bit0fun @bit0fun@qoto.org

Q: What do you call when vendor-supplied proprietary code running in TrustZone is supposed to keep the system secure?

A: TrustMeBroZone.

The guy who wants to put neurolinks in our heads worries about people knowing where he is.

In Germany, in the end all batteries are nein-volt batteries.

Dear fellow Mastodon users,
in the light of recent bans of Ukrainian accounts on #Twitter, I’ve joined this platform to continue spreading breaking news about #Ukraine.
🚨Follow for updates on the Russian war on Ukraine.
#journalism
Twitter: @saint_rebel

Report back from Twitter filter fuzzing.

What Twitter is blocking

Twitter is filtering links to known Mastodon instances, but still allows direct links to joinmastodon.org.
Twitter also allows linking to shortened URLs of mastodon profiles, but only once. Posting the shortened URL a second time doesn't work, implying there's some backend queue service that's checking the Location header of links and flagging the ones redirecting to Mastodon instances.

How to evade the filters

Email address spam evasion techniques work. Replacing '.' with '.' or [.] or [dot] all work.
URI encoding the hostname. Replace at least one of the characters in the hostname with the URI encoded version (ex: https://infosec.exchange -> https://infosec%2Eexchange). Browsers are smart enough to URI decode anything you copy/paste into the address bar.
data: URIs. Twitter does not seem to check base64 encoded data: URIs. It is possible to create a data:text/html;base64,... base64 encoded HTML URI which can be copied into the address bar and will render as HTML. While Twitter will not render data: URIs (for obvious reasons), you can still copy/paste them (at your own risk, of course).
Base64. This seems silly, but we could communicate freely on Twitter by simply Base64 encoding our tweets.

Twitter's anti-Mastodon filtering is clown shoes amateur hour.🤡​
#twitter #birbsite #censorship #filtering #evasion #elmo #muskrat

If you are working on cool #opensource projects, or you're an indie #gamedev, I want to share your work.

If you're addicted to #music (rock, indie, punk, emo, etc), I want to recommend amazing new tracks and listen to your suggestions. (maybe even share some mixtapes...)

If you're working to make desktop #Linux better, I'd love to know about it.

Let me know you're out there. I'll follow you back and try to boost your signal.

👀

A recent study shows that fire ants are immune to COVID. Apparently it's because of their anty bodies... 🐜

For all you lovely people who liked and boosted my fountain picture, here's another shot of it with added location.

#edinburgh #scotland #winter

Let’s call him what he is. Only fascists ban journalists. We all knew that his “free speech” stuff was BS anyway.

Guess what is happening on Sunday? HANUKKAH begins!

I'll be posting a daily inspiration and question for each night of #Hanukkah (or #Chanukah)

If you'd like them in your email box, sign up here.: https://ravjill.com/hanukkah

#Mazeldon #JewishMastodon #Judaism #Jewish #mindfulness

*** Developers ***

A group of wolves is called a pack.

A group of crows is called a murder.

A group of developers is called a merge conflict.

the scroll of truth for Linux and Unix fans

Elon gave me no warning.... plus he suspended all of my accounts, half of which track aircraft (NASA aircraft, experimental aircraft, weather, airforce etc). not people including my personal

The giant cat toy is up in the corner of the room again! 🌲

For no apparent reason, I made this alternative #Mastodon logo. I think it was created out of my burning conviction that logos should all be visual puns, and the more puns the better.

So here it is, the head is a speech bubble and the body is an "M". Puneriffic!

#design #logo #fediverse

Finally, some of my own thoughts. I firmly believe that the value that #chatGPT and similar models deliver to society is negative. Being able to generate at the press of a button plausibly and smart sounding content that might be wildly but subtly incorrect, with no citations, no sources, no indication of providence, is a recipe for poisining the information environment.

I see programmer types concluding that this will "replace programming" and "make us obsolete". I find it shocking that folks have such a low view of their own profession. The worst, most dangerous code isn't code full of bugs. It's code that "works", but that is incorrect in ways that are pernicious but not obvious.

The job of a programmer also isn't to reproduce some algorithm, it's to understand and model the world, to understand and anticipate user needs, it's to collaborate and shepherd a code base over a prolonged period of time. No language model will do these things.

To quote someone who's very dear to me: "PEOPLE AREN'T USING THEIR BRAINS". Please, use your brains, and be grateful for all the things it can do that a pattern matching model can't.

When you open the fridge and there’s nothing to drink

People fail to grasp what is being communicated in this metaphorical story.

Notice that the bartender does not respond by ignoring the Nazi. He immediately and swiftly confronts the Nazi and lets him know he's not welcome in the bar.

Further, the bartender warns that if you just ignore the Nazi, the Nazi will show up with more friends tomorrow.

If they are in your community, you need to confront them swiftly and decisively as the bartender in this story did.

Things we didn't do:
- Start the fire
- Shoot the deputy
- Steal the cookies from the cookie jar

Things we did:
- Tried to fight it
- Shot the sheriff
- Put the sham in the shama-lama-ding-dong

Things we will do:
- Survive
- Rock you
- Walk 500 miles
- Walk 500 more

Things we won't do:
- Get fooled again
- Back down
- That

Things we will never do:
- Give you up
- Let you down
- Run around
- Desert you

(Oops:
- I did it again)