Waldo Jaquith

A Virginia license plate reading “D1AREA.”

I guess I have no concept of what license plates Virginia will and will not approve.

Jesus Christ, bot https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou/114949521549940095

crypto.gov
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114948514901920888

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange) Attached: 3 images New, from me: Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites. ....The gaming sites all require users to create a free account to claim their $2,500 credit, which they can use to play any number of extremely polished video games that ask users to bet on each action. At the scam website gamblerbeast[.]com, for example, visitors can pick from dozens of games like B-Ball Blitz, in which you play a basketball pro who is taking shots from the free throw line against a single opponent, and you bet on your ability to sink each shot. The financial part of this scam begins when users try to cash out any “winnings.” At that point, the gaming site will reject the request and prompt the user to make a “verification deposit” of cryptocurrency — typically around $100 — before any money can be distributed. Those who deposit cryptocurrency funds are soon asked for additional payments. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/scammers-unleash-flood-of-slick-online-gaming-sites/ Here's what some of these scam gambling (scambling?) sites look like. They're pretty polished. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNjqXIq1s5g

This kind of thing would have been impossible before LLMs.
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@mathowie My job has me meeting with government employees all day, often senior people in state and local agencies. As a policy, we prohibit auto-transcription, because an incorrect transcript could be career-destroying—or worse—for our partners. Hand-crafted notes only.

@mathowie do not want

It's mystifying to me why no major browser has an option to wipe all cache, history, and cookies for the past, say, 5 minutes. The shortest period is always a lot longer than that. Every few years I'll accidentally see some shit that I did *not* want to see and would like to remove all traces of […]

A screenshot of a bit of a desktop, showing three identical drives mounted, each one labelled “music.”

You're doing great, macOS

I just remembered the feeling of ejecting a 3.5" floppy by pushing the eject button (on my PS/2), and the shock of the first time I used a Mac and it *ejected the disk by itself*.

@nelson It feels like a good reminder that there's no opting out of society.

@nelson This is the first time I have ever heard of Windows Hello.

This morning, while clearing some flood debris with a chainsaw, my left hand spontaneously became really painful to clench. I can’t pick anything up now.

The human body is kind of shit, innit?

Department ‹ Electronics ‹ Computers & Accessories Data Storage External Hard Drives External Solid State Drives External Zip Drives Floppy & Tape Drives Internal Hard Drives Internal Solid State Drives Network Attached Storage Tape Libraries USB Flash Drives

So…Amazon hasn't updated their computer storage categories in a while.

@heymarkreeves That's one way to solve it!

A toad peers out from a hole in the ground.

Toad in the hole

A photograph of Marco Elez. He is wearing a red t-shirt and has brown, tussled hair in this photo.

A photo of a hand holding a large phone with a white background and the xAI logo in black. Behind the phone is a lighted computer screen.

New, at KrebsOnSecurity.com: Marko Elez, a 25-year-old employee at Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has been granted access to sensitive databases at the U.S. Social Security Administration, the Treasury and Justice departments, and […]

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@futurebird This Mastodon scam was particularly ham-fisted, but the phone call you got is a good reminder that absolutely none of us are un-scammable. The U.S. is a scam culture—we are subjected to constant scams. We can't dodge them all. Eventually I'm gonna get got, and I hope I'll have the […]

Please report any account that tells you that you need to verify your #Mastodon account to continue using it through a private message. It is a scam. We do not require identity verification. Real staff accounts either have a special role badge on their profile or are verified through the […]

It turns out to be a pathetic scam. The URL leads you to a form that demands your credit card info, without any explanation as to what you’d be paying for or how much.

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Well here’s an interesting new scam.

We're being told that the way to build trust with the community for broadband projects is to speak to the Rotary Club.

It is not! The way you build trust is you *install some damn broadband*. People shouldn't have to take it on faith that the project is going to work out. They should see that […]

I'm at this conference to talk about applying user research and incremental delivery to county software projects, and it's going to be a trick to avoid launching into an “and if I may—“ aside where I undermine everything that the audience heard during this broadband session an hour earlier.

He's joined by a county executive who endorses the idea that you should simply award one really big contract to one big telecom company, and simply make sure that you trust the company.

If your broadband expansion project's success hinges on faith in a telecom company, you are already screwed.

@b Agreed!

I’m at a conference session in which a Comcast lobbyist is informing the audience (county executives) how they should run their public broadband expansion projects, and I think I'm doing an admirable job of not screaming.

It's weird having a bot that sometimes proselytizes
https://mastodon.social/@thisemailfindsyou/114819288385287263

In used to call session tokens "magic cookies” and that was a lot better than just "cookies.”

the killer app of vibecoding website generators that let you 'recreate an app in one prompt' is phishing websites, it's just phishing websites, we all know this is how it ends up

Sure I guess I could deal with this Apache zombie-process problem, *or* I could just keep rebooting this EC2 instance every couple of days.

Nailed it
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