Ben Taylor @VoxDei@qoto.org
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
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Someone on LinkedIn pointed out that #OpenAI doesn’t use an LLM for their support chat, but has instead opted to use some extremely limited decision tree. Which is both understandable, telling, and fucking hilarious.
@drandrewv2 I mean, I don't know because I've never done it. But yes, in general with Linux config files, if they aren't there and you just create them, whatever program is looking for them will find them and use them.
@freemo Yeah, your kneecaps. ;-)
@freemo Dunno about communism with extra steps. Doesn't sound very communist. Isn't it the definition of a protection racket, pretty much? Though I guess with a protection racket you pick a larger number of people who haven't paid up. Still.
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.
The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.
The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.
It was their cell phone provider.
Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.
I am very serious.
@drandrewv2 Ugh, CFS sucks. Had a CFS case I handled a while back, wasn't good. Good luck Jenny!
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@drandrewv2 Speaking as someone who has had a very sick child, I am in fact immoral enough to do this. My principles do not get my child his/her required medicine before the pharmacies all close, nor keep them out of A&E if that deadline is missed.
Just wow. Our treatment of refugees is so inhumane that Medecins Sans Frontieres (better known for providing medical care in refugee camps near war zones) has felt compelled to spend resources to set up shop in Essex. What a shameful indictment of the UK's inhumanity towards people in need.
#refugees #migration #ukpolitics #uk #msf #MedecinsSansFrontieres
@drandrewv2 Every time I see these enormous numbers wasted or thrown to cronies by corrupt Tories I think about the scrabbling around for crumbs we used to have to do and the things that got cut or didn't happen. The difference is literally multiple orders of magnitude, but why should anyone be accountable for it? 🙄
@pluralistic On the one hand, delivery drivers not doing their job is a pain. On the other, they might do their job if the delivery firms hired enough that they had sensible length job lists. This happens because they don't have time for anything else.
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The polish train hacking saga is truly the gift that keeps on giving, now with full receipts PLUS an actual incident of a train compressor failing on the exact date that security researchers found hardcoded into the train's software, as a condition for triggering a compressor failure.
https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-explain-exactly-how-they-fixed-trains-that-the-manufacturer-bricked/
#trains
#infosec
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I have enjoyed this last year of photographing Glastonbury Tor in all weathers. I think to sum it up for me, it is a passion and I truly feel a connection with this magical place like I know many others do. These are a few of my favourites. Have a fab New Years Eve.
@cstross Every time I think seriously about teleportation I think about Ilium by Dan Simmons, and to a lesser extent your own Glasshouse.
If teleportation booths work by destroying the original and building a copy somewhere else, it's not teleportation, it's a fax machine. And what wakes up at the other end is not the same person who got euthanised at the sending end.
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Snowy Owl fully prepared for her close up on this Montreal traffic cam ♥️🤗
@tallpaul I don't understand. The work of updating the charts remains necessary and relevant, so they'll still have to keep the actual data up to date. Doing as Ordnance Survey have done and providing a print-on-demand service for paper charts is surely much easier and more profitable than the work required to safely move everyone to digital-only?
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Something I forgot to post at the time. In case you were wondering if this is a thing…
Software Engineer, Trade Unionist, Gamer, Geek, Dad. Lives in Devon
Joined Nov 2022
