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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Aug 04, 2026

Replying to @GrimmReality@beige.party

@GrimmReality@beige.party hummingbirds slow their heart rate down so much during sleep that central american folklore tells that they visit the afterlife when they sleep, thus believing them to be a bridge between this life and the next.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 31, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I hope this inspires a new genre of your fake technology pictures

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 29, 2026

Replying to @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I see a lot of obviously llm-generated phish kits that leverage llms to rebuild unique-enough pages to bypass signature-based frequently. And a lot more of them.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @fabiocosta0305@ursal.zone

@fabiocosta0305@ursal.zone local llms are not this good unless you have a quarter to half a million dollars worth of compute power in your basement

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 28, 2026

Replying to @overholt@glammr.us

@overholt@glammr.us it's just KnowBe4

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange agreed. I think this every time I catch myself down a rabbit hole of "oh they reused this github username on another site, wonder what other threads I can pull at"

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Homer didn't even come up with the story in the Odyssey. His version is just the one written down. Homer was a part of a tradition of storytellers who would spin out these massive stories from memory. Not because they memorized them word for word, but by interweaving common tropes, plot devices, and themes suited to the audience, time, and place. Changing it up is the most historically accurate thing to do.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @Peacefulz@infosec.exchange

@Peacefulz@infosec.exchange yo, I'm crafting one right now. Can I get the source?

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @igalia@floss.social

@igalia@floss.social @koike@social.linux.pizza @marga@hachyderm.io before and after pics

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @LALegault@newsie.social

@LALegault@newsie.social perhaps, like bug zappers, we could regularly post things like this. Then when the misogynists inevitably show up, since they can't stand for a woman having an unchallenged thought, we can put them on a blocklist shared by federated instances.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 18, 2026

Replying to @jbrownesq@mastodon.social

@jbrownesq@mastodon.social oh look, here one comes right now. Belittling women's perspectives, like a misogynist does.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @badsamurai@infosec.exchange

@badsamurai@infosec.exchange new "I just like the warmth of vinyl crackle" just dropped

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jul 01, 2026

Replying to @Beggarmidas@mastodon.social

@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social your response does nothing to address the foundational flaw in your logic of false equivalence and merely piles on more logical ineptitude. You only expose how much more of the point soars over you.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 30, 2026

Replying to @Beggarmidas@mastodon.social

@Beggarmidas@mastodon.social pointing out biases and inferred hypotheses exist doesn't mean the inferred conclusion made through bias by bezos with no evidence is at all equal to one informed by studies of prehistoric human culture. @dbattistella@mstdn.ca

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I love that. Need to do some more research, but would love to get involved with making a US, or even US regional version of this happen.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @random_regret@kolektiva.social

@random_regret@kolektiva.social it's the same argument made about minimum wage that gets proven wrong every time it's raised. @toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange personally, I'd like to start a cooperatively owned Mastodon instance where ownership costs pay for infra, admin, and moderation, with owners all having a voice in operation, governance, and direction. Trying to find models as alternatives to benevolent third parties and pleading for donations.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place

@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place good thing we don't have problems with rent-seekers and insane asset price inflation now

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @p@raru.re

@p@raru.re cool, you can fuck off from society and stop benefitting from the various "charitable" services we're "forced" to provide you @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 26, 2026

Replying to @fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net

@fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net sure, this could help large numbers of people become happier, healthier, and more productive contributors to society. But what if a small number of people I don't approve of also benefit? Best to just keep everyone miserable. @codinghorror@infosec.exchange

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @shootingtsar@mastodon.social

@shootingtsar@mastodon.social no, all of the leading questions you are asking are essentially non-sequitur in this situation. @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 13, 2026

Replying to @shootingtsar@mastodon.social

@shootingtsar@mastodon.social @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social even giving him the benefit of the doubt that he does, it doesn't really matter. "wanting to create products that improve society" hides a lot of assumptions behind words and phrases whose definitions could mean completely different things between any one of us and Musk. He could genuinely believe he is, but his idea of what that means could easily involve all of us being churned under the weight of his society-improving projects. His intents and words are all empty in the face of the effects his actions bear out on the world. If he's trying to improve society, then it's not an improved society I endorse.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Jun 13, 2026

Replying to @Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz

@Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz @QasimRashid@mastodon.social well the amounts of money as far as it being more money don't matter to him anymore. He exists on hype, his companies exist on hype. Becoming a trillionaire doesn't have to do with hoarding more money to him, rather it has more to do with the accompanying hype.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 21, 2026

Replying to @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange

@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange that's such an absurd perspective 😂 @Gargron@mastodon.social

