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Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed deeply in keeping the internet open. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR....
I firmly believe that the only people who come to work to do cyber security are people in those roles. Everyone else in the organisation has their own role they need to perform - whether in finance, payroll, marketing, management, production etc. The goal of cyber security is to implement measures that work in the background to reduce risk without adversely affecting the ability of people to perform their roles. Yes, people need to be aware of the risks to security and privacy, and to understand the actions they can take. But if someone clicks a phishing email, or buys a gift card, it doesn't mean that they have failed. The failure is in the security measures that are meant to protect the organisation.
https://security.googleblog.com/2024/05/on-fire-drills-and-phishing-tests.html
The destruction of good websites at the hands of private equity & overpaid executives is excruciating.
But at the same time, these know-nothings have been making people's lives miserable for a long time and will soon find that they own nothing at all
https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-coffee-in-keyboards-and-venture-capitalists/
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss coffee in keyboards, OSINT and cybersecurity tools, and what venture capitalists will be left with once they've bought up all the good websites.
Seventy seven #women #BletchleyPark codebreakers from #WWII revealed for the first time.
Many of them took the secret to their graves.
"Whenever one of the graduates, Jane Monroe โ a #mathematician who worked in #cryptanalysis in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, deciphering the coded messages sent on German Enigma machines around the clock โ was asked what she did during the war, she would always say: โOh, I made the tea.โ"
MAN, the #techbros missing the point are exhausting....
Remember: just because an idiot can CODE, doesn't mean they're intelligent.
@mirabilos @faraiwe @monkeyborg hopefully they will work better at some point. And people with impaired vision will be very happy to be able to understand pictures. Can't expect everyone to write detailed alt texts for everything they post.
It's like with machine translation, right? It enables people to access content that they miss a skill to access. For example, as an English speaker it allows you to access Spanish content, even if you don't know Spanish.
One piece of slang that has long embodied the short attention span Internet age is TL;DR, short for โtoo long; didnโt read.โ With the explosion of generative AI tools, weโre rapidly entering the age of TL;DW: โtoo long, didnโt write.โ A January survey from Fishbowl found that 40% of nearly 12,000 workers have used ChatGPT
@faraiwe if a company solves a problem nobody has, they have stopped even pretending to add value, and are only in it to extract wealth.
See AI, VR, cryptocurrency, etc.
Exactly, the great nothingnessโฆ
Perfect! This is beauty.
Remember when editing software got so good, your boss decided he could write?
Remember when your CEO's nephew learned html and the company website suddenly had blinking text? \
AI writing: so unimportant they couldn't find a human willing to write it. I am filled with admiration.
true, but sadly there is not enough people to talk to everybody...
That is also why they put fluffy robots into the arms of lonely elderly people...
I clicked your like buttons because this is how I feel about AI writing. It's not how I feel about AI images.
Midjourney is fucking mental. I've been utterly smitten with the thing Since V3. I have one screen for Youtube and one for Midjourney. It's replaced Netflix.
I don't think it's art. I mean there are overlaps etc, but it's more like a new form of entertainment.
Cory Doctorow (I think) once said that "the purpose of blogging is that it teaches you what you think" - and I think that absolutely nails how I feel about writing.
The main point of writing this reply was for me to clarify what I think about this stuff. Talking to another human makes it mean more somehow.
Getting an AI to do your writing kindof makes you part of the audience. Like paying someone to walk your dog for you. It's missing the point.
@faraiwe Yeah.. Where I think "AI" could shine, but doesn't, is if it would find relevant source info from multiple sources, properly cited, and provide some explanation of how the findings relate to the question you asked.
It's unfortunate that the focus has been instead on rehashing existing knowledge without attribution, but with some nonsense mixed in for good measure.
@faraiwe Why eat food that no one had to make, on dishes that no person made? Why read a weather forecast that no one wrote?
This is a thought-terminating clichรฉ.
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