China seems to hold it's billionaires accountable:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0x9mjjmgjo

Washington State ferries are named after Washington State cities.

Washington State ferries also travel between Washington State cities.

Perhaps you can imagine the confusing sentences that ensue.

@lauren

I wish (hope) this was true. It's certainly true here. It's true in some communities fighting against a data center or two.

But any toe dip into the big socials or company board rooms or any number of people going crazy with Chat GPT paints a vastly different picture of how AI is perceived.

Some people already don't want to live in a world without it.

And I'm already incredibly used to bad acting politicians who never face consequences so I'm incredibly cynical there too.

And I mean like the creative weird Smalltalk edition version, not the Negroponte scam continuation

@hipsterelectron @daemonspudguy @zzt I’m sure it’s got some Hurd-les in front of it :rimshot:

@landley AFAIK, it's not even your instance which adds the embedded image; I believe each instance fetches the link target and adds it independently.

One person I follow (@lauren) has a trick to avoid that: he always attaches a photo of his cat to posts with links. That way, other instances won't create the card with the image for the link, since that spot is already taken by the cute cat.

i would never "extol" anything. because i don't know what that means

@c0dec0dec0de @daemonspudguy @zzt i have no clue how well gentoo hurd will end up working but i'm hopeful

Found an interesting new malware loader which creates a fake Windows lock screen to phish the user's system login password. The fully-modular loader also bridges multitude different programming languages, including: Python, C#, C++, and PowerShell.

This extensive use of cross-language components, along with shipping an entire runtime environment, lead to us dubbing it SynkLoader (Sink Loader), because it brings everything but the kitchen sink.

While the original loader runs all of its modules in memory only, we were able to collect them by reverse engineering the command-and-control protocol, then building our own version of the loader which logs everything to disk.

Additionally, we were able to to lure the operator into thinking they had a reverse shell on our honeypot system. This allowed us to watch as they attempted to execute PowerShell commands, which were being printed to our system's console instead of being run.

Full analysis: https://expel.com/blog/synkloader-when-you-throw-in-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink/