Posts by deFractal@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #AcHX8QAeFCXYxGi8dk by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2023-11-29T00:21:59Z
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@simon How does the argument that the sketch being drawn iteratively based on model output qualifies it as sufficient human input to claim copyright in the output differ from the same argument with respect to an LLM prompt being written iteratively based on LLM output? The sketch, like the LLM prompt, constitutes a smaller fraction of the input than the user does of all humans who have ever lived. Shouldn’t degree of right to the output match degree of addition to the input?
(DIR) Post #Ao2j1BBiOqt4cZ4C48 by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2024-11-14T19:21:37Z
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@frameworkcomputer Yes, please.
(DIR) Post #ApTuEzYGiFMGCioQG8 by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2024-12-27T19:39:30Z
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@cjd Alt text for the left image—please feel free to edit and add it: Screenshot of social media post from Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley), which reads: A big shot employment attorney in California called me last night re: H1B visa fraud / trafficking of workers. Here's what she said: The market is cornered by visa body shops who apply for (about) 50% of the visas.The economics of it: These body shops are headed by former hiring managers from Big Tech companies. They bring people to America, rent apartments for them, and house about 10 together in one apartment. They put these recipients through a (roughly) 4 week bootcamp of basic tech training, fraudulently rewrite their resumes, teach them how to interview. The body shops land them jobs, primarily at the companies these hiring managers came from, and pay the workers less than half of the money in hand. Ex. Job is listed as a $200k salary, but the company is contracted with the body shop *not* the H1B worker, and the worker is actually paid closer to $40 an hour. The body shops pocket most of the money and are making millions by essentially trafficking people. The abuse and fraud must end!
(DIR) Post #ApTuF0jeJQ3VsJ91dY by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2024-12-27T19:45:42Z
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@cjd Alt text for the right image: Screen shot of a listing of jobs, titled "Laborer's H1B Salary all years," showing a table with three jobs. First job: Employer: Cecilia Torres; Job title: laborer; Base salary: 21,000; Location: Canyon Lake, TX. Second job: Employer: MLK Construction LLC; Job title: laborer; Base salary: 30,000; Location: St. Louis, MO. Third job: Employer: MLK Construction LLC; Job title: laborer; Base salary: 34, 940; Location: Saint Louis, MO.
(DIR) Post #AshTu0Z34urJAwFprs by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-03T02:43:47Z
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@frameworkcomputer Open a Framework #Canada or a Framework #Mexico, for sales and distribution into everywhere but the USA.
(DIR) Post #AtCWe4Qu6qsfGlopu4 by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-18T02:10:37Z
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@cdarwin Bypass media; persuade in person. To do so, build positive relationships with the deceived, in-person. Don't try to change their minds through reason, as that won't work. Instead, provide them experiences through which they'll realize they've been deceived. For the currently too few who do so—per the example of Deeyah Khan or Daryl Davis or Christian Picciolini with extremists, or Dr. Steve Hassan with cultists, or Mick West with conspiracy theorists, or Dr. Katharine Hayhoe with non-environmentalist conservatives, or effective practising public health nurses with vaccine hesitant parents, or the Leaving MAGA movement with current adherents—it works. However, to have a sufficient effect size sufficiently quickly, that approach needs to be scaled by a couple/few orders of magnitude.
(DIR) Post #AtCYH4mipp6VboBgIK by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-18T02:28:53Z
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@cdarwin That rage machine works because the left's approach, for decades, has been to cork the pressure relief valve of the internally compromised hot water heater. Instead of accepting someone temporarily being deceived, and getting to the emotional basis for their having believed the lie in the first place, we ridicule and shame the deceived for having fell for it. Trump's message only lands because he opened a fissure providing that pressure an exit route. Every person I've ever gotten out of far-right beliefs, I've done so through relationship—emotionally divesting myself from their expression of false beliefs, and instead providing a psychologically healthier replacement of the far right's means of appearing to redress—but actually exploiting—unmet emotional needs. And I'm far from alone in that. Every person I've ever seen successfully turn rightists into formers addresses first and foremost not the overt content of false beliefs, but the psychosocial reasons false beliefs feel true. And that's not merely anecdata. All the most predictive evidence in the psychology of belief formation and change show that it occurs primarily through emotion attunement, positive (or at least perceived-to-be positive) relationship, and group identity, not evidence or reason. Evidence and reason are irrelevant to the process unless the recipient is positively emotionally invested in the provider, or the recipient is devoid of emotional investment in or identification with the conclusion being supported or opposed. The rage machine fails if any only if it's starved of fuel: if the unresolved primary fear or sadness or shame to which the rage is secondary become resolved. Alternatively, the rage machine blows up on its operator if its fuel is tactically replaced: if the person develops close and positive relationships, and group identification, with people the rage machine targets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3i_ZGPtm68
(DIR) Post #AtOxWM3Nk2z4GGsgts by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-04-24T02:08:17Z
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@cdarwin IANAL, but from what I've seen of US case law, when police fail to self-identify as such and, while not recognizably police, impose imminent risk death or grievous bodily harm (which is generally presumed in cases of kidnapping), if the attacked person survives police-gang revenge, the court case outcome usually depends on the race of the person asserting self-defence to excuse use of lethal force against an assailant. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/texas-no-knock-swat-raid/However, there was one at least one exception case: that of Cory Maye.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Maye
(DIR) Post #AuvT2eGK3p7sOPsucC by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-08T16:24:19Z
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@Nonilex Are any #veterans organizing to stand between the anti-ICE protesters and the illegally deployed Guards and Marines? Where are the vets who protested the #VA cuts two days ago? It’s the same Nazi ordering the National Guard and Marines around as is gutting the VA.
(DIR) Post #AuvsoWYSWA6bF6IFyC by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-06-08T21:13:06Z
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@Nonilex Yeah, I get the issues are distinct. If some of the two groups can find common cause, negotiate boundaries around protest tactics, and coordinate their efforts, it would shift the calculus for the optics and politics of enforcement. Given how many veterans became citizens during or after service, common cause against extrajudicial disappearances of migrants shouldn’t be too hard to find.
(DIR) Post #AwSZ1Zo3zfSov5jxNw by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2025-07-20T02:44:50Z
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@Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff @Em0nM4stodon The "nothing to hide" line is a manipulative ploy by those who have the most power and seek to keep it and gain more, as information about you is power over you. The same people preaching the supposed death of privacy go to extraordinary lengths both to protect their own privacy—such as Mark Zuckerberg buying the houses surrounding his own ¹, to deny camera angles towards his own home—and at the same time invest literally billions in anti-consensually ² surveilling the public for the power and revenue they derive therefrom. If anyone needs any further response, @Mer__edith comprehensively dismantles the "nothing to hide" rhetoric in her first answer to Guy Kawasaki at SXSW 2025, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyH7zoP-JOg&t=88s¹ The particular hypocrisy of Zuck and the houses is one I first heard noted by @pluralistic. ² By "anti-consensually," I mean, not only in absence of consent, but in active contempt thereof: despite knowing it is opposite the express will of the non-consenting person. #privacy #surveillance #surveillanceState #surveillanceCapitalism
(DIR) Post #B1q0RvhuAR0Gly7xYm by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T10:14:26Z
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@aralI suggest copy/pasting this into a text editor, replacing all copies of "Al" (with a lowercase "L") with "AI" (with a capital "'i"), replacing all single line-breaks with dual line-breaks, and then editing the reply and pasting the corrected version back in. (Then screen readers will pronounce it correctly and pause briefly between paragraphs.) If you want to notice such OCR errors, I suggest using your computer's text-to-speech capability, and listening to the text before pasting it in reply. For future reference, @JulianOliver, if you can't fit your article in the alt text of a screenshot, then I recommend making the alt text "screenshot of text which is repeated in my reply below" (or "replies" if applicable) then pasting the text into as many consecutive self-replies as are necessary given the length limit on your Mastodon instance. Better that than waiting for someone like @skry to do it for you—especially because you (Julian) already have the original text, so your copy won't have errors from applying OCR to an image of text (in a font with ambiguous character pairs such as "l" and "I"), like the copy Julian shared.
(DIR) Post #B1qsrH6t7jTVuvLbsm by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:24:00Z
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@aral Huh. I can't replicate that. Seems by adblocker is blocking it.
(DIR) Post #B1qtqXyP2czFsjayae by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-01-01T20:35:08Z
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@aral You must be using only network-based ad blocking (not browser-based ad blocking), or using an inadequate blocker or a browser which doesn't support full-featured blockers. The malicious script causing the redirect is already blocked by this built-in #uBlockOrigin filters. It looks like you're using Safari. Try Firefox or one of its AI-free derivatives instead, and install uBlock Origin. https://ublockorigin.com
(DIR) Post #B32KldwWPw3uMA5YY4 by deFractal@infosec.exchange
2026-02-06T05:11:38Z
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@giacomo All good except the mistaken suggestion that #KOSA could make anything better. KOSA would prevent any effective access to privacy, including the minimum necessary to bypass ideological censorship or to stay safe from abusively controlling parents, while also facilitating government censorship and wholesale identity theft against adults. It would render Signal and Mastodon—two of the most important technologies for free expression—unlawful. Prohibiting addiction-oriented algorithms would be beneficial. However, enforcing online age verification (as opposed to on-device parental controls) is always harmful: in a multitude of ways. https://infosec.exchange/@deFractal/115994076948088497