NBC News reports that some top US cybersecurity firms are turning away new customers seeking emergency help as AI-aided attacks surge. Sophos, which sells incident response services, says other DFIR firms have asked it for overflow support when their teams reach capacity. Sophos's advice is to have a tested plan before you need outside help.

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/blog/why-incident-response-demand-will-grow-faster-than-expected

#DFIR #InfoSec

Not gonna lose another hour tooting all the nuance. But along the way, I decided that patriarchy is never gender affirming, only gender enforcing.

Today is a work holiday and I spent 2-3 hours of it trying to decide whether handshakes are (or should be) gender expression. 🙃

This filled my heart with joy as an enjoyer of memes and Mozilla. https://youtu.be/E2AoYIKwJqM

Recently missing Texas less because half the trans people I meet in Colorado also recently moved here from Texas.

Went to my first Katie Pruitt show. 🤩 Met her at the merch table afterwards. Love the photo I got with her (but not posting on fedi 🥸)

The thing that made me say "that's enough, I'm out" was the filtering rule constraints: only one value per rule, no conditional AND/OR, lazy link to MDN doc about regex.

(Again, filtering encrypted mail is very, very hard)

Tried migrating from Proton Mail to Tuta on a secondary domain for the last week. Unfortunately I didn't love the clients (Zero-knowledge email software is very hard). Am sticking with Proton for now.

Mutual Aid: General Assistance for down on her luck TransFemme.

Going to leave this pinned here: Homeless Transfemme trying to get into a shelter stuck in a hotel.

What little help my brother provided has been used up.

Lost our home two weeks ago, a friend put us up here and help from other friends has kept a roof over our heads, as has the help from many of you.

I am in a rapid depressive spiral from all this which is making it hard for me to work on getting assistance from social services which can be slow here .

If you can help with a $20 or $50 for food or more to keep this room one more night please do.

If you are poor and broke like us: Please Boost.

https://venmo.com/u/MedeaVanamonde

Look, we all already know that any code that an LLM generates is plagiarized, basically by definition. And if that plagiarized code was copied from a source with anything other than a CC0 or Public Domain license, your copy has a distinctly nonzero chance of violating some sort of license requirement; perhaps some copyright, attribution, or re-licensing clause.

I think it’s only a short matter of time until someone develops a code-scanning tool to look for potential license violations in popular FOSS projects found in commits created by LLMs. They would then use those commits to shake down projects for money, demand licensing fees, or demand IP ownership of certain features, based on those commits.

If you’re a closed-source software behemoth, maybe you’ll never deal with this, because nobody can directly inspect your code for violations. And besides, it’d take too much money to sue you. But if you’re a FOSS project with any grant or foundation money behind you? You’d look like a pretty juicy target.

#ai

Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day to all that remember

Gonna start a travel review YouTube channel where I try to assemble a mechanical keyboard on various planes, trains, and buses

Reminder: Carl Sagan's apple pie recipe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHCO8f2TWs

Just learned that “median household income in your ZIP code” is used for US data profiling. Not a surprise, but now I have another petty class indicator to resist being self-conscious about 😅

TIL that JIF is a real image file format. I am furious.

What are the yee-yee fashion rules regarding camo on camo (civilian, gay)

By coincidence, I have a bunch of video calls to Texas on my calendar today, so right now I’m tearing through my house looking for my Lonestar Queer shirt. ( https://lonestarqueer.com/ )

After 6 years of doing excellent work architecting two fedgov #drupal applications, I am once again among the unlucky looking for a new home for my skills. I think I was pushed out because of an incorrect perception that a less experienced (cheaper) dev + AI agents can replace me by relying on the code base I created. Oh and there was also that meeting with the government where I rightfully called out someone’s comment, that none of us know what we are doing, as bullshit. 😎

Once again, a docker-free portfolio pays off for the skeptic administrator 🦞

Weird part of my monthly quest to find Estradiol patches during an ongoing shortage:

I’ve filled my Rx at so many different pharmacies in town that I have separate rankings for each one’s corporate and in-store competence.