be wary of people whose Opsec advice is "don't go anywhere or do anything unless you've spent dozens of hours and thousands of dollars taking preventative actions to protect yourself"

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Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

Who Decides Who Doesn’t Deserve Privacy? Remember the Ashley Madison data breach? That was now more than a decade ago, yet it arguably remains the single most noteworthy data breach of all time. There are many reasons for this accolade, but…

Occasionally, someone takes issue with me flagging a data breach as "sensitive" such that the email addresses can't be publicly searched because they want to dox the users. That's a *really* bad idea, for many reasons: www.troyhunt.com/who-decides-...

many current problems began when people started trusting computer. you must never trust computer. computer is the machine that hates you

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/

Meaning that infrastructure like AWS is not something that Signal, or almost anyone else, could afford to just “spin up.” Which is why nearly everyone that manages a real-time service–from Signal, to X, to Palantir, to Mastodon–rely at least in part on services provisioned by these companies. 8/

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More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

EFF, unions sue Trump admin. over alleged mass social media surveillance of legal residents | TechCrunch The lawsuit, filed in federal court, alleges the Trump administration is monitoring and punishing non-citizens who express social media views that the government disfavors.

EFF is suing the Trump administration over the government's use of social media surveillance targeting legal residents and visa-holders. EFF says the program has the "goal of identifying and punishing those who express viewpoints the government doesn't like."

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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My coworkers are starting to COMPLETELY rely on ChatGPT for anything that requires troubleshooting And the results are as predictable as you think. On the easier stuff, sure, here's a quick fix. On anything that takes even the slightest bit of troubleshooting, "Hey LegOz, here's what ChatGPT says we should change!"...and it's something completely unrelated, plain wrong, or just made-up slop.

Oof, the sycophancy problem in LLM's + triggering on any irrelevant details you feed them, recently led a P2 problem call down the wrong pathing for hours.

The chatbot is never going to TELL you to step back and ask if this entire inquiry is irrelevant to larger goal.

This is your moat. It's mine.

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

People are replying to this with “this is more an idiot problem than a tech problem.”

Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.

I just don’t want a more ambient, pervasive computer, actually. If anything I would like less computer

god im gonna bite someone

This is because of the Online Safety Act, and UK folks had better get used to doing this because every site on the internet that "is likely to be accessed by children" and has users in the UK will be doing this as of 25 July; that's Ofcom's deadline.

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad