Mastodawn

So let me see if I have this right:

Not only did BlueSky accept $100 million in funding from a Bain Capital Crypto - an obviously crypto associated investment firm - but a few weeks ago the notably transphobic CEO stepped down, not to leave the company, but to allow an AI-boosting, investment fund asshole figurehead take over the CEO position while she continues to pollute the C-suite elsewhere?

Yeah.

Yeah, that sounds like it's going to turn out GREAT.

I am POSITIVE this is going to be the bastion of safety and community that people keep telling me it is. I'm sure NOTHING will go sideways.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky

In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Bluesky

‼️ zei 1d ago

David Gerard 2d ago

> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

lol and - furthermore - lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

Meta AI agent’s instruction causes large sensitive data leak to employees

Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internally

The Guardian

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‼️ zei Jan 24

@steipete I think that is a fairly apt comparison actually. Eventually some kind of automated production takes over most production in every field from human artisans, especially because it’s a huge cost savings for companies.

I think pair programming is not quite the same. However, as someone who professionally manages a team of developers, I do think it has a bit of overlap with managing interns.

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‼️ zei Jan 22

@steipete I think that is quite sad as someone who is an old-school engineer who also enjoys the process and not only the result. I find no joy in AI coding since I didn’t really contribute anything meaningful to the process.

I do understand that it essentially makes me the same as someone that builds artisanal wood furniture by hand compared to IKEA. I could never compete at the same scale and so I would really be considered obsolete.

‼️ zei Dec 29

OOTS Dec 27

The "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking" talk at #39c3 was awesome, too. They reversed a popular SOC that powers Bluetooth earbuds and headphones.

They found that (even without being paired to the headphone), they could dump flash and RAM from the device. Then they dumped a bunch of info from the device - e.g. the #Bluetooth address and "master" encryption keys used for the communication with paired devices (e.g. a #phone).

Then they impersonated the headphone from their laptop and connected to the phone (pretending to be the headphone).
The headphone (or the laptop impersonating the phone) has permissions to do some things on the phone, e.g. accept calls, increase/decrease volume, etc.

Then they started recovering access a #WhatsApp account via some account recovery mechanisms. That required some one-time security key which would normally be delivered via SMS, but that could be delivered via phone call as a fallback option, too. Since the phone thought it was connected to the Bluetooth headphone, phone call audio would go to the laptop via Bluetooth.

As the cherry on top, they escalated into the victim's #Amazon account.

Scary shit. #YouCannotBeParanoidEnough #security

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‼️ zei Nov 15

@RosewattaStone I now feel like I have to do something with this

‼️ zei Nov 13

@jalefkowit lucky

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‼️ zei Nov 11

@grumpygamer that should keep you safe until 2106 which seems more than enough time for humanity to mess everything up

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‼️ zei Nov 1

@Alice @tehabe I would have been so jealous of that monitor in 2001, I was still stuck with a 19” CRT at the time.

‼️ zei Oct 29

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