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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com@davidgerard@circumstances.run was talking about this yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAgecpbLYkI

@colinmford@typo.social And this just guarantees that no-one will be able to trust the results. Google just destroyed their Search market. 🤦

Ed Zitron being his usually-blunt self on The Tech Report today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B07mYv-IeU8 One point that Ed made stands out for me. "We are not talking about the technology. We are talking about the financial engineering." I saw the same thing in 1999/2000/2001, where start-up's that seemed vaguely sensible started playing the stock market, instead of running the core business, as playing the stock market had become their core business... 🤦 #AI #AIBubble

@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @TindrasGrove@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop Also, remember in Scotland, the plan was to ban smoking on the public streets, but then the Fossil Fuel lobbies argued against that, as if the ban went through, and people still died of respiratory problems, they would find out where the problems really came from... :|

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @davidgerard@circumstances.run Perhaps the cow could be in a "Quantum Superrposition", so it's alive and dead at the same time, and as a bonus, you'll be lined up for the next bubble already... :))

@pizzapatch@pdx.social Some of the anti-hacking insurance policies require you to use an ad-blocker, as ad-blockers stop drive-by malware installation. One of the categories that advertisers use to classify their potential victims is OS version. Malware writers buy adverts that are only shown to un-patched machines, where the advert automatically re-directs to a malware installation site.

@Jam123@mstdn.ca @teledyn@mstdn.ca And that was back in the 1850's.

@jonny@neuromatch.social @yora@mastodon.gamedev.place The reason that conspiracy theories are so attractive is the illusion that there is someone in charge... :D

@Argonel@dice.camp @foone@digipres.club They aren't charging because they have lock-in. It's too early for that. They're charging because they need to demonstrate profitability before they either IPO or crash'n'burn...

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @davidgerard@circumstances.run 🤣

@cwebber@social.coop There are times when I feel like we are living through a Peter Watts story. "Maelstrom" has this, the 2nd book in the Rifters trilogy. Content Warning: It's a Peter Watts story. "Sometimes when I am feeling optimistic, hopeful, and, feel like the universe is a wonderful place, I read a Peter Watts story, until it all goes away." :D https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm

@bms48@mastodon.social @chiffchaff@tech.lgbt @oxy@social.bsdlab.au @davidgerard@circumstances.run I did a 3-month internship contract for Nortel in the '90's, and it was the primary reason I have avoided working for large corporates ever since. :D

@inthehands@hachyderm.io I remember seeing job listings that required 7+ years of experience in a 5-year-old programming language. At one meet-up, I mentioned this to someone who worked at the company, and they told me that the company's CEO was obsessed with trying to poach members of the dev team that had created the language. :D They also told me that same CEO was under-pricing the salaries, so no-one wanted to jump ship... 🤦

@lerxst@az.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io I saw the same with programming languages in the late 90;s. They were trying to poach people from the original dev team.

@toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place @jonny@neuromatch.social @yora@mastodon.gamedev.place Like Godel's Unprovable Truths. :D

@Gina@fosstodon.org@kawaiipunk@sunbeam.city@autonomic@sunbeam.city@coopcloud@social.coop This would be another funding source for the Co-op Cloud.

@ritualdust@merveilles.town Very nice work! :D Who is the artist?

@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange It's always amazing that they think minimum wage will buy maximum loyalty.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Take a look at the Linux application, "PlayOnLinux". It's a great front-end for the WINE emulator, and can run most windows software. :D It's in the Debian repositories. :D

@mattblaze@federate.social Looking for the manual for older kit is a skill in and of itself. :D Add the link into the Wayback Machine, for future reference. :D

@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org Ad-blocking never stopped being a security measure. It's a base required-action to qualify for any anti-hacking insurance policies.

@alienghic@timeloop.cafe @ferrix@mastodon.online @corbden@defcon.social This was identical to BT Internet in the late 1990's being caught changing the contents of the pages they were serving to their end-customers, displaying the adverts chosen by BT, rather than by the web-page creators. The UK CPS refused to charge BT under the UK's computer hacking laws, as each advert on every web-page served would count as a separate charge. Being found guilty would have bankrupted BT. This refusal to charge has been used against the CPS in later cases... :D

@corbden@defcon.social " IIRC, Microsoft and maybe Adobe once tried to claim they had IP rights over anything created in their software. " Not IN their software. They wanted copyrights to everything created WITH their software. Use an MS compiler, the resulting software belongs to MS.

@cwebber@social.coop It sounds like a good time to short Cloudflare stock. :D

@NanoRaptor The AI companies might have used your writing as training data, but it's more likely that it's the plague-business model. Selling you the solution for a problem they created... :|

@ritualdust@merveilles.town Epic work! :D

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place Hold the manager, who said, "use this tool or we will fire you", responsible. Hold the C-Suite, who listened more to the AI salesmen than to their technical staff, responsible for everything that goes wrong.

@corbden@defcon.social In the early 2000's, at the same conferences where Ballmer was shouting "Developers! Developers! Developers!", he was also talking about the GPL being "like a cancer". "Use any GPL programmes and you lose the copyright to the GPL!" This rang well until someone asked Ballmer, "Does that mean that anything written with MS Office belongs to Microsoft?" IIRC, Ballmer ignored the question, but there was drop in the MS stock price just after that.

@ami_angelwings@urusai.social Alexa Terranova from "Somebody Stop Her" series by Vitaly S. Alexious. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73967/somebody-stop-her It's one of the best introductions to Vitaly's meta-narrative universe. :D The whole story starts reasonably sensibly, but becomes completely deranged... :D Thoroughly recommend. :D

@spacemagick@mastodon.social @Jyoti@mas.to Very few people have really understood the lessons shared by Ray Sherwin in his work, "The Book Of Results".

@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca Take a look at the YT channel of Louis Rossmann: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann@rossmanngroup@www.youtube.com He's been documenting his repairs of Apple machines for years. :D

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange In the City of London, there's a group meet-up called "Women In Tech" :D One older colleague used to mentor there. She recommended it as an exercise in #solidarity

@gert@social.coop That's what happens when the defenders are just murdered. The past history from the East India Company is still taking place today. :|

@rootwyrm@weird.autos @davidgerard@circumstances.run @atax1a@infosec.exchange This is why the insurance companies are refusing to provide cover for anything made with AI.

@swan_tower@wandering.shop I'm in the middle of re-reading "Somebody Stop Her" again... :D It's a thoroughly deranged take on the SuperHero genre. "Somebody Stop Her" by Vitaly S Alexius. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Somebody-Stop-Her-Superhero-Apocalypse/dp/1039481469

@adamgreenfield@social.coop There are a feww taking place already. Calum Kerr was running one set that traversed different parts of London looking at interesting rubble. Another set was running that started from Southwark Graveyard. They do some excellent remembrance ceremonies towaeds Samhain. Another one that I heard about from other members of London Hackspace, was looking at the industrial archeology found in London's archotecture. :D

@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu "It's a beautiful day." "You feel great!" "Phone in well