Ziggy’s Tar Dust

Amateur professional #selfhost sysadmin. Professional amateur #cloud #security at #AWS. Also fond of #cats, #cigars, #whiskey and #pipes. I like board games and some video games. I am #covid cautious and I still #wearamask. Opinions are my own, but they can be yours too.

Interests: [#cloud](https://infosec.exchange/tags/cloud ), [#security](https://infosec.exchange/tags/security ), [#cigars](https://infosec.exchange/tags/cigars ), [#travel](https://infosec.exchange/tags/travel ), [#overwatch](https://infosec.exchange/tags/overwatch )
Blog: https://blog.paco.to/
Pronouns: He/Him
Masks?: https://shouldyouwearamask.com/

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Last Notes

2024-06-17 02:43:12

What horrifying thing is in the egg!? #monsterdon
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2024-06-15 17:17:29

Instead of "Four weddings and a funeral" we got like two half-weddings and 300 funerals. #KungFuSat

2024-06-05 11:38:27

An insightful blog post from @npub1dnd…hzjs summarising a lot of the furor over #microsoft #recall. The snark at the end about Microsoft making 2025 the year of Linux on the desktop made me realise a small thing that I think is important:
MS is the last hold-out still charging money for a consumer operating system. Obviously Linux is free and Apple tries to prevent their OS running on non-Apple hardware, but only MS charges you for the privilege of enduring their #AI force feeding. You’re paying them money and you’re STILL not the customer.
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html

2024-05-31 22:30:24

I'm reading a doc that emphasises how the benefit of doing something was that #security activities took less time to do. The document emphasised how much time was saved. I had an epiphany.
Unlike money, time saved is always spent. If I didn't have to spend an hour doing X, well, I still spent that hour doing Y. So the benefit of saving time on #infosec is that we did spend the time, but we were able to spend the time differently.
Focus on the benefit from what we DID spend time on, and how saving time in security created the space for that benefit. Don't focus on the fact that we DIDN'T spend time on security.

2024-05-30 00:27:08

The #AI is coming for my job.
I have #AmazonQ active in #VisualStudio. I went to type some #python to show my son something in my IDE. The #LLM barged in to show me how clever it is. It generated perfectly valid python, if a little bit repetitive. :)
What I did was basically type a small bit of prompt. You see the text pop in grey. I press Tab to accept its suggestion. Then it suggests some more. Eventually I started typing new and different keywords, like if, while, for, try/except. Even comments. The AI also determined when we were done because it suggested the return statement all on its own.
This is also the first video I've published first and exclusively on #PeerTube.
https://communitymedia.video/w/q1heLxqYmqM5gjUEZ6nvJY

2024-05-20 02:28:19

Tonight's #monsterdon plot line, visualised.
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/112/471/053/742/499/863/original/8be69d293adbc548.png

2024-05-19 02:21:26

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yeah. Like let’s put the bank’s toll free number on the approved list. Sadly, there are ways to spoof caller ID. So the scammer spoofs the bank’s number in caller ID and then the AI doesn’t alert. This is an area where the perpetrators have decades of experience and the defenders are still waiting for the paint to dry on this new tech.
I mean, it will catch some scams. But it will be wrong sometimes. And the prime, target audience doesn’t have the wherewithal to detect or deal with the mistakes. It’s not clear at all if it could be a net positive.

2024-05-19 01:30:08

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I can’t get over how insanely obvious the false positives will be. Every person who cares for a loved one that is old, or otherwise unable to do some life and finance chores for themselves will cause this thing to alert about possible scams. We routinely talk to elderly parents about money, telling them what to deposit or transfer or withdraw. Which bills to pay, which account to take the money from, etc.
These technologies have so little hope of succeeding and so much likelihood of confusing and harassing people who already struggle with modern technology. Our elderly relatives who struggle to login to their online banking are not going to know what to do with an #AI-generated #fraud alert. They simply won’t understand.

2024-05-08 16:27:02

I’d like some suggestions (feel free to boost). I run a small club (80-100 people) and we need to collect annual dues. The actual payment processing I want to use PayPal (or similar). But for the membership management, tracking who has paid, emailing reminders, etc I want to #selfhost. I want to run a web site where people can login, see their dues status, get a link to go pay, cancel their membership, update their details, etc.
Anybody know some software I can run in like a #homelab or #selfhosted environment to manage club membership and stuff? The only constraint is that it can’t be Windows based. I don’t have any Windows infrastructure.

2024-05-04 04:00:12

Start your #caturday with a sink full of #MrMittens #cat #mastocats
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2024-04-16 02:44:59

My son is rarely absent or late to class. His #highschool sent this email where they had to resort to scientific notation to explain his #tardy performance. Chronic #absenteeism is not a problem.
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2024-04-08 02:02:28

If I posted this with no context, who would believe they were getting married? #monsterdon
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