Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/31
Starting the 2022-2023 period, more and more generative AI content has entered search engines.
The below queries give you some pointers on how to spot those. They return scholar articles from 2023 and later.
Note the list is in alphabetical order for easier reading, but the number of results (in parenthesis) are very different from that order. I was quite amazed to see “As an AI language model” scoring 45 results.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/30
[Wayback/Archive] FemFM – 〝50% vrouw in je oor, of we zappen door!〞 werd in 2024 gelanceerd vlak voor de Women’s History Month en Internationale Vrouwendag door Felienne Hermans.
Felienne is bekend van bijvoorbeeld haar promotieonderzoek naar de impact van Excel op de samenleving, maar vooral van haar drive te onderzoeken hoe zo veel mogelijk mensen – ongeacht hun achtergrond – kunnen leren programmeren), Joy of Coding, de Hedy programmeertaal (met veel support voor andere alfabetten dan wat we in de westerse wereld gebruiken) en haar boek The Programmer’s Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition.
Ze is enorm goed in haar werk, en komt daarmee regelmatig in aanraking met vooringenomenheid over vrouwen. Daar verbaast ze zich terecht over, en ook dat het lastig om content (op allerlei soorten gebieden) te consumeren gemaakt door vrouwen. Dat overkwam haar bijvoorbeeld bij het luisteren naar muziek op de Nederlandse radio: daar kwamen veel meer mannelijke artiesten aan bod dan vrouwelijke.
Vandaar FemFM, en Felienne zou Felienne niet zijn als de source code niet openbaar was, dus hier wat linkjes:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/30
Edit 20240331: because of
https://mastodon.social/@kobold@social.troll.academy/112183756981119562
Debian is working on reverting back to even earlier than 5.4.x
[Wayback/Archive] #1068024 – revert to version that does not contain changes by bad actor – Debian Bug report logs
> I'd suggest reverting to 5.3.1. Bearing in mind that there were security> fixes after that point for ZDI-CAN-16587 that would need to be reapplied.
Note that reverted to such an old version will break packages that usenew symbols introduced since then. From a quick look, this is at least:- dpkg- erofs-utils- kmod
Having dpkg in that list means that such downgrade has to be plannedcarefully.
Original post:
Everything I know about the XZ backdoor
Note that because of the Wayback Machine limit of 5 archivals per URL per day, the archived versions are rapidly getting out-of-date.
It is way worse:
[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_ruby on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
@_ruby: The setup behind the CVE-2024-3094 supply-chain attack is fascinating. I originally wanted to finish and share a tool to audit other OSS projects for anomalous contributor behavior, but I feel what I found tr……
How it was found:
Analogy on how it was found:
Via:
Related:
If you are running homebrew on a Mac, then update too:
Of course this “XKCD dependency” adoption applies:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/29
Interesting: more warning signs on the road can lead to more victims instead of less: [Wayback/Archive] Fascinerende wetenschap: hoe waarschuwingsborden juist leiden tot meer doden
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/28
A while back, early in the Wednesday morning after Patch Tuesday I performed regular updates of all the systems noticing some updates failed because timeouts on the Microsoft download servers.
Note I perform the manual steps on Wednesday as Patch Tuesday as it starts at 10:00 AM PST which is in the evening in Amsterdam. The automated steps are automated and kick in when Microsoft tells the Windows machines to update themselves.
See [Wayback/Archive] Security Update Guide FAQs
Microsoft schedules the release of security updates on “Patch Tuesday,” the second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM PST.
Depending on time zone(s) in which the organization operates, IT pros should plan their deployment schedules accordingly. Please note that there are some products that do not follow the Patch Tuesday schedule.
I posted a gist and a Tweet, but didn’t immediately thought of a good resolution so I postponed that until Thursday and found it:
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