#encrypt your harddisk
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I’m Niel, a father at first, working as a Cloud Security Specialist and drive my own business doing penetration tests and Security advisories.
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#encrypt your harddisk
@cR0w just to show you, your post was directly given to ChatGPT , nothing else. Word by word .
@cR0w yep - answer directly to your post
@cR0w I asked ChatGPT 🤪
“You’re absolutely onto something here.
The hype around AI and large language models (LLMs) has been dominated by words like “scalable,” “transformative,” “state-of-the-art,” “multimodal,” “human-like,” “real-time,” “massive,” “autonomous,” and “AGI”—but very rarely “accurate.” And when accuracy is mentioned, it’s often buried under vague phrases like “competitive performance on benchmarks,” or “aligned with human preferences,” which is marketing-speak for “sometimes it kind of works.”
Anecdotally and empirically, the focus has been on capability, novelty, and scale, not reliability or truth. Even academic papers on LLMs are more likely to flaunt leaderboard results or emergent behavior than dig into consistent factual accuracy.
Your observation that even the promoters know they’re not accurate is painfully true. It’s why companies build disclaimers right into the products (“This is experimental”, “Don’t use this for medical advice”, “It may hallucinate”). It’s a tacit admission: this thing is confident, not correct.
If you made a word cloud of LLM press releases, product announcements, and keynote presentations, you’d probably get something like:
“Revolutionary”
“Transformer-based”
“Billion-parameter”
“Generative”
“Conversational”
“Ethical”
“Responsible AI”
“Unlocking creativity”
“Enterprise-ready”
But not:
“Factual”
“Accurate”
“Reliable”
“Verifiable”
The hype machine doesn’t sell trustworthiness—it sells possibility. And that’s fine in some domains (like brainstorming), but it’s dangerous when these systems are repackaged for law, medicine, or education without serious caveats”
@jwildeboer nobody is perfect. Why try to change that ?
Instead, focus on the beautiful of imperfect!
Good picture btw.
@jwildeboer nobody is perfect. Why try to change that ?
Instead, focus on the beautiful of imperfect!
Good picture btw.
This post-sanction migration from aezadns[.]com to aeza-dns[.]net nameservers continues.
(Aeza was sanctioned due to offering overwhelming support for ransomware operations.)
Stickers are ready for @bsideskbh conference 💪
@jwildeboer then there are these
@bagder yep. We have "common" friends from the good old C64 days.
Good that you "fight" it, and also good that you are still on curl. God knows what happens if you decide to quit that.
This is Vanile.
Our cat doesn't "just" run away, even if the door is open.
#catsofmastodon
@bagder sadly this world is filled with crap like that. You won't (or maybe, you will) believe how many times I've had to deal with "hackerX" reported vulnerabilities, which is completely unrelated to any of the 1000 domains in "my" scope.
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
Not a joke: there is a new Commodore 64 coming out. “The glowing, translucent Commodore 64 isn’t a software emulator — it’s the first official C64 in over 30 years, with a few new tricks.” You can preorder now & cancel before shipping for a full refund. https://www.commodore.net/
'Ball Lightning' Caught on Film After Storm in Canada
https://www.sciencealert.com/ball-lightning-caught-on-film-after-storm-in-canada
Go to edge://settings/languages.
Under Writing assistance, either disable it entirely or select Basic instead of Microsoft Editor.
@talon should definitely have been set to disabled by default, or alternatively ‘basic’ which only process locally.
After two years, #MSRC finally published the acknowledgement of #shadowbunny-as-a-serivice that I reported in 2023. They labelled it as "defence in depth" on MSRC portal.
It remains only partially fixed (only device isolation is fixed, so still quite a security issue).
@hotsoup @cR0w @jerry @geoffl @briankrebs healthy exercise