Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

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

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)

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/experts-warn-chatgpt-democratize/?mod=djemCybersecruityPro&tpl=cy

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: https://xjmdrupal.org/blog/fund-xjm