Posts by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #B3uiCL3pWCnt5x2ck4 by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-04T02:52:37Z
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Sounds like we're about to get a lot more Linux users!https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068331/windows-12-rumors-features-pricing-everything-we-know-so-far.html
(DIR) Post #B3vpFMtu1n9uVVkXM8 by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-04T18:19:39Z
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116168638948762892Yeah so add PCWorld to the list of outlets you can't trust anymore. This report was bogus.https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/no-an-ai-focused-windows-12-is-not-coming-this-year-false-report-gets-the-facts-completely-wrong
(DIR) Post #B48Eub5Z0k518PTm3U by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-08T22:27:12Z
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Holy crap this story knocked me over. It is everything I'm feeling about the machines right now. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
(DIR) Post #B4A2KNnW8guOM1vJ0i by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-11T19:28:12Z
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"If you want to improve the model's output, you can write skill files with more specific instructions!""Oh wow so like a file that tells the computer to do exactly what you want?""Yep!""You're never gonna believe this."
(DIR) Post #B4A2KPYLc3xjnYqDdw by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-11T19:37:23Z
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Salty today.
(DIR) Post #B4K2rIqVVuIU8LcPjM by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-16T16:54:08Z
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Office 365 and Copilot are down.Run. Now's your chance. Don't look back; just GO
(DIR) Post #B4jlbtuaNJRh4HhITw by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-26T20:04:27Z
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Another great day to post this for no reasonhttps://taggart-tech.com/migrate-to-codeberg/
(DIR) Post #B4jlbzYpN7beaXZ0Ou by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-26T20:17:49Z
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Another ragewave about GitHub policies? Call that a GitHubbub
(DIR) Post #B4nfqH3dIGBLocEtZw by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-30T21:54:47Z
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When we fight, we winhttps://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests
(DIR) Post #B4t5K2iEf6V6emK1dg by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-04-02T14:03:47Z
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The Linux Foundation getting in bed with Coinbase to develop a web payments standard. No thanks very muchhttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-is-launching-the-x402-foundation-and-welcoming-the-contribution-of-the-x402-protocol
(DIR) Post #B4t5K3ugCK36Nf9Tfs by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-04-02T15:05:31Z
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No wait, it's worse than you thought!Membership [of the x402 governing body] will be comprised of participants from multiple verticals with initial intent and support being expressed by Adyen, Amazon Web Services, American Express, Ampersend.ai, Base, Circle, Cloudflare, Coinbase, Fiserv Merchant Solutions, Google, KakaoPay, Mastercard, Merit Systems, Microsoft, Polygon Labs, PPRO, Shopify, Sierra, Solana Foundation, Stripe, thirdweb, and Visa. This is a list of people I don't want in charge of my money. And yes, I am forced to use some of them. Doesn't mean I trust them.
(DIR) Post #B518RW15xiQEhE4scK by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-30T15:30:12Z
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As a research project, I built a needed tool with Claude Code. I thought it would be a disaster, but it wasn't. I have some complicated feelings about it.https://taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
(DIR) Post #B518RXExPf6YUVZSrY by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-03-30T23:04:34Z
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I really appreciate all the replies and support on this one. It was hard to write. I do want to call out two points that aren't being discussed, and that I felt pretty strongly about:Open source is in trouble, and maintainers need help. Generative code is the help that showed up. What is the expectation here?"The tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth." What does "responsible use" look like that prevents this obvious and pervasive harm?
(DIR) Post #B51AG9NC0gH5Bv7d2m by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-04-06T12:52:46Z
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@rusty_shackleford I did not and would not. I have used emdashes before models appropriated them, and I'll not surrender them.
(DIR) Post #B5Y8Tgsgx1hvBfrV0y by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-04-22T01:47:31Z
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Oh my god, OpenAI reinvented Recall, but for macOS."Chronicle" is an opt-in feature that scans your screen, saves screenshots temporarily, and sends them to OpenAI's servers.https://developers.openai.com/codex/memories/chronicle
(DIR) Post #B5Y8ThjVmdxTpUZgLQ by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-04-22T05:39:05Z
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LmaoooUsing Chronicle increases risk to prompt injection attacks from screen content. For instance, if you browse a site with malicious agent instructions, Codex may follow those instructions.One wonders how many things it will OCR into a prompt injection. Utter clownshow of a technology.
(DIR) Post #B5ukgUzYXNbHoVj2f2 by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-05-02T21:22:37Z
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We find that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled.Horrifying. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
(DIR) Post #B61s7xaWNv1I6jmDse by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-05-06T17:48:40Z
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@cwebber Willison's distinction (and previous iterations of it) strikes me as dangerously naive. Based on my own experience with both the tool and, y'know, human nature, nothing but the most draconian guardrails will prevent people from taking the easy way with these tools.We were never going to do this safely.
(DIR) Post #B62uJSbrmV9MZUyf32 by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-05-07T01:40:51Z
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Some optimism as a counterweight to, well, everything.https://terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet
(DIR) Post #B6685KcOg6ZqZ5GKRs by mttaggart@infosec.exchange
2026-05-08T20:21:19Z
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Hey I'll sign your cert for you