Das #Barcamp #Graz 2025 wird in den #lightningtalks der Linuxtage angekündigt.

Save-the-date : 17.05.2025

Lightning talks sind #Kurzvorträge bei denen man sich kurzfristig zu einem (max. 5 Minuten langen) #Vortrag meldet.

Außerdem diesmal noch dabei:
#pijul, #msys2, #openwrt und #orgmode, Methoden zu #spam-Verhinderung, #softskills,
#private.coffee ,

https://pretalx.linuxtage.at/glt25/talk/CRMYE8/

Meta stara się oczyścić Facebooka z kont spamowych, ograniczając zasięg i monetyzację

#Meta #Facebook #Zasieg #Monetyzacja #Spam

https://www.perplexity.ai/page/meta-is-trying-to-clean-up-fac-gCSwUUmYQjaxhjC6o810yg

«Droht Ihnen die Enteignung von #Gold?»

Ähmm, nein …

… aber dem #Spam nach zu urteilen, gibt es für diese Sorge ein Zielpublikum.

A direct/private message from a stranger. The message is practically her intro* with links to other places on the web where one can follow her.

A boring intro sent to me.
Not her speaking* to* me.

Why the heck would I follow?
She got nothing to say.
We don't even have anything in common.
It's basically #spam.

No, this one's not even following. At least some people go thru the motions of following* (even if they later unfollow because all they want is a follow back).

Es-tuuuuu-pi.....
Duh.

New rule - based on "It's always OK to punch nazis":

It's always OK to punch Cliev and Trumpet of Patriot members. #AusPol #Spammers #spam

Anyone else getting weird e-mails from an "Andrew Gao" at cognition dot ai about how they've set up an AI wiki with AI chat for "my" github repository (that I do not own or maintain)?

Hmmm...

#Phishing attacks leveraging HTML code inside SVG files https://securelist.com/svg-phishing/116256/ #spam #malware

People whom you don't know who write you cryptic DMs.
Over on Tumblr, someone wrote to me "Hello, friend." Nothing more.

Sorry, but these days, that's a red flag. First of all, I am not a friend of the person. Second, I bet this is a scam or spam in the making, just waiting for me to reply.

If you have better intentions, do not just write "Hello" to someone who doesn't know you. Write your reason for writing to the person.

Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced. The company says it is also increasing efforts to remove Facebook accounts that coordinate fake engagement and impersonate others. Read more at @Techcrunch. #AI #Spam #Meta #Facebook #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/F-QO5i

One sad aspect of the advertising industry's switch from dead-tree postal spam to email, online ads, and in-app paid placements...

Once upon a time, when businesses sent postage-paid reply cards with their spam, if they were truly obnoxious, you could cost them (real) money by putting a rock or a brick in a box and taping the reply card to the outside. Some people just taped the card to a literal brick, no box.

I pity the postal employees who had to handle and deliver these, but I would have loved to be a fly on the wall in the mailroom at the offending companies' offices.

#Telegram nowadays like...

In an earlier article, we looked at bulk registration of domain names used for cybercrime based on the data from cybercrime activity in January 2025. We reviewed phishing data that we collect at the Cybercrime Information Center to identify bulk registration activity reported during February 2025.

In this article, Colin Strutt identifies the operators whose registration services were misused by cybercriminals to acquire lots of domain names in short timeframes through some form of automation.

#phishing #malware #spam #cybercrime #dnsabuse

https://interisle.substack.com/p/bulk-registration-of-domain-names

Apparemment, la nouvelle méthode des entreprises de démarchage (qui appellent avec des 06 et 07 alors que c'est interdit), c'est d'appeler des numéros au hasard en disant "Oui bonjour madame [Nom qui n'est pas le tien]".

Et quand tu dis "non, pas du tout", on te répond "ah désolé je me suis trompé, mais c'est pas grave, vous êtes bien la propriétaire de ce numéro… alors… blablabla".

Du coup, cette fois, j'ai dit "non vous vous êtes trompée de numéro" et hop j'ai raccroché.

Ça me gonfle. Je hais ces boîtes.

(Je dis ça parce que j'arrête pas de recevoir ces appels sur mon numéro pro où je décroche les numéros que je connais pas contrairement à mon numéro perso et qu'on me donne un nom différent à chaque fois…)

Laughing at the #spam issues on #Codeberg and their florid language.

"the concept is absolutely liberating and exciting"

"cherish the liberation"

"I’m *literally* losing my mind" (with lots of emojis)

It's easy to tell that this is spam because the writing style is infantile and all the issues appear either at precisely the same time or within a few minutes. A smarter spammer would do things more slowly and stealthily, but it's hard to see what the business model is here other than perhaps to make Codeberg less viable compared to commercial competitors.

I know this because they are constantly under attack by fascist script kiddies who are regularly flooding them with spam, and periodically launching DDoS attacks against them. Only someone doing a truly useful and ethical public service could evoke such extreme hatred of the worlds most evil people.

The Codeberg admins deleted these spam posts within an hour of them being posted and deleted the accounts that generated them. They are doing a fantastic job, and I thank them for their dedication and hard work.

Oh yay, would you look at that, another “use” for AI: looks like at least my repos on @Codeberg are getting hit by a deluge of AI-generated issue spam.

Imagine the kind of sad, meaningless life you must have to attack free and open source projects on a community owned and operated source forge.

lol, after all this time I finally got one of the spam messages haha. This is my first one! Does that mean I’m popular now?