Notices tagged with spam

A little after midnight on Christmas, I received an unsolicited "roast" for one of my open source libraries.

The roast was AI-generated.

Naturally, I decided to look into who's behind this spam campaign and expose them.

https://soatok.blog/2024/12/26/roasted-christmas-spam-from-muhu-ai/

#opensource #ai #spam #muhuai #tech #technology #enshitification

智障型電視 (Dumb TV) 的討論

在「Dumb TVs deserve a comeback (makeuseof.com)」這邊看到的討論，原文提到智障型電視應該要有他的市場：「Why Dumb TVs Deserve a Comeback」。

不過 Hacker News 討論上 id=42425593 提到很現實的問題：

Why dumb TV's won't make a comeback

https://blog.gslin.org/archives/2024/12/19/12141/%e6%99%ba%e9%9a%9c%e5%9e%8b%e9%9b%bb%e8%a6%96-dumb-tv-%e7%9a%84%e8%a8%8e%e8%ab%96/

#Computer #Hardware #Murmuring #Network #Recreation #Spam #Television #ad #advertisement #dumb #network #privacy #television #tv

Ever wonder why @pixelfed doesn't have a spam problem?

- We prevent new users from sending DMs

- We built an automated spam detection service that can email you when spam is detected, and you can make the final decision

https://pixelfed.blog/p/2023/feature/autospam-and-naive-bayes-the-grandfather-of-spam-filters-still-making-waves

We have even more in store 🚀

#pixelfed #autospam #spam #prevention

My wife teaches at a Hebrew school. They are the chillest employer in the world, totally amazing.
She has an email address in the school's #GoogleWorkspace. It's not published anywhere. I don't think she uses it to email school parents; I believe the only reason she has it is because there was a problem with the school's payroll system (QuickBooks, of course) which they attempted to solve at one point by giving her an address at the school to use as her login.
#spam #ATT #privacy #infosec
🧵1/3

Is anyone using the #PayShap service in #SouthAfrica? imo some privacy issues, as one can no longer use alternate purpose-subscribed numbers for shopping etc. Especially considering that a mobile number is like a 2nd ID number these days and that many shop owners upload your number to FB/Instagram for targeted advertising, or spam you themselves. #Privacy #Spam #Cellular #Mobile #PhoneNumber #SMS #Shopping #FinTech https://techcentral.co.za/payshap-is-getting-a-huge-upgrade/255847/

#spam I don't care about a bluesky enabling app. Why is my feed suddenly blowing up over "SwILL"? (added a w just because)

Looks to me the the money at bluesky has taken official am at mastodon.

#EmbraceExtendExtinguish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

... The #Bluesky school. Do almost everything they are doing except inviting #enshittification. They have the #troll, #spam, #spy and #misinformation problems under control. People are happily connecting and avoiding whatever they want to avoid. They are enjoying themselves.

I love the #fediverse, I always will. Not gonna leave. But it's microscopic.

Dare to #ThinkBig.

How is #Intuit so bad at everything except, seemingly, income-tax software?
They spammed me today at an email address which to my knowledge has never had an Intuit account associated with it. When I click the unsubscribe link it brings me to their login page. But I can't log in with that email address—no account!—so I can't unsubscribe.
This is both stupid and illegal; working unsubscribe links are a requirement of the CAN-SPAM act.
I sent them a #privacy complaint. We'll see what happens.
#spam

For the record: #Intuit replied to my #spam complaint and told me I could go to https://data-privacy.app.intuit.com/preferences to unsubscribe from their spam.
I've done that; we'll see if it works.
Needless to say, they completely ignored the portion of my complaint where I pointed out that the unsubscribe link in their spam didn't work and that that's a violation of federal law. 🤷
#privacy

Pixelfed Autospam detection is amazing, imma piyush that delete account button 😂

why did you redeem that ahh spam

#autospam #india #spam

A new wave of spam attacks has flooded Mastodon. Previously, unwanted messages could be managed with content filters, but now the situation is much more complicated: spam posts now only contain images without text, making them harder to filter. If an effective solution is not found, we risk soon being drowned in a flood of spam in the fediverse.

#Mastodon #Spam #Fediverse #Cybersecurity #OnlineSafety

Needless to say, don’t scan any random QR-codes you get spammed with here.

#fediverse #spam #QRCodes

Hey #MastoAdmin / #FediAdmin folks, there's a spam wave happening.

They are using QR codes with random color schemes so you can't use blurhash filters. And there is no text other than username direct mentions

Spam usernames are random strings, on poorly moderated servers as usual

Anyone have recommendations for mitigation?

If you don't have an admin team that can handle properly auditing account registrations and dealing with reports quickly, I strongly recommend disabling open registrations on your servers for now

#boost #spam

transforthe.win is not the only server affected by the link spam infestation. I've also been getting spam posts from obvious random-generated accounts names on;

kitsui.life
m.corduba.tech
seda.social
startrekshitposting.com
fetistodon.com
misskey.ee

More evidence that account creation on all fediverse software ought to be invite-only by default. With warnings about stuff like this before going open.

#fediverse #spam #LinkSpam

Seems like #Matrix is now popular enough to attract #spam. Something I only knew from #XMPP until last week but now I also receive strange stuff from random people via Matrix.

#JiaoJiao Today we experienced a #spam attack. We have now banned all malicious accounts, and the website's registration requirements have been changed from open registration to approval upon registration.

We recommend blocking the following email domains:

merepost.com
fexbox.org
fextemp.com
mailto.plus
rover.info
chitthi.in
mailbox.in.ua

#鈴木哲哉 #みどくり #DMCA #唐澤貴洋 #AS215935 #Mastodon #spamattack

#JiaoJiao 今天我们遭受到了垃圾信息攻击，目前已封禁全部恶意账户，网站已将注册条件由开发注册调整为注册时需要批准。
建议封禁上述邮箱域名。

We have boilerplate text you can use to contact the admin or moderators of a compromised server that's sending spam, available in English, Japanese, and Mandarin: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z6yZuBcFNMStKBpNg9WGJjkmftZSFSIGvrRGfYvU5RA/

So far over a dozen compromised servers have modified their registration settings and removed any spam accounts and messages, thank you!

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Spam #SpamWave

We are tracking the current spam wave and are contacting the relevant server admin teams. If you are silencing or blocking servers and would like to retract your action once the server has been set to require approvals, please monitor https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13sskOdKraYo2hSMK353Ijm0_K8WCp-JHs6cyruffedA/

#FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #Spam #SpamWave