Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @danschnau@mastodon.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange maybe its just the final lesson of the semester, no matter how hard you work, someone will come a long at the last second, steal it, and get paid more than you can ever imagine setting them students up for the AI economy @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange it definitely doesn’t do much to combat the belief that “crime doesn’t pay” when literally it does
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange “the criminals have informed us they will do no other crimes, and who are we to believe otherwise” @SecureOwl@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange what a joke
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk @timbray@cosocial.ca Regularly but not frequently. Mostly in the form of slop thumbnail images for articles that people have linked to. @JonnyT@mastodon.me.uk @timbray@cosocial.ca I notice that a lot. When I see those slop thumbnails I assume the article is garbage.
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 5mo ago Replying to @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange pretty wild that American farmers are suffering from a fertilizer shortage despite record levels of bullshit from the White House @kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange heh, good one
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 8mo ago Replying to @evacide@hachyderm.io on hachyderm.io @evacide@hachyderm.io I vaguely remember reading about an attack like this on notepad++ many years ago. What a pain to be the target of this stuff!
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 6mo ago Replying to @twifkak@mas.to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com @sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca This is perfect. I've been looking for something to share a summary of my views without having to write one myself. It contains a decent fraction of the harms caused by genAI without the judgment and objectivity of the spicier essays, which can hurt feelings and thus cause defensiveness rather than learning. @twifkak@mas.to @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com @sboots@mastodon.sboots.ca Agreed. I particularly appreciate the idea of it being "freeing". We don't actually *have* to let LLM tech get shoved down our throats. We are free to choose not to use it.
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io <p>You can't put the genie back in the bottle 🤡</p><p>Meanwhile, the genie is only kept out of the bottle by the force of literally the entirety of the world's available investment capital</p> @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io you know, that's a good point. I'll remember that next time someone says that to me in "meatspace"
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io <p>"AI can make mistakes, always check the results"</p><p>I fucking loathe this phrase and everything that goes into it. It's not advice. It's a threat.</p><p>You probably read it as "AI is _capable_ of making mistakes; you _should_ check the results".</p><p>What it actually says is "AI is _permitted_ to make mistakes; _you are liable_ for the results, whether you check them or not".</p><p>Except "you" is generally not even the person building, installing, or even using the AI. It's the person the AI is used on:<br /><a href="https://thepit.social/@peter/116205452673914720" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thepit.social/@peter/116205452</span><span class="invisible">673914720</span></a></p> @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io yeah it's a weak ass "CYA" for the AI vendors
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @mijustin@mastodon.social <p>New post:</p><p>Don't kill my pretty RSS feed.</p><p><a href="https://justinjackson.ca/xslt" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">justinjackson.ca/xslt</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p> @mijustin I fuckin agree, man. Google removing xslt support is a big problem
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 8mo ago Replying to @futurebird@sauropods.win <p>I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights. </p><p>Or go sledding. </p><p>And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate. </p><p>Hmph.</p> @futurebird@sauropods.win totally. snow days are magical days
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io <p>Repost: Something Big Is Happening</p><p>“If someone told you they were stockpiling toilet paper you would have thought they’d been spending too much time on a weird corner of the internet. Then, over the course of about three weeks, the entire world changed. Your office closed, your kids came home, and life rearranged itself into something you wouldn’t have believed if you’d described it to yourself a month earlier.</p><p>I think we’re in the “this seems overblown” phase of something much, much bigger than <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Covid</span></a>.”</p><p>Podcast: <a href="https://overcast.fm/+ABN64NcoPYU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">overcast.fm/+ABN64NcoPYU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://neurodoctor.com/2026/02/19/repost-something-big-is-happening/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neurodoctor.com/2026/02/19/rep</span><span class="invisible">ost-something-big-is-happening/</span></a><br /><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>artificialintelligence</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/disruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>disruption</span></a></p> @drrjv yeah that’s a pretty good metaphor. Except, things eventually returned to “normal” after the pandemic
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 8mo ago Replying to @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @futurebird@sauropods.win It's so ridiculous. If I were a parent in the Year of our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-Six, I would simply shut the laptop and tell my kid(s) to go play in the snow. "Sorry, they won't be online today, they're 'sick'. Yeah, bad cold, going around. They'll be fine tomorrow." Everyone needs a break, and no break hits quite like a snow day when you're a li'l nine-year-old. I have so many fond snow day memories. Kids have enough going on. We should let them take a day off to be kids. @theorangetheme@en.osm.town @futurebird@sauropods.win p much yeah
Open post Dan Schnau @danschnau@mastodon.social · 1w ago Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social Remember Aaron Swartz and the tragic fate he suffered? Remember the kids who downloaded games or MP3 files, whose parents were threatened, and in some cases, extorted for money under copyright laws? Yes, where are those copyright laws now? Why are courts and governments now giving a free pass to filthy rich OpenAI, Microsoft, Google & Anthropic? I hate everything about this dual treatments. These AI companies even have audacity to tell others their AI output is copyrighted & others can't use it @nixCraft@mastodon.social absolutely. I remember all of that stuff. Poor Aaron. This whole thing is a travesty.