@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-06-29 11:42:01
from my link log —
Libsodium quick reference.
https://paragonie.com/blog/2017/06/libsodium-quick-reference-quick-comparison-similar-functions-and-which-one-use
saved 2019-07-08
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-04-29 00:30:49
The Justice Department Is Now Reformatting Trump Truth Social Posts as Court Filings (Madiba K. Dennie/Balls and Strikes)
https://ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/justice-department-trump-ballroom-filing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260428/p134#a260428p134
@david@boles.xyz2026-05-21 12:10:25
The Senator Who Used to Be Cory Booker
We taught at Rutgers-Newark in the same years, before he was mayor, before the Senate, before the rebranding. We shared a building lobby on University Avenue. I never shook his hand. I did not need to. Everyone on that campus knew Cory. He pulled the air toward him when he walked through a door, a Rhodes Scholar, a Yale-trained lawyer who had chosen Newark when he could have chosen Manhattan or Washington, a young man who spoke…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-20 09:51:57
Most interesting part in this Huggingface security disclosure:
"“ We ran the forensic analysis instead on GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, on our own infrastructure. This had a second benefit: no attacker data, and none of the credentials it referenced, left our environment.”"
Which is worrying for OpenAI and Anthropic i would think.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-07-16 13:05:27
"Saving Tangible Media for Tomorrow: A Reflection from Natalie Nemes" @ The Signal
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2026/07/natalie-nemes/
"When I tell people that I intern at the Library of Congress reformatting obsolete media such as CDs, DVDs, and flopp…
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-07-24 08:06:56
Which Model Is Actually Serving You? IRIS: Budgeted Black-Box Auditing of Model Substitution and Routing Dilution in LLM Gateways
Yuewei Zhang, Zhi-Hai Zhang, Hanzhang Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20860 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20860 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20860
arXiv:2607.20860v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Commercial LLM gateways mediate access to hosted models, but the served backend may not match the advertised one: it may substitute a cheaper model on every request or route only a fraction $\epsilon$ of requests to it. Prior black-box auditors often need a privileged signal (log-probabilities, token ranks, or reference samples) or a target-specific probe, fix the query budget in advance, and return a yes/no verdict. We present $\mathrm{IRIS}$, an audit that needs only the returned text: it asks endpoints to generate random numbers or strings, fingerprints the backend, and is the first to combine, in one text-only audit, detection of whole-stream substitution and fractional dilution, attribution of the served backend, routing-fraction ($\epsilon$) estimation, and a query budget it sizes itself. A cheap pilot fits the exponential query-error decay and freezes that budget before any suspect query is issued. On an intra-family Qwen3 ladder $\mathrm{IRIS}$ verifies the backend at $0.99$ AUROC and sharpens attribution as queries accumulate; across a commercial OpenRouter library it catches $\epsilon{=}0.3$ dilution on margin-qualified pairs at $0.85$ mean power ($0.017$ false-positive rate) and recovers $\epsilon$ to within $0.04$ for enrolled diluents; and a live cross-provider audit flags $14$ of $15$ same-model provider pairs by genuine quantization and kernel deviations, corroborated on third-party MET traces. Against comparable black-box auditors, $\mathrm{IRIS}$ matches or beats detection on shared tasks, and adaptive allocation lifts the matched-budget target-hit rate from $73$% to $87$%. Further experiments cover adversarial gateways, knob identifiability, unseen diluents, and false-positive control.
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@Europablog@mastodon.social2026-06-02 08:18:13
Ringen um eine Reform der EU-Tabaksteuerrichtlinie. Von Jürgen Klute.
#EU
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-17 15:13:03
Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.social2026-06-15 10:07:09
Neuer Beitrag im #FluchtForschung blog @…
"Die GEAS-Reform: eine Zäsur mit Konsequenzen für den Flüchtlingsschutz"
von Petra Bendel
v.a. zu den Menschen- und Flüchtlingsrechtlichen Kritikpunkten an der
@scott@carfree.city2026-06-20 00:24:57
"The SFMTA announced last month that it would significantly reduce the 1.1 miles of [Ocean Ave] red [transit-only] lanes to a handful of blocks"
Okay, hold it right there. That's a cut-and-dried violation of our city charter's Transit First policy, repeatedly reaffirmed by voters. This should not be a debate because we already had the debate. The "don't prioritize transit" side lost. Transit supporters need to sue the city.
