You might want to get into contact with your (National) CSIRT.

I’m going back offline. Stay frosty, and don’t forget to drink some water!

Only quickly popping on here from an otherwise very nice Fediverse vacation, because NCSC-NL has just put out an “assume-breach” warning. That’s… kinda big.

https://www.ncsc.nl/waarschuwing/ncsc-roept-organisaties-op-zich-te-melden-bij-gebruik-van-ivanti-endpoint-manager (Dutch)

#Ivanti #CVE20261281 #EPMM #MobileIron #NCSC_NL #Cybersecurity #infosec #IOC #NCSC

See you around. Be kind to those who deserve your kindness, if you can try to include yourself, and also best of luck with the antifascism.

I need to check out for a while, the world coming in through my screen is becoming too much.

@jbz

It’s easy to find under Desktop browser settings, but I prefer to use about:config in the address bar.

about:config > take off > orbit > nuke entire site.

"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.

If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.

I am not feeling so generous.

AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.

Seen this one come by in my timeline the last couple of days.

Took some time yesterday to watch the whole thing. You might want to do the same.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
— Technology Connections

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

@mttaggart agreed. I personally never bought the "they are listening to sell ads" stuff. They have all of your online behaviour, plus everyone in your graph, including the people you app with, and what they are looking at while talking to you, clicking on, sending you etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Why would they need to spend time and money and effort to process what you say?

And! But also completely unrelated! (gestures wildly)

Yes, there is a corpo-owned black-box device with an always-on microphone in the room. Often multiple ones. It also has fine grained location tracking, and has you logged into a gazillion tracking services. We call that a mobile phone.

@mttaggart I agree with you it is probably a bullshit claim (and companies like google can easily buy it off, see https://infosec.exchange/@avuko/116000724082095895).

But there is the uncomfortable truth that any device which responds to a "trigger word", needs to listen 24/7 for that trigger word. That means a microphone is always-on, even if just listening in small loops going to /dev/null.

My guess was always that the processing of the audio, to find the trigger word or for other analysis, is on-device.

Otherwise you probably couldn't do a "hey google" (or similar for other brands) in airplane/offline mode.

I don't have an android phone, nor any of these services enabled, but I guess they work in offline mode?

"If it looks like fascism, sounds like fascism, acts like fascism, dresses like fascism, talks like fascism, kills like fascism, and lies like fascism - brothers and sisters, it's fucking fascism."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLMKAxFtjB8

Ladies and gentlemen, the citizens of Minneapolis filling in for Rage Against The Machine's Zack de la Rocha.

@rik

Hehehe, ik heb mijn (web)client op markdown posting gezet, en dan zet ik backticks voor inline code blocks.

I❤️Markdown 😉

@digitaleoverheid.nl

Eh, overheid.nl ligt er uit?

[edit] Aaaand its back!

@ionica @markreid90.bsky.social nee, die vind ik ook echt vreselijk.

“Ik hoor wat je zegt” is altijd: “…en ik doe er niets mee.”

I love bubbles.🫧
I love the crashing noise they make as they fall down.

This is a toot about AI.

#AI #KI

@metacurity “Russia, Russia, Russia!”

@tstruthers Hi! Please feel free to take a look at our job openings. https://www.openproject.org/careers/#vacancies #getfediHired

Well I've been let go from position in Belgium and man am I not excited to go back to America. If anyone has any job openings in Belgium, Netherlands or England that sponsors, I'd appreciate it.
#jobs #hiring #cybersecurity #cybersec #getfedihired

@JulianOliver

Let’s see.

According to what I could find combined with a quick calculation, Google’s (Alphabet) profit over 2025 would be about $433970 per minute.

68000000/433970=156,693

So Google can pay this off slightly more than two and a half hours after they got the fine.

FROM THEIR PROFITS.

@europlus @petrillic @redsad after reading a gazillion scientific articles as a Special Interest, as we #actuallyAutistic people tend to do, autism* is, as far as I can tell, the result of a hyper-functioning brain.

More brain, more connections, more activity.

And such a hyper-functioning brain has many upsides, which I’ve found to be severely underestimated and undervalued by both NT and ND people, as well as downsides, which at least I stil struggle to understand, respect and embrace.

*) the full spectrum.

@vmbrasseur with the current Digital Autonomy/Digital Sovereignty debate in the EU, them stepping up to fill the OS/cloud OS space would be great for us all. Maybe go for steward ownership under the 28th regime while they’re at it?