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a blog by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
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Newag admits: Dragon Sector hackers did not modify software in Impuls trains
Published: October 5, 2024 01:51
Wednesday, August 28th, marked the beginning of the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by the Polish train manufacturer Newag against train maintenance yard Serwis Pojazdow Szynowych and experts from the Dragon Sector group, who revealed weird software…
Effective CSAM filters are impossible because what CSAM is depends on context
Published: July 2, 2024 01:21
Automatically tagging or filtering child sexual exploitation materials (CSAM) cannot be effective and preserve privacy at the same time, regardless of what kind of tech one throws at it. Because what is and what is not CSAM is highly dependent on context.…
Telegram is neither "secure" nor "encrypted"
Published: June 25, 2024 10:01
Telegram is a popular – especially in the East – internet messenger. It bills itself as “encrypted”, “private”, and “secure”. One of its creators (and the CEO of the company that operates the service), Pavel Durov, has for years been suggesting, in a more…
Things I'd like more people to understand in 2024
Published: January 7, 2024 23:24
We find ourselves in a peculiar place. We are more interconnected, yet more misinformed. At ease with more advanced technologies, but more easily mislead by them. “Doing our own research”, but ending up deeper in conspiratorial rabbit holes. When…
Mastodon monoculture problem
Published: May 7, 2023 00:23
Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (the software project and the non-profit) has on the rest…
BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
Published: April 27, 2023 19:15
Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship.…
Twitter Unverified
Published: April 20, 2023 22:34
The following is probably mostly obvious to anyone who had been using Twitter for the last decade. But for those who are just confused what the whole hubbub around Twitter “verified checkmark” is all about, here goes! A long while ago Twitter started…
Does ChatGPT gablergh?
Published: April 4, 2023 00:42
Imagine coming across, on a reasonably serious site, an article that starts along the lines of: After observing the generative AI space for a while, I feel I have to ask: does ChatGPT (and other LLM-based chatbots)… actually gablergh? And if I am honest…
I want a fridge that won't join a botnet
Published: January 20, 2023 20:36
I remember trying to buy a TV that does not have “smart” functionality a few years ago. It was a chore. Today it seems nigh-impossible. By the way, we need a nice way of referring to non-smart devices. I propose: “safe”. And not just TVs: ovens;…
Chaotic speaker vote two years after attempted coup in oil-rich North American country
Published: January 8, 2023 01:18
This week in the United States of America, a former British colony on the North American continent, long-brewing political and social problems culminated in a messy speaker election in the lower chamber of the bicameral national parliament. The Republican…