Notices by ⠠⠵ avuko (avuko@infosec.exchange)

@cwebber outcome doesn’t matter, as Anthropic spins every dud into a win, their marketing is gobbled up and regurgitated immediately by media and C-level, and by the time people can check and verify it is all bullshit (again!), Anthropic has moved on, dragging billions in investment with them deeper into the cognitive abyss.

Kinda reminds one of Trump and Musk, doesn’t it? It’s all the same #TerminalStageCapitalism grift.

@blogdiva I will not travel to or through the US until long after the Mar-A-Lago Trials.1

I’m pretty confident I’m one of millions of Europeans.

1 See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

@catsalad it may be a joke, but it is definitely not a joke.

All those “me and my AI” people (mostly guys, let’s be honest) should have gotten a pet ages ago.

Oxytocin and serotonin, not dopamine and cortisol, my friends.

Which reminds me: back to my fam and cats!

@emily_s @aadeacon

conservatism in my opinion is about “keeping the systems that control others in place”.

This sounds like you wanting to keep control over your systems in place.

Similar sounding, but completely different.

A 2018 comment by one Frank Wilthoit defined conservatism sublimely:

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protect[s] but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

@Gina

There is a glaring non-sequitur here.

1) Yes, “[Prabhat] Agarwal said colleagues have also started sending messages via Signal, an encrypted app, rather than email, and many now have messages set to auto-delete, with the “auto-delete timings getting shorter.”“

2) Yes, USians are targeting and collecting communication among people in the EU. Both for profit and for power.

3) Yes, The US is demanding US companies surrender all communications with EU officials, which is what this news story is about.

But 1 protects against 2, not 3.

No way would US companies and EU officials collaborate on secure platforms like Signal, limiting the view of the US government. This would suggest the US companies want to secretly collaborate with the EU against the US.

All of the US companies are active participants in the fascist regime. They will happily surrender all communications, so the subpoenas are not a signal to them, but to us.

PS: using Signal (or Wire ;) always makes sense. For civilians. For civil servants, having official communications on auto-delete is probably an offence. https://www.heise.de/en/news/EU-admits-existence-of-signal-group-chat-of-EU-foreign-ministers-10353877.html

There is a really simple and non-violent way to rid ourselves of billionaires.

You see, a billionaire is not a person.

Because “billionaire” does not describe an intrinsic trait of a person.

There is wealth, valued at billions of (most often) dollars. And there is a person who controls that wealth. Because we allow it.

Take the control away, and the billionaire is gone.

✨Poof!✨

🪄 Like magic, You are now left with billions to redistribute amongst the people, and one person (or group of persons) you probably should offer some publicly funded treatment for one or more mental disorders.🌈

It really is that simple.

But yeah: “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.”

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@avuko/115842394968244138

I see people again (read: still) wondering and fretting why the supposedly non-fascist elites aren’t doing anything.

Though uncomfortable, there is an obvious reason for it.

I did some calculations to figure out how much energy one could potentially generate from gravity.

Let’s just say it became very apparent why it is the weakest of the four fundamental forces.

Want to generate 2400Wh? You’ll have to drop two FULLY loaded trucks (about 88000 kilograms) ten meters. Or a 1000 kilogram weight a little over 800 meters.

Where I think height is the easiest controllable factor to make a setup almost feasible.

Why I researched this myself instead of asking some AI? I would have learned nothing and have gotten away with incorrect assumptions and answers, without exercising any part of my brain. That’s why.

TLDR: gravity engines are cute for small systems that require almost no power at all, or where you can scale so ridiculously the low energy stops being an issue. And learning new stuff (or old stuff anew) is fun!

@menelion @stib @0x7700e6 @micr0 I did not know links didn’t always work, thanks for that. On mastodon, does the alt for videos work? It doesn’t for me using the web interface, but maybe screen readers are a little better in that regard? And come to think of it, is an alt description on video helpful?

@soatok @szbalint

And signify?

https://github.com/aperezdc/signify

Anyway, I had a convo with Zimmermann years ago about pgp, and what I remember from thinking back now, is that he didn’t think it was good (enough) or suitable for how (and by who) it is now being used.

@patrickcmiller

“In a Telegram post, [senior Rusian lawmaker lawmaker Anton] Gorelkin argued the incident showed that WhatsApp’s owners “not only turn a blind eye” to illegal activity on the platform but “actively participate” in it.“

I’m going to state the very obvious red flag here: Get THE HELL OFF TELEGRAM.

And a pro tip which might or might not work (maybe don’t leave any digital trail when your live is on the line).

1. Use Signal
2. enable the censorship circumvention under Signal > Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention
3. Make sure you set messages to auto-delete, and share very sensitive info in media you then destroy and share in the “view-once” mode.

@steter @mattblaze I am hoping nobody expects true privacy.

And especially not on any other social media platform.

But a Direct Message should, as we have come to expect, always and only be directed at ONE person.

So you can gossip, which has been an essential element of human interaction since long before there were likes and boosts, or even gasp ActivityPub. ;)

@mattblaze that is a horrible design flaw, period.

My pet peeve is that DMs are hardly distinguishable from normal posts, so I’m always afraid my “DMs” are accidentally public posts.

@gcvsa @skinnylatte the only US units of measurement I recognise are “super size” for fast-food, and “bullshit” for lies.

@hacks4pancakes @http_error_418 back in my day I could get into infosec because I am a white cishet dude with white cishet dude friends who helped me into #infosec. Admittedly I came from an IT background of a couple of years, but so did everybody else then.

I probably wouldn’t make it into this field nowadays. Not because white cishet dudes don’t gatekeep for and help other white cishet dudes any more. I’m sure that’s still exactly the same.

But because I would lack the experience and certifications required nowadays.

@mildsunrise

The Oracle that’s taking over TikTok, that’s the same Oracle that wants to build the AI driven open-air prison, right?

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

The same Oracle that pledged fealty to Trump a couple of days ago?

https://archive.ph/2025.09.05-190347/https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/

The same Oracle that got the rights to build datacenters and what not for their open-air prison AI?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/trump-ai-joint-venture-openai-oracle-softbank

That same Oracle is getting access and control over TikTok, the Chinese brain-killing, disinformation and censorship control app?

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

@tinker

“AI / LLMs is bias at scale. Now it's entrenched status quo. ”

POSIWID strikes again!

@jeffowski well, not to be that guy, but patriarchy has been around longer than the religions I believe are referenced here, and were the basis for them.

So I’d say there is at least one idea more damaging.

@GossiTheDog pretty please, not Friday.

@AAKL @theregister for us non-USians: