Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social), page 2

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Apparently the turnout in elections in Hungary 🇭🇺 is massive, latest data shows 74.23%:
https://vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

This, I think, is a good sign. :blobcatcoffee:

#Hungary #Hungary2026

@_elena here you go:

Best social network money can't buy.

And:

Fediverse proves that if nobody is tipping the scales to artificially boost "engagement", toxic people end up being blocked. Mainstream social media toxicity is not inevitable, it's a business decision, a choice. And Fediverse chooses not to have any of it.

@tfiebig I am facing my palm.

For a long while now I've been thinking that technical organizations that have to deal with spurious / BS abuse reports should simply charge a processing fee against the frequent sources of these BS abuse reports.

After a second shitty report, they get an e-mail about what was shitty about it and that if these points are repeated in their next abuse report, they will be invoiced.

After the third, they get invoiced.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116375694963358260

I remember pestering EFF folks about this – that is, about them only being on the walled-garden social media – years ago.

Eventually they did join fedi. And now they are leaving :birdsite:. Glad to see it!

Oh boy…
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl

> A [cyberthreat actor] has allegedly stolen a massive trove of sensitive data – including highly classified defense documents and missile schematics – from a state-run Chinese supercomputer

> The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information, is believed by experts to have been obtained from the National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Tianjin

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#InfoSec #China #FlamingChina

A cold-war superpower with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council is committing what will likely be seen as a war crime – targeting civilian rail infrastructure of a much smaller and weaker country – and it's not Russia blowing up trains in Ukraine this time.

#USA #Iran

@dgodon move slow and gradually improve things.

I blogged about that last year:
https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/114284660479008679

To his credit, Lance Ulanoff admitted then he was wrong about fedi:
https://mastodon.social/@Lance_Ulanoff/114285108628269898

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

#Fediverse #Mastodon

There used to be a time when building out a botnet required *some* work – writing exploits, taking over devices, obscuring the purpose of the executable, etc.

Not any more!

Instead of "malware", call it an "AI agent" and people will just happily install it on their devices with full root privileges!
https://github.com/jgamblin/OpenClawCVEs/

Bam! RCE by asking nicely.

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#OpenClaw #AI #Hype #InfoSec

@timnitGebru I think this is relevant to these questions, albeit handles them on a different level:
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367

> Someone still has to reread, compare, test, contextualize, and sometimes rewrite. And if no one seriously takes on that work, the cost does not disappear. It reappears later in the form of errors, urgent fixes, loss of trust, and eventually litigation. What is presented as a productivity gain is often just an accounting displacement.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116312883173526888

About 10 days ago Bluesky proudly announced it got 100m investment, largely from cryptobros:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-after-ceo-transition/

Today they are proudly announcing an "AI product" that relies on scraping your posts.

#Bluesky #AI

So let me get this straight:

A huge military power launches "major combat operations" (not calling it a war), against a much, much smaller country, that is supposed to take just a few days. It is now taking many times longer.

One of the pretexts used for that operation is to force a change of government in the much smaller country.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5760058-us-israel-launch-strikes-on-iran/

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The attacked much smaller country is able to successfully constrain access of the huge military power and its allies to an important body of water, blocking oil exports through it.

The huge country is apparently preparing for an assault on an island of the smaller country on that body of water.

The island is roughly within artillery range from the small country's mainland.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/iran-war-trump-us-troops-kharg-island-qeshm-island-nuclear-middle-east.html

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RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116306950301025361

The bubble is already popped, it's just not very evenly distributed? :blobcatcoffee:

In light of International Olympic Committee's decision to double down on being transphobic clods, here's episode 1. of a fantastic podcast series about how the 1936 Olympic Games in Nazi Germany came to be:
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/hitlers-olympics-part-1-the-blue-eyed-tornado

More episodes in Season 10 of Revisionist History podcast (sorry, didn't find a way to link directly):
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history

You can find it wherever you get your podcasts™.

#Olympics #IOC #Transphobia

And here's a great episode of Rhodes Center Podcast on how authoritarianism went from defense to offense on the world stage:
https://rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/how-authoritarianism-went-from-defense-to-offense-on-the-world-stage

Guess what: hosting Olympic Games in Beijing and Sochi was instrumental to the raise of relevant authoritarian regimes' soft power.

As it was, of course, for Nazis in the 1930s.

Congratulations to the International Olympic Committee for keeping that particular flame going, from 1936 Third Reich to today.

@dan congratulations!