dbread

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Formally known as @dbread

I am a software engineer with great affinity to #foss and #commons empowering platforms.

Some keywords that could fit: #devlife #security
#iot #yot #software #dang #wtf

Reposts are bookmarks. Nice or stupid.

2025-06-29

@kaffeeringe schön zu lesen, dass #RSS noch Relevanz hat. Wurde ja imho von #bigtech gekillt, da es sich nicht zentralisiert monetarisieren lässt und autonomie fördert.

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2025-06-29

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Reicht eure Ideen-Skizze bei uns ein!
• Beschäftigt euch ein Thema/eine Idee aus dem Bereich Cybersicherheit, für deren Bearbeitung es Gestaltungsspielräume gibt?
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• Hat euer Thema/Eure Idee eine (gesamt-)gesellschaftliche Relevanz?
2025-06-26

@thunfisch ein schöner "mit der #Digitalisierung wird alles besser" - Thread

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2025-06-26

Mein Freund und Kollege Fefe lässt Grüße aus dem Krankenhaus ausrichten, wo er sich nach einem Schlaganfall auf dem Weg der Genesung befindet.

#fefe

2025-06-26

@Cheatha ein schief montiertes

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2025-06-26
@dbread @digitalcourage ach weist Du, diese Befürchtung wurde schon prophezeit, seit es das Fediverse gibt (lange vor der Geburt Mastodons 2016, was aber nun auch schon ne recht lange Zeit immun dagegen blieb). Das Fedi eignet sich strukturell einfach nicht für Kommerzialisierung und genau darin liegt die große Bedeutung und Chance.
2025-06-26

@jabgoe2089 Guter Punkt. Die (nicht vorhandene) algorithmisch generierte Timeline macht also den Unterschied?

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2025-06-26

@dbread ..which is why I flash OpenWRT on all my routers 👍
TP-link gear is usually well supported if you want to go this way.

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2025-06-26

@falken @dbread Can't happen with Zigbee or Z-Wave. They're open protocols. Matter isn't quite there yet, but is supposed to be the same.

Many IoT devices can be fairly easily flashed with different firmware, too. There are a lot of devices that run off ESP32 chips, and can be flashed to work with ESPHome. Shelly devices, for example can mostly be flashed with generic ESP32 firmware.

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Theolodiantheolodian
2025-06-26

@dbread our TVs don’t have cameras. We don’t have smart speakers etc. More worried about them sniffing other things on our home network.

VLANs/subnets require a fair bit of knowledge, but could cover it in a 20-30 minute video. The real barrier is having equipment that supports it. Not aware of any consumer grade equipment that fits the bill.

2025-06-25

Just like that but with less Lego analogy.

a 3 node lego brick that does not match 4 nodes
2025-06-25

We are at the cutting point where we write software docs for humans and extra docs for #llm s.

"Better Auth provides an LLMs.txt file that helps AI models understand how to interact with your authentication system. You can find it at better-auth.com/llms.txt."

better-auth.com/llms.txt

Waiting for the ai self - generated memes where the documentation does not match the implementation #LOL

#ai #security

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2025-06-25

"Trapping AI" – Slight Update! 🌀

Activity in the "Trapping AI" project is accelerating: in just under a month, over 26 million requests have hit our tarpit URLs 🕳️. Vast volumes of meaningless content were devoured by AI crawlers — ruthless digital leeches that relentlessly scour and pillage the web, leaving no data untouched.

In the coming days, we’ll roll out a new layer of complexity — amplifying both the intensity and offensiveness of our approach. This escalation builds on fakejpeg, a tool developed by @pengfold.

🖼️ fakejpeg generates fake JPEGs on the fly. You "train" it with a collection of existing JPEGs, and once trained, it can produce an arbitrary number of things that look like real JPEGs — perfect for feeding aggressive web crawlers junk 🗑️.

Explore fakejpeg: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

Learn more about "Trapping AI": https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

A captured screenshot of a page generated by a tarpit (built on babble, a standalone LLM crawler-tarpit binary), deployed as part of the ongoing ‘Trapping AI’ operation — an endless stream of deterministic bollocks that traps crawlers on a single site and forces them to endlessly navigate a constantly expanding sea of pages 🌊. Each new page spawns additional layers of meaningless text and dozens of links, dragging them ever deeper into the tarpit 🕳️.
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Extinction Rebellion GlobalExtinctionR@social.rebellion.global
2025-06-25

Jeff Bezos is arriving for his wedding in Venice in a mega yacht and his guests are turning up in 95 private jets.

We're here avoiding food waste in our kitchens. 😑

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VissViss
2025-06-25
2025-06-25

@Slash909uk didn't think this project is still maintained. Great hint!

downloads.openwrt.org/releases/

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2025-06-25

@dbread Correct, don't even need an app. You can use one of the many "offline" hubs to run them - Smartthings, Homey, Hubitat, Home Assistant are four examples.

I've used both Smartthings and Home Assistant in the past, currently I'm using a Homey Pro.

2025-06-25

@CiscoJunkie Sounds like a good way to handle the things but how to access your devices in the untrusted zone and at the same time block them calling to your subnet?

2025-06-25

@theolodian I am creeped by the lots of news on hacked smart-TVs where the cameras are streaming to the internets. So no such TV :)
VLANs seem to be the right way, but requires some knowhow.

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