@Kaliah yes. I have a team that work for me in a different country. I’ve never met then IRL. I only ever interact with them online. I do treat them as real people.
I'm rather proud of today's scoop. It began with a tip from a security researcher who wondered why 900,000 customer payment records were leaking from a network of sites that seemed to be related to the U.S. Postal Service.
It's been a wild ride figuring this one out. Please check out the full piece for a truly crazy story. Here's the lede:
"A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016."
♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫
If you think you don't need to see a Muppet re-enact Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" music video in San Francisco, think again. Love this and great production values. #VanessaCarlton #AThousandMiles #SanFrancisco https://youtu.be/Vb5y-kY6nVw
@davidaugust really?
"We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder."
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/
@faho full disclosure: I am the instance admin
We were priviledged to have seen a flock of 60 Bohemian Waxings for almost a full week whle migrating towards the north, passing through our area. No berries left anywhere !!! #ottawa #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #nature #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
@janl yeah - it breaks our app, greeeaaattt… clean the decks / all hands on deck (?!) DON’T PANIC!!!
@MnemosyneSinger so many questions…
I’m in Athens, Georgia, where the railroad trestle from the back cover of R.E.M.’s MURMUR, after being on the verge of collapsing for years, was not only saved by the city and locals but has been incorporated into a beautiful new rail trail, so if you’re wondering how we can get more bikeable and walkable infrastructure, the answer is to get more bands to put existing structures in need of repair on their albums.
Of all the recent reports on psychotherapy clinic Vastaamo's data breach cluster****, I enjoyed yours the most, @smashingsecurity 😍
Lots of chuckles, thank you. 👍🏻