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We're doing a bad job adulting with IPv4-curious ISPs. Maybe we should adopt the "This is not a place of honor" mem instead?
#IPv6

We're halfway through the post-Thanksgiving week, and the cyber news machine is cranking back up again, so check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Indian government retreats from spy app mandate,
--US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website,
--Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced,
--Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims,
--Korea's Gmarket hit by string of una…

Indian government retreats from spy app mandate
US DOJ seizes Myanmar scam center website, Coupang execs sold company stock before breach was announced, Coupang is reviewing compensation for breach victims, Korea's Gmarket hit by string of unauthorized payments, Japan's Askul internet service resumes one month post-breach, much more

Many parts of the Internet I know and loath are mostly down. I hope this helps shake confidence in US BigTech. Probably won't, because if people were rational, they wouldn't have built the digital world we're currently forced to inhabit, but who knows, it might. Even the vague possibility of it has made my day better as I head to bed.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000/115596528479293098
Seeing the AI crowd shift towards household robots makes me think: Where are they going to get the training data?
I'm calling it now: We're going to see some sort of internet c…

Meanwhile, because Mastodon server admins are all cheapskates and we're not going to pay the sort of prices for hosting that AWS charge, the Fediverse keeps on chugging away happily while the corporate internet falls apart.
#AWS #AWSdown #Fediverse

Now Kurzgesagt are doing an "AI is killing the Internet" thing.
There have been many of these lately from a lot of serious and "Internet famous" sources. All of them have much the same take as I do: Right now we're heading into a "dustbowl" of "AI slop", but there are actual valid uses that don't get a lot of press.
This overuse is a byproduct of the AI "gold rush" where a number of excessively funded companies are pushing o…