Sean Mac

Recovered founder, tropical Wxgeek, ham, hacker, publisher of books for Jessica Argyle & not arrested by the RCMP for having UNIX source code. Yet.

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

20,000 of those accounts didn't have two-factor authentication on, which meant personal info like private messages, phone and email was accessible

3.5k "high value" accounts were stolen before the company says it fixed things for the OG holders

w/ @elitanjourno

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

some news: it turns out 34,000 Instagram accounts got hit by a Meta AI exploit the other day, per internal company docs

hackers also used a senior "Space Force" official's account to post anti-Iran war messaging in the voice of "Hanoi Hannah"

https://t.co/bGmexfo20z

[Nemanja Djuric @askdjura]

Nginx on Ubuntu decided to have a fun this morning: https://t.co/pAQn0iui2z

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@askdjura Me at 4 am ET rolling back nginx and destroying my sites and rebuilding from scratch. Fun.

[Techmeme @Techmeme]

Notice: Meta says ~20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack that abused an AI-powered account recovery support tool to reset passwords (@eduardkovacs / SecurityWeek)

(Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@tekbog I prefer "software artisan", peasant.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@DijahSB you can do both.

[𒐪 @SHL0MS]

i've been developing a creative-ideation pipeline that analyzes a prompt's weakness to route it through a creative framework from famous artists & thinkers

ie: too generic -> Eno's oblique strategies, too open-ended -> Oulipian constraints

the interesting part is that although it was intended more for areas like design or art, it is insanely useful in many areas you would not expect. for example, i ran out of interesting findings in my Unicode rendering research project and ran it through the creative-ideation recursively and it thought laterally and discovered a whole new class of bugs

it turns out past a certain knowledge baseline a lot of problems just boil back down to creativity again

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@GordoCDA Because we don't have much choice. They've been doing a decent job so far... trust is consistency over time.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@SamAntar Fantastic article here https://t.co/DqsPvvt9Oe

(and then I tried to click the link...)

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@SamAntar Sam - the website isn't working!

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@TheWapplehouse it's the cyberfridge

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@LevineJonathan Well you don't want to lose an election to him.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@ClayTravis @nytimes

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@GrantCardone @patrickbetdavid Well kids books aren't that expensive.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@Rach_IC It's ragebait now. I've been watching Sky News, slightly left but at least it's real world news and their war analysis is great.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@Steve_Yegge aha - steve, try https://t.co/E7Pk7JQ50I for editing. Ping me and it's free. Standard LLMs don't cut it.

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@SamAntar Make one!

[Sean Mac @minitru]

@wvualphasoldier Into what?