Notices by Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇 (threatresearch@infosec.exchange)

@trochee @jwz @jef on a mission for Dream

Productive Sunday:

Spent about 4 hours rebuilding a fence that I sunk three replacement posts for three weeks ago.

Used @cyd to delete about a third of my defunct Twitter account's 25,000 tweets.

Cooked a roast dinner for family.

@bob_zim @evacide @Blort @pluralistic Not looking forward to the Salem Encryption Trials

All the folks who mass-migrated to #Bluesky in the past few months are now the unwitting trainers for an #AI dataset that has collected all their posts. Brilliant move. Another blockbuster investigation from @404mediaco

https://www.404media.co/bluesky-posts-machine-learning-ai-datasets-hugging-face/
#privacy #socialmedia

I approve this message.

https://www.cpr.org/2024/11/21/boulder-explicit-traffic-safety-signs/

#boulder

So I created an account on BlueSky.

Followed ZERO people. Unfollowed the automatic bsky account. Did not like or repost anything. So the algorithm knows nothing about me.

Spent the first 30 minutes reading five posts, scrolling down, and seeing a flood of angry, trolly buttholes just spewing verbal feces in every direction about their god emperor and how 'he's going to teach you cucks a lesson' - you know, the complete expected, bot-driven algorithmic hate speech drivel from the firstname-bunchanumbers crowd.

Funny, I never had that experience on Mastodon. It has been great so far, never going back to the Bad Place, and I have absolutely no desire to get back into that mess or this new one. I only created the account there to reserve the username.

I guess moderation at BlueSky is still in beta.

@patrickcmiller Moroccan Dirham, huh. The big question is "why?" This seems so pointless.

It used to be that a quick Google search for "how to do [a thing]" would lead you to a web page or a forum post that included the exact command and one sentence about how to accomplish that task. I don't know when the default result became "watch a ten minute Youtube video about how to do this thing" but it is really frickin obnoxious.