October 31, 2022

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                October 31, 2022

            October 31, 2022

            Happy Shelloween
Sorry not sorry.
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Mark Galeotti @MarkGaleotti
British tabloids are altogether ghastly... until they somehow achieve a platonic ideal of themselves 
11:56 AM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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Matthew Garrett @mjg59
Bob: So, how do I find people to follow on Mastodon?
Ed: It's decentralised. Use the right instance!
Bob: Ok, it's not a monolith. How do I find the right instance?
Ed: You ask people on Twitter!
Bob: Did you just tell me to go fuck myself?
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.10:44 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Halvar Flake @halvarflake
If you know anything worth knowing, write it down somewhere.1:33 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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ProfJeffJarviss (Media and News Company) @ProfJeffJarviss
For my Digital 2.0 course, I updated the Maslow pyramid for our modern era: 
3:53 PM ∙ Sep 7, 2019
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Evan Smith @evansmithhistArguably one of the most influential punk zines ever, the archive of 'MaximumRocknRoll' has been digitised, with over 400 issues from the 1980s to the 2000s now online. archive.org/details/maximu… 
11:14 AM ∙ Oct 27, 2022
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Katie🌻M🎃ussouris (she/her) @k8em0
Who wants to hire a bunch of engineers this week?

Corollary:

Who wants to mint money on Twitter’s #bugbounty program on horrible bugs in new features hastily coded in a week? 
nilay patel @reckless
Scoop from ⁦@alexeheath⁩: it’ll be $20/mo to be verified, and if the team doesn’t ship in a week, they’re fired https://t.co/w5QMdiHPA11:12 AM ∙ Oct 31, 2022
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Dr. Mikki Brock @MikkiBrock
Pro-tip from a student: I often tell folks to read papers aloud to improve their writing style (the ear catches what the eye misses), but one student had Google Translate read it for them so they could make notes while listening, and wow, that improved their next paper much!3:47 PM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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Mike Felch @ustayready
IYKYK 
1:55 AM ∙ Oct 31, 2022
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Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyixGoing to take this opportunity to plug our own vulnerability repair paper here too ;) LLMs do surprisingly well at this task even without any fine-tuning! arxiv.org/abs/2112.02125 
👩‍💻 Paige Bailey #BlackLivesMatter @DynamicWebPaige✨👩‍💻 "By directly applying large pre-trained language models (PLMs) for automated program repair (APR) without any specific change or fine-tuning,

*we can already achieve the highest number of correct fixes compared to existing baselines*."

📄https://t.co/TluCN92FPf https://t.co/6lG9OIcxUP2:02 PM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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✨ Case ✨ 🏴‍☠️ @caseorganic
RIP Kathleen Booth (100 years old!) the inventor of assembly language (yes, ASSEMBLY). 
5:14 AM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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Samuel Bendett @SamBendettA DIY copter made in Yemen from sticks and a simple motor. Talk about drone proliferation - this is about as simple as it gets. t.me/droneswar/4521 
3:07 PM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Strongly recommending this post by Bret Devereaux. A deep dive on the Industrial Revolution.

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/

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Was the internet designed to survive a nuclear attack?

https://siliconfolklore.com/internet-history/

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vx-underground @vxunderground
Yanluowang ransomware group was ransomed (?). Their onion site was breached, displaying a message that says "time's up"[sic] and linking downloads of their leaked internal communications

* Image 1 is their onion site defaced
* Image 2 is all of their known public posts 
8:54 AM ∙ Oct 31, 2022
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