At Mike Skinner gig in #Brisbane
The "on the Banks" venue in the park opposite the CBD kinda works.
#goodurbanism

A lot of people talking about dumping Proton right now are misunderstanding what actually happened.

Feds were able to coerce the Swiss government to coerce Proton to hand over whatever data they had on an anonymous Stop Cop City email address, that was being investigated for terrorism.

That metadata included credit card details information for the account, which is very difficult to anonymize.

Proton offers cash payments to work around this obvious security flaw.

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Your email or VPN provider is not going to risk prison time for your $5/mo. It's just not going to happen, at least for anything commercial. Tuta and every other email privacy-focused email company will comply with court orders.

Trying to find the perfect email provider is a fool's errand. It doesn't exist.

You can however anonymize your useage of privacy friendly services like Proton, Tuta, or Mailbox by not entering your credit card number, phone number, name, personal email, or IP to that account.

@dtm it totally is!
When I first moved to Brisbane I looked at the rubbish bins and thought "what weird-ass urban scavenger have they been designed to thwart?"... And, yeah.

2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety

2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety

After years of mostly ignoring Ukraine, the west is now begging for their help in countering Iranian drones as we run low on million dollar interceptors.

Queen Street Mall #Brisbane, with Bin Chicken

@grumble209 @newsguyusa BYOB

@mntmn @cwebber I think the single interesting thing LLMs have revealed is that there is a substantial market segment who has an active desire for natural language interfaces to the computer and who will flip from "do not engage to the computer" to "engage with the computer" if a natural language interface became available.

I do not personally want a natural language interface to the computer. I also do not believe the thing LLM vendors have built is a natural language interface to the computer

@Ezyh
We need a coalition of the willing to jointly stand up to the Trump regime ASAP

Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. “I guess,” he says. "...Like I said, some people will die. When you go to war, some people will die." https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/

@gwynnion
So much of the trajectory of our democracies over the last 30-60 years is explained by the increasing desperation of voters without any realistic not-owned-by-corporate-donors political choices.

@cwebber of course a deterministic LLM could be made. But ~noone would use it. Being able to reroll the dice is an important part of the confidence game.

Good morning from the upside down

anyway THIS is quite a sight to behold you don't see every day

#iran

I love the stunned white guy reaction 🤣

When asked about whether or not #Iran was worried about U.S. boots on the ground, #Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded in a way the anchor didn't expect.

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/hbJW2knWZ2E

#BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #BoycottIsrael #SanctionIsrael #DeathToZionazis #FuckTheUSA #FuckIsrael #BFFWarCriminals #GulfWar3 #MiddleEast #geopolitics #USpol #MiddleEast #PersianGulf #OperationEpsteinFury

It's a skidoo Friday morning

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

I thought I posted this idea but I can't seem to find it in my history. I need it to explain Albo's position here:

Trump is a bully / thug. The way bullies and thugs work is that they (1) force an interaction; and (2) get the best out of that interaction.

So in the protection racket example, you can be minding your own business, and they will come to your shop, then act like jerks. You just want them to leave but their whole plan is to interact with you as much and for as long as possible, and get the best out of that interaction. So maybe they'll be looking for signs of disrespect, then shake you down for money, then they come back and repeat the process. Or maybe they'll be looking for you giving them what they want so they'll leave, and then they come back and expect that treatment over and over. There are lots of ways it shakes out, but the point is: they know you want them to leave, and they use that to stay longer.

On the street example, you're walking minding your own business, they will run into you on purpose, then expect an apology. The apology is the metagame, the purpose is the interaction. Even if you're strong enough to beat them up, then they'll go to the police. The more you want them to leave, the more they take advantage.

Trump is the same. You hope he doesn't notice you, but once he does, he interacts and does stuff until you "lose" the interaction.

People have said you can "stand up to him", but this is only partially true. He'll leave the first time, but like bullies he knows you're there. He'll wait until there's an advantage and then do that.

@christi3k
I have largely stopped fighting it.
It would mean losing my job for a start.

That's the spirit.