Taggart

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Displaced Philly boy. Threat hunter. Educator. #infosec, #programming #rust , #python  #haskell , and #javascript . #opensource advocate. General in the AI Resistance. Runs @thetaggartinstitute. Made https://wtfbins.wtf. Not your bro. All opinions my own. Dad. #fedi22 #searchable

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Taggart2h ago
Show threadSamuelJohnson2h ago

@mttaggart 0% in the case of organisations using shared services. It's also not simply a matter of reluctance to hire staff for many.

Time zone coverage, availability, cost and quality of staff as well as replaceability matter. It's a hell of a lot easier to sign a contract with an SLA than to manage all the variables that go far beyond staffing - spare parts, electricity etc are very different propositions in large parts of the world than in the US or Europe.

Show threadTaggart3h ago
The internet being what it is, I see some readings of this as an absolutist stance against SaaS. Nope! There are lots of reasonable uses of services rather than assets. However, an allergy to owned tools, even when the control over the tool would be an object benefit to the org, is a convention that I believe has done more harm than good.
Taggart6h ago
How much of the justification for SaaS really boils down to "We have no idea how to administer Linux systems and we can't/won't hire anyone who does?"
Taggart9h ago
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Taggart20h ago
Taggart1d ago

You may be tempted to think of prompt injection attacks against language models as "social engineering." Resist this temptation.

Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors. In other words, thinking of the attack as human language is a pointless limitation. The possibilities of what can go into the prompt to produce undesirable output are functionally infinite.

Poetry, context shifting, and other human-like attacks are only the beginning. What comes next is a weaponization of the linguistic form in ways that seem utterly alien to human readers. But to the models, it's all just elements in the matrix.

Taggart22h ago

The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education.

The idea that we must replace reading and writing with "multimedia" anything is yet another symptom of education surrendering to industry.

I will run underground literature classes for any and all. I will teach you how to write like a human being instead of a corpo prompt engineer. Go and do likewise, if you can.

https://ncte.org/statement/media_education/

Media Education in English Language Arts

NCTE statement on media education for the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed for life in an increasingly digital and mediated world.

National Council of Teachers of English
Taggart1d ago
cR0w h0 h01d ago

Go hack more MCP shit.

https://thorn-pheasant-6d8.notion.site/markdownify-mcp-Report-2a03daf7b44180908ff4eea0c2915763

markdownify-mcp Report | Notion

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Taggart1d ago
Danielle Foré1d ago

Here's a nice little project for someone with entry level web development skill! Our website was built before the HTML dialog element was a thing! We could use someone to update it and improve accessibility

https://github.com/elementary/website/issues/3884

Taggart1d ago

You may be tempted to think of prompt injection attacks against language models as "social engineering." Resist this temptation.

Prompt injection is a mathematical attack against a non-deterministic system. Language may be the substrate, but the substance is numerical vectors. In other words, thinking of the attack as human language is a pointless limitation. The possibilities of what can go into the prompt to produce undesirable output are functionally infinite.

Poetry, context shifting, and other human-like attacks are only the beginning. What comes next is a weaponization of the linguistic form in ways that seem utterly alien to human readers. But to the models, it's all just elements in the matrix.

Taggart1d ago
Taggart1d ago
Not sure if this is public info, but the Penn Oracle data breach definitely involved SSNs and banking info. If you ever interacted with Penn financially, probably best to watch those accounts.