@Friendica Support @Friendica Admins Moin Leute, kann mir mal einer sagen, was hier wieder los ist ? Was analysiert die Friendica Directory nur wieder ? Oder besser nicht ?
Ein Verbindungsproblem beim Abfragen der Instanz-Informationen (also Ping hat funktioniert und warum auch immer gab es Probleme beim Auslesen der Informationen vom Server). Vermutlich ist die Flaschenpost in einer Woche wieder am Ufer.
España ha creado un LLM abierto llamado ALIA (creo que el primero que se crea en Europa). Aparte de los chistes que se nos pueden ocurrir a todos, creo que es una iniciativa importante para la soberanía tecnológica europea. Además es de acceso universal. Al ser 100% pública, cualquier empresa, universidad o institución puede usarla. alia.gob.es
En cualquier caso, podría venirnos bien para determinados trabajos de clasificación (por ejemplo de alegaciones en procedimientos). Habrá que ver hasta que punto se puede uno fiar.
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
"...court records reveal that the social media company used pirated torrents to download 81.7TB of data from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its AI models."
I've been seeing hate on NASA lately, being bought into by leftists even, and I just want to point out something very important:
Musk has hated NASA for a *long* time. There is a reason it is being attacked, and a reason public opinion is being swayed against NASA: It *keeps SpaceX in line* more than anything else.
NASA is being seen as "competition" to SpaceX, as the obstacle in his way. It has been like this for quite some time, and now, with DOGE and other things, he can do something about it.
I would like to point out a few things:
1. SPACEX IS NOT CHEAPER They boast they can "do what NASA does for 10% the cost!" Sure, it's easy when you did none of the R&D. SpaceX saved on: Landing tech: DC-X project in 1991-1996 Tank structure: Shuttle SLWT tank, 1998-2011 Merlin Engines: direct descendant of the Fastrac Engine, 1997-2001.
Those three things alone saved SpaceX over 90% of the R&D costs. It's easy to "appear" cheap when you're using off the shelf tech someone else (NASA!) developed.
2. NASA IS GREAT FOR THE ECONOMY! For every $1 spent on NASA, $8 is put into economy. Its stupid to not invest in that kind of ROI! 800%! At times, its ROI Has been 1600%!
Simply put, if you defund NASA, the economy would shrink so much you would actually have to RAISE taxes to make up for the lost revenue, and without its existence we would be 30 years behind in technology and the quality of life for everyone would be much lower. Science and research is GOOD for society, it's the fuel for all progress.
3. WHAT HAS NASA DONE FOR ME?! (Surely you just mean NASA is good for tech & science folk....)
Nope! Good for all! Ever have an MRI or CAT Scan? They wouldn't exist without the Apollo program! The software that made them possible was originally written to analyze lunar photography.
Low power digital x-Rays was planetary body research.
Heart pumps are modeled after space shuttle turbopumps.
The software that designed your car was originally written to design spacecraft!
Who do you think pioneered all the early research into alternative power like solar panels, hydrogen fuel cells, and durable batteries? NASA!
NASA developed tech and satellites is also what improves agricultural yields while reducing the needs for water, fertilizer, and pesticides.
Do you really think Musk gives two shits? No. He wants the money, he wants to let SpaceX run amok without any oversight for safety, without any "competition".
All fights are important, but do realise that this one is a huge thorn in his side, and one that is keeping a huge problem from ballooning and swallowing us all whole.
Do not be fooled or swayed by lies, of tactics meant to divide, of things being done to make you be angry at NASA. If he can make you hate NASA, he won.
Expect far more space junk to fall, the night sky to be ruined by satellites, and the loss of all things good that proper research and design does for humanity and gives back to the world. Not to mention: enjoy seeing the horrible things he can accomplish fully unchecked.
ETA: Now that you know, call / fax / email your senators and reps, and whatever else too! Boosting gets people thinking, but thinking is not action!
Posthumous is out now! A variable blackletter script with gloopy round corners and lots of OpenType features, this type family has been such a labor of love. I'm so excited to share it with you all! Learn more about it, download a PDF specimen, or purchase a license → prologuetype.co/posthumous.
My type foundry, Prologue Type, officially launches tomorrow! My first typeface, Posthumous, is a variable blackletter script. I could not be more excited for this release!
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- decryption based on session keys is now supported, - generation of man pages and shell tab completion has been added, - some subtle semantics fixes for component key validity were implemented.
This document defines a generic stateless command-line interface for dealing with OpenPGP messages, certificates, and secret key material, known as sop.
President Donald Trump said he is serious about wanting Canada to become the 51st state in an interview that aired Sunday during the Super Bowl preshow.
I have been using Meta socials to focus on my favorite thing, quilting, and it’s time to look around at other options because my conscious is pricking me. So, hello Mastodon, take me to your Quilters.
curl is an internet transfer engine. A rather modular one too. Parts of curl's functionality is provided by selectable alternative implementations that we call backends.
- why chatmail servers? - how to setup a server with your child - (avoiding) spam filtering - metadata and guaranteed end to end encryption in #deltachat - #cryptographic #interoperability for email message routing
Thanks to attendees for the great energy even if was the last talk on the day and also for questions and conversations afterwards!
The OnePlus 13, the latest flagship from OnePlus, continues the brand's tradition of delivering high-performance devices with sleek designs. However, for
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
Okay, I couldn't let #SuperbOwl pass without indulging in personal show n tell 🦉
Some ancient Athenian Owl coins. 5 silver tetradrachms and one small Athenian bronze. Only the reverses are shown. The other side of each bears the bust of Athena
Dates - Main box and 1st two in top row were struck 454 to 404 BCE. Top Right: 393 to 294 BCE. Centre left column: 170 BCE. Bottom Left: 166 to 157 BCE
In this episode of The Pauls Place, Jamie talks about how to get started with audio editing if you are blind. Below are links to products and services mentioned in this episode.
“We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.” Harvard Library Innovation Lab (via BlueSky)
Plnými doušky si vychutnávám uklidňující nápoj, vývar z meduňky a lipového květu. Vhodná chvíle nastala pro opětovnou aktivaci série budíků, které stejně zítra ráno v sérii odpálkuju, dokud nebude 4:30 a nebude nejvyšší čas k tomu vstát z mého vyhřátého doupěte. Je zde opět ta chvíle, ta všemi proklínaná chvíle, neděle večer. V každém zaměstnanci vyvolává vlnu úzkostí, které nekončí a plynule přechází v ráno, dokud člověk nevkročí na pracoviště.
AirGradient: sledování kvality vzduchu (nejen) pro Home Assistant
Před dvěma a půl lety jsme se přestěhovali do čtvrti s rodinnými domy na kraji Brna. A ač se tu nenachází žádná velká doprava nebo průmysl, vzduch je tu v zimě často horší než v centru. Mnoho let už platí, že mezi nejvýznamnější znečišťovatele vzduchu patří lokální topeniště. Do řízeného větrání jsme museli pořídit tři filtry, dva uhlíkové a […]
v dokumentaci je "Please get a standard 5v, 2A power supply." Je fakt, že nabíječku, která deklarovala, že zvládne konkrétně 2A, jsem měl doma jen jednu po starém HP Touchpad. Buď mají kolem 1,5 A a honí výkon přes napětí, nebo jsou pak rychlonabíiečky s 3A, ale těch je na toto škoda. Nezkoušel jsem to s jinou, možná to funguje i se slabšími. Určitě to nemá odběr 10 W.
Web clients cannot be verified since they can be altered by the server sending the code to the browser. Standard protocols such as IMAP allow using ANY open source client, including those that are already well audited. Not just yours. From my PoV, you are doing it wrong.
To be honest, I unfortunately strongly believe that as example #Signal and #Tuta are in that exact team. Why? Their design leaves gaps for exactly that kind of stealth operation.
Publishing something as Open Source does not prove that it's not backdoored, unless users cannot verify that the deployed software matches the published code. You need reproducible builds and independent distribution channels.
Sefirah is an opinionated phone link alternative designed to enhance your workflow with seamless clipboard and notification sharing between your Windows PC and Android device.
Thanks to the help of its dev, we finally managed to get it reproducible!
Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving.
Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*
Hao-Ping (Hank) Lee and others, ‘The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers’ (ACM CHI 2025). advait.org/files/lee_2025_ai_c…
The Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) is an organization dedicated to networking Pagan-identified Unitarian Universalists (UUs), educating people about Paganism, promoting interfaith dialogue, developing Pagan liturgies and theologies…
@menelion UU congregations vary widely- there can be a large difference between theory and practice. Some congregations are run by intolerant atheists.
It's more likely that congregations with active CUUPS chapters will be better.
In a ransomware attack, extortionists demand a ransom and threaten to destroy data. Services such as ID Ransomware and No More Ransom help to identify and decrypt encrypted data.
Interesting breakdown of how Google has gone off the accessibility rails, among other rails, while also framing some common corp methods for reframing needs into revenue streams. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archive/…
Thank You For Your Feedback Loop is a monthly newsletter that will share previously unpublished reporting and analysis on the elite capture of disability movements.
The first post, "The Rise and Fall of Access" is available now.
by: Liz Jackson & Rua M. Williams In the Year 2000, Google’s 23rd employee, Paul Buchheit was pulled into a “meeting to decide on the company’s corporate...
Bezpečnostní výzkumníci ze společnosti VulnCheck odhalili závažné zranitelnosti v routerech značky Zyxel. Výrobce však odmítá zařízení opravit a namísto toho doporučuje uživatelům jejich kompletní výměnu za novější modely. Prodávaly se i u nás.
