Listening to Darknet Diaries:
Superbox, in which Jack Rhysider interviews D3ADA55 about a pirate TV box that's sold
via BestBox and Wal*Mart (through their third party online programs), through an MLM scheme
at your local farmer's market, and mailed unsolicited for free to people who work in the
petroleum industry, and sold under other brands such as "Magabox" ("Show your patriotism by
putting a foreign threat actor's tool on your local network").
And, of course, is not just core to some sort of botnet, but is also exploited by other
players for integration into other botnets.
I've been, you know, kinda concerned about the various embedded devices that I've dropped
on to my network ("Hey, solar power controller! Cameras! Other stuff that I probably don't
even remember that I added!"), but... yeah.
Mississippi Free Press: Editor’s Note | We
Unknowingly Published an AI Column by a Fake Author. Here’s What Happened. Not a whole
lot of new there, they missed it, they feel bad, they're working to tighten up their
processes. Via Taggart
:ifin: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange who noted:
What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless,
intentionless wordloaf? What happens when most of the text around you actually is?
This is not about economics. It's not even about climate. It's about the damage
to the metaphysical fabric of human existence.
JFC: The first agentic cannabis device
Not just a vape. A connected earning device.
Gudtrip combines premium cannabis, blockchain rewards,
and AI-powered asset tools in one product.
Created by Puffpaw, who sells a device as
...a smarter way to beat nicotine addiction by vaping for crypto rewards.
My mind boggles.
Truth: Dave Winer ☕️
@davew@mastodon.social
Something that hasn't largely been noticed, we no longer have personal computers.
That Privacy Guy:
Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop. Stuffs a bunch of
browser extensions into your system.
Via Matthias Ott
@matthiasott@mastodon.social
Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:
#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
tef @tef@mastodon.social
i've heard a few times that "waymos will make streets safer" so i went and
looked up sf's traffic fatality statistics and they're pretty much identical
i mean, there is a slight increase over the last two years but there's
sufficient variance to avoid suggesting a trend
as i understand it, waymos tend to take people off busses and other forms of
transit, rather than out of their own cars
so i'm doubtful it will lower deaths on the road, just the number of
busses
mhoye
@mhoye@cosocial.ca
"The Devil Went Down To Georgia" says that the Devil was "in a bind because he
was way behind and he was willing to make a deal", suggesting that Satan Himself - note
that the song specifies "the Devil", not "a devil" - has monthly quotas and faces
consequences for not meeting those quotas. From this we can infer the existence of a
greater and more sinister being capable of imposing KPIs on Satan Himself, suggesting in
turn that KPIs themselves are the product of something more evil than Satan.
Pondering how the connectionist approach to AI had a quick flash with LLMs, but in order to actually make this stuff appear to be useful they need to be layered under regexes and tool guidance.
Conceding the field, once again, back to the symbolists.
Provident decided to shut down our local hospice supporting thrift store, which sucks, but they're selling stock at 50% off. I got some honest-to-god programmer socks for a buck.
