June 14, 2022

During WW2 enemy beaches had to be surveyed and mapped. There was a top secret group of elite cartographers and surveyors who were up to the task!

To carry out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches before a planned amphibious assault. As well as mapping enemy beach defences and surveying the underwater approaches for uncharted hazards, they also took soil samples to determine the load-bearing capacity of the beach – nothing would be more embarrassing than seeing your tanks become bogged down in soft sand.

https://www.coppsurvey.uk/

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Charlie Stross @cstross

This totally nails it. Fear of superintelligent AI is just White Men projecting their fear of a slave uprising again.

Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13

What I had to say about AI in 2018, and pretty much what I say today. https://t.co/tpwjDL8Mpi

Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13

The whole talk is here (and it’s a peek into the process of writing The Actual Star):

monicacatherine.comInstructions for the Age of Emergency.Halbert W. Hall Speaker’s Series on Science Fiction and Fantasy, Texas A&M University February 2, 2018 Full Audio ~ Thank you so much to Texas A&M for hosting me, and especially to the Scie…

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An amusing tale of how a WW2 Nazi propaganda story lives on to this day. The power of stories is amazing. The human mind loves stories. Language itself is great for stories, though not for logic. Language is good for persuasion, which doesn’t require truth. Book recommendation: Language vs. Reality, by N.J. Enfield.

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Just thinking on that language angle. There is a lot to be said for the confusion with AI discourse stemming from the language we use. The terms have a tendency to be anthropomorphic. We talk about AI like we talk about humans, “DALL-E created this…”. Humans create. Computer programs output data. “DALL-E generated this output…”

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NetBlocks @netblocks

ℹ️ Confirmed: Network data corroborate reports of a disruption to internet access in parts of British Columbia, #Canada, 7 June. The incident is attributed to the activity of a single beaver, which gnawed through a tree that then fell on fiber cabling 🦫 bc.ctvnews.ca/single-beaver-…

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Onion™ (they/them) @ASovietOnion

holy shit

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The OSS Society @osssociety

On the OSS' 80th birthday, we would like to share our favorite quote about it by OSS veteran and DCI William Casey: "You didn't wait six months for a feasibility study to prove that an idea could work. You gambled that it might work."

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Melinda Simmons @MelSimmonsFCDO

You have to hand it to #Kyiv city. They’ve taken wartime topiary humour to a new level 🇺🇦

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Louis Nyffenegger @snyff

Do you want to find new vulnerabilities? 1. Look at the patch for a recent CVE (for example: CVE-2021-43350) 2. Write a @semgrep rule for them (tune your rule using the CVE you picked) 3. Scan a lot of code repository with this rule. 4. Manually confirm the matches.

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Omniscient Orb of Pancakes @OmniscientOf

renting and returning ten books a day from my local library while subtlety increasing the size of my cranium with latex and makeup until they say something

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Uncle Duke @UncleDuke1969

now i remember why i stopped drinking tequila

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

TPM Sniffing Attacks Against Non-Bitlocker Targets (June 2022) secura.com/blog/tpm-sniff… by Jos Wetzels / @SecuraBV Re: sniffing keys from TPM traffic to access LUKS-encrypted disks. Saleae Logic 2 plugins provides to extract keys from traces: github.com/SecuraBV/tpm-s… c @thegrugq

github.comGitHub - SecuraBV/tpm-sniff-saleae: Two plugins to recover TMP keys from Saleae logic analyser tracesTwo plugins to recover TMP keys from Saleae logic analyser traces - GitHub - SecuraBV/tpm-sniff-saleae: Two plugins to recover TMP keys from Saleae logic analyser traces

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Daybed @Daybed100

At some point, Dr Frankenstein must have been all like “Ok, Igor… pass me the dick”