Ein IT-Forscher hat Ende vergangenen Jahres eine Schwachstelle bei Facebook und Instagram entdeckt, mit der sich die Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung umgehen ließ.
Once again I will say - "offline". Several people have asked me why I stopped using Social Media, and I don't actually know what to answer. I do use it, that's the thing. And I don't like it.
For a while I thought Reddit was fun because there's little hate, but that's not the case. Sure, people are generally nicer than on the toxic sewer that is Twitter, but the content itself is negative - perpetual hate speech against other views, mocking others, pornography.
I tried to go back to 9GAG and funny pictures, because after all, hey, I have a premium account. It turned out that 40 percent of the content was arguing how many genders there are. On Quora, which is social media for 50+, a lot of wise guys and all-knowing haters.
The painful truth is that you can't live completely without a smartphone. It is impossible not to have a banking app, an app to order food or a cab. Feature phones are most often of very poor quality, not even meeting basic criteria. These are not the days when in 2005 you had a phone that had a flawless alarm, managed to listen to podcasts on it and didn't lag when dialing or texting. Some people also still use GPS while driving.
But: I managed to keep the number of apps to a bare minimum, leaving YT Music, Google Podcast, Whatsapp, Outlook and Mastodon basically.
I use an Instax Mini 11 camera that takes instant photos like a Polaroid. If you respect the limited number of attempts, you also respect the photos themselves. The phone should not be used to take pictures, unless you need to take a picture of a public announcement on the staircase about a scheduled power outage.
I don't write notes on my phone or even on my computer anymore. That's what I have a notebook for - a planner and a regular small pocket notebook. Suddenly the notes become more relevant.
The effects are almost immediate - instead of getting annoyed at stupid things on the Internet, I suddenly started to have a lot more time for learning a language, playing XSX, talking, walking and going out with people. I don't miss the famous "here and now". Because it's impossible to be on the phone and "here." No matter how hard you tell yourself that.
Social Media is aimed at making you addicted. But believe me, you don't need to know how your ex is spending her summer vacation, how much weight a co-worker has lost, or how young some Indian woman got her PhD. You don't need to know what some uninteresting journalist just said. You don't need to know what the LGBT community dislikes again in some teen drama series. You don't need to know what some frustrated incel wrote about women because some girl told him that she doesn't really want to date a lowest-wage alcoholic. You don't have to.
You make this trash yourself. And I'm not saying this as someone who is making excuses, just someone who realized how much she lost after she created a Facebook account for herself in 2011.
#Facebook runs experiments that literally drain the battery of your phone on purpose to see how you change your behaviour in those situations - or how it changes the way videos and images are rendered. It calls it "negative testing".
I'm appalled that a large business can run experiments that actively harm their users for no obvious benefit, get away with it, and people still believe in the mythology of the free market that eventually ends up rewarding the best product - with users eventually picking the winners among a pool of comparable competitors.
In an ideal and balanced capitalist market with low entry barriers for competitors, a company like Meta should already have burned in a big ball of fire long ago for all of its sins. The fact that Meta is still alive, can get away with basically anything and it actively pushes away competitors (usually by purchasing them) is the most macroscopic failure of that rotten economic system called capitalism.
Vollbremsung und abbiegen: Microsoft setzt auf KI statt das Metaverse
Tausende Stellen fallen bei Microsoft weg – im Bereich Mixed Reality. Investiert wird in OpenAI und KI. Google reagiert mit Panik, Meta mit überraschender Ruhe.
Data out of the radio noise: the PoC is out. This technology can allegedly detect people (and their poses) even through walls by simply using #WiFi#routers.
On a second thought, it's not even that much of rocket science. Collect zillions of data about typical indoor Wi-Fi signals, use some basic FFT to infer their "echoes" from their amplitude and phase shifts (as some of them bounce back to the antenna), extract only the echoes, label the dataset (i.e. tell which echoes are associated to an object, or human pose, of interest), and feed the whole thing to a big ML model.
I even did similar ML projects in the past, but for noise/echo detection in audio signals (the principles here are exactly the same though, just replace audio with radio). Actually, any wave could be used for mapping purposes using the same "echo" principle. It's just that the higher the frequency, the higher the resolution, and therefore lower power is required. In theory one could even map things and people in a room using audio waves, if the audio waves were very high-pitched and loud enough.
Pros: it could be a game-changer for the mapping of any environment. Something as cheap as a pair of Wi-Fi antennas could replace more power-hungry and expensive equipment like LiDAR on anything from self-driving cars to crowd monitoring for public spaces.
Cons: "DensePose is a technology developed by #Meta Platforms Inc. and used by #Facebook". How come it doesn't surprise me? I can bet a reasonable amount of money that in a few months we'll see Meta launch to market a new fancy Wi-Fi router...
Worst: Wi-Fi signals go through walls. So even if I'm careful/paranoid, and I have my own Debian-running BananaPi as a Wi-Fi router, but my neighbour buys the new hypothetical "Meta Router", Facebook may end up mapping me, my family and my apartment as well - and no consent agreement can save me from that. In the wrong hands, this is stuff that could belong to a Black Mirror episode.
@grzewap
Trzeba od razu wyprostować kilka nieścisłości w tym tekście: #Mastodon <> #fediverse.
Fediverse to więcej niż sieć serwerów mastodona. To również dziesiątki innych projektów i tysiące opartych na nich serwerów.
Co za tym idzie "mastodon i fediverse" nie są alternatywą dla twittera - co najwyżej jest nią sam mastodon, natomiast fediverse może być (jest!) alternatywą dla całego ekosystemu korporacyjnych, scentralizowanych social mediów. Prawie każda aktywność i forma publikacji obecna w korpomediach ma tu swoje federacyjne odpowiedniki. Np. #youtube -> #peertube , #facebook -> #friendica , #hubzilla , #instagram -> #pixelfed , #Spotify -> #funkwhale itd. Wybór jest znacznie większy: fedidb.org/software .
Mastodon nie jest też protokołem, jak głosi tekst. Protokół na którym oparta jest wymiana między serwerami #fediverse nosi nazwę #activitypub. Natomiast faktycznie API mastodona, ale do komunikacji między klientem i serwerem, jest nieformalnym standardem używanym przez niektóre inne projekty.
Czy próbowaliście usunąć link do Twittera z profilu na FB? Nie widzę u siebie takiej możliwości! Insta i inne można zmieniać, ale Twitter jest nie edytowalny!!!
Mam na facebooku 2 fp które nadal chciałbym obserwować używając mastodona. Da się zrobić jakiegoś bota czy coś żeby mi sharował posty z fb tutaj? @m0bi13 ty chyba kiedyś o tym pisałeś?
@sowa Pewnie jest wiele rozwiązań, jak z #Facebook-a wrzucić treści do fedi, mnie do głowy przychodzi taki scenariusz:
Wyciągasz posty z fp do RSS, np. z pomocą http://fetchrss.com, który to FB obsługuje
Oh, ignorance is bliss - it feels great to not look at the internet for most of the time. Just wanted to have a mental note of it. BRB, going back to that offline for a little bit, once again!
@maotsu With #Facebook it was pretty easy for me. Over 3 years ago I just ripped of the band-aid and deleted my account. Never looked back and didn’t even bother to backup my data. I’ve managed to convince some of my closest friends to join Signal, to stay in touch more often. Looking at what’s happening to #Twitter, it’s next…
After those years I’ve recently seen Facebook again on my wife’s phone and it’s now so unfamiliar and unattractive… @pawel
I need to de-train myself from checking #Facebook every few mins. The #algorithm and #adverts are driving me crazy! 🤯
One reason that I don't/won't use Facebook Messenger.
Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalised advertising—a ruling that could have profound consequences for a company that has grown rich by running ads.
The ruling, with a €390 million fine attached, is targeted specifically at Facebook and Instagram, but a huge blow to Big Tech as a whole.
Na YouTube śledzi mnie najwięcej osób pokroju "Nie jestem lewakiem, ale..."
Na Facebooku śledzi mnie najwięcej osób typ "Hehe, śmieszny mem, polajkuję tego funpaO JEZU O KURWA ON PISZE O SOCJALIŹMIE!!!1"
Na Twitterze śledzi mnie najwięcej w queerowych nastolatków i młodych dorosłych wdających się w najgłupsze możliwe inby w Internecie (i tak kocham ich wszystkich, nie przejmujcie się).
Cholera wie, kto śledzi mnie na Mastodonie. Jakieś pomysły?
Ludzie! Myślcie proszę! Jak puszczacie psa samopas, to niech on co najmniej ma adesowkę przypietą do obroży. Wystarczy coś prostego z numerem telefonu właściciela!
I nie piszcie później na #Facebook, że już kolejny raz to się stało. Skoro wiesz, że pies jest uciekinierem, to czy nie lepiej się zabezpieczyć przed tym? Szczególnie, że dziś też jeszcze słuchać wystrzały?!
Myślcie! To nie takie trudne! Mój ma adresowkę, GPS, obroże świecącą w nocy... Można?!
Some friends of mine complained that #mastodon is boring.
My Answer: Yes, it's boring at the beginning. It will not fill your timeline with "You May Like" right after registration, as #tiktok#Twitter#Facebook are doing.
You HAVE TO work hard to find the accounts you like. You need to be responsible for your timeline. It's like standing in front of a newsstand, and you need to think about which newspaper/magazine you're about to buy.
Nowy wpis na blogu!
Mastodon – Twitter v2.0? [ENG 🇬🇧]
#activitypub #facebook #fediverse #friendica #instagram #instance #lemmy #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #reddit #twitter #youtube
Autor: @to3k
https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/mastodon-eng/
Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung: Facebook-Instagram-Bug ermöglichte Umgehung
Ein IT-Forscher hat Ende vergangenen Jahres eine Schwachstelle bei Facebook und Instagram entdeckt, mit der sich die Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung umgehen ließ.
https://www.heise.de/news/Zwei-Faktor-Authentifizierung-Facebook-Instagram-Bug-ermoeglichte-Umgehung-7476725.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
#Facebook #Instagram #Security #news
Once again I will say - "offline". Several people have asked me why I stopped using Social Media, and I don't actually know what to answer. I do use it, that's the thing. And I don't like it.
For a while I thought Reddit was fun because there's little hate, but that's not the case. Sure, people are generally nicer than on the toxic sewer that is Twitter, but the content itself is negative - perpetual hate speech against other views, mocking others, pornography.
I tried to go back to 9GAG and funny pictures, because after all, hey, I have a premium account. It turned out that 40 percent of the content was arguing how many genders there are. On Quora, which is social media for 50+, a lot of wise guys and all-knowing haters.
The painful truth is that you can't live completely without a smartphone. It is impossible not to have a banking app, an app to order food or a cab. Feature phones are most often of very poor quality, not even meeting basic criteria. These are not the days when in 2005 you had a phone that had a flawless alarm, managed to listen to podcasts on it and didn't lag when dialing or texting. Some people also still use GPS while driving.
But: I managed to keep the number of apps to a bare minimum, leaving YT Music, Google Podcast, Whatsapp, Outlook and Mastodon basically.
I use an Instax Mini 11 camera that takes instant photos like a Polaroid. If you respect the limited number of attempts, you also respect the photos themselves. The phone should not be used to take pictures, unless you need to take a picture of a public announcement on the staircase about a scheduled power outage.
I don't write notes on my phone or even on my computer anymore. That's what I have a notebook for - a planner and a regular small pocket notebook. Suddenly the notes become more relevant.
The effects are almost immediate - instead of getting annoyed at stupid things on the Internet, I suddenly started to have a lot more time for learning a language, playing XSX, talking, walking and going out with people. I don't miss the famous "here and now". Because it's impossible to be on the phone and "here." No matter how hard you tell yourself that.
Social Media is aimed at making you addicted. But believe me, you don't need to know how your ex is spending her summer vacation, how much weight a co-worker has lost, or how young some Indian woman got her PhD. You don't need to know what some uninteresting journalist just said. You don't need to know what the LGBT community dislikes again in some teen drama series. You don't need to know what some frustrated incel wrote about women because some girl told him that she doesn't really want to date a lowest-wage alcoholic. You don't have to.
You make this trash yourself. And I'm not saying this as someone who is making excuses, just someone who realized how much she lost after she created a Facebook account for herself in 2011.
#apps #socialmedia #slowlife #slow #games #addiction #smartphone #facebook #twitter #mastodon #twittermigration #whatsapp
#Facebook runs experiments that literally drain the battery of your phone on purpose to see how you change your behaviour in those situations - or how it changes the way videos and images are rendered. It calls it "negative testing".
I'm appalled that a large business can run experiments that actively harm their users for no obvious benefit, get away with it, and people still believe in the mythology of the free market that eventually ends up rewarding the best product - with users eventually picking the winners among a pool of comparable competitors.
In an ideal and balanced capitalist market with low entry barriers for competitors, a company like Meta should already have burned in a big ball of fire long ago for all of its sins. The fact that Meta is still alive, can get away with basically anything and it actively pushes away competitors (usually by purchasing them) is the most macroscopic failure of that rotten economic system called capitalism.
https://www.phonearena.com/news/facebook-drains-phone-batteries-intentionally_id145227
Nowy wpis na blogu!
Mastodon – Twitter v2.0?
#activitypub #facebook #fediverse #friendica #instagram #instancja #lemmy #mastodon #peertube #pixelfed #reddit #twitter #youtube
https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/mastodon/
Everyone tried Matrix<>Facebook bridge from Mautrix?
It is usable day to day?
Can't test myself as I don't have Facebook account.
#matrix #facebook #bridge
Everyone tried Matrix<>Facebook bridge from Mautrix?
It is usable day to day?
Can't test myself as I don't have Facebook account.
#matrix #facebook #bridge
Meta lässt Trump zurück auf Instagram und Facebook
Bald darf Trump wieder auf Meta-Plattformen posten - weil er ein wichtiger Politiker ist. Doch wird dem Ex-Präsidenten nicht alles erlaubt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-laesst-Trump-zurueck-auf-Instagram-Facebook-7471128.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
#DonaldTrump #Facebook #Instagram #Meinungsfreiheit #MetaPlatforms #SocialMedia #Zensur #news
Vollbremsung und abbiegen: Microsoft setzt auf KI statt das Metaverse
Tausende Stellen fallen bei Microsoft weg – im Bereich Mixed Reality. Investiert wird in OpenAI und KI. Google reagiert mit Panik, Meta mit überraschender Ruhe.
https://www.heise.de/meinung/Vollbremsung-und-abbiegen-Microsoft-setzt-auf-KI-statt-das-Metaverse-7468980.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege
#ChatGPT #Facebook #Google #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Metaverse #Microsoft #OpenAI
Data out of the radio noise: the PoC is out. This technology can allegedly detect people (and their poses) even through walls by simply using #WiFi #routers.
On a second thought, it's not even that much of rocket science. Collect zillions of data about typical indoor Wi-Fi signals, use some basic FFT to infer their "echoes" from their amplitude and phase shifts (as some of them bounce back to the antenna), extract only the echoes, label the dataset (i.e. tell which echoes are associated to an object, or human pose, of interest), and feed the whole thing to a big ML model.
I even did similar ML projects in the past, but for noise/echo detection in audio signals (the principles here are exactly the same though, just replace audio with radio). Actually, any wave could be used for mapping purposes using the same "echo" principle. It's just that the higher the frequency, the higher the resolution, and therefore lower power is required. In theory one could even map things and people in a room using audio waves, if the audio waves were very high-pitched and loud enough.
Pros: it could be a game-changer for the mapping of any environment. Something as cheap as a pair of Wi-Fi antennas could replace more power-hungry and expensive equipment like LiDAR on anything from self-driving cars to crowd monitoring for public spaces.
Cons: "DensePose is a technology developed by #Meta Platforms Inc. and used by #Facebook". How come it doesn't surprise me? I can bet a reasonable amount of money that in a few months we'll see Meta launch to market a new fancy Wi-Fi router...
Worst: Wi-Fi signals go through walls. So even if I'm careful/paranoid, and I have my own Debian-running BananaPi as a Wi-Fi router, but my neighbour buys the new hypothetical "Meta Router", Facebook may end up mapping me, my family and my apartment as well - and no consent agreement can save me from that. In the wrong hands, this is stuff that could belong to a Black Mirror episode.
https://vpnoverview.com/news/wifi-routers-used-to-produce-3d-images-of-humans/
Back to the future: how Mastodon is restoring the lost art of online conversation | John Naughton | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/21/back-to-the-future-how-mastodon-is-restoring-the-lost-art-of-online-conversation #mastodon #fediverse #conversation #optimism
Czy próbowaliście usunąć link do Twittera z profilu na FB? Nie widzę u siebie takiej możliwości! Insta i inne można zmieniać, ale Twitter jest nie edytowalny!!!
#twitter #twitterdown #facebook #fb #socialmedia
This is the best essay on mega platforms and all huge internet companies I have read
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
#platforms #facebook #twitter #tiktok #google #Enshittification #czytałem
[usunięte przez autora]
Usunęłam dziś #facebook #messenger i #twitter :) Wolność
Mam na facebooku 2 fp które nadal chciałbym obserwować używając mastodona. Da się zrobić jakiegoś bota czy coś żeby mi sharował posty z fb tutaj? @m0bi13 ty chyba kiedyś o tym pisałeś?
Oh, ignorance is bliss - it feels great to not look at the internet for most of the time. Just wanted to have a mental note of it. BRB, going back to that offline for a little bit, once again!
I need to de-train myself from checking #Facebook every few mins. The #algorithm and #adverts are driving me crazy! 🤯
One reason that I don't/won't use Facebook Messenger.
#facebook #meta #security #signal #whatsapp
I'd like to see the fall of FB. :) https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/ #facebook #twitter #socialmedia
Surveillance capitalism just got a kicking. In an ultimatum, the European Union has demanded that Meta reform its approach to personalised advertising—a ruling that could have profound consequences for a company that has grown rich by running ads.
The ruling, with a €390 million fine attached, is targeted specifically at Facebook and Instagram, but a huge blow to Big Tech as a whole.
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/meta-surveillance-capitalism
#EU #NYOB #SurveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Google #GDPR
Kilka intuicyjnych obeserwacji.
Na YouTube śledzi mnie najwięcej osób pokroju "Nie jestem lewakiem, ale..."
Na Facebooku śledzi mnie najwięcej osób typ "Hehe, śmieszny mem, polajkuję tego funpaO JEZU O KURWA ON PISZE O SOCJALIŹMIE!!!1"
Na Twitterze śledzi mnie najwięcej w queerowych nastolatków i młodych dorosłych wdających się w najgłupsze możliwe inby w Internecie (i tak kocham ich wszystkich, nie przejmujcie się).
Cholera wie, kto śledzi mnie na Mastodonie. Jakieś pomysły?
Ludzie! Myślcie proszę! Jak puszczacie psa samopas, to niech on co najmniej ma adesowkę przypietą do obroży. Wystarczy coś prostego z numerem telefonu właściciela!
I nie piszcie później na #Facebook, że już kolejny raz to się stało. Skoro wiesz, że pies jest uciekinierem, to czy nie lepiej się zabezpieczyć przed tym? Szczególnie, że dziś też jeszcze słuchać wystrzały?!
Myślcie! To nie takie trudne! Mój ma adresowkę, GPS, obroże świecącą w nocy... Można?!
#psy #zwierzoluby #mójpies
Some friends of mine complained that #mastodon is boring.
My Answer: Yes, it's boring at the beginning. It will not fill your timeline with "You May Like" right after registration, as #tiktok #Twitter #Facebook are doing.
You HAVE TO work hard to find the accounts you like. You need to be responsible for your timeline. It's like standing in front of a newsstand, and you need to think about which newspaper/magazine you're about to buy.
BE RESPONSIBLE IN 2023.
#twitterMigration #fediverse
Facebook i patologie automatycznej moderacji (ciemnastrona.com.pl)