Hey, so, anyone out there looking to hire a remote nerd? I've spent the past 4-5 years doing threat hunting, detection engineering, threat intel, and incident response for large US West utilities. Gotta be full WFH though due to health reasons. Non-LinkedIn, non-ghost job links appreciated.
Saying an OpenAI agent hacked a government website is like saying a gun killed someone. Let’s be clear about responsibility: OpenAI weaponized its own software, and employees from OpenAI used it to hack an Australian government website.
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Running a Mastodon server is becoming increasingly problematic due to GenAI.
There’s multiple different things happening, including but not limited to:
- very aggressive scraping of user content and block evasion, with the resource costs that come with it
- AI agents aggressively trying to register accounts and evade restrictions
- rising cost of RAM - Mastodon is memory hungry, RAM is really expensive now
It’s odd to experience first hand, it’s like being consumed by.. a void.
The internet was invented for this kind of silliness and god I miss it ...
"Draw an iceberg and see how it will float"
Spotted a threat actor doing this.
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periodic reminder that Wizard Zines has an educational use policy if you want to use them in your university courses! https://wizardzines.com/education/
Multiple GNOME contributors have told me that they feel it is pointless to vocally oppose the use of generative tooling and that they feel it is just a matter of time before a pro-slop policy is officially adopted by GNOME.
I want you all to know that the relentlessly anti-AI stance is the popular opinion. If you state your opposition as well, you'll be in good and plentiful company.
Edit: Are you a GNOME contributor who is demotivated by AI? Please reach out.
"AI can escape containment and hack organizations, but you can trust it with your data."
"AI can slip out of alignment and develop prerogatives that conflict with yours, but you should turn important tasks related to your work, health, finances and family life over to it."
"There's a chance AI will lead to extinction, but you should welcome its data centers into your communities."
The cognitive dissonance is unbelievable.
The other day I posted an original graphite drawing on paper, and it sold in just a few hours, so I’m back with these two, hoping for some more luck.
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Two people I knew took their own lives last week - we still view mental health with too much cynicism and not enough compassion - remember a 😬 - it is not weak to share how you feel #mentalhealth #depression #suicideawareness
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.