IMPORTANT MASTODON PASSWORD SECURITY/PRIVACY ISSUE…
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For everyone:

If you are using the same password for Mastodon that you use anywhere else, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD NOW.

A hacker is stealing accounts using something called “credential stuffing.” This means they use email/password combinations stolen from other sites.

You can check if your email is in a data breach elsewhere:

https://haveibeenpwned.com

Create a new strong password:

1. 12+ characters
2. Capital/lowercase letters
3. At least one special character

For admins:

The hacker is using the same unique user agent.

Go-http-client/1.1

We’re seeing a pattern of IPs, but they’re from varying ISPs. They’re also not changing the account emails.

#Mastodon #Password #InfoSec #OpSec #Security #Privacy #Hacked #Hacker

Yesterday the president of the Internet Society Italy Chapter wrote to PIR and Internet Society to "express the concern of the Italian chapter of the Internet Society, as well as a large part of the Italian internet community, regarding the decision by the Public Internet Registry (PIR) to disable the autistici.org domain name". The letter can be accessed here: https://www.isoc.it/sites/default/files/2026-09/20260906-isoc-italy-pir-autistici-posizione.pdf

RE: https://oisaur.com/@PierreLecourt/117229289977452662

#matériel
Oh ! Une marque qui réalise que la bidouillabilité de ses appareils ajoute de la valeur, et qui du coup choisit de déverrouiller ses appareils. C'est à saluer !

robot hand based on chameleon tongue...

#robot #hand #suction #chameleon #tongue #animatedgif

20,000 mail accounts.
20,000 blogs.
5,000 mailing lists.
1,500 websites.

In Europe.

Run by volunteers of @cavallette, perfectly legal, and decidedly antifascist, feminist, queer.

Destroyed and shut down by Trump's administration, extra legally.

It is astonishingly quiet.

⁨#Autistici⁩

Shocked. Literally. I expected Ulrich Siegmund to be in his 60s, 70s at the most. He's 35 instead. Younger than me. WTF! Alice Weidel is my age. WTF again.

#AfD #germany #SaxonyAnhalt

I've wanted to build a mixed-script Korean input method for more than ten years, and I finally started building it.

The project is called Bibim. Korean, Japanese, and Chinese share a lot of Sino-derived words written with Chinese characters, even when the readings differ. Bibim uses those characters as the bridge: if you're writing Japanese and can't remember the Japanese reading of 博物館 (“museum”), you can type the Korean reading (bangmulgwan) instead, and it will recover the characters for you.

I finished the design doc today. If you're into CJK writing systems, East Asian languages, or input method development, I'd love feedback.

https://codeberg.org/hongminhee/bibim-prototype

@markwyner @jrcruciani Did not think to look at the left column under "Account"!

Doh!

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

Was aiming for apple crumble. Actually made apple crumble flavoured super heated plasma

This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough».
Wtf is wrong with people?
If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you?
A wrong answer is free

@fuzzyleapfrog ooohhh wo? Das is viel zu selten zu finden

@SnoopJ
@jplebreton
I love to imagine the conception of the world where there is some set of "all things that can be done" and the space between each thing is smooth and traversable using a generic/universal mechanism - "if you can do 10/100 things, its only a matter of time until you can do 100/100 things". Like, language is probably the closest thing we have to such a mechanism, but the metaphor I use in my mind for this is "just because we can dig a well doesn't mean we can tunnel to the center of the earth" or "just because you can walk up stairs doesn't mean you can climb K2". even if the difference is actually just some scalar valued quantity like "elevation", traversing some regions of elevations are just a qualitatively different things than others.

Its not moving goalposts to say like while the LLMs have certainly proven to be capable of more things over time with more compute, and the things they can't do are abstract and intangible, those things are the most important things.

@tommorris That would require people actually having had the experience of being IN an IRC channel! 🤦‍♂️

So many folks in the last 10+ years seem to have only used the consumer messaging platforms, social platforms, or e-mail.

All the other stuff we built in the early Internet was not part of the modern experience.

@Thoreau May have to wait until tomorrow for the public call log

@AnarchoDoggo @drwho I'm not sure, Anna's archive maybe? Or someone web torrents it?

Although you could upload the epub to Internet archive as well as a file

corn field in iowa 2, 2020

#photography

@eff Happy Labor day, immediately after a link to an article on a Koch funded propaganda network explaining how rich tech oligarchs stealing the fruit of people's labor for personal gain is good actually.

@Tutanota I understand the hate about Brave but you have to look at the big picture and how they contribute to a more private internet. If we want more people to drop Chrome, we need alternatives that are easy to adopt. Sorry but outside this community, Firefox and its 30 minutes to set it up correctly does not help Brave does. Install it and it's ready to go, ads blocked, cookies banners as well.... Another big contribution is Brave Search the only real independent search engine

@_elena @timnitGebru @emilymbender @alexhanna @DAIR @cwebber @jaredwhite @tante I am trying to put together a non profit org of #antiAI developers/artists.