Teaching was my first love. Packets were my second.
I make classes to teach people how to defend themselves against hackers. In my spare time, I teach college students to compete in cybersecurity competitions, or try to take back my home automation from the cloud.
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"But it’s alarming how easy it is for smart device makers to decide that your property won’t work. There’s no easy solution to this problem. "
Uhhh ... yes there is. Use standard protocols or open the APIs. Every device that requires vendor-managed cloud control should be considered as having a limited lifetime, which could blow at any moment.
(I put my Dreo fans and Roborock vacuum in this category. i priced that into my initial purchase decision.)
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Everybody's been saying that the only warning system left for #Texas is Ted Cruz fleeing the state, so there needs to be a new system based on that.
Here it is!
Who fucking cares if poor people abuse the system? Rich people do it every fucking day and y'all ain't bat an eye."
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Hey masto admins! The era of AI-powered spammers has arrived.
I had 2 registrations a few minutes apart, from adjacent IPs in a netblock famous for forum spammers, with improbably ideal introductions.
They’re not coming. They’re here.
@tek They’ll only make their money if advertisers pay them for this coverage. Hopefully most real-people mastodon users just… won’t respond to ads/sponsored posts here and the well will dry up quickly for the spammers.
I realize that’s kinda wishful thinking, but that *is* what I am really wishing for here :D
@tek I can tell that the "reasons for joining" descriptions/texts are AI generated. Wouldn't have been able to tell if the user was an AI bot or a real user.
Good job catching on the ip addresses though. It would suck if both users were siblings with the same household though.
@tek Oh, I've been dealing with this for a while. And I'm fighting it with AI models!
It's AI models all the way down....
@tek Oh, back in the day I did fiddle around with non-LLM NLP - both professionally and for personal projects.
Now, I've given up and let the GPTs take care of the work - specifically, Google's Gemini Flash.
My process is based on my custom Mastodon signup flow at https://join.theatl.social.
1. Someone who wants to sign-up for an account first needs to make it through a Cloudflare managed challenge + blocks on problem ASNs / IP blocks.
2. If we get past that, then via a prompt, the profile details and name is checked to determine if_human and if_spam. If certain thresholds are met, the account is automatically suspended, with the email address associated with the account notified with an option to reverse.
Glad to provide additional details (or prompts) via DM if helpful!
@tek Those introductions are so f***ing vague.. a handful of buzzwords that say nothing.
I've been using spam filters on my personal blog for decades, and these "introductions" were apparently written by the same spammers.
(Not necessarily AI... just boilerplate spam you can plug in anywhere)
@tek I am passionate about exploring new ideas in the fields of innovation...
nah... that field consists only of old ideas.
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