certainlytwice @certainlytwice@qoto.org

How bad are the thousands of new stochastically-generated websites?
Last night I wanted to roast some hazelnuts, and I could not remember the temperature I used last time. So I searched on DuckDuckGo. Every website that I could find was machine-generated with different temps listed. One site had three separate methods listed that were essentially differently worded versions of the same thing. With different temperatures.

So I pulled my copy of Rodale’s Basic Natural Foods Cookbook off the shelf and looked it up there.

I think it may be time to download an archive copy of the 2022 Wikipedia before we lose all of our reference material. It was nice having all the world’s knowledge at my fingertips for a couple of decades, but that time seems to be past.

A reminder to #artists that there is now a tool meant to combat AI tools that are stealing creative works for use in services like #Midjourney by adding imperceptible pixels which in turn poison their databases 🤟

Protect yourself and your work!

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-data-poisoning-tool-enables-artists-to-fight-back-against-image-generating-ai-companies-1234684663/

#NightShade #AI #MastoArt

*Please Boost and pass it on to other Artists

Threads will collect data about Fediverse users without consent (and probaly illegal, atleast in the EU)

"Threads integrates with third party services (“Third Party Services”) via an interoperable protocol, and is part of a network sometimes called the Fediverse. In the Fediverse, Threads users can share content with, view and interact with content from, follow, and be followed by people outside of Threads who use such Third Party Services (“Third Party Users”). To enable these interactions between Threads users and Third Party Users we share information about Threads users with Third Party Services, and collect and process information about Third Party Users, even if they don’t have an account on Threads or other Meta Products as described further below."

How to block threads.net as user:
https://infosec.exchange/@voxel/111577445490991393

Source: https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944

#privacy #dataprotection #fediverse #mastodon #meta #threads #facebook #instagram @jark

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption-heading-to-the-supreme-court/

"Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, according to a unanimous ruling issued today by Utah's state Supreme Court."

#privacy

If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.

The OpenAI story is about greed versus the possibility of the company living up to its founders' pious promises. Greed flattened ethics because that is how everything works now.

So tomorrow there are national elections in The Netherlands and I need to acquaint you with two oddities. For one, we take our democracy entirely for granted so we mostly vote in.. garbage bins. Secondly, our ballots are HUGE as they list 28 parties and 1128 candidates (no joke). So we need to make good use of the space in the garbage bin. For this purpose, polling stations are equipped with the STEMBUSSTAMPER, specially designed to tamp down wayward ballots:

i've got a few codes to give away for my new EP, "Awake in a Garden of Stars". if you like #synthwave and #drumandbass give it a listen:
https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/album/awake-in-a-garden-of-stars

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redeem: https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/yum

#electronicmusic #electronica #EDM #music #dnb #musician #musodon #IDM #synth #synthpop #synthfam #retrowave #newmusic #newrelease #ambient #electronicdancemusic

@riggbeck @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon
Last I checked, Montreal still had a tax on the books which they added in 1976 for their Olympics.

Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3 (#Mv3).

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

#ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox (@mozilla) and/or #TorBrowser (@torproject) if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening
⚠️⁠https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

🚩⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

#Pigeons are still (sometimes) faster than your #internet
Racing pigeons clock an average of 40mph and typically race up to 400mi, roughly D.C. to Boston, according to the American Racing Pigeon Union. With the boost of a tailwind, pigeons have been recorded going as fast as 110mph and as far as 1,000 miles.
At certain data volumes and distances, the pigeon is a quicker option for large swaths of #rural #America, where internet speeds can lag far behind national average.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/10/pigeons-are-faster-than-your-internet/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjk5OTM4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAxMzIwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTk5MzgwMDAsImp0aSI6ImM2Y2Q5MGJkLTMwNmItNDk0NS04NmNkLTQ1Yjg2YzgyNDUwZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS90ZWNobm9sb2d5LzIwMjMvMTEvMTAvcGlnZW9ucy1hcmUtZmFzdGVyLXRoYW4teW91ci1pbnRlcm5ldC8ifQ.MTY-7bV7fqCMi4vIgZYK_Z_bndBvu8_hZ1v-cI5CKvQ

8 years today.

#NeverForget #November13 #Paris #Love

La Quadrature du Net et 5 autres organisations attaquent en juste le règlement de l’UE sur les contenus terroristes, vaste usine à #censure automatisée pour la #Technopolice.
#privacy #web #TERREG

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/11/09/une-coalition-de-6-organisations-attaque-en-justice-le-dangereux-reglement-de-lue-sur-les-contenus-terroristes/

Kia’s privacy policy states that as well as selling personal data, it can share it with government agencies.

Read the full article: Nissan and Kia can collect and potentially sell data about drivers’ sex lives
▸ http://sextech.guide/1f7nqs3

#SexualActivity #Sextech #Privacy #Regulations #UserData #SensitivePersonalData #SellingPersonalData

📨 Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #44/2023 is out! It includes the following and much more:

➝ 🔓 #Okta hit by another #breach, this one stealing employee data from 3rd-party vendor
➝ 🔓 💸 #LastPass breach linked to theft of $4.4 million in crypto
➝ 🇮🇳 #India's Biggest Data Leak So Far? Covid-19 Test Info of 81.5Cr Citizens With ICMR Up for Sale
➝ 🔓 ✈️ #Lockbit ransomware group claims to have hacked #Boeing
➝ 🇳🇱 ⚖️ Dutch hacker jailed for extortion, selling stolen data on RaidForums
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed
➝ 🇮🇷 🦠 Iranian Cyber Spies Use ‘#LionTail’ Malware in Latest Attacks
➝ 📉 Security researchers observed ‘deliberate’ takedown of notorious #Mozi #botnet
➝ 🇮🇳 📱 Apple warns Indian opposition leaders of state-sponsored #iPhone attacks
➝ 🌍 Four dozen countries declare they won’t pay #ransomware ransoms
➝ 🇷🇺 How #Kopeechka, an Automated Social Media Accounts Creation Service, Can Facilitate #Cybercrime
➝ 🇪🇺 EU digital ID reforms should be ‘actively resisted’, say experts
➝ 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 #FSB arrests Russian hackers working for Ukrainian cyber forces
➝ 🇺🇸 FTC orders non-bank financial firms to report breaches in 30 days
➝ 🇨🇦 📱 #Canada Bans #WeChat and #Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices
➝ 🇺🇸 #SEC Charges #SolarWinds and Its #CISO With Fraud and Cybersecurity Failures
➝ 🇺🇸 🤖 #Biden Wants to Move Fast on AI Safeguards and Will Sign an Executive Order to Address His Concerns
➝ 🦠 📱 #Avast confirms it tagged Google app as #malware on Android phones
➝ 🦠 🇰🇵 North Korean Hackers Targeting Crypto Experts with #KANDYKORN #macOS Malware
➝ 👥 💸 EleKtra-Leak #Cryptojacking Attacks Exploit #AWS IAM Credentials Exposed on #GitHub
➝ 🦠 🐍 Trojanized #PyCharm Software Version Delivered via #Google Search Ads
➝ ✅ 🤖 #GooglePlay adds security audit badges for Android #VPN apps
➝ 🔐 Microsoft pledges to bolster security as part of ‘Secure Future’ initiative
➝ 🆕 FIRST Releases #CVSS 4.0 Vuln Scoring Standard
➝ 🆕 #MITRE Releases ATT&CK v14 With Improvements to Detections, ICS, Mobile
➝ ⛔️ 🦠 #Samsung Galaxy gets new Auto Blocker anti-malware feature
➝ 🍏 🔐 #Apple Improves #iMessage Security With Contact Key Verification
➝ 🔓 Researchers Find 34 #Windows Drivers Vulnerable to Full Device Takeover
➝ 🔓 🪶 3,000 #Apache #ActiveMQ servers vulnerable to RCE attacks exposed online
➝ 🗣️ #Atlassian CISO Urges Quick Action to Protect #Confluence Instances From Critical #Vulnerability
➝ 🔓 🩸 “This vulnerability is now under mass exploitation.” #CitrixBleed bug bites hard
➝ 🐛 💰 HackerOne paid ethical hackers over $300 million in #bugbounties

📚 This week's recommended reading is: "Permanent Record" by Edward Snowden

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Thank god I drink tea.

#Humor #Funny #Lol #Fun #Humour #Coffee #Tea

Mastodon est-il aussi pouissant que Twitter dans la mobilisation d'une communauté ?
Je recherche des naturalistes qui me donneraient le droit d'utiliser une de leur photo prise au piège.
En avez-vous ?
Je travaille en gravure sur cette esthétique si particulière et maintenant si familière.