Alaqua Cox as Echo (Maya Lopez) is stunningly good. And it’s her first acting gig!
Very impressive casting.
You should watch it before the new Daredevil if you haven’t already. And Hawkeye before that of course…
#marvel
https://people.com/alaqua-cox-reflects-on-career-success-marvel-echo-after-being-bullied-deaf-and-amputee-exclusive-8424431
@steveportigal @metafilter I love watching these but damn it’s also nerve-racking.
@FeralRobots This made Toto’s Hold the Line play in my head… haha.
@jamesravey Ha, excellent. Love those bots. Reminded me of one I followed which looked at the profiles of people who tagged themselves with MAGA and pointed out when they had used the flag of Liberia rather than the United States.
(Especially dear to me as I was born in Liberia)
@EndlessMason Not far off, but my understanding is that a government backdoor generally insists on not letting you know who is entering or what they are taking part of.
I know you know this, but it’s "sneak peek", not "sneak peak".
Unless you’re suddenly discovering a new summit on a mountain, that deviously was hidden behind a cloud.
Or, you know, if a climax takes you by surprise.
Gotta love that this is the second paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for Backdoor:
"In the United States, the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act forces internet providers to provide backdoors for government authorities. In 2024, the U.S. government realized that China had been tapping communications in the U.S. using that infrastructure for months, or perhaps longer; China recorded presidential candidate campaign office phone calls —including employees of the then-vice president of the nation– and of the candidates themselves."
More on this story:
https://reason.com/2024/10/11/chinese-hackers-used-u-s-government-mandated-wiretap-systems/
« "The problem with backdoors is known—any alternate channel devoted to access by one party will undoubtedly be discovered, accessed, and abused by another," David Ruiz of the internet security firm Malwarebytes Labs wrote in 2019. He noted that cybersecurity researchers had been making that argument for years. They've been repeating themselves for years because their warnings appear to fall on deaf ears. »
På förekommen anledning publicerar jag den här teckningen igen.
En bakdörr kan vara minutiöst dokumenterad, ha begränsad åtkomst, innefatta en rad säkerhetsmekanismer och vara utvecklad med den bästa av intentioner. men det är fortfarande…
…en bakdörr.
«Whittaker explained how AI agents are being marketed as a way to add value to your life by handling various online tasks for the user. For instance, AI agents would be able to take on tasks like looking up concerts, booking tickets, scheduling the event on your calendar, and messaging your friends that it’s booked.
“So we can just put our brain in a jar because the thing is doing that and we don’t have to touch it, right?,” Whittaker mused.
Then she explained the type of access the AI agent would need to perform these tasks, including access to our web browser and a way to drive it as well as access to our credit card information to pay for tickets, our calendar, and messaging app to send the text to your friends.
“It would need to be able to drive that [process] across our entire system with something that looks like root permission, accessing every single one of those databases — probably in the clear, because there’s no model to do that encrypted,” Whittaker warned.»
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/07/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-calls-out-agentic-ai-as-having-profound-security-and-privacy-issues/
@Beantin @kolombiken
They’re off on mine now as well. Thanks for noticing this so quickly! I’ll likely never be in a hurry setting up a service again. 😅
I’m still evaluating alternatives though. Now looking at this for self-hosting, but of coure requires a server separate from the one where everything else is hosted.
https://statusnook.com
Gott och dåligt omdöme i statens tjänst.
Kan varmt rekommendera detta viktiga avsnitt som gick i repris på P1 i morse.
Kan bara hålla med om hur offentlig förvaltning går mer mot manual- och regelstyrt, att färre litar på sitt eget och andras omdöme. Vi får inte träna det. Tänk nu hur lite människor får träna sitt omdöme när de använder probabilistiska datamodeller för beslutsfattande (min reflektion, inget de kommer in på i programmet).
Gäster är Louise Bringselius, organisationsexpert och författare, och Christina Forsberg, generaldirektör för Centrala studiestödsnämnden.
Programledare är Louise Epstein.
https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/repris-sa-haller-du-ditt-omdome-i-form
@Beantin @kolombiken LOL! Found a German one. https://pingping.io 😁
@kolombiken @Beantin Found this alternative in France now. Not as sleek-looking but is likely better in many ways… (on my iPad so haven’t been able to look at it in detail):
https://updown.io/
Avsnittet om AI-bias, i podden AI för folket, finns ute nu.. 17 minuter långt.
"AI uppfattas ofta som objektiv, men i praktiken kan den förstärka och återskapa fördomar. I det här avsnittet pratar vi med Per Axbom, digital designer och expert på digital etik, om vad bias i generativ AI är, varför det uppstår och vilka konsekvenser det kan få.
Hur kan vi som användare upptäcka bias? Finns det sätt att göra AI mer rättvis? Och kan vi någonsin bygga en AI som är helt fri från snedvridningar?
Ett samtal om tekniska utmaningar, mänskliga perspektiv och hur vi kan förhålla oss kritiskt till den AI som allt oftare påverkar våra beslut."
https://pca.st/episode/922cfa22-e0ac-4d7d-a4b1-f5430380f167
@kolombiken Damn it's hard to do the right thing when these tools sneak stuff in. 🥴
@kolombiken In the status page? Weird I never added that. Let me check! 😅
Websites are up again but the server backup that they restored was from 2 days ago, as I suspected. It's missing some changes I had made to a few posts.
Hopefully I can find other backups for those changes.
In the grand scheme of things my server issues are miniscule and I shouldn't let them get to me.
For context: yesterday I was featured in an interview in Sweden’s largest daily newspaper. And today a prominent podcast on AI released an episode featuring me, on AI bias. Huge soar in people searching for me and my content. I put a huge amount of time and effort into both of those happening. And all my websites have today been down and still are. Worst. Possible. Time. 😥
Time to try and get some sleep…
While I’m waiting for this clusterf*ck to get sorted I built a status page for my websites –now allowing me to visit a web page to remind myself that all my websites are down. 😂
https://status.axbom.com/
@anders Har på 28 år inte legat nere så här länge så det är väl det som svider mest… och att jag just nu lockade lite nya ögon till mitt innehåll med medieframträdanden. Och så är sajterna döda.
Jag missuppfattade dig. Fick för mig att du också låg på Hostup och hade återställt nu.
@gustav @artfors Ja något känns väldigt fel. Fullständiga backuper finns och ingår för alla VPS-kunder men min uppfattning är att de endast görs en gång i veckan. Jag har egna backuper på mina appar via Cloudron som ligger i storage hos Cloudflare, men jag vet inte hur det ser ut med mina möjligheter att läsa in dem ännu.
Fortsättning följer.
@artfors @gustav Verkar som det kommer ta hela natten. Men mejlet för en stund sedan är svårt att tolka. Ser ut som de förväntar sig att vi kunder ska installera om OS och återställa backuper!? Oerhört svårtolkat. Det här var en monumental krasch, och jag fattar att de är sjukt stressade och utmattade, men otydlig kommunikation kommer bara förvärra situationen.
@gustav Hostup.
All my websites are down except my Fediverse instance (separate server, separate country). My VPS is hit by a catastrophic firmware bug in new disks and the provider is rolling back the system. No time estimate. Has been a while now.