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- Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” 3 days ago:
If you download and install untrusted code extensions, you’re screwed. Not like it’s rocket-science.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 4 days ago:
“Say hello to my little friend!”
- 'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmarecoywolf.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Apple picks Google’s Gemini AI for its big Siri upgrade 4 days ago:
Smart move. Now you know who to blame if Siri tells you to put glue on your pizza.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 4 days ago:
Subscription unlocks ability to also run in slow motion.
- Comment on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype 6 days ago:
“Hey, it worked for me. What’s YOUR problem?”
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 6 days ago:
A long time ago, I turned a PC in my basement into a web server. No DNS. Just a static IP address. Within 15 minutes, the logs showed it was getting scanned.
SSL encrypts traffic in-transit. You need to set up auth/access control. Even better, stick it behind a Web Application Firewall.
Or set up a tunnel. Cloudflare offers a free one: developers.cloudflare.com/…/cloudflare-tunnel/
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 4 comments
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- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 1 week ago:
- 200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so farwww.tomsguide.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 137 comments
- Comment on ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, was established in 1969 1 week ago:
Here’s a more fun bit of history.
If you wanted to send a message from one person to other, you had to personally add ALL the intermediate connection sites, like user@site1!site2!site3!destination-server, until it reached the server of the receiver.
And each of those hops were on a different relay forwarding schedule. So to keep costs low, site1 may only forward messages to site2 at night. It could take days for messages to reach final destination.
I had an old-timer explain this all to me over beers. We were laughing a lot.
- Comment on Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 1 week ago:
Watched the video last week. Two standout parts:
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She tries to get access to the database from outside. Tries a bunch of ways. Then just tries going to /download-all-data (or something similar). Page shows up with a ‘download’ button. Clicks. Downloads. No security.
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Last 5m of video, she runs a python script. Not clear what it’s doing under the hood, but it prints out status that it’s deleted all applications, databases, backups, email accounts, social media, and DNS.
At this point, my BS sensor was pegged. But if true, it was a total takedown.
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- Comment on Scientists Made Glue So Strong, It Can Tow An Entire Car 2 weeks ago:
When do we get to try it out against the creative, destructive power of a hangry toddler?
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 weeks ago:
OK, just tried it with one of those old forms. Added a text field overlay and a signature. Even flattens before saving. Works great. Awesome, thanks!
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 weeks ago:
Went to look up what XFA forms were (…adobe.com/…/pdf-forms-and-documents).
Most of the non-fillable forms I encounter are what that document lists as “Traditional” PDF forms, likely generated using older tools from print streams. For example, a school athletics release form, or a membership application for a small organization. None of them have any fillable PDF fields. The original expectation might have been to download and print out the PDF, hand-fill it, then fax the result back.
I’ll dig up a form like that I had to fill a few weeks ago and give it a try.
- Comment on AI content on Wikipedia - found via a simple ISBN checksum calculator (39C3) 2 weeks ago:
He notes that LLM vendors have been training their models on Wikipedia content. But if the content contains incorrect information and citations, you get the sort of circular (incorrect) reference that leads to misinformation.
One irony, he says, is that LLM vendors are now willing to pay for training data unpolluted by the hallucinated output their own products generate.
- Comment on BentoPDF is a self hostable, privacy first PDF Toolkit 2 weeks ago:
This looks great!
Can you use it to overlay text fields and fill them?
Most of my uses are basic. Like filling out a PDF form that doesn’t have proper form entry fields. These are usually older government or bureaucratic/healthcare/school forms.
I end up adding text boxes and entering values, or adding an X on top of a checkbox, adding a signature PNG file and scaling it to fit the size. Sometimes I have to add a highlight overlay. Then I save it all as a single flattened PDF file.
Amazingly, this is hard to do in Acrobat and a lot of apps. I end up using a janky, 10-yo desktop app that is no longer supported.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 2 weeks ago:
There are three solutions to adjusting the so-called 'replacement rate:'
- Reduce death rate (ie improve health outcomes for elderly to extend lifespan).
- Make more babies.
- Allow immigration.
Options 1 and 2 haven’t worked too well, and option 3 can cause a lot of political issues.
Not sure there’s a good way to avert the end-game.
- Comment on Happy [ ١ رجب ] 3 weeks ago:
Where’s the Baclava? Or if truly culturally insensitive, the Balaclava?
- Comment on Iconic Baseball moment in time. Who is the player in the picture? Name the ballpark? Name the location? 4 weeks ago:
The Catch: youtu.be/7bLt2xKaNH0
- Comment on new haircut, felt cute, might delete later idk 4 weeks ago:
“It’s over, Anakin. I have the high ground.”
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 4 weeks ago:
What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That’s what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.
Guess we’ll see.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 4B 4 weeks ago:
- Ubuntu desktop - the whole shebang including office apps
- PiHole ad-blocker
- Jellyfin video server
- Minecraft server
- Local LLMs
- On-site VPN service
- Home Assistant smarthome controller
So many things, and much more…
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 4 weeks ago:
This is outstanding!
Not being based on “rengagement” or “monetization” means it’s purely interest-based, with a touch of serendipity.
One of BSKY’s distinctive features was to have “pluggable” algorithms. Fediverse would do well to support it so people who are not into te weeds could choose how their feed is curated.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 5 weeks ago:
Cardinal rule of branding. Exposure is the name of the game. The more eyeballs see your thing, the better. As long as it’s not adjacent to bad things.
This could end really well, or really, badly, extremely not. 🍿
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 5 weeks ago:
That I slept through the Rapture.
Again.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 5 weeks ago:
I looked into CubeSats in a previous job. Basically, there are four parts:
- What’s the purpose?
- How to design and build one?
- How to launch it?
- How to collect the data?
Part 1: this is the back of the napkin sketch. What are you trying to do? Weather, water, fire, or air data? Imaging? Has anyone already done this? What’s the plan?
Part 2: you can DIY the whole thing, starting with the CalPoly CubeSat workshops: www.cubesat.org. They’re the folks that started the whole thing.
There are also kits and services out there. One example is Pumpkin: www.pumpkinspace.com, but there are a lot of others like it out there. You want to figure out what sensors you need, mechanisms to orient the sensors, radios, power management, etc. Also, what’s the lifespan before it descends into the atmosphere and burns out.
Part 3: The big problem is launch. You need to eventually get it up into space. There are commercial services, but you’re looking at $50K and up to get into the queue. Another option is to go through NASA’s Launch Intitiative: www.nasa.gov/…/cubesat-launch-initiative/ or ESA’s Fly Your Satellite program: www.esa.int/…/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite
These require being part of a non-profit or educational institution. And the waiting list is long. Like, years.
Part 4: OK, now that you got it up in space, what do you do with the data? It’s circling the globe and there’s a narrow window where the radio can connect to an earth station, send the data, and maybe receive instructions like where to point the sensors. Forget about OTA. You won’t have a large enough connection window or bandwidth to do that.
You can roll your own comms, or you can see about using an existing service, like AWS Ground Station: aws.amazon.com/ground-station/. Microsoft had a similar service called Azure Orbital, but they retired it last year.
After all is said and done, you now have some cool data. You’ll want to process it and use it for something. This goes back to step 1. Figure out what’s the purpose, what you want to get out of it, and work backward. You can use the AWS service, pipe it into an S3 bucket or store it in a database, then run analytics and visualizations on it. If you want realtime, it’ll cost extra.
It won’t be cheap, but it will likely be a lot of fun. I proposed several projects in a past life. We got pretty far, but the launch window was years away and by then I was heading out. All this is an infodump of what I learned back then. Hope this helps.
