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My issue on online resilience may be of interest to you, if you’re also thinking of how to make sure your content lives on (as in registering a domain name). 😊
axbom.com/25y/
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If you want to try something free and that I imagine aligns with your values (no cookies, analytics or tracking for example), I’d recommend
mataroa.blog
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Just a heads up.
bsky.app/profile/axbo...
@axbom.com: I see people use QR codes in fundraising graphics. Be advised that QR codes in graphics are easily replaced by bad actors, essentially giving them an opportunity to try and hijack some payments and funnel them to their own accounts. (1/5)
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I see people use QR codes in fundraising graphics.
Be advised that QR codes in graphics are easily replaced by bad actors, essentially giving them an opportunity to try and hijack some payments and funnel them to their own accounts.
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Imagine you are a campaign owner who has produced a graphic asking for donations, encouraging people to scan a QR code.
You see someone on social media posting your graphics and encouraging to donate to your efforts. It's likely full of praise for you and your mission.
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Their praise makes you happy and proud, so you republish it and thank them.
Now what if I told you that person was not actually posting your graphic, but a manipulated one with their own QR code in place of yours.
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So now you've repeated their version of the image to all of your own followers, essentially endorsing it and helping them in their deceptive efforts.
Recommendation: don’t use QR-codes in graphics. Use official, verifiable web addresses.
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Here is my full article on how QR code hijacking can divert donations to criminals.
QR codes are immensely popular but also immensely open to fraud when they are used in public spaces and forums.
axbom.com/qr-hijacking/
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↩ Replying to @loukas.bsky.social
Why thank you Loukas! Really nice to find you here. 😊
↩ Replying to @adamcsharp.bsky.social
I'd say that translates literally to something more like smut-lobster. There is no word for 'minded' involved in the word.
↩ Replying to @bilgi.bsky.social
Hi Bilgi. If you have a look at the list of who I am following I think a large part are UX or UX-adjacent.
But I'm also perhaps more focused on digital ethics than strictly UX these days. 😁
So I've passed 50 posts on Bluesky. Telling. I'm really pleased with how easy it is to find and follow familiar friends and faces from the ex-site (which I left in May of 2022).
But I do feel a bit late to the game. 😅
I'm enjoying Mastodon but many of the people I want to see more of aren't there.
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Under Key Findings in this 2023 study by Security Hero:
-Deepfake porn makes up 98% of all deepfake videos.
-99% of individuals targeted in deepfake porn are women.
-South Korean singers and actresses constitute 53% of the individuals featured in deepfake porn.
www.securityhero.io/state-of-dee...
Happy Petrov day to those who celebrate. 41 years ago today (Sep 26) Stanislav Petrov helped avoid nuclear disaster because he didn’t trust a computer. I wrote two years ago about some of my takeaways from his story.
axbom.com/lessons-from...
Video clip from “The Man Who Saved the World”.
“When we learned about the extent of far-right extremism, Hitler worship and Holocaust denial on Substack, you pressed us to investigate. […] I’m proud that when Platformer was asked to actually live its values — to stand up for the idea that basic content moderation is good and necessary — we did.”
@caseynewton.bsky.social: Here's what I learned in year four of Platformer — or, everything that happened after we left Substack. www.platformer.news/leaving-subs...
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Would you rather have an RSS feed than another newsletter but the site doesn’t offer one?
Kill the Newsletter is a great service that gives you a unique e-mail address (for subscribing) and generates a unique Atom feed for your reader, containing all delivered newsletters.
kill-the-newsletter.com
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This is an excellent role and description. I believe it could be immediately useful in many contexts for me as well. Always looking for different ways to describe my purpose…
↩ Replying to @dr-know.bsky.social
I gave two talks on "digital legacy" this year and they stand out from the rest by the huge interest expressed by the audience, and how people stayed after to just talk for a long time about their experiences. My sense was that many people truly feel lost and crave guidance and safe spaces to talk.
«Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach”»
@mm-hacker-news.bsky.social: Re: Automattic's Actionable Misconduct Directed to WP Engine [pdf] https://wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cease-and-Desist-Letter-to-Automattic-and-Request-to-Preserve-Documents-Sent.pdf
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This post by @briancoords.com goes through what he believes Mullenweg (whose documented behavior is reproachable) SHOULD have said at Wordcamp US, and provides some good background to understanding the bigger picture (@via @simonrjones.bsky.social)
www.briancoords.com/the-wcus-clo...
Aquatic Planet Log 678299:
During one human life-cycle electronic devices on Earth were used for their purpose: to compute exact, predictable and explainable responses to exact, interpretable queries and inputs. (1/9)
Then, in what parts of human timekeeping referred to as the early 21st century, the most exploitative classes of the human race decided that the best use of computers was to compute inexact - yet semantically and pictorially believable - responses to inexact human phrasing. (2/9)
Each inexact response was different for multiple identical queries, and easily manipulated through more inexact phrasing.
And they chose to call those responses “intelligence”. (3/9)
We can only presume that previously trusting computers for exact calculations forced them into a delusional state of mind. Which included a misguided inference wherein fluent imitation of language was equated with aptitude and ability. (4/9)
Probabilistic word salad was treated as divine instruction and disciples flocked in great numbers to worship the devices and seek counsel with seductively designed gibberish.
As further evidence of this delusion, we can refer to the sequence of events that followed. (5/9)
Producing “intelligence” required substantial amounts of energy, causing consumption to skyrocket. Curiously, much of the human race understood the urgent need for the opposite: reduce energy consumption to mitigate the warming crisis and save themselves from severe harm. (6/9)
As was witnessed, much of human civilisation swiftly collapsed into a smoking pile of confusion, losing its critical treasures of historically documented knowledge. (7/9)
Typical of human inequity, areas with healthy levels of energy consumption were distressed to a much greater extent than the exploitative classes that propelled the harm.
After 327 solar orbits, and many large-scale wildfires, non-human life on Earth was again able to thrive. (8/9)
Historians remain puzzled by how a hubris-inflicted minority of a potentially loving life-form could so fundamentally misunderstand the concept of intelligence and be allowed to readily prompt planetary-wide devastation.
/.end of transmission (9/9)
100% agree. I read this book a few months ago. I was truly blown away by how relevant it is.
Worth reading "Islands in the Cyberstream: Seeking Havens of Reason in a Programmed Society" as well.
@thomasfuchs.at: If you want to know why AI (as advertised by big tech) is problematic–to say the least–this is the only book you need to read. It’s 50 years old.
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