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Internet of Dongs (gah I love them) also got their hands on the "Reddit said this vibrator has malware" vibrator this weekend, pulled it apart, and confirmed it doesn't have malware: https://internetofdon.gs/bad-vibes-or-why-you-…

Bad vibes? Or: Why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on Reddit
Note from RenderMan: This post is a writeup by a friend who specializes in malware analysis and tracking who wishes to remain anonymous but wanted to share what they found. More than happy to post such things, so feel free to reach out if you want your research posted anonymously.

Das Unternehmen Datarade.ai war ja schon paar mal in der Presse dieses Jahr.
Das ist eine zwielichtige Datenhandelsplattform, äh halt, O-Ton ein "globaler Matchmaker für kommerzielle Daten".
Also die kann ungefähr so wie ThePirateBay nichts dafür, wenn z.B. bei 5 Milliarden Verhaltensprofilen oder 130 Milliarden Bewegungsprofilen mal ein oder zwei dabei sind, wo keine ganz gültige Einwilligung für den Handel vorliegt.
Ich hatte da letztes Jahr auch noch was gesam…

And Yuzu is gone. Fuck.
I mean, you can still run it; it's open source; it doesn't need much more functionality than it already has (although I guess it is never going to support macOS x.x). Same with Citra. For Switch there is also Ryujinx for now.
But what about the next console? We don't know whether Nintendo would have prevailed if it had gone to trial, but they had a lot of legal tools. In the future, these things need to be done anonymously. And someday th…

Heute wieder festgestellt, dass die Annahmen, was man tun müsse, um die AfD zu verhindern, diametral auseinanderliegen (Rechtsaußenpolitik machen vs. keine Rechtsaußenpolitik machen).
Im Ergebnis drehen wir uns im Kreis und der Kreis rollt nach rechts.

"#Kagi is a heavily customized, anonymized front-end to Google.
The implications of this are stunning. It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned #search pages are a feature, not a bug. Google prefers those to Kagi, because Google…

Seems big. Ammonium phosphate in literal boatload quantities. Cyanobacteria (and many other microbes) love that stuff. If anyone is still fishing and swimming in the southern Red Sea, they may not be doing so soon.
#Yemen #RedSea

Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Serhat Bakirtas, Elza Erkip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01366 h…

Distribution-Agnostic Database De-Anonymization Under Obfuscation And Synchronization Errors
Database de-anonymization typically involves matching an anonymized database with correlated publicly available data. Existing research focuses either on practical aspects without requiring knowledge of the data distribution yet provides limited guarantees, or on theoretical aspects assuming known distributions. This paper aims to bridge these two approaches, offering theoretical guarantees for database de-anonymization under synchronization errors and obfuscation without prior knowledge of dat…

Internet of Dongs (gah I love them) also got their hands on the "Reddit said this vibrator has malware" vibrator this weekend, pulled it apart, and confirmed it doesn't have malware: https://internetofdon.gs/bad-vibes-or-why-you-…

Bad vibes? Or: Why you shouldn’t trust everything you read on Reddit
Note from RenderMan: This post is a writeup by a friend who specializes in malware analysis and tracking who wishes to remain anonymous but wanted to share what they found. More than happy to post such things, so feel free to reach out if you want your research posted anonymously.