Aaron Parecki

89°F

Nathan W. Pyle https://twitter.com/nathanwpyle

“The 27 Worst Things About Going To Stock Photo University” - something I made years ago and I just found it archived, and I’m pasting it here in a thread

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 3:02am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 10:15pm -08:00)
Eric Aschner (Parody) https://twitter.com/EricAschner

I think I have a pretty good idea what happened with the SMS decision yesterday.

Some people are mentioning Elon talked about fraud creating high costs for SMS 2FA. (Account security via login codes sent to your phone.) This is known as Toll Fraud and is nothing new.

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Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 5:36pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:57pm -08:00)
Eric Aschner (Parody) https://twitter.com/EricAschner

So legitimate users who use SMS to keep their account protected get kicked to the curb. Fraudsters find a way. In a month Twitter's SMS spend is right back where it is now but randos get charged. Twitter spends even more money dealing with chargebacks and CS issues.

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Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 5:37pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:57pm -08:00)
Christina Warren https://twitter.com/film_girl

On the one hand, no one should use SMS based 2FA. No one. On the other hand, this is insane.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 12:11am +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:54pm -08:00)
Jared Hanson https://twitter.com/jaredhanson

This is the consumer equivalent of charging companies for SSO.

Portland, Oregon • 46°F

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 11:17pm +00:00 (liked on Sat, Feb 18, 2023 1:53pm -08:00)
Adam DuVander https://twitter.com/adamd

A great subheading, courtesy of the Wayback Machine:

"Never Build Another User Table" on StormPath's 2014 homepage (before the Okta acquisition).

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 5:02pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:37pm -08:00)
@benward@benward.social 🐘 https://twitter.com/benward

Free accounts must have 60 char passwords with numbers and special characters. You may use dictionary words for $1/word, at $10+ you may pay to reduce the length at 10¢/char. Or, for $100/month Verified Gold, your password is “password”.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 5:25am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:35pm -08:00)
Linda Holmes thisislindaholmes.com https://twitter.com/lindaholmes

“This security method isn’t very good, so it’s only available to our paid subscribers” is actually very funny.

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 4:12am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:30pm -08:00)
DeLaVanta Tabor 🎚 Audio Engineer https://twitter.com/delmixedit

Got the #pk1stand from @aaronpk_tv put together and looking good. Definitely looks a lot cooler than just having the ATEM Mini Extreme ISO just sitting on the table.
Shoutout to @inux_3d for much fast shipping than I expected ✊🏾.
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#blackmagicdesign #atemmini #atemminiextremeiso

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 5:06am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:27pm -08:00) #pk1stand #blackmagicdesign #atemmini #atemminiextremeiso
David C. Simon https://twitter.com/davidcsimon

Never have I ever been asked by a website to *remove* two-factor authentication. Which idiot came up with this idea? Oh wait, I think I know...

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 4:00am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:22pm -08:00)
Kevin Collier https://twitter.com/kevincollier

And it's official: Twitter users can now choose to be less secure — to use text messages for 2FA rather than an app — but only if they pay the monthly fee. You pay for insecurity. The weirdest security decision I've ever seen from a major tech company.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2023/an-update-on-two-factor-authentication-using-sms-on-twitter

Portland, Oregon • 43°F

Sat, Feb 18, 2023 3:13am +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 9:22pm -08:00)
Stephen Wolfram https://twitter.com/stephen_wolfram

What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? From the lore of neural nets to what Aristotle didn't get to ... here's my version of the story: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/

Portland, Oregon • 39°F

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 9:42pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 8:39am -08:00)
BrianKrebs https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs

I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Fri, Feb 17, 2023 12:54pm +00:00 (liked on Fri, Feb 17, 2023 7:25am -08:00)
Simon Willison https://twitter.com/simonw

I wrote up a detailed guide to some of the absolutely wild examples of Bing's new AI-assisted search feature that have started to circulate:

Bing: "I will not harm you unless you harm me first" (that's genuinely something it said to someone)

https://simonwillison.net/2023/Feb/15/bing/

Portland, Oregon • 28°F

Wed, Feb 15, 2023 3:22pm +00:00 (liked on Wed, Feb 15, 2023 7:27am -08:00)
Pidud☀ https://twitter.com/Pidud_

God Bing is so unhinged I love them so much

Portland, Oregon • 35°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 9:02am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 10:18pm -08:00)
Michael Gartenberg https://mastodon.social/@Gartenberg

The stages of playing with GPT-3:
- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete
(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 6:01pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Feb 14, 2023 11:23am -08:00)
shako https://twitter.com/cauchyfriend

So, seems like we saw a balloon, realized our radar parameters were filtering out slow boys, changed those params, and now see a ton of things and are investigating all of them.

Portland, Oregon • 34°F

Sun, Feb 12, 2023 7:03pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 9:40pm -08:00)
Dan https://twitter.com/bristowbailey

Criminals will start wearing extra prosthetic fingers to make surveillance footage look like it's AI generated and thus inadmissible as evidence.

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 4:11pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:04pm -08:00)
KovaFC https://twitter.com/fc_kova

That was cool

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:00am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)
⍼ https://twitter.com/aes_2fish

thank you so much for your thread. unforgettable moment

lit up the sky and disintegrated in a bright shade of green before dipping under the treeline
i could see it breaking up as it dove. Pic taken from ~200km away

Portland, Oregon • 37°F

Mon, Feb 13, 2023 3:40am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Feb 13, 2023 7:00pm -08:00)

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