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Replying to @verge
those aren't secrets you dummies those are the files on the user's VM, this is intended behavior
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I’ve seen a couple of posts about this so wanted to demystify. Today, every Muse user gets a free computer in the cloud. It's a real computer, and we’ve designed the security architecture of the Muse Secure VM carefully so you and your Muse can do almost anything you could with a computer sitting under your desk while keeping you and the system safe from threats like prompt injection. We wrote about this at length in our security blog post – security.muse.ai. Activity in the “runtime cell”, which you share with your Muse is unfettered, but sensitive actions are all overseen by the Sentinel, which runs outside of that cell. Similarly, all sensitive secrets - like the passwords you enter into Muse’s secure credential storage - are also stored outside the runtime cell.
The runtime cell gets its own root filesystem (including a full Ubuntu linux image) separate from the host filesystem where your other more sensitive data lives. Because it is isolated from the sensitive stuff that runs on the same box, this means that we can, and do, offer users full visibility and control over the files in the runtime cell. Just as you can when you install Linux on your home computer, you can poke around and see all the files that make the system work - both debian system files and the binaries and data files that implement the parts of Muse which run in the runtime cell.
This was a very deliberate choice - your Muse Secure VM truly is your own computer in the cloud. You can install software in it, write and compile code, use the browser to surf the web: it is your own Linux box that you can operate as you choose with your Muse. Poking around in this computer doesn't give you any privileged access to Meta infrastructure, or to other people's data
If I may geek out a little here for a second… As a kid I loved to take things apart to see how they worked. As a teenager I got into computers and soon found myself drawn to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM and the system registry, later Slackware’s /dev/, /proc/ etc – I could see how the system was laid out and as I explored what DLL files and .so files actually did, I gradually became able to meld the computer to my own will.
We’re really proud to be able to put a real computer in millions of people’s hands with a similar level of transparency. We built a file explorer right into the Library tab of the UI. We want you to be able to see the markdown files Muse writes while it thinks about how to serve you better, and explore the internals of the system if you’d like to.
So, when you ask your Muse to show you its entire filesystem, and receive gigabytes of files you’re seeing the full contents of the runtime cell. It’s yours to explore and enjoy!
If you’re not a geek like me, or simply want to download the data that you personally have created directly with your Muse, we added a feature for that too in Settings > Data controls > Download your agent data.
Alex Lambert retweeted
Lots of billionaires like Bill Gates brag about all their philanthropy. But Elon Musk is the only one who gave away $45 billion of his own money over the past month.
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Replying to @elonmusk
Did your content moderation council meet like you said it would before any major decisions were made?
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For the record, this is not at all why twitter is super slow in many countries.
Elon Musk@elonmusk13 Nov 2022United States!
United StatesConnected via United States App StoreLocation may be affected by a proxy or VPN.Account-level information, not a live location or per-post device.
Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!
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"I wish more people knew how critical Trust & Safety orgs are to tech companies"
*finger on the monkey paw curls*
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Elon Musk@elonmusk4 Nov 2022United States!
United StatesConnected via United States App StoreLocation may be affected by a proxy or VPN.Account-level information, not a live location or per-post device.
Replying to @mrddmia
Thank you.
A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.
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Okay, okay. A thread on why this is a screaming red flag as a Cloud Economist...
Sources: Elon Musk directed Twitter's teams to find $1B+ in annual infrastructure cost savings, including reduced spending on cloud services and server space (Reuters)
reuters.com/technology/musk-…
techmeme.com/221103/p43#a221…
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Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Some really incredible people leaving Twitter tonight. We are all worse off without them there
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This is emblematic #OneTeam
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Replying to @goldman
It was such a revolving door that I had kept track of the tenures.
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i'm amused by this journalist discovering that the equipment required to reliably repair a modern cellphone is, in fact, complex, heavy, and expensive theverge.com/2022/5/21/23079…
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Hey friends - we've open sourced the code to 1995's Microsoft 3D Movie Maker github.com/microsoft/Microso… Thanks to @jeffwilcox and the Microsoft OSS office as well our friends in legal and those who continue to put up with me being a nudzh. Thanks to @foone for the idea! Enjoy.
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Playing/streaming DOOM over an ISDN video telephone (128kbit/s, H.320 protocol)
More info on the telephone:
osmocom.org/projects/retrone…
We're currently resurrecting ISDN (and restoring a lot of nice old devices): osmocom.org/projects/octoi/w…
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If you ever want to know if someone has dealt with a real-world service, ask them what will happen immediately after they start letting people upload images.
There are two groups of people. Each group is horrified by the other's answer.
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I don't know where you all get your breaking news alerts from, but me? It's PagerDuty.

























