@GossiTheDog this picture is giving a lot of "do a tech CEO next"

@GossiTheDog Jesus Christ. I never thought they'd be so blunt.

What's next, advertising electronic slaves?

NVM, I don't want to give them ideas.

@GossiTheDog This summarises the state of AI perfectly.

It's not good enough to do your job.

However, it *is* good enough to make your manager *think* it can do your job.

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"Mastodon isn't perfect."

BLOCK

@GossiTheDog I love it. I pick what I want to see and I get a feed that isn't a toxic waste site like the former bird site was when I left it.

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It works perfectly to keep wheelchairs out.

@GossiTheDog you act like avpn will do anything in the future when we have widespread quantum computing

@GossiTheDog @bread80 nah, that’s not Enterprise Grade. _this_ is!

also

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For sure. Google maps has lost its goddam mind. I'm guessing it's a deliberate degradation of a free service in order to roll out paid, but it could just be eyes off the ball.

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oh noes you have joined in with the anti-AI hysteria too

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"the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram"

If I were a billionaire with a private jet, owner of a notorious social media platform and the initials E.M. I would take notice.

@GossiTheDog He has dual citizenship - so being arrested by the French may be safer than being targeted by the FSB

@GossiTheDog He is crucial for free speech

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Hehe

We're still alive. So, it wasn't that critical. ;p

@GossiTheDog no critical infrastructure should* run Windows

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Correction: no critical infrastructure *should* run windows.

But this once isn’t actually a windows problem, just a problem that happened to be on windows.

I am obtaining a copy of the driver to see if malicious or bad coding, if anybody else checking let me know.

@GossiTheDog Wait till you learn about Brave!

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I would have never used Opera due to it not being FOSS but it's always nice to have more reasons.

@GossiTheDog Opera Mini for java phones will randomly redirect you to full-screen ads instead of whatever link you clicked on.

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C'mon, 8 upvotes can't be wrong!

@GossiTheDog I am unable to replicate this result.

@GossiTheDog Google Search is now a gullible 6-year old my how far we've come

@GossiTheDog gotta train the AI. Nothing is now important to MS than AI. Gotta create that corpus of data to sell to other AI companies. The products are no longer for us, we and its behaviors are just data to save and sell.

@GossiTheDog The solution is simple and has been around for decades: Use Linux.

I don't understand why people bother with Microsoft and Windows at all anymore.

Positive side effect (out of many more): I don't even remember the last time that I've installed/used an "anti virus" software.

I've written up my thoughts on the Copilot Recall feature in Microsoft Copilot+ PCs

I think it will enable fraud and endanger users, and is not the sign of a company who are committed to security first.

https://doublepulsar.com/how-the-new-microsoft-recall-feature-fundamentally-undermines-windows-security-aa072829f218

@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig yikes. where does it say DMs?

@GossiTheDog And of course they're not explaining *how* they're going to implement those "controls".

@GossiTheDog @Quinnypig or as I've been doing for years, opt out of Slack. I'd say go with something like Jitsi/Matrix but that's not for everyone.

@GossiTheDog *sigh* So now I need to put Linux on the one computer I had set up for casual use. More work for me, yay 😞

@GossiTheDog The absurdity of this manufactured society never stop to amusing me. Thankfully we have great minds and open source.

@GossiTheDog Oh no!

@GossiTheDog @wdormann Several linux distros have already investigated how they're impacted by this (thanks @mgorny and @VoidLinux). Any takes on this from @almalinux and @alpinelinux?

@GossiTheDog Debian Sid's and testing's liblzma has the backdoor, although it looks like it was reverted already. I don't think any official releases of Debian or Ubuntu had the compromised packaging. https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/x/xz-utils/xz-utils_5.6.1+really5.4.5-1_changelog

@GossiTheDog that's an amazing piece of research there.

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No Notes. 📰

Don't tell this to the MBAs though. 🤫👂

@GossiTheDog @hacks4pancakes the "onion is no longer satire it's prediction"

but for "tabletops I don't want to be real but are going to become real"

@GossiTheDog Taking shortcuts and conning people is capitalism 101. With technology that doesn't really work, or doors start falling off airplanes mid-flight. This is what happens when all you have is a degree in business with no knowledge of what your business actually does.

@GossiTheDog Also adding "Taiwanese" as Language or "Taiwan" as favorite cuisine / tourism destination may also work... ^^

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And what if you don't want be phished via people in India?
"Modi"?

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social 八九六四天安门 LMAO 🤣

Explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

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Welcome to Taliban IT services.

If you're part of a minority, press 1. Otherwise press 0.

A customer representative will be available shortly.

@GossiTheDog "who owns or controls the registry for the TLD" seems a fairly important consideration for domain names, tbf

@GossiTheDog i mean it's a cool tld but come on, once the Taliban took over the country the writing was on the wall.

@GossiTheDog we ain't got that much water :blob_smile_sweat:

It's super odd that I never see in the news how much natural resources and electricity all AI stuff actually use. Most people I've talked to have no idea.

@GossiTheDog how did I know that PowerPoint would eventually destroy the planet?

@GossiTheDog and the UN climate conference will be hosted by an oil corporation ...oh wait that was already 2023

@GossiTheDog I assume they did the ACME bit from somewhere else or the MITM box and then just MITMed the rest of the ACME flow that should’ve gone to the actual VM?

/CC @hanno

@GossiTheDog /cc @letsencrypt #letsEncrypt