XKCD Bot#3126 - Disclaimer
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Chris Ammerman@jenniferplusplus My shorthand for all of this is that people who use AI to write code don't want to be programmers.
They don't want to make software. They want *to have made* software. In the same way many people want *to have written* a book, but are uninterested in doing the work that is actually required to write a book worth reading.
And they are so preoccupied with reaching the "have done" state that they put their name on a crappy product if it means they can get there without the work.
404 MediaMan Gave Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT
Cait the Proud Trans WomanOne of the hidden gems of being on Fedi is that people here are, generally, not falling for the LLM hype.
So we don't get much in the way of deepfake videos, or other AI slop, coming down our timelines (or at least, I certainly don't; no one I follow is making or boosting AI slop).
I was just watching a video warning about this, and the creator said "we've probably all been swarmed by those ads using deepfakes to push dodgy financial schemes" - I'm like, what? we have? - "and further, deepfakes of politicians all over social media, being pushed in front of us". Again, I"m thinking "Wow, that's not my experience of social media."
But this is my only social media site, really. I don't count Discord; those are basically closed systems. They don't push anything in front of you you didn't already want there.
Which just struck me as interesting. Throw in a really good ad-blocker, and I just don't see any of this shit going around.
And, à propos de rien, I use a web client for Fedi. Which means I get to see my adblocker adding up all the ads it's blocked at the top of each page.
I love coming over to the Fedi tab, because the adblocker counter remains firmly locked on zero.
Ilya ZverevNot surprised to find an unattributed #OpenStreetMap in a mall, but did not expect the map style by @gravitystorm
LSM.lv (unofficial)"Viktorija, kā neviens cits, ticēja, ka tie ir mūsu cilvēki - [okupētajā] Mariopolē, Berdjanskā, Hersonā, ka tās ir mūsu teritorijas, par kurām ir jācīnās un viņa darīja visu tā labā," ar šādiem vārdiem piektdien Kijivā - neatkarības laukumā notika atvadīšanās no Krievijas gūstā mirušās 26 gadus vecās ukraiņu žurnālistes Viktorijas Roščinas. https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/08.08.2025-ukraina-atvadas-no-krievijas-gusta-mirusas-zurnalistes-kura-zinoja-no-okupetajam-teritorijam.a609746/?utm_source=mastodon
Ukrainā atvadās no Krievijas gūstā mirušās žurnālistes, kura ziņoja no okupētajām teritorijām
"Viktorija, kā neviens cits, ticēja, ka tie ir mūsu cilvēki - [okupētajā] Mariopolē, Berdjanskā, Hersonā, ka tās ir mūsu teritorijas, par kurām ir jācīnās un viņa darīja visu tā labā," ar šādiem vārdiem piektdien Kijivā - neatkarības laukumā notika atvadīšanās no Krievijas gūstā mirušās 27 gadus vecās ukraiņu žurnālistes Viktorijas Roščinas.
Atcerējos, ka pirms pāris nedēļām kaut kur Marijas vai Barona ielā šķita, ka pie krustojuma stāv @ance, bet tā kā dzīvē neesam pazīstami, netraucēju.
Tik varbūt Mapillary bildēs sanāca iefočēt :)
Tik varbūt Mapillary bildēs sanāca iefočēt :)
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
Alan Grant1/ I've posted this kind of thing before: a flight of steps that is not tagged as steps in OSM.
But this time is different. This time, I didn't find the steps by randomly walking around Malaga. This time, I had A System.
With the help of the OSMnx package and IGN elevation data, I was able to estimate gradients of street segments in OSM data. The example shows one barrio (Maqueda) that has a flat eastern part, and a western part built on both sides of a ridge.
Infoblox Threat IntelAfter three years of relentless tracking, we’ve published a [paper](https://blogs.infoblox.com/threat-intelligence/vextrios-origin-story-from-spam-to-scam-to-adtech/) that, for the first time, exposes the true identities behind VexTrio. This research connects real names to the various companies that form the VexTrio ecosystem. It begins with the origin story—how a group of Italians launched a successful spam and dating business. Over time, VexTrio expanded its operations into malicious adtech and online scams. For over a decade, the group employed deceptive tactics to defraud countless innocent internet users. These illegitimate gains funded the extravagant lifestyles of VexTrio’s key figures—who, despite increasing scrutiny, have yet to be fully stopped.
We’re deeply grateful to all the contributors who helped us reach this research milestone, especially @rmceoin and Tord from [Qurium](https://www.qurium.org/).
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #adtech #maliciousadtech #advertising #affiliates #scam #notifications #pushnotifications #tds #trafficdistributionsystem #spam #italy #russia #belarus #dating #clickallow
