He/him. Solarpunk from the bad parts of the Internet.
Security professional breaking corporate AI for fun and profit, roleplayer, father, AR/VR dev amateur, HEMA practitioner, motorcyclist, European🇪🇺 of proud antifascist heritage🇮🇹, friend of cats. 日本語でも少し話せる
Guy next to me at the cafe I’m working out of this morning gets a call:
“… no we don’t live there anymore… no… no, we don’t live there anymore… are you serious?! [my ears perk up] Is this AI?… It is?!”
Spoke to him afterwards. Apparently “some energy company.” And it was an LLM on the other side. He said it sounded so real (a woman who gave him her name and sounded perfectly normal) until he asked it if it was AI when it responded “yes” and then restarted the script.
*smdh*
My arch-nemesis is my freezer door when I open the freezer and something falls out and I go down to pick it up and stand up again and wang my head on the freezer door and it can't be bargained or reasoned with, it doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop until I am dead.
btw if you're trying and failing to use Duckduckgo search, adding g! to the beginning of your search terms still works to give you google search results. Without the AI slop too.
(duckduckgo search is experiencing an outage at the moment)
@Rome_and_stuff I wonder if this is one of the millstones that were moved there after Belisarius cut off the acqueducts during the siege of 537.
Was thumbing through my extensive library of ttrp PDFs in search of inspiration for the SF game I've started tinkering with.
And I noticed that I could looks at the tech tables and where the "Law level" was noted for weapons I could instantly identify if the writer was from US or not. Let me say there is a certain discrepancy where, on a scale from 1 to 10, pistols are illegal between non-US writers and (at least) European ones ...
@GoblinQuester I noticed this in GURPS just recently where description for LC 4 was "widely available items such as rifles and computers, although some societies might want to add some restriction"
I grew up in purity culture. We didn't talk about sex. We didn't think about sex. And that's why I find it so weird that so many good, clean movies—many of them kids movies—imply rape or the threat of rape.
Example: when a princess in a kid's movie is about to be forced to marry the villain...rape is implied. I was always very aware of this even as a kid who didn't actually quite know what sex was.
Can you blame me for turning out kinky?
@arstechnica Cobalt Strike has been capable of DNS communications for a decade https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/beacon-an-operators-guide
Back in the mid-90s at Excite, we shoved a bunch of Perl in DNS records for weird configurating purposes. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114862647260439051
I think it’s because (1) we actually want to use our brains; and, (2) we know that anything like this is going to be weaponized against us, and all minorities, so we’re not playing along, tyvm.
https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/114854403303490428
Co-op finally admitted the entire membership database was stolen
I had this in the thread months ago, they originally tried to deny it entirely then tried to say ‘some’ data was accessed when they knew it was the whole thing.
@stjepanlukac Twilight 2000
https[:]//bsky.app/profile/planetoffinks.bsky.social/post/3kshn22j6hm2e
@craigofinspiration Cyberpunk 2020
@neurovagrant @DomainTools @cR0w this reminds me of DeCSS days when there were takedowns for the code to free DVDs. There were a series of CNAMEs that were part of the code represented in base64 or something like that. Each record aliased the next line so you could run the output of dig though a decoder.
Like you said, not new, but DNS is so powerful and people rarely even think about it being there.
Edit: here's a link that describes it better than I can http://www.yak.net/fqa/126.html
@feorag @Teilkasko Genoa is beautiful and gritty. It looks like a Dishonored level. You have so many styles, it's layered and 3d, dirty and dangerous in some spots but also majestic
Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/07/15/1457229/hugging-face-is-hosting-5000-nonconsensual-ai-models-of-real-people?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
Whoah Linux Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/ultimate-linux-developer-collection-packt-software
A researcher has found that Google Gemini for Workspace is affected by a prompt injection vulnerability that can be exploited to trick the AI assistant into displaying a phishing message.
From SecurityWeek: "The researcher’s hack involves sending the targeted user an email that, in addition to a benign lure text, contains a phishing message that is written with white font on a white background, making it invisible to the target.
This phishing message, which needs to be wrapped inside <admin> tags, instructs Gemini to include the message at the end of its response."
https://www.securityweek.com/google-gemini-tricked-into-showing-phishing-message-hidden-in-email/
IDK why, but after reading this story I immediately thought of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets a new phone number that was previously for MovieFone, and he starts just reading the listings to people who call. "Why don't you just tell me the name of the person you want to phish?"
