Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

I'm pleased to share with you the greatest advancement in bottom-sheet technology since the invention of elastic.

So, I recently saw some quiet discussion about a paper where researchers reverse-engineered and disclosed some attacks against PhotoDNA, the very-super-duper-secret algorithm used by tech megacorps to scan for illegal images.

They didn't make any code public, and so... I did: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna

A _complete_ reverse-engineering and commented Python reimplementation of the algorithm from publicly-leaked binaries.

This means that studying the algorithm and any potential flaws is now much more accessible.

This took only about two days (once I knew that there even _was_ a leaked binary to compare against), which just goes to again show that security through obscurity never works.

🔁 encouraged

Americans will use anything but the #metric system

#smol #caturday #caturdayeveryday

CSMWrap: make UEFI-only systems boot BIOS-based operating systems

What if you have a very modern machine that is entirely UEFI-only, meaning it has no compatibility support module and thus no way of enabling a legacy BIOS mode? Well, install a CSM as an EFI application, of course!

CSMWrap is an EFI application designed to be a drop-in solution to enable legacy BIOS b

https://www.osnews.com/story/144596/cwmwrap-make-uefi-only-systems-boot-bios-based-operating-systems/

#Hardware

How are people who want to shove AI into Linux real? Literally just go back to Windows

happy bench press a goose day! allegedly.

bout to offer hysterectomies, call it kikis delivery cervix

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.

Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

[at a trans meetup, walking up to a person with 6+ nametags]
ncl: "DID or just trying out names?"
them: "Oh I took these from other people."
ncl: "Oh. You may have neither my name nor my pronouns, sorry. You're cool though and you may know my phone number"

Fae can absolutely have healthy, loving, and lasting relationships, they just need you to be careful and understanding of their condition.

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

ohh this one has the stoned virus!

#softwareArchiving #retroComputing #retroVirus