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A recovering academic interested in #infosec, #cybersecurity, #linux, #unix, #pinball, #hamradio, #caturday, and in general learning new things.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116742461386449058

Where do they get the hordes of panicked people who will appear when they can’t get onto the internet, they don’t have electricity, the grocery store is empty, and gas stations are closed?

The 24 alien books Scientific American recommends

The 24 alien books the Scientific American staff love, from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to Contact and beyond

Scientific American

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

Hackers have compromised a channel for Chap, France's in-house encrypted app used by government employees

https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/incident-tchap/

numerique.gouv.fr

Here’s an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of yourwill REALLY appreciate.

It’s so good, I had to make a video.

Right now users and platforms have aligned desires for minimizing compute for outcomes in the #AI space.

Users don’t want to pay more and platforms aren’t making money so compute is a cost.

Once burning VC money ends that alignment will end. I am rather concerned about what will come.

@Em0nM4stodon adversarial user interfaces seem to be ascending. No idea why anyone thinks it is a good idea.

Please stop with the floating elements on websites. They're hiding your content, and make me want to leave!

No, I don't want to "swipe to the next article" if there's also gonna be a giant floating arrow hiding the text and make me want to stop reading the one I'm painfully trying to read right now.

No, I don't want to "donate" if I can't even fully read what your organization is about because of all those buttons floating over your content.

The goal is to show your content! Why hiding it with a bajillion arrows, buttons, and popups? And please test your website for small mobile display. Your floating elements are ENORMOUS there 😭

#WebDesign

Other people my age are alarmingly old