Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

oh shit it's mansplaining as a service

Q: “How many devs on a message board does it take to screw in a light bulb?”

A: “Why are you trying to do that?”

ChatGPT is honestly really -really- capable and useful. So much so that I feel AI tools will rapidly become integrated into every part of our society.

This would give closed source creations of corporations like "OpenAI" an unbelievable amount of power and influence.

Technology this powerful should belong to everyone, or no one. For this reason ChatGPT and OpenAI are unethical for engineers to build on.

Please consider building on open source alternatives like EleutherAI.

Static electricity ⚡️

in which I ask ChatGPT to write a short story about our future

Thread on Twitter alternatives and democracy:

As the fragmentation of social spaces continues, let’s think about two axises: How similar the people in a space are, and how well-managed or well-governed the space is. Make a 2x2 and it looks like this:

Russia is spying on Telegram chats in occupied Ukrainian regions.

Here's how.

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegram-chats

#Ukraine #infosec #Telegram

NixOS webzine url changed to https://webzine.nixos.cafe

thanks @manheraz for getting the domain the new domain is better

I wrote about why the surge in antisemitism on Twitter is uniting fringe figures and likely to lead to increased violence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/

Gray-market #exploit brokers are alive and kicking, with the latest sign of this flourishing market coming in the form of a bidding war for #Signal messaging app zero-days from a relatively new entrant. 

Russia-based #OpZero went on the record recently with a $1.5 million offer for Signal remote code execution (RCE) exploits, more than tripling the relatively stable high-water mark for that app offered by American firm Zerodium.

#0day #infosec

https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/new-exploit-broker-pays-premium-signal-app-zero-days

Alright who's ready for a topical episode of @fossandcrafts ?! Get ready for Episode 53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns! https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/053-fediverse-reflections-while-the-bird-burns.html

You asked for it, you got it. With Elon Musk buying the birdsite and it burning to the ground this is... about as timely an episode as we've ever put out.

Unshockingly, as co-author of ActivityPub, and given my present-day research on Spritely (and as CTO of the @spritelyinst (which I'm not officially representing in this episode btw, opinions are mine except where they aren't)) I have some opinions.

I kept procrastinating on this episode but @mlemweb correctly identified that not only are people asking, but this was really important to cover. So she shoved me into a car and had me talk while the car held me captive. But I think we covered some good stuff!

My kind of Advent calendar: https://osg.tuhh.de/Advent/

Okay, okay, my *other* kind of Advent calendar, I am still partial to candy-powered Advent calendars 😯