Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

CVE Binary Tool 3.2 is released!

This is my work open source project that lets you scan for known vulnerabilities in your binaries, package lists and SBOMs. It's meant to make it easier (and cheaper!) to make secure open source software.

3.2 includes new features from our Google Summer of Code 2022 contributors & more.

Release notes: https://github.com/intel/cve-bin-tool/releases/tag/v3.2

And get the code on pypi:
https://pypi.org/project/cve-bin-tool/3.2/

Boosts appreciated!

#OpenSource #GSoC #hacktoberfest #infosec #security #Python

Here's @team statement on this:

We call for #MadisonSquareGarden to immediately end all use of #facialrecognition and #biometric #surveillance tech.

And we call on lawmakers to enact a ban on all use of facial recognition in places of public accommodation, as defined by the ADA.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-12-20-breaking-madison-square-garden-uses-facial-recognition-to-bar-mom-from-attending-christmas-concert-with-her-daugher

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/

@katherined gotta love Joomla! Been building sites on the CMS for about 15 years or so and volunteering with them for about 10. So many amazing volunteers.

I've been invited to do an AMA on Reddit tomorrow. Verifying that's really me!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/zqfr4h/ama_with_eugen_rochko_founder_and_lead_developer/

@mglaman @duane @katherined @jessicasachs @Shini92 indeed! The work he and others have done have absolutely transformed major Drupal upgrades — super simple now!

@katherined my favorite undermaintained project is #XCSoar https://xcsoar.org
Its a GPL2 FOSS tactical glide computer that many #paraglider and #soaring pilots rely on for making 500+km flights just with wind and sun. The appstore download has 100'000 users and very few contributers: https://github.com/XCSoar/XCSoar/graphs/contributors

@katherined I love this!

I'd like to tag @jessicasachs, @Shini92, and the rest of the new faker.js team on #GratitudeTuesday and thank them for their work over the last year after the previous maintainer rage-quit the project. It's an important tool for testing, and testing is important for security and reliability. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I direct this to my many TWiT/TWiG friends: Now's the time of hear to buy yourself -- or buy a friend -- membership in Club Twit. @leo and the team work hard to bring us joy every week. Advertising ain't what it used to be. Just as Mastodon frees us from the dominance of the ad-supported, attention-based market of old social media, so do we have the chance to support more of @TWiT ourselves. Here's @ant_pruitt: https://twitter.com/ant_pruitt/status/1605264854289358871

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/openai-releases-point-e-an-ai-that-generates-3d-models/

The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU.

New episode is out! @dsearls and @katherined talk to @eze_lanza and Tony Mongkolsmai about #ChatGPT, generative #AI, and #opensource software.

Episode 135 - Experts Weigh in on ChatGPT. Listen here: https://www.reality2cast.com/135
#podcast #newEpisode #tech

This is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/

Since "John Mastodon" has gone so viral here following Mediaite's confusion, I think, in the future, for those folks left on Twitter who want to secretly refer to Mastodon after Elon bans all mentions of it, just talk about "friends of John" as the code...

A mere link to the website got flagged. #TwitterIsBroken