That time when a decision @benbjohnson made “a decade ago” in #BoltDB took down #Roblox for three days 🙀 #golang #consul #kubernetes

🎥 https://youtube.com/shorts/kA0EajPfAP0?feature=share


🔓 J. A. Guerrero-Saade on devs being a security risk:

👎 there's a certain amount of hubris
👎 there's a lot of installing random stuff
👎 too much reliance on package managers
👎 nobody wants to run EDR/XDR/AV
👎 everything runs as root

https://youtube.com/shorts/Vkoq3efc370 #golang #infosec

@USSJoshuaNorton @punkonbus1701 I mean anyone who goes to Jack Dorsey’s app IS wrong lol. They just want his clout and numbers. It’s painfully obvious he isn’t addressing any of the problems with twitter and is just going to create another hotbed for fascists.

The idea that now is the perfect time to act more critical than usual about the fediverse is his PR team talking. He wants to race the fedi which while yes, flawed, is significantly better and safer.

🚨 Today on a very special Go Time LIVE...

Mat Ryer, Natalie Pistunovich & Johnny Boursiquot put on their interviewer hats 🎩 and ask their *best* questions to a potential new #golang developer: GPT-4!!

Join us in ~45 minutes! https://gotime.fm/272/live

The EU's proposal to force all service providers to automatically search all content that is either stored or transmitted anywhere in Europe, forward all illegal results to the police, and to block access to all non-European illegal content is expected to be presented to parliament in April. It's currently focused on algorithmic identification of unknown CSAM and of any social interactions that could be child grooming — basically, an AI trying to guess if an image might be child porn or a conversation might be trying to lure a child for sex — but it's unlikely that once the capability exists it won't be expanded to other crimes. The proposal would also force all services to age check their users (which means identifying them) and effectively ban anyone under 18 from interacting with the internet. There are no exceptions for end to end encryption and stored data not being shared is included.

To be clear, this proposal is not going to work. You know how bad chatGPT is? This is trying to solve a much harder problem, one humans struggle with, with much less compute power. What it will do is end all private communication in Europe, waste an amazing amount of police time, and leak a spectacular amount of private material to local police, some of whom — looking at you Hungary and Poland — are more than happy to use it to harass queers and trans people. It is fundamentally incompatible with the basic rights the EU is legally bound to uphold. It's also, in case they care, going to be a nightmare for corporate security and intellectual property control and will create a massive barrier to entry for anyone smaller than Google or Facebook running communication services in Europe.

Please call or write your MEP today and tell them to stop #ChatControl and preserve freedom of expression in Europe.

If you're running a Mastodon server, the new update 4.1.0 brings many useful options for Admins including:

   You can now import and export server domain block lists. Go to Preferences > Moderation > Federation and then Import or Export

Complete changelog is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.0

#MastoAdmin