fellas, if your savior:

• can turn water into wine
• can make bread
• is risen

that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms

A friend is pissy about Calibre adding A.I. into this ebook manager so they are creating a new fork called Clbre, because the A.I. is being stripped out.

https://github.com/grimthorpe/clbre

#AI #AISlop #Calibre #eBook #eBookManager

Amused at finding out that a search for Bretherick brings up exclusively posts by me.

Seriously. If you run a laboratory or a factory or just about anything (say, a small workshop or a kitchen) you need the Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards in your reference library. And pretty please study it in your spare time. Or have your safety person do it. It will save you money and it may save your life.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115306424173494411

Today's "lost dog" is tomorrow's "brown person of interest."

Something something paved with good intentions?

TLDR; Ring cameras new AI feature will search neighborhood footage when an owner posts an image of a lost dog, and will notify the camera's owner if a match is found. The camera owner can then decide to share that info with the dog's owner.

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

https://freedom.press/issues/mario-guevara-to-be-deported-for-reporting-the-truth/

I don't understand the hate against GPT. I think it's a great technology, and definitely a step in the right direction. Of course there are those who will resist it, but we should all accept it's here to stay.

For example, having a backup copy of the partition table at the end of the disk greatly increases the chances of being able to recover from disk corruption at the first few sectors of the disk.

...chatbot? What chatbot?

Many moons ago, a friend ran an SSH honeypot that had a unique feature: when the attacker gained "access" to the system, he could then send responses to the interactive commands the attackers executed over an IRC channel.

One day, some attacker popped in, and he started to taunt them live. Often, the attackers were just throwing in some copypasta and weren't actually checking the responses. This one time, the attacker realised what was going on and was quite amused, and started to chat back, sending fake commands to see if he would get obvious human responses back (Note: that this was well before generative AI). This went on for some time, and some kind of a connection was formed. The attacker would come back to chat with my friend, logging in over SSH to this honeypot.

Eventually, the attacker divulged other means to communicate with him. He told my friend he was a bored Romanian guy who ran a kind of academy for young hacking talent. They'd gain access to some box, install their SSH bruteforcer (random IPv4 addresses and fixed password lists), and rinse and repeat.

Eventually, the attackers seemed to stop and disappear. My friend contacted them and asked what had happened: maybe they had been caught by authorities?

No such luck. Apparently, they had discovered some addictive online game that was more interesting.

Threat actor group defeated by Candy Crush.