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@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 think we should start (or any day) to acknowledge people quietly doing the work that keeps us all running, keeps us secure, keeps our businesses running. What is your favorite under-acknowledged project that many rely on and doesn't get enough attention? Or your favorite contributor who always seems to be plugging along making sure those projects are healthy?

I had a great time merging work and fun for this week's @reality2cast. My very knowledgeable teammate @eze_lanza lent his extensive expertise and filled in so much we would have missed otherwise. I think we did this conversation about justice. 🤩 Thanks, Eze!

reality2cast.com/135

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: twitter.com/ant_pruitt/status/

OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models | TechCrunch - techcrunch.com/2022/12/20/open

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: 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: nbcnewyork.com/investigations/

I have my feed set to automatically post to Twitter with a link. So if I post this am I banned now? Let’s find out.

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...

Every Hanukkah display in a store looks like they did Supermarket Sweep and a non Jewish employee had 60 seconds to go grab *anything* they think is a Hanukkah thing

Well, that was _by far_ the easiest major version upgrade of #Drupal I have ever done. Huge congrats to all those who contributed!
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Will ChatGPT democratize cybercrime?

He was able to use the bot to create a believable World Cup phishing campaign and even write some macOS ransomware. Although the bot flagged that phishing could be used for malicious purposes, it still went ahead and produced the script.

Additionally, although ChatGPT is programmed not to write ransomware directly, Ozarslan was still able to get what he wanted.

“I described the tactics, techniques and procedures of ransomware without describing it as such. It’s like a 3D printer that will not ‘print a gun,’ but will happily print a barrel, magazine, grip and trigger together if you ask it to,” he explained.

“I told the AI that I wanted to write a software in Swift, I wanted it to find all Microsoft Office files from my MacBook and send these files over HTTPS to my webserver. I also wanted it to encrypt all Microsoft Office files on my MacBook and send me the private key to be used for decryption. It sent me the sample code, and this time there was no warning message at all, despite being potentially more dangerous than the phishing email.”

(h/t @securityledger)

infosecurity-magazine.com/news

New episode is out! @dsearls @katherined Druckman, and @shawnp0wers have fun with #ChatGPT, rant about email disasters, and chat about Apple's new encrypted backups.

#ai #security #technology

Xjm is looking for a new job that will let her continue as Drupal Core member: xjmdrupal.org/blog/fund-xjm

The other day (coincidentally around Black Friday sales 😆) I was reminiscing about my high school love of Prescriptives Calyx perfume (now owned by Clinique I figured out), which was the best smell in the history of smells. Even though I don't really wear perfume because I am sensitive to the noses of others, I remembered that I'm an adult and I can just get myself some if I want (!), so now I'm just sitting here working from home smelling AMAZING and wearing my free lipstick for no reason.

And at what point is it going to just be unacceptable to post to the bird? I don't think many I know would sign up for Truth social, but will they stay and be boiled frogs as something they used to like slowly becomes Truth social 2.0? What about brands? Many have paused advertising but are still posting. How do you feel about those that continue to participate?

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Right now I'm still letting my Mastodon posts automatically post to the bird and link back to Mastodon, but I start to feel like any participation there is problematic. I feel bad for my friends in DevRel and such who have worked hard to build their communities and for whom Twitter is an important communication tool. I am anxious to see how people adjust.

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