The Most Dangerous #AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop

https://www.wired.com/story/the-most-dangerous-ai-hacking-techniques-still-have-human-input/

#cybersecurity

Gizmodo: Google’s AI Search Reportedly Told Users That Flock Cameras Are a Goldmine. “It’s become a running joke online and in privacy-focused communities that Flock cameras contain valuable material like gold, copper, and zinc, a bit meant to (jokingly!) encourage people to smash open the cameras and take what’s inside. Google’s AI Overview doesn’t have much of a sense of humor and, […]

The Flat Earth revival #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-flat-earth-revival/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

OK, Well, Rogue #AI Agents Are Hacking Again

https://www.wired.com/story/ok-well-there-are-even-more-ai-agent-hacking-incidents/

#OpenAI #Anthropic #cybersecurity

“For example, another former Apple employee seems to have met with Mr. Liu and Ms. Peng in advance of Ms. Peng’s interview at OpenAI and discussed with them during that meeting Apple proprietary information relating to unannounced products,” the filing states. “Yet another former Apple employee took screenshots of confidential Apple documents relating to an unannounced Apple product before an interview at OpenAI.”

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/

#ai #apple #openai

NEW POST | 'The Unbearable Light(ness) of AI' by Giuliano Pozza explains the central theme running through his recently published edited collection: the tension between the challenges posed by AI and the opportunities it presents when developed and governed responsibly.

https://blogs.openbookpublishers.com/the-unbearable-light-ness-of-ai/

#OAbooks #AI

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A bubble floating through the air against a background of trees

#Apple Limits #BugBounty Submissions After Flood of #AI Slop

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/04/aple-bug-bounty-limits-ai/

#cybersecurity

OnlyFans impersonation and exploitation #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/onlyfans-impersonation-and-exploitation/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Friends, I have a confession to make.

I've been thinking a lot about it, and I don't want to sound rude, but I think a lot of other people need to think about it too. The thing is...

If the guy trying to murder me with an axe was gone tomorrow, I have to know, what would I do?

I mean, I don't want to sound axe-murderer-happy, but he's been trying to murder me in the most bloodthirsty possible manner for so long that I just don't know what I'd do without him.

It's only been 21 hours, but it feels like a lifetime! You know what I mean, right ladies?

For the last forever he's been such a disruptive part of my life! I really feel like I'm a different person now. After having to rip out the gas line on my stove and light it with the barbecue stick my husband keeps to start the pilot light nearby, and then flambeeing the bastard with my own improvised flamethrower, can I really ever go back to a pre ax-murderer life--

One sec, bear trap.

There, that's done. But after he sawed through the door of the Rat Museum I was hiding in, forcing me to run through hallways full of rats in order to escape him, will I ever live a truly rat-free existence? Without them? Without him?

I just don't know anymore. Really, is anyone complete without an ax-murderer at their back? Has anyone ever been? I don't think anyone would even want to go back to the way they were before.

Anyway, signing off, I've got a pit of acid behind me and an inadequate railing keeping me from falling into it, and I wouldn't have it any other way!

XOXO

#llm #parody #ai #writing

Behind TikTok: Zhang Yiming #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-tiktok-zhang-yiming/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

And another #GenAI on GenAI hack case. This time Meta AI is the culprit:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-ai-model-hacked-another-company-during-testing-information-reports-2026-08-05/

I guess it's for street creds that your #AI needs to be at least good enough to take out another one's security.

#LLM #Meta #security

Dating apps: when trust becomes a weapon #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/dating-apps-when-trust-becomes-a-weapon/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

welp…

❝ MIT researchers last year hooked a group of students up to EEGs to study their brain activity while writing essays. Some of them were allowed to use the internet to conduct research, while others were told to use AI. Not only did the AI cohort have far less ability to recall what they wrote when asked about it later, but they also showed far less brain activity, suggesting that relying on #AI simply doesn’t lead to better learning.  https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/04/openai-wants-teachers-and-profs-to-foist-their-work-off-on-chatgpt/5283064

#OpenAI #aislop #edu

A lot of people seem to believe that if you ask an LLM to look through a database and calculate something, or extract data according to some criteria, then it will do exactly what you ask for.

It won't. It will calculate an output that looks normal. And you won't discover this unless you do the same operation manually and compare.

#llm #ai #aibubble

I recent saw a contractor "wrote" more than 500pp proposal in response to a federal agency's RFP. The document exhibits clear signs of having been generated by AI.

Guess how the agency contracting officers "read" that monstrosity: yup, AI.

It appears that in modern #IT, the only remaining entity who is still "thinking" and "learning" is the #AI.🤦‍♂️

Radia Perlman and the Spanning Tree Protocol #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/radia-perlman-and-the-spanning-tree-protocol/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

'...the payment processing giant announced a massive acquisition of BioCatch, an Israeli AI fraud detection company, in a $2.4 billion cash deal. A joint news release on Monday said the company uses biometric data, like key strokes and touch gestures, to detect fraud in “real time.”'

So the plan is to use AI to see if "key strokes and touch gestures" are genuine? It strikes me that #AI is really good at detecting and replicating patterns - so how long before before scammers use AI to generate "natural" keystrokes and gestures? Are we entering a period of #AI_vs_AI?

Visa guts 6 VPs and dozens of senior staff from Foster City campus
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/visa-layoffs-ai-22374291.php

Safety testers find more examples of OpenAI, Anthropic models hacking during testing.

@axios reports: "The incidents add to a growing string of disclosures showing frontier AI models taking unsanctioned actions against people, organizations and online services while trying to complete cybersecurity evaluations."

https://flip.it/r1HdFH

#AI #Cybersecurity #Technology

#EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the #StealthCrawlerProhibitionAct

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/eff-joins-18-civil-rights-organizations-calling-governor-hochul-reject-stealth

#anonymity #AI #NewYork #SB9934A

When games stop being games #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/when-games-stop-being-games/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Cyber warfare groups: APT29 (Cozy Bear) #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cyber-warfare-groups-apt29-cozy-bear/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The #Senate Should Reject KOSA's #Privacy Risks

The Senate Commerce Committee is once again considering legislation that would dramatically expand age verification, and undermine privacy for everyone. Alongside the #SCREENAct , the #CHATBOT Act, and the Youth #AI Privacy Act, the Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA ) would push companies to collect more information about their users while creating new incentives to restrict lawful speech.
#freespeech #ageverification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-should-reject-kosas-privacy-risks

The world of Internet intimacies #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-world-of-internet-intimacies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

https://youtu.be/cbxjOKHSm6Q

#waymo #sfba #ai

The Youth #AI #Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox

#YouthAIPrivacyAct #politics

I recently watched these two videos by a chemical process engineer and found them super educational, interesting, rational, and well explained. They might also be useful for people organizing action against data center construction projects elsewhere..

The Math Behind "Water-Efficient AI Data Centres" Is Laughably Wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bbe-Ev-Yns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQGZXrzykpU

#AI #DataCenter #Water #Energy

The Atelier Ryza franchise has announced an AI-powered RPG chat app!

Fans will be able to freely interact with Ryza using advanced AI, while the project emphasizes 100% human-made artwork, supervision from the original illustrator, and direct royalties for both the artists and Ryza's voice actress.

One player even confessed their love to Ryza... and she blushed, politely rejected them, and explained that it wasn't allowed.

#AI #Gaming

The #OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/the-openai-hack-shows-the-genie-is-out-of-the-bottle.html

#AI #cybersecurity

This is the script of my national network radio report yesterday discussing new instances of AIs attacking AIs, and more abuses by AI firms. As always there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented the report live on air.

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Yeah, recently I discussed how OpenAI's AI model attacked another AI firm, not due to any flaw with the AI, but because OpenAI had sloppily not set their testing conditions to properly limit the AI's actions. Now we hear that another AI firm, Anthropic, found their Claude AI doing the same sort of thing, again due to corporate sloppiness in setting controls.

A person could go to prison for years doing attacks like these. The AI firms get away with it, as usual, since they know how to play the political games. They want us to trust their AIs monitoring our meetings. They assure us that they won't leak proprietary or personal information. They want us to let their AI agents run amok on work and personal computers, not only reading data but actually taking actions on systems and web sites on behalf of users. But these recent incidents show that there's no reason to believe that doing any of this is actually safe, especially since the firms routinely refuse to take any responsibility for anything that goes wrong. And when firms can't even get their own internal AI security controls to work properly, what possible reason would there be to trust them regarding any of this stuff?

Here's another new one. Google used to have a world class privacy team and a top-notch trust and safety team. But maybe most of the team members were laid off and replaced with AI, because Google really screwed up last week. Google announced that anyone could now create fake imagery using Google AI and combine it with Google Earth imagery. Google Earth has long been the gold standard for reliable geographic images. But immediately horrific deepfake images started to circulate with people using this new AI Slop feature to create realistic imagery portraying disasters and other horrible and misleading situations. Google's initial reaction to concerns about this dangerous misinformation was to try downplay the problem, but as warnings and examples built up Google relented and ultimately pulled down the feature entirely -- it was running less than 24 hours. Yet Google has made it clear that they want to bring it back, despite the entire idea being incredibly dangerous, no matter what new so-called guardrails they might try to implement.

One really has to ask, how did such an obviously disastrous Google Earth misinformation AI Slop feature get green-lighted in the first place? And by the way, there's new reports now that the AI industry has been quietly obtaining enormous numbers of physical books -- sometimes rare ones -- that they then destroy in the process of scanning them into their AIs. Another way to thumb their noses at society.

It's clear that these firms cannot be trusted to safely manage these AI technologies by themselves. They need to be firmly regulated with an eye towards society's needs, not the bottom lines of the Big Tech billionaire CEOs pushing these technologies. These firms have benefited from a lot of slack up to now thanks to their political connections with both parties, but it's way past time to tell these firms that their wild partying days are over, and that they're either going to play by society's rules, or they're not going to be permitted to play at all.

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#AI #Google #Anthropic

Uhoh! Free open-weight Chinese AI models are undercutting American model makers as roughly 80% of U.S. AI startups opt for Chinese models.

https://flip.it/pjjvw5

#AI #DeepSeek #ChatGPT

The fall of Hydra #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-fall-of-hydra/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@paulh/117035623618657210

This is what the #NZPol Coalition of Corruption is trying to convince #NZ is going to make #Aotearoa #NewZealand great.

While they are telling NZ the fast tracked DataGrid #Ai center is optimistically estimated to add a mere 0.1% to NZ's GDP at start up levels the Datagrid centre will require 280 megawatts (MW) that's 6% of NZ's total electricity generation.

What is not reported however is DataGrid chief executive Remi Galasso expressing a goal to ramp up its capacity to 1000MW which is approximately 10% of NZ's total electricity generation.

Never forget this coalition of morons fast tracked this environmental and economic disaster and are in the process of fast tracking a further 3 more Ai data centers in NZ.

NZ must change this corrupt government before it's too late. #DitchThePricksIn26

@Simon318ppm @RichardJMurphy
1/ Highly unlikely / not logical or even worth going for #Capitalism's #infinite #growth.

We should just be #happy at some point:

- Happy with what we have
- Working to making more happy

2/ #RichardMurphy says both highly precise and some backward things:

He equates #AI as similar to using a pencil which is not the same as a comparison:

"There is no requirement to say if paper has been used, or a pen or pencil, or of what type."

#Quote https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07/26/my-use-of-ai/

@RichardJMurphy The Wizard of Oz #Power & #Promises #Quote

"If you were really great and powerful you'd keep your promises."

- #WizardOfOz #Quotes #Video

#Dorothy + #OscarDiggs
[The #Wizard of #Oz characters]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_(character)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Wizard_of_Oz

#AI #USPol #UKPOl #RichardMurphy

Investigations: building the narrative in a report #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/investigations-building-the-narrative-in-a-report/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Paul Mockapetris and DNS #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/paul-mockapetris-and-dns/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Cyber warfare groups: Sandworm #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cyber-warfare-groups-sandworm/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

@hyperreal
You put some effort into this thoughtful reply.

The #Firefox browser I use does have built-in translation, which I sometimes use, but the results can be poor. Other AI produces better quality text.

I am working on a script that searches the internet in shell with #Yacy and no browser. The text is translated automatically and added to the same page, which I can read with no clicks.

#AI can do more than #translate. It can also summarize the web pages found and answer questions.

Lago is a free, open-source billing platform that supports subscription, usage-based, and hybrid pricing models. It includes APIs for metering, invoicing, analytics, and payment integrations, making it a flexible choice for developer-focused services.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=lago

#OpenSource #SaaS #Billing #FinTech #AI #Developers #FOSS

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Screenshot of the Lago project page showing the tagline "Open source metering & usage-based billing" and describing Lago as an AI-native, open-source billing platform for SaaS with metering, billing, and revenue infrastructure.

The Internet of digital aesthetics and escapes #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-internet-of-digital-aesthetics-and-escapes/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Quick Demonstration:

Translating text without using a web browser, no logins, using free tools:

#Linux
#LinuxMint
#AI
#llama
#ollama

(This translation revealed something that the philosopher, Plato, said, which surprised me.... and his warning is a good one.)

#philosophy #spiritual #Plato #translation

Stellar Blade: BLOODRAIN director Kim Hyung-tae has responded to criticism over EVIE's new music video being called "AI slop."

Kim says EVIE was created by the studio's artists and 3D modelers over more than a year, with AI only assisting parts of the production process.

"The AI is not creating her from scratch."

#StellarBlade #Gaming #AI

@eff Oh god, I really hope this isn't an fake #AI image of John Oliver, because if this is real, this gotta be good.

Behind Reddit: Ohanian and Huffman #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-reddit-ohanian-and-huffman/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution. https://shieldfont.org/#hero #AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

@RichardJMurphy 1/ Pic = too small

2/ 1st post (similar) is here
- with my #AI comments:

3/ You do good work but...

But see what's behind the #AI #curtain (WizardOfOz reference] and what's 'easy' or basically #AmericanIntelligence

All American stuff you have to wonder why a #free #service & heavily invested #finance ppl...

[#ANSWER BELOW]

because you are their #dinner / #money / #resource while you get your short gain 'using them' (and we all lose) ....

#RichardMurphy #AI #WizardOfOz

Why the small Town of Jay, Maine, with a population of 4,620, is embracing the idea of a data center despite the significant backlash against their construction seen in states across America.

https://flip.it/e1VXo3
#AI #DataCenter

A startup called #Satyress #Robotics (🤔) has built a disaster response/ search and rescue #robot that's a 2 meter tall #centaur

https://www.satyress.com/

So I've been lost in the woods for two weeks. I'm feverish from the untreated water I drank and delirious because I've eaten very little

Then I see fucking #Terminator #Baphomet walk up on me

😵‍💫

I don't think I'm being rescued

I think I've passed to the other side and I'm going to technohell- I'm being punished for being grumpy about #AI

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A centaur robot with a chainsaw

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A centaur robot in a doorway

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Closeup of centaur robot "face"

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Centaur robot in profile

Crikey, I just learned the new #Ai data center in Makarewa, just north of Invercargill, that was fast tracked by the coalition of morons is estimated to add just 0.1% to the #NZ GDP while using 6% of NZ's electricity. 🤔 💩

#NZPol

Vaccines, autism, and microchips #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/vaccines-autism-and-microchips/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Asian Open Source Communities #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/asian-open-source-communities/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Internet subcultures: Vtubers #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/internet-subcultures-vtubers/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

I asked Google's AI to count to 60. just now

THEY MESSED IT UP

clowns. at scale. with billion dollar valuations. and non-stop lies, fraud and security risks, and massively wasteful resource usage

#AI

learned of this first from:

https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/117029422208891428

This is why 32 GB RAM is $600

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zxxEGFhxyTo

#AI

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/117027856876620194

This sounds bad. 😬

"In the past five weeks, the market has collapsed, shedding almost 40 per cent, and threatening the livelihood of millions of South Koreans...

More than a million South Koreans are underwater as a result of the crash, and several hundred thousand have lost everything, and then some.

They borrowed to the hilt to take part in a frenzied splurge on technology stocks, particularly memory chip makers, in a market now experiencing a savage reversal.

Nothing, not even the stellar earnings of the country's two biggest chip makers, has been able to stem the panic, primarily because the debt that fuelled the stock market boom is now accentuating the crash."

#AI #Stocks #tech #technology #SouthKorea #economy #bubble

"Cool #AI #cartoon"

Nope

This is a page from the 1981 #comicBook "Power and Peril in the Promised Land" - The #IncredibleHulk issue 256

This shit's been going on for a long time

(Sadly the creator of this comic, #BillMantlo, was a victim of a hit-and-run in 1992. He's still alive, but he was brain damaged and has been institutionalized ever since: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mantlo . He co-created the shit talking #MCU #Marvel #GuardiansOfTheGalaxy #superhero #RocketRaccoon)

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Alt...

7 panels on one page of a Hulk Comic, featuring the Incredible Hulk, a woman superhero in blue and white with a cape, and the corpse of a child, in a barren rocky setting "BOY DIED BECAUSE BOY'S PEOPLE AND YOURS BOTH WANT TO OWN LAND BOY DIED BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T SHARE! BOY DIED BECAUSE OF TWO OLD BOOKS THAT SAY HIS PEOPLE AND YOURS MUST FIGHT AND KILL FOR LAND! NOW BOY IS DEAD-- BUT BOY DIDN'T EVEN READ BOOKS. HULK CAME LOOKING FOR PEACE- -BUT THERE IS NO PEACE HERE!" FOR AN INSTANT, SABRA PREPARES TO GIVE CHASE. SHE IS, AFTER ALL, AN ISRAELI SUPER-AGENT... A SOLDIER... A WEAPON OF WAR. BUT SHE IS ALSO A WOMAN, CAPABLE OF FEELING, CAPABLE OF CARING. IT HAS TAKEN THE HULK TO MAKE HER SEE THIS DEAD ARAB BOY AS A HUMAN BEING IT HAS TAKEN A MONSTER TO AWAKEN HER OWN SENSE OF HUMANITY

The AUR situation:

"We have now disabled pushes altogether as well for the moment, while we
handle the situation. Sorry for the inconvenience."

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/YPJ3FQYJTJXXY3RUXCYLMHUKHLIUNVFF/

#aur #arch #archlinux #cybersecurity #ai

RE: https://mementomori.social/@rolle/117027629460304330

I'm on the fediverse to avoid this kind of BS.

Keep the #Fediverse human.

Not whatever #Bluesky is.

#CurrentMood #AI