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 21, 2026

Replying to @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange

@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social I mean you're both painting with too broad of strokes in your generalizations and missing wide swathes of populations while neither of you is technically wrong about the specific users you're talking about. Usability is a spectrum and creating a one-size-fits-all UX is an antipattern no matter how much or little it abstracts away decision making possibilities from the user. Open standards, data, and interoperability enable these experiences for the whole spectrum. MySpace was a great example because you didn't have to understand HTML/CSS to use it, but if you wanted to understand it then you could use it to personalize your page, if you didn't care one bit about learning any of it but still wanted to personalize your page then it opened a market for templates and style generators with better usability, and if you had no interest in any of that then the app was no less usable.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 15, 2026

Replying to @MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art

@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art or if it just wants a kiss

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 14, 2026

Replying to @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange any cases from anywhere around the world where anyone has successfully been tried against these privacy laws?

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 13, 2026

Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io I read the first quote and was about to head directly into your replies to make sure that Mexican week episode was rightly chastised. Then I expanded your post. Infamous😆

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 08, 2026

Replying to @jonny@neuromatch.social

@jonny@neuromatch.social federation roadmap for anyone else looking at this thread who wants to consider jumping in: https://codeberg.org/forgejo-contrib/federation/src/branch/main/FederationRoadmap.md

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · May 05, 2026

Replying to @bruces@mastodon.social

@bruces lol anyone that prompts llms regularly can pick apart all the ways this would fail to do what he intends. If an llm had any sort of reasoning whatsoever it would immediately shut this prompt down due to its obvious contradictions. "Don't kowtow to me, but only don't kowtow to me under my specific parameters that kowtow to my preconceptions"

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @shadowwwind@app.wafrn.net

@shadowwwind @HailsandAles seconding Addy.io. I wouldn't use a service like it for anything sensitive but it's nice for segmenting out random sign up gates and one off purchases

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @nbailey@mstdn.ca

@nbailey @GossiTheDog at least they contained it from spreading all over the world this time 😂

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @paco@infosec.exchange

@paco as if inexperienced people cobbling together bullshit construction worthy of a laugh didn't exist before chatgpt

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @rapsneezy2@mastodon.social

@rapsneezy2

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 19, 2026

Replying to @tojiro@mastodon.social

@tojiro I rarely ever got to do anything at work from that first list even before AI 😂

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I've been asked to give talks at work about my llm usage for coding because they want to push its use and I happen to get some productive use out of it. I'm not a booster of this kind of stuff, so most of these talks are just me explaining their pitfalls and how I only get success out of them because all of my usage of them centers around understanding how they fail and when that's acceptable coupled with how I've already done the sorts of things I'm asking of it manually hundreds of times and so I know exactly what to tell it to do. Basically, there's no getting around learning first what you need to prompt it to do and that it can only fill in anything where you don't care how it turns out.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 12, 2026

Replying to @bruces@mastodon.social

@bruces and tons of samurai armor or swords we admire the craftsmanship of today were never meant for battle because by that time they were mostly a bureaucratic class

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 07, 2026

Replying to @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io

@skinnylatte Christianity started as an apocalyptic cult that has now lingered too long without its apocalypse. (Comment for the thread audience, not trying to teach you something you already know)

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Apr 02, 2026

Replying to @mattsheffield@mastodon.social

@mattsheffield@mastodon.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online yeah, and that music sucks with no soul too

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @HakeemG@mastodon.social

@HakeemG I guess I don't understand what this has to do with being critical of the effort a subgroup of democrats puts into suppressing another subgroup of democrats relative to the opposition party. Does passing legislation at some point in the past that saved at least one person someone knows life while someone unrelated to the initial criticism went on a book tour absolve that group from this criticism?

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @HakeemG@mastodon.social

@HakeemG is there something wrong with book tours?

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Mar 30, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart my criteria for using llms for code generation at work:

Internal only tool
Doesn't involve new ideas, just involves implementing well known design patterns
Doesn't directly affect anything critical
I could do it, and have a detailed idea of how I would implement it
I have a good understanding of the necessary tests and edge cases that would verify the generated code
I don't have the time available to set aside for implementing it in the next 6 months

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @mHtt@mastodon.social

@mHtt@mastodon.social @arstechnica@mastodon.social well because of this it'll be the west coast that's burning this summer, not rome

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Mar 14, 2026

Replying to @aral__dup_4490@mastodon.ar.al

@aral shit homie, I know, I grew up with the people.

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thief_of_fire @thief_of_fire@infosec.exchange · Feb 07, 2026

Replying to @dansup@mastodon.social

@dansup@mastodon.social https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116028635224570943

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