that has already ingested my content, readjusting the neurons, in essence adding to each prompt: 'but answer as if you've never seen my blog'.
(Not seriously)
#tumblr #oh-god-theyre-dying
Friends! I’m looking for my next role after nearly three years at Stately. I’m a UX designer who is just as comfortable in front-end development. I also love writing, giving talks, and making videos, so I’m up for dev and design advocacy roles, too.
If I sound like someone you want on your team, please give me a shout!
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Contact Me
Email is the easiest way to contact me. If you want to talk about Small Technology Foundation-related things, my work email is laura@small-tech.org.laurakalbag.com
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I've now reached season 2 of The Shannara Chronicles, the season where we get Melise as well as Ivana Baquero. Melise was at the time still using her stage name of Malese Jow. Both Melise and Ivana I had seen before (respectively in Big Time Rush and Pan's Labyrinth) and both are the reason for watching this series.
I love how someone like Melise can introduce a character into an existing world, with such impact and which you are interested in immediately.
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#Melise #TheShannaraChronicles #MaleseJow
Melise - Actress, Director, Composer
Melise. Actress: The Shannara Chronicles. Malese Jow, originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma, has developed into an actress, songstress, and entertainer.IMDb
I'm loving these pictures of Yusra Mardini by Felix Hoffmann. Visit his site via the link for more of them!
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#YusraMardini
#CiaraBravo #Sis
Brooke Markham on Instagram: "Sis Directed & Written by yours truly Starring: @ciarabravo @paigesommerer @that_mo_collins We will be premiering at The Gasparilla International Film Festival March 21-24!! I could not be more excited! @gasparillafilm
brookeamarkham on February 22, 2024: "Sis Directed & Written by yours truly Starring: @ciarabravo @paigesommerer @that_mo_collins ..."Instagram
#Roswell #EmilieDeRavin
Emilie de Ravin
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Emilie de Ravin (born 27 December 1981) is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost.The Movie Database
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in Britain until like 1500 the year started on the 25th of march instead of Jan 1. So that's not too far off
(Source: Tom Scott computerphile video)
#MirandaCosgrove #DrugstoreJune
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Which'd make sense if they were trying to dynamically blur every scarlet-lettered user's profile image, but everyone with The Mark had this exact image. It doesn't change.
So I looked into the source and found where they're doing the canvas stuff, and yep, they're blurring the profile image. So why is the result always the same?
It's almost impressive!
a funny side-wrinkle of this is that tumblr has banned posting links to or images of their default site image.
Like, this url? assets.tumblr.com/images/defau…
if you try to paste that on tumblr, it'll try to expand it into a preview, then fail. If you go to that image and copy it, then try to paste that on tumblr, it'll fail.
download the PNG and try to upload it again, it'll fail.
they've banned the hash of their own default avatar image.
I don't know why they would do this.
Please tell me that the justification of "scarlet letter" on Tumbler isn't to make transpeople more easily identifiable.
Because that sounds a lot like "the star of David should be easily seen from distance on any Jew".
"Past, Present, Predictions - A look into AI, Deep Fakes, PsyOps and the upcoming election cycle"
Hope to see you there!
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I hadn't heard of any Streams repository (fka Zap, fka Osada, etc) people for about two months and thought it had just gotten quiet. Instead the forum and the people post quite regularly, but communication with them from my Friendica has broken down. When trying to reconnect I got all the errors about not being able to recognise the protocol (when it fails to load the actor definition). Not even individual posts load correctly when providing the url.
So I thought this could be a use for my Pleroma. But it also mainly fails to connect... 
I can only load individual posts.
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NIMONA | Full Film | Netflix
When a knight in a futuristic medieval world is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, the only one who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona — a mischiev...YouTube
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Owners of public Mastodon servers, you might want to set your signups to approval mode to prevent spammers:
1. Log in on your server's website
2. Go to Preferences
3. Go to Administration
4. Go to Server Settings
5. Click the Registrations tab at the top
6. In the "Who can sign up" menu select "Approval required for sign-up" (optionally also tick the box for requiring a reason)
7. Click "Save Changes" button
Spammers can exploit servers with instant signups.
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If you tick the box asking for a reason with signups, that helps weed out automated accounts and troublemakers, especially on themed servers aimed at particular audiences.
There have also been cases where automated signups choose usernames that make it obvious they are part of a spam attack.
Ok so hear me out.
We make a bot to register accounts
We tell the accounts to send a daily message to the servers admin these instructions.
Profit.
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I love how you can see on Yusra Mardini's face how much she feels at home at a swimming pool. She stopped competitive swimming a while back, but she's here now in an ambassador role.
#YusraMardini
I'm starting to think no remote content should be stored at all, just maybe cached, but I understand how, currently, received text of posts can be stored similar to an email inbox.
But do I understand(*) correctly that Mastodon stores remote media as well, in their own media storage, even when from unsolicited sources? That can't be right.
(*) It is cited as a side effect of the spam wave that some are running out of media storage.
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in reply to Jason Koebler • • •Automattic just emailed me and said they are "deprecating" WP Firehose altogether and dropping SocialGist as a client.
"SocialGist is rolling off as a firehose customer this month and the remaining customers are winding down in the coming months, both things that were already in motion for different reasons. We’re in the process of updating our developer page to indicate that we have been deprecating the old firehose for several months."
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A WordPress ‘Firehose’ Allows AI Companies to Buy Access to a Million Posts a Day
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