Posts by zzt@mas.to
(DIR) Post #B17hcKHmvMVPLVAD4K by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-09T16:57:15Z
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now you might ask yourself, how does Green square his stance on LLMs with the videos whose thumbnails I’ve attached to this post?he doesn’t, of course. cloaking a rather extreme position (LLMs are worth the damage they cause) as centrism allows a critihype marketer to control all sides of the conversation — and minimize or distort inconvenient viewpoints.so no, I won’t be watching Green’s trash. I’ve seen the impact it’s had already, and responding to that is far more important.
(DIR) Post #B18pqXm8Ypss1obqr2 by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-11T01:04:29Z
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@burgerdrome turning a big dial that says “flow” on it and constantly looking back to my community for approval as they call me a motherfucker for implementing more AI features nobody asked for
(DIR) Post #B1Hh1ri5dMMtsKgBrE by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-10T00:35:38Z
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/08/jfjv-d08.html>A socialist perspective demystifies technology. It insists that the working class must take hold of AI—just as it must take hold of the factories, the mines, the data centers, the logistics networks, the banks and every other instrument of production—and transform it into a means of human liberation.my comrade in name only, you are paying capitalist ghouls for access to a service that inaccurately regurgitates theory through a hazy capitalist lens and you know it
(DIR) Post #B1Hh1x4bh4LoVcFk9I by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-15T18:54:09Z
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oh yeah, this piece of shit released a couple of days ago huhthey’re extremely cagey about it but here’s their privacy policy admitting it’s just ChatGPT with a SaaS vector database to store the socialist works they’re trying to get it to inaccurately regurgitate, aka literally the same infrastructure as every other shitty chatbot. at least a few of the world’s most exploitative capitalists are getting API fees (straight from the $5/month subscription) and analytics!
(DIR) Post #B1Hh22IGHjFChPgDcu by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-15T18:58:34Z
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this reply to one of the only non-moderated critical comments on their announcement post: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/12/gpid-d12.html is art and is presented without comment
(DIR) Post #B1Hh27xDEtyKFrsUeO by zzt@mas.to
2025-12-15T19:04:43Z
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ok I know I said without comment but I> Whoa there, “Anonymous”! You want to have a proper discussion? If this mysterious gentleman sells “opium mixed with sugar water” then why do so many people use his tonics?
(DIR) Post #B20KoZhu4PFtrhnkIa by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-05T22:17:07Z
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please stop playing fucking games with the meaning of end-to-end encryption, thankscc nextcloud (whose end to end encryption is effectively an expensive inconvenient no-op, see https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/infk/inst-infsec/appliedcrypto/education/theses/report_DanieleCoppola.pdf which the project never fixed or even acknowledged), seafile (whose “end-to-end” encryption sends your password and key to the server), fucking proton (whose end-to-end encrypted LLM features aren’t end-to-end encrypted at all), et ale: see replies for an important note on the nextcloud paper!
(DIR) Post #B20KofQ2piXFa3UZIO by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-05T22:17:39Z
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no I’m not tagging any of the project accounts I listed, they don’t give a shit
(DIR) Post #B20KofQkn56PcFp8Ou by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T08:21:30Z
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a note about the nextcloud paper:some asshole who values fandom over security has tried to tell me I’m spreading misinformation about nextcloud because they claim the vulnerabilities in the Share with Care paper have been acknowledged and fixed by the project.surprise, that’s misinformation. the lesser vulnerabilities in the paper, the Ghost Key Attack (chapter 5.2) and IV reuse (5.3) have been fixed.the key insertion attack (5.1) which renders e2e a no-op has not been fixed.
(DIR) Post #B20Kol63iw77BoBgye by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T08:25:10Z
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I’m gonna be honest, it’s hard for me to give a shit that 5.2 and 5.3 have been fixed when 5.1 allows arbitrary users to cause your client to reencrypt your files with their key. that’s a fucking amazing vulnerability to have in an e2e implementation, and the paper correctly says it’s a fundamental flaw in the cryptosystem. It can be mitigated, maybe, if you give up on major functionality (sharing) and no other functionality touches this part of the cryptosystem. that’s pretty fucking awful.
(DIR) Post #B20Kol6lgIgHE0WG5A by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-05T22:58:49Z
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“check out our encrypted self-hosted cloud!”I look at the encryptionit’s TLS that everyone turns off in deployments cause their reverse proxy takes care of it
(DIR) Post #B20KotmXQsqY7s7jIe by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T08:27:30Z
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the fucking ass in my replies linked https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/pull/7333 as a supposed fix for 5.1. I’m rate limited on GitHub from researching this horseshit so it took me a while to open the link.surprise, it’s a fix for 5.2. it’s trivially obviously a fix for 5.2. they searched GitHub for a random fix that looked related cause for them, using nextcloud is more important than being safe. wild shit.even wilder, they accused me of trying to damage a project that I honestly wish I could use and recommend
(DIR) Post #B20KozOIZv1RWQpSLo by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T08:30:34Z
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as always, I’m being very mean about this stuff because it’s important. good security beats manners, fandom, and all manner of other shit. once your privacy is blown, you don’t get what you’ve lost back. no I won’t be contributing fixes to nextcloud because it seems to me it’s fucked in terms of its security stance. if that ever changes, I’d love to see an audit that proves it.
(DIR) Post #B21VFymwnX59E18uga by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T22:46:41Z
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mozilla: we just don’t know how to satisfy our users’ demands for “no AI”, after all what is AI? translation? spellchecking? TLS? if we start slopcoding features will they demand we disable those too? so many gray areas!firefox users: if it’s not core browsing functionally make it an add-on that isn’t installed by default. and then consider not writing the add-on if it turns out nobody wants it.mozilla: I know what I’ll do! I’ll write a poll where one of the options is 🤷, that’ll fix it!
(DIR) Post #B21kCR55ADQn7vOSci by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-07T01:40:28Z
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my brain generated the shitpost “linux for dogs” and then my other brain almost immediately started designing a small embedded linux collar computer with a sensor suite and wifi and now I want linux for dogs
(DIR) Post #B22PkqrjtoHZ3zgL1E by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-07T09:31:08Z
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@firefoxwebdevs @yoasif @fmasy @Rycochet is the change to the design of the kill switch that it doesn’t exist because all of Firefox’s AI features will be moved into add-ons that aren’t installed by default?if not, you’ve used the results of the poll to misrepresent community opinion and @davidgerard’s quote unquote “immutable position”, whatever that means to people who don’t speak passive aggressive post-it note, is absolutely correct
(DIR) Post #B23wSayriCvwEIsSem by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-06T17:22:50Z
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@firefoxwebdevs also, I just gotta ask: was the prompt for this quiz “hey ChatGPT come up with an ai use case that’ll stump the haters! do not hallucinate do not use emojis” or did this ooze out of your human brain after the LLM psychosis fried it?
(DIR) Post #B28oxMUhnJqMR1jIC8 by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-10T01:00:13Z
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ed(1) is no longer the standard editor and should no longer be shipped. the new standard is gTextFucker, a graphical-only wordpad clone with indecipherable keyboard shortcuts that change constantly, which gradually grinds to a halt as it runs because it keeps trying to send messages to the dbus receiver org.gnome.fuck.text which doesn’t exist on your system
(DIR) Post #B28oxVqf13klRj4SAK by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-10T01:21:17Z
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bug ticket: gTextFucker is only capable of saving to a broken SQLite file, please consider implementing plain text file outputresolution: WONTFIX and the core dev who closed the ticket goes on to do a conference talk about how wrong and rude it was to ask for this. the slides from the talk make it to the front page of Hacker News
(DIR) Post #B2DrYRHW861vhCATmS by zzt@mas.to
2026-01-12T22:24:18Z
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@CatherineFlick @davidgerard slopdot