"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects.
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"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.
“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”
But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
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"Wikipedia is the largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled, with more than 7 million articles in its English version, the largest and most developed of 343 language projects. Started nearly 25 years ago, the site was long mocked as a byword for the unreliability of information on the internet, yet today it is, without exaggeration, the digital world’s factual foundation. It’s what Google puts at the top of search results otherwise awash in ads and spam, what social platforms cite when they deign to correct conspiracy theories, and what AI companies scrape in their ongoing quest to get their models to stop regurgitating info-slurry — and consult with such frequency that they are straining the encyclopedia’s servers. Each day, it’s where approximately 70 million people turn for reliable information on everything from particle physics to rare Scottish sheep to the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184, a testament both to Wikipedia’s success and to the total degradation of the rest of the internet as an information resource.
“It’s basically the only place on the internet that doesn’t function as a confirmation bias machine.”
But as impressive as this archive is, it is the byproduct of something that today looks almost equally remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness and, through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of consensus reality."
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
@remixtures it is somewhat ironic that the post is about open access Wikipedia, but Verge wants an immediate subscription of cca $50 a year to read the blog post. How long is the blog post? Hope Verge gives most of the profits >80% to authors.
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@evan Oooh, you caught a new Teeny Void Demon in the cat trap! What a perfectly seasonal addition to the family, congrats.
And welcome, Corvus! My black-but-for-that-silly-pointing-mutation Sudo sez "YOOOOWWWWWLLLOOOOooooo".
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Making a Virtual Machine Look like Real Hardware to Malware
Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or not one’s software runs inside a VM, with [bRootForce] going through a list of ways that a VirtualBox VM can be detected from inside the guest OS. While there are a range of obvious naming issues, such as the occurrence of the word ‘VirtualBox’ everywhere, there many more subtle ways too.
Demonstrated is the PoC ‘malware’ application called Al-Khaser, which can be used to verify one’s anti-malware systems, such as when trying to unleash a debugger on a piece of malware, run it inside a VM, along with many more uses. Among its anti-virtualization features are specific registry key names and values, file system artefacts, directory names, MAC addresses, virtual devices, etc.
In order to squeeze by those checks, [bRootForce] created the vbox_stealth shell script for Bash-blessed systems in order to use the VirtualBox Manager for the renaming of hardware identifier, along with the VBoxCloak project’s PowerShell script that’s used inside a Windows VirtualBox guest instance to rename registry keys, kill VirtualBox-specific processes, and delete VirtualBox-specific files.
Theoretically this should make it much harder for any malware to detect that it’s not running inside Windows on real hardware, but as always there are more subtle ways that are even harder to disguise.
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On that note, we have a new member of our family. His name is Corvus. He is smol but mighty. We like him alot. /cc @maj @amita @Stavro #BlackCatDay
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@stevendbrewer LOL
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@evan Can I write it in PHP as long as I call the python library somehow?
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Tutti gli psicodrammi in Apple sull’Ai
L'articolo proviene da #StartMag e viene ricondiviso sulla comunità Lemmy @informatica
Presa in contropiede da Trump, che l'ha costretta a indirizzare 500 miliardi in piani di sviluppo negli Usa, Apple continua a essere in difficoltà sul fronte Ai. Siri, dopo tanti rinvii, non può certo più mancare il debutto del prossimo
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Are you on the Fediverse because you love social networking, or because you hate social networking?
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It's for Computer Networking. I have to write a processor that takes a bespoke CSV format for firewall rules and turns them into calls to OpenFlow using a Python library called pox.
