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Mark von Übelgarten
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My fediverse account is dead. Long live my fediverse account!

[bridged from https://mastodon.sdf.org/@vonubelgarten on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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The Internet was made for things like this: a website that looks like Gmail, that shows you the worst of the Epstein emails

https://jmail.world/
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]
You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
jmail.world
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Re: last boost https://chaos.social/@dpk/115589097803252590

That LLM-generated OCaml PR is a textbook illustration of open source in the era of vibe coding...

It's got everything:

- PR submitted without the author acknowledging they didn't write it and don't understand it.
- Copyright […]
Original post on aus.social
aus.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Today someone sent me a legal document to sign.

Immediately upon opening it, I was greeted with, "Save time! Read the AI summary."

🫩

Did I mention it was a LEGAL document?

🤨

That I was responsible for signing?

🧐

And... they wanted me to trust an AI summary!?!

🤦🏻
November 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Online electronic voting is a hard problem, exhibit 354364:

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

A global group of researchers was unable to read the vote tally, after an official lost one of three secret code keys needed to unlock a hyper-secure election system […]
Original post on mastodon.sdf.org
mastodon.sdf.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥

"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"

"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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"Pennsylvania Avenue Subway" Tunnel, Former Reading Railroad City Branch, Philadelphia, 2004.

#photography
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Somebody knocked over the shredder, then decided the result made a good nest.

#caturday
October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Web developers and app-builders: do not forget the lessons of the pre-broadband years! Make code efficient and images small. Many people have slow connections, even today. #programming
October 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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September 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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death of the web
September 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Manchete aleatória que li a contragosto num "notícias relacionadas": "De chaveiro a maior ladrão do Brasil: quem é 'Minotauro', preso em operação contra roubos em casas de luxo em SP"

Primeiro pensamento: identificaram ele pelas pegadas.
September 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@Linux
You can also run Linux *on* a HD.

I mean literally: https://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=7
September 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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regardless of how you feel about EITHER "AI" or piracy, if they are successful in making it legal for facebook to pirate every book ever written to build an enormous company-stakes product, but illegal for me to pirate anything, that would be an unambiguous, unmistakable sign that everything in […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
September 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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I feel like I could have posted this image every day since the early 2000s.
August 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they'd made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]
August 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Mark von Übelgarten
Things platforms want you to do less of:

* untrackably copy a link to something
* save an image
* copy arbitrary text
* decide what to look at next
* return to where you were a minute ago
* find options you can change
* know how many search results there are
* decide what part […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
August 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM