Posts by alex@cybervillains.com
(DIR) Post #AVDZGLrhwFaikn9hgW by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-01T17:22:59Z
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I'm sorry for my small number of local users on cybervillains.com for the recent instability. Working to move more quickly to a new infra.
(DIR) Post #AVFORhXOzTtVyXmqiu by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-02T14:31:37Z
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@Ciantic @stefan @leo This is an inherent part of ActivityPub. In the case of DMs, they *should* only be visible to the recipients and the two servers, but I don’t have faith that would be true if they were of interest to a real adversary.
(DIR) Post #AVJPuEccSHWRHMEjVw by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-04T13:07:05Z
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@jerry I’ve been really amazed that super basic anti-spam and other proactive abuse detection mechanisms haven’t emerged yet.
(DIR) Post #AVPjrltHTDeXcgtNgG by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-07T14:15:30Z
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Cybervillains.com has been ported over to a new infra. Let me know if something isn't working. Sorry for the day of downtime.
(DIR) Post #AVT1mrVRXtbuEyQmEi by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-09T04:22:19Z
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@hacks4pancakes There is a Google sheet floating around of all the color codes for the RFID crystals.
(DIR) Post #AVaO3wXe7SZWRf1J0C by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-12T17:34:44Z
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Testing
(DIR) Post #AVagkrkTc7d9CsddCK by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-12T21:04:00Z
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@jerry The first step is recognizing that you have a problem.
(DIR) Post #AVcsKwRz685k1fJUNU by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-13T22:22:49Z
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@simon @evelyndouek Gonna have to release a 7 episode limited series.
(DIR) Post #AVimQqYUdXDo1YfQae by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-16T18:45:18Z
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/me closes window looking at Elon's recent tweets. Blinks.Who wants to start a betting pool on whether Linda Yaccarino actually starts as Twitter CEO?
(DIR) Post #AVimdtRNDlDijkYfJI by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-05-16T18:47:25Z
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@ant_pruitt @evelyndouek Great way to get our podcast cancelled.
(DIR) Post #AX0PvlxRReznuB5yS0 by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-06-24T02:24:00Z
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Anybody interested in current events in Russia should be following @kevinrothrock
(DIR) Post #AXKrMwBma7qPRJqzq4 by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-07-04T00:37:29Z
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The upcoming performance review cycle for the #Meta team that failed to ship #Threads in time to capitalize on the RateLimitPocalypse will, um, not meet expectations.It’s an amazing whiff: Meta has millions of servers, exabytes of storage, billions of users with current accounts and all of the backend services and people to support a Twitter replacement, but they just can’t get it shipped.
(DIR) Post #AYEqsM5AGtCPjuWRA8 by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-07-31T01:48:09Z
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SendInBlue/Brevo is being used to send phishing emails that take advantage of the Twitter/X changeover, using verify@x.com as the purported sender. The final target domain is x.com-account-security-verification dot fail. Great use of the .fail TLD!
(DIR) Post #AZ4TkYso53eSK5SJNo by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-08-24T23:31:43Z
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but with today’s update Mastodon beat Threads to full-text search.
(DIR) Post #AaZZ0yRkzer8fXqEKW by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-10-08T20:06:52Z
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The terrible events of the last 48 hours have made it clear how important social media is during fast-moving historical events.Sadly, the destruction of the teams Twitter put in place to fight organized manipulation makes it harder for individuals to speak to a global audience as their message gets buried by troll farms, state propaganda organs and grifters.(This video is a celebration of a football championship in Algeria in 2020)
(DIR) Post #AaZZ0zhkJhEwZQKVtI by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-10-08T20:09:52Z
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You can watch the continued pushing of this narrative here: https://twitter.com/search?q=If%20Russia%20did%20this%20in%20Kiev&src=typed_query&f=live
(DIR) Post #AaZZ10nSFxOtxQ0aQa by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-10-08T20:11:28Z
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Here is a Stanford Internet Observatory report on Iranian manipulation of Twitter, back from when Twitter actually looked for this kind of thing:https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/twitter-takedown-iran-october-2020
(DIR) Post #Ac0EqcyyloaUcDIep6 by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-11-20T15:48:09Z
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(DIR) Post #Ad3EDVyIUwoUZ7pJRo by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-12-20T15:58:47Z
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How does Stable Diffusion 1.5 know how to create CSAM? It turns out it was trained on thousands of illegal images contained in the extremely popular LAION-5B image set.I’m so incredibly proud of my friend and colleague @det Story: https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam-child-abuse/ Paper: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:kh752sm9123/ml_training_data_csam_report-2023-12-20.pdf
(DIR) Post #Ad3EDYA4M9PzMDLk4e by alex@cybervillains.com
2023-12-20T15:59:06Z
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Lots of people have worried about CSAM in training sets, including the LAION team themselves, but David actually created a novel mechanism to detect it.Hopefully this will change the way these training sets are created in the future.@det