That time when a decision @benbjohnson made “a decade ago” in #BoltDB took down #Roblox for three days 🙀 #golang #consul #kubernetes

🎥 https://youtube.com/shorts/kA0EajPfAP0?feature=share


🔓 J. A. Guerrero-Saade on devs being a security risk:

👎 there's a certain amount of hubris
👎 there's a lot of installing random stuff
👎 too much reliance on package managers
👎 nobody wants to run EDR/XDR/AV
👎 everything runs as root

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vkoq3efc370 #golang #infosec

@USSJoshuaNorton @chairgirlhands @punkonbus1701@tenforward.social

Show me a person who doesn't know how to "navigate" the fediverse and I will dedicate my personal time to help them learn.

Anything else?

@USSJoshuaNorton @punkonbus1701 I mean anyone who goes to Jack Dorsey’s app IS wrong lol. They just want his clout and numbers. It’s painfully obvious he isn’t addressing any of the problems with twitter and is just going to create another hotbed for fascists.

The idea that now is the perfect time to act more critical than usual about the fediverse is his PR team talking. He wants to race the fedi which while yes, flawed, is significantly better and safer.

🚨 Today on a very special Go Time LIVE...

Mat Ryer, Natalie Pistunovich & Johnny Boursiquot put on their interviewer hats 🎩 and ask their *best* questions to a potential new #golang developer: GPT-4!!

Join us in ~45 minutes! https://gotime.fm/272/live

@gotime Unpopular opinion: Javascript wasn't created by Brendan Eich, it was offered to mankind by Xenu in order to grow the global carbon footprint of the WWW and make the sea levels rise. A more comfortable environment for the races Xenu wants to promote on Earth.

The EU's proposal to force all service providers to automatically search all content that is either stored or transmitted anywhere in Europe, forward all illegal results to the police, and to block access to all non-European illegal content is expected to be presented to parliament in April. It's currently focused on algorithmic identification of unknown CSAM and of any social interactions that could be child grooming — basically, an AI trying to guess if an image might be child porn or a conversation might be trying to lure a child for sex — but it's unlikely that once the capability exists it won't be expanded to other crimes. The proposal would also force all services to age check their users (which means identifying them) and effectively ban anyone under 18 from interacting with the internet. There are no exceptions for end to end encryption and stored data not being shared is included.

To be clear, this proposal is not going to work. You know how bad chatGPT is? This is trying to solve a much harder problem, one humans struggle with, with much less compute power. What it will do is end all private communication in Europe, waste an amazing amount of police time, and leak a spectacular amount of private material to local police, some of whom — looking at you Hungary and Poland — are more than happy to use it to harass queers and trans people. It is fundamentally incompatible with the basic rights the EU is legally bound to uphold. It's also, in case they care, going to be a nightmare for corporate security and intellectual property control and will create a massive barrier to entry for anyone smaller than Google or Facebook running communication services in Europe.

Please call or write your MEP today and tell them to stop #ChatControl and preserve freedom of expression in Europe.

⚠️New Report: Top US Data Brokers nightmarishly sell personal data of people including “highly sensitive mental health data on Americans including data on those with depression, attention disorder, insomnia, anxiety, ADHD, and bipolar disorder as well as data on ethnicity, age, gender, zip code, religion, children in the home, marital status, net worth, credit score, date of birth, and single parent status.” #DataRights #Privacy #ADPPA https://techpolicy.sanford.duke.edu/data-brokers-and-the-sale-of-americans-mental-health-data/

If you're running a Mastodon server, the new update 4.1.0 brings many useful options for Admins including:

:Mastodon: You can now import and export server domain block lists. Go to Preferences > Moderation > Federation and then Import or Export

Complete changelog is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0

#MastoAdmin

In messages posted on Google's internal forum Memegen, staffers described the announcement of ChatGPT competitor Bard as 'rushed' and 'un-Googley.' https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-employees-criticize-ceo-for-botched-bard-launch

i hear people complain about other people misinterpreting 'there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism' multiple times a day, but i have never actually heard someone misinterpret 'there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism', and i'm not totally convinced that it's actually a thing that happens.

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@craigsilverman And they know it, which is the main reason for keeping this information from being made public.

I spent a good part of this year investigating Google's ad business. Today we published a story about trying to crack open its black box ad network.

Unlike its competitors, Google conceals nearly all publishers it works with and where billions of ad dollars flow. We found that Google's vast ad network contains manga piracy, porn, fraud and disinformation.

Give it a read: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

🎸 New episode of Go Time! 🎸

@justicerage joins Natalie once again for a follow-up episode on hacking with Go. This time we’ll get Ivan’s perspective on the way Go’s security features are designed and used, from the user/hacker perspective. And of course we will also talk about how AI fits into all this…

🎧 https://gotime.fm/259 #golang #infosec

@lauren @tlholaday Kitsch-adjacent maybe?

Excellent Ars Technica story on the birth of ARM https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-part-1-building-the-first-chip/ and part 2 https://arstechnica.com/?p=1896053 - I remember visiting ARM HQ when Sun sold them some SPARCstations a few years later.

Worth amplifying this point yet again. Please do NOT delete your #Twitter account. Even if you stop using it completely, please don't increase the risk of your user name being reused by someone else in the future. And I strongly recommend downloading all your Twitter data now, while Elon still permits it and the relevant systems are functioning. When I did this a number of days ago, it took ~48 hours from the time I made the request to being able to download the data. That's liable to get longer as more people request the data.

Go to your Twitter profile, then:

More->Settings and Support->Settings and privacy->Download an archive of your data

For now, I recommend using email verification and not text messages (SMS) to confirm the download request, since there have been reports of Twitter SMS failures lately, but it's up to you of course.

I agree with Danny 100%. This is important.