A až vyhodíte routery od Zyxelu, pořiďte routery od @turris. I pro nejstarší zařízení (Turris 1.0 z roku 2013) jsou stále k dispozici aktualizace firmwaru.
Powerful Simplicity in Your Hands The BlindShell Classic 3 is a feature-packed phone designed for anyone who values straightforward usability without compromising on modern features.
Thank You For Your Feedback Loop is a monthly newsletter that will share previously unpublished reporting and analysis on the elite capture of disability movements.
The first post, "The Rise and Fall of Access" is available now.
by: Liz Jackson & Rua M. Williams In the Year 2000, Google’s 23rd employee, Paul Buchheit was pulled into a “meeting to decide on the company’s corporate...
Meta gebruikte naar verluidt ruim 80TB aan illegaal verkregen data om het Llama-llm te trainen. Werknemers van het bedrijf zouden onder meer ruim 35TB aan documenten uit Z-Library en LibGen hebben gedownload aan de hand van torrents.
toch blijf ik het moeilijk vinden om een gecentraliseerde amerikaanse dienst als meta te verlaten om naar een gecentraliseerde amerikaanse dienst toe te gaan...
Ongetwijfeld ben je op de hoogte, maar wellicht hier wat voordelen ten opzichte van WhatsApp signalapp.nl/signal-app-info/w…
Vwb decentralisatie, veelgehoord punt uiteraard, zeker op Mastodon. Dat kent de nodige uitdagingen, president van Signal Meredith Whittaker stukje over Matrix wellicht interessant (interview De Balie) Bij 1:28:10, kort stukje 4min: youtube.com/live/lMFYUGkqk_Q?s
Ontdek waarom Signal de beste keuze is voor je privacy en veilige communicatie. De voordelen van Signal Messenger op een rijtje en waarom je zou overstappen op Signal.
tsja, ik draai dus inderdaad een matrix en xmpp server in mijn huis. Werkt in mijn ervaring prima. Het argument dat ze maken is dat het moeilijk is om het gedecentraliseerd te doen. Dat is natuurlijk waar, het is niet simpel. Maar wat ze niet zegt is dat het gevolg is dat ze dus daarmee alle macht in eigen hand houdt. Dat gaat goed zolang signal geen kwaad wil doen. Ik hoop dat dat zo blijft, maar ik wil het er niet op gokken.
overigens draai ik een signal bridge, zodat ik via matrix toch ook met signal kan praten. Het ongemak hierbij blijft, maar ik heb wel liever een gesprek via signal dan via whatsapp.
Oh man, I have so many stories about the "startup" (Path Network), which the 19-year-old DOGE employee, Edward Coristine previously worked for. wired.com/story/edward-coristi…
My first interaction with the founder, Marshal Webb, was in 2016 when the company was called "BackConnect'. I'd recently posted a research paper on the Mirai botnet, which lead to him harassing me online, simply because he considered himself to be the sole authority on Mirai.
It later turned out, that a lot of his knowledge came from the fact that he was personally hosting the threat actors' infrastructure, therefore had direct insight into the botnet. He tried to play it off as an "intelligence gathering operation". Everyone knew he was really just in bed with the threat actors, but nobody could prove it enough to make a case against him.
At some point shortly after, a DDoS-for-hire service got hacked and its entire customer database along with all DDoS attack logs was leaked online. One of the records traced back to an employee of his DDoS mitigation firm, and from a combination of attack logs and corroboration with customers, it was determined that they had been launching DDoS attacks against businesses, then cold calling them to sell DDoS protection services.
It was fairly apparent from the fact the emails coincided with the DDoS attacks, but did not originate from the the employee performing the attacks that the company was in on it, and this wasn't the work of some rogue employee. Nevertheless, said employee got thrown under the bus, convicted, and was unsuccessful in proving that his employer was in on the conspiracy, although they most certainly were.
Eventually, the founder ended up being named in some kind of criminal complaint or other FBI related court document. The specific wording seemed to imply that he'd gotten caught doing something illegal enough that he'd become an informant to save himself. Amusingly, when the document surfaced, the company just issued a press release about how they were "helping the FBI stop crime" and nothing become of it.
The company has always been shady as hell, and while it's not abnormal for cybersecurity firms to hire reformed hackers, I've not seen a single employee who was not directly involved in cybercrime immediately prior to getting hired. Furthermore, multiple of the employees have been caught committing cybercrime while working for the company.
Originally, when I posted this thread on February 6th, I stopped short of any allegation that Edward himself was involved in cybercrime. Since then @briankrebs was able to trace his aliases back to a known cybercrime organization and confirm he indeed was directly involved in cybercrime as recently as May 2024.
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So I finally turned a recent popular post here into a proper story.
Teen on Musk’s DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’
Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficien…
It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC
"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review."
The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."
"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company."
The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.
Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.
Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.
In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."
Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.
Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website pathtruths.com/
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
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Malte Friendica
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