Notices by Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)

#Phishing #Krankenkasse #Gesundheitskarte

WARNUNG: Wenn ihr oder Familie/Freunde das hier bekommt, das ist ein Phishing Versuch. Auf keinen Fall auf den Link klicken. Gleich löschen. Weitersagen!

The weird thing in all the "AI" narratives is that thus far I haven't read stories about evil Chinese or Russian "AI"s hacking into government or company servers. Only those from the US seem to be doing that nasty stuff. Weird.

When I drive a car without a valid driver's license, proof of insurance or tag/license plate, I get stopped by the police, my car will be towed and I can either walk home or might end up in jail and face severe fines, a probation period and loss of my driver's license.

When Microsoft runs 45 gas turbines without a state permit, they get 45 days to fix it and a $1.07M fine (which is petty cash for an operation this size) and don't even have to power down the turbines.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/25/new-jersey-fines-datacenter-unpermitted-generators

Remember the EICAR test file for anti-virus software [1]?

Just for fun, here it is as QR code. Print and scan at your own risk :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file

So @Roelmaalderink bought the Meta glasses, went to the Meta office in the Netherlands and asked Meta employees what they think about the glasses, filming them with the Meta glasses (and an additional camera). Published the result on Instagram. Meta decided to remove the video more or less instantly. It's all very meta :) You can watch the 2:34 min video at https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/en/campagnes/pervert-glasses/ ;)

"Heard of a cool tech-bro-weeding interview technique the other day. A male and female engineer conduct the interview session together. If, when the female engineer asks the candidate a question, he directs his answer to the male engineer, then he's out. They said it happens a lot"

(I posted this on Twitter back in 2019 and screenshots of that tweet are still making the rounds. So here it is again as a toot that you can link to :)

OK, it’s a weird one, but I guess some here will understand my observation:

“AI” posters look like Corel Draw templates combined with a backdrop generated by a weird version of KPT (Kai’s Power Tools) ;)

#SarcasmButOnlyHalf

@hpod16 One concern is that in its current form, this act means that operators of Fediverse instances are made responsible to ensure that children below the age of 18 cannot make public posts. To properly do this, it means we, the admins, must do age checks on every signup and implement features to limit posts and interactions across all parties we federate with.

@hpod16 Maybe, maybe not. As the Fediverse contains many different servers with different software, like Mastodon, Misskey, Gotosocial, Peertube and many more, it needs a lot of coordination and maybe even fundamental changes on the protocol level of ActivityPub which is what all implement. And many instances are NOT under EU jurisdiction, so getting it to work everywhere will be difficult. Maybe you want to discuss with @evan and more ppl from the ActivityPub working group?

Age verification is just another way for Big Tech to avoid liability. At the price of privacy loss for all of us.

Are you a customer of #Revolut? With high-net worth? Congratulations! Your data, including passport scans, might have been leaked to criminals because Revolut fell for a targeted data phishing attempt.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/revolut-confirms-customer-data-breach-through-fake-government-requests/

"Top A.I. Leaders Call for Slowing Down A.I. Development"

Let me translate that for you: "Dear governments, please make sure that only we, Big AI from the US, are allowed to make money or else we will have a bigger problem."

The TL;DR: if you use #Mikrotik routers you should drop everything, update RouterOS and reboot. NOW.

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/vulnerabilities-in-mikrotik-routeros-actively-exploited/

I thank you, Autistici/Inventati Collective, for all you did in the past 25 years. Times have become weirder than you (and most of us) could imagine. You made the right choice. You are not giving up. You are dissolving to make room for new approaches that will prove to be better suited to continue the mission. And I am sure we will see some, if not most, of you in those new communities. Solidarity, always.

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

This is now a very normal headline. A president trying to limit the right to vote in a democracy. I still can't get over things like this. And I am not alone, I guess!

The "OMG Apple and Google renamed Lake Ontario in their map apps" discussion is barking at the wrong tree, in my opinion. It's a childish presidential order from a bully. I mainly shrug. This is not a hill I care for and even less am willing to die on. Let's fight the cause, not the symptoms! #UnpopularOpinion I guess.

What worries me far more is the future of DNS and domain names, which ultimately are under US control and with the Trump administration it is being used to force the deletion of domain names from DNS that the Trump administration doesn't like. See https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/117200308433923512

#JustSayin

If you used "AI" for your blogpost or article, please put the disclaimer informing your readers of that at the top of your article or blogpost. Not at the very end. #kthxbai

@liw It's the same. But the methods have changed. What happens now is that these "residential proxy" providers go to app/device developers and make them a simple offer: add our library and we will pay you for every active user. That library just steals network bandwidth from unsuspecting users that the "residential proxy" provider sells to whoever wants to use that bandwidth. So it's BaaS, Botnet as a Service.

See https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/