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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 2h

This.

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2h

Without judging people for writing erotica at a chat bot, please do not pass your sexual fantasies to Sam Altman's engineers. They will download it and laugh at you and then lose it in a massive data leak.

404 Media @404media.co · 6h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 5h

I've said this before, but deploying an ad blocker to every endpoint will probably be the most impactful, user-protecting action I'll ever perform.

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15h

New, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: If you're not using ad blockers, you should be!

In this deep-dive blog, I explain why ad blockers are critical for your online security and privacy, what threats ad blockers can help defend against, and we'll explore at some of the best ad blockers out there.

Why ad blockers are a top security and privacy defense for everyone

Ad blockers can help defend against some of the top hacks, scams, and surveillance today. Here are some of the best ad blockers that you can use.

this.weekinsecurity.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 8h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Sophie W @biologizing.bsky.social · 1d

Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks

A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11h

"Inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact" makes this sound like a special offer for holders of an exclusive credit card rather than the bullet in the chamber of the figurative gun held to your head

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

bloom.bg

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

Haha fair.

I followed you on mastodon, too, it’s just I ended up sticking here. Maybe someday I’ll try there again.

It was a combination of a) my best friend is on an instance that started blocking mine (fairly) and b) the clients I tried just irritated me constantly, more than bsky.app

rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

*stares into space forever*

Well that’s job security I guess.

Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

But also thanks. :)

rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

I rarely use the win laptop & figured I’d just stop, but I was able to enroll for free despite being in the US.

I’d suggest going through their requirements to make sure you’re doing the things before enrolling (assuming you’re ok with those things).

mcc @dryad.technology · 1d

Hey so

Do you have a "Windows 10" machine you didn't upgrade to Windows 11

You should open this page and follow the instructions BEFORE WEDNESDAY. There are no downsides I know of & it means you get security updates for one more year. It may cost $30, or may not.

www.microsoft.com/en-ca/window...

Windows 10 Extended Security Updates | Microsoft Windows

Use Windows 10 securely with the Extended Security Updates program See how it helps protect your PC and find out how to get it.

www.microsoft.com

rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

…ok that was dumb of me! In my defense, when I’m ill my double vision gets worse, so right now my vision is not very well corrected! I’ll delete and repost bc I don’t want to unnerve people.

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, logging in to update turned on a bunch of copilot stuff I turned off AGAIN so never using MS outside of work.

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not saying that’s what you or anyone should do. Frankly it’s a pain in the butt. I’m just old and want these LLMs off my lawn.

The only thing I was regularly using windows for was quicken, & most are saying Mac is ok finally, so I switched.

I don’t use the biofeedback as regularly as I should.

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so incredibly grossed out by copilot that I’m not willing to go to win11. Yes they back ported it but it seems easier to kill, especially since I got a refurbished dell with 10 pro so I can mess with group policies.

(I’m also still on Mac 14.8.1 and will stay there until it’s not supported.)

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

Hey thanks! I rarely use the windows laptop and figured I’d just stop, but I was able to enroll for free (at the 11th hour).

rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

Oh so that’s where my mind went

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · Jan 15

a lot of posts over the next four years are going to fundamentally consist of "democrats should have said the magic words that made republicans stop being republicans" and frankly i am going to lose my mind if i am subjected to enough of those

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 1d

I will vote against him for you!!!!

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

Columbian Exchange Day is a great idea because it proves how much and how recently most national-cultural identities were constructed out of diverse global components.

If you can't imagine Italian, German, Korean, Indian, or any other national food without new world plants, what are they, really?

Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2d

publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

we have always obsessed over pictures of cats

The Cat’s *Maew*: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)

A manuscript that pairs illustrations of cats with poetic descriptions and notes on what mystical benefits their owners might hope to accrue.

publicdomainreview.org

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 2d

It’s standard contract term. Net-30, net-90, Cava….

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 2d

This is viscerally disgusting and alone sufficient reason to vote against Harrell.

Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3d

Downtown could have "like, a 10-foot wall" where people could talk to AI versions of historical figures. "How cool would this be if we had like, a 10 foot wall. It's interactive and it's historical. And you could talk to Martin Luther King."...