Cryptography, privacy, quantum security, infosec, retro vibes.
Related to https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 (GitHub now requiring users to login in order to browse public repositories), this sucks particularly with Obtainium, when reinstalling apps from scratch on a new phone or doing mass updates.
#github #android #obtainium #enshittification #ai #ml #llm #microsoft #foss #floss #opensource
Join Nils Amiet and me at Black Hat USA this year for Hack to the Future. This isn't a prompt injection talk. This is about the hidden dangers of deploying these tools in your environments and the potentially devastating vulnerabilities that can result. https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefings/schedule/#hack-to-the-future-owning-ai-powered-tools-with-old-school-vulns-45871
@nobody Good point, did not know that! I digged a bit into Simplex and there are indeed a few things I don't really like about it. I will have to update the blog post with a 2.0 at some point, I also have some other IMs on my evaluation list.
Well that doesn't it feel sort of disingenuous to make out universal traceability and compliance to be a normal state of affairs, rather than the modern aberration that we haven't learned to live with?..
I think you misinterpreted my blog post. I did not imply that the 2010s status quo was OK, and I did not write that "history of currency" = "2010s status quo". I simply wrote that this was the situation, and that it remained pretty stable for a relatively long time (1980-ish - 2010-ish, which is insanely long in the context of the current pace of things). This has nothing to do with the definition of "modern world", which I picked as "history of currency" in a totally arbitrary way to serve the storyline of the blog post.
What I further wrote is that whether this status quo was better or worse than the current financial crypto anarchy is a matter of perspective. I, for one, if had absolutely to pick one, would prefer the old way. But I wish we could do better, and my blog post was meant to give some proposals for going in that direction.
Would you pass, Emily? #zoomer #genz #meme #millennial #boomer #genx #nostalgia
The next battleground is in sight, and things are going to move fast. Half-baked tech pitched as transformational will be quickly adopted and thrown in front of children without any validation, but the demos will be amazing!
That's literally a fraction of 1% of the history of currency?
Uh, yes?
The [dictator] whose regime literally could not exist without AML and KYC
Put your favourite [dictator] in the brackets 😉
I think we should tell Gen Z that Head Cleaner's "Play Both Sides" was the 🔥 album of 1986
Coinbase filed an 8K with the SEC for a breach. They believe multiple insiders have sold customer information to a threat actor who is now extorting them.
It looks like a very significant breach as it includes customers passport scans.
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm
If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.
Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/
This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019
Instagram opt out: https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201
@zstg @Foxboron it's definitely a calculated one instead: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
Now, either they have lowered the trigger rate, so to increase the limits, or they reverted the decision after #slashdot and #hn backlash (but haven't updated the blog post yet)
@ripienaar @whack it looks like it doesn't always happens so fast (now I'm not blocked after 10-15 attempts for example). Maybe they reverted it?
@Foxboron doesn't work anymore for me either. Did they revert?
@0xDEADBEEF @famubu it's about community and bug tracker. Git is already decentralized, you can easily move your repository (the *storage*) and its history to another forge. But you lose all issues, comments, contributors, etc. In theory you *can* migrate a project away from, e.g., GitHub, but in practice starting from scratch is a pain.
@kevin Not sure about that, but I would be very surprised if that were not the case. Can you try and report maybe?
@0xDEADBEEF @Codeberg Indeed! That is why, for example, the #Shufflecake Project is, and has always been, not on GitHub 😉
