Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.
If you're looking for a new powerful desktop, this mini PC could be very interesting. Very powerful specs, up to 96 gigs of ram and a mobile NVIDIA 4070. Apparently includes a fingerprint reader, built-in mic, and decent built-in speakers. liliputing.com/minisforum-atom…
3 hours from now in Caledonia, #UnitedStatesOfAmerica (Houston County, Minnesota, United States of America) there will be a #Heatwave with a wet-bulb temperature of
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Thanks to Stefano Rivera and others, pictures by some participants of DebConf24 in Busan are now easily viewable on people.debian.org/~stefanor/dc… . You are invited to share your DebConf24 pictures on DebConf Share git-lfs too!
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Canadian Ken Westerfeld during his World Champion of Freestyle days. Back then, the scene was in the park behind the Ontario Legislature buildings, and top athletes like Ken were happy to throw with whomever showed up. How very weird.
That attitude made an indelible mark on my soul. Thanks, Ken, wherever you are!
“We’re a big believer in passkeys, and hope they are the future for authentication. Phishing is a blight on the internet, and this is our best hope of eliminating it forever.” fastmail.com/blog/introducing-…
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I’ve been told the Telegram CEO arrest includes concerns about ransomware groups using the service to distribute stolen victim data - Telegram hadn’t been acting on reports (they did eventually remove Qilin).
Re Telegram - two main issues are apparently at play. One is child porn, the other is concerns about ransomware/extortion groups. The big concern is rightly about the first one.
With the later, groups targeting France (and the UK) have been dumping victim data on Telegram groups, with Telegram directly hosting the data and then failing to remove it.
Telegram is not an encrypted platform - the groups are plain text.
Telegram has <50 staff and 1 billion monthly active users.
With regards to Elon’s claim today that a majority of Mastodon content is child porn - this isn’t true.
Some Fediverse servers are unsavoury - as an instance admin, you can chose to defederate them or not cache media content. You would only encounter this if a user interacted with it.
After approaching two years of being a Mastodon admin to a server with tens of thousands of users, I’ve only ever seen one post which was concerning - I removed the server and reported it to relevant authorities.
With Trump waffling on whether he’ll show up, I’m confident that Debate Day, September 10, is going to be a big one for the Mastodon for Harris fundraiser. Either way we’ll be showing our support for #Harris and reminding Trump that her supporters are more numerous and enthusiastic than his. But no need to wait that long to make this point. You can donate right now at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast….
Thank you for that detailed video description, I had no idea the platters on record cutters were thicker and made of concrete. Also wow you can really clearly hear the audio being cut.
@pitermach well, they're not all made of concrete, but mine is. It's just the easiest and cheapest way to make something big and heavy in a custom shape. The old Neumann lathes had huge cast iron platters but that's kinda hard to DIY…
We've just become aware of a resource written for those who are #Blind and seeking employment. The person who told us about it says: "you can either read it directly on the webpage, or there is an accessible word document and I believe and accessible PDF. The author is blind, so he certainly did his best to make sure the book was accessible as possible to anyone who wanted to use it." Find it here: respectability.org/people-with…
L'arrestation hier soir du patron de #Telegram à Paris permet de rappeler une fois encore que Telegram, malgré les offensives marketing régulières de l'entreprise, n'est pas une messagerie sécurisée.
Je sais bien tout ça. C'est d'ailleurs à moitié faux (les messages peuvent être chiffrés de bout en bout et les calls le sont par défaut). Donc oui il y a sans doute plus secure pour ceux qui veulent avoir des activités criminelles, mais Telegram dérange, contrairement à Signal par exemple. Et la raison qui me semble la plus credible c'est qu'ils refusent de fournir les clés de déchiffrement pour le mainstream (que du coup seul TG est capable éventuellement de processer).
Les groupes ne sont pas chiffrés du tout, et c'est la source majeure de problèmes sur Telegram. Même pour le 1-on-1 ce n'est pas chiffré par défaut, ce qui est absolument dingue en 2024.
A lire dans blog.cryptographyengineering.c… : e2ee "is only available for one-on-one conversations, and never for group chats with more than two people in them. " , fermez le ban.
This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, som…
Was she AI generated? Some definite weird quirks on the speech there such as "share idees" and "Free softwahrr". Didn't seem like it was just an accent.
It looks like they want to include facial recognition as one of the options, but they insist that any solutions will need to take privacy into account.
I'm glad they're considering that, but I don't see any mention of relatively simple methods for fooling these systems, as discussed in this article (among others):
Allowing police officers to submit LLM-written reports reveals a remarkable misunderstanding of what LLMs do, a profound indifference to the notion of integrity in the communications of law enforcement with the justice system, or both.
Given how readily subject to suggestion human witnesses—including police officers—are known to be, this is a disaster.
Yes, police reports aren't always the most accurate, but introducing an additional layer of non-accountability is bad.
Police officers are starting to use artificial intelligence to help write crime reports. Pulling from the sounds of an officer's body camera, an AI tool based on the same technology as ChatGPT can churn out the first draft of an incident report in se…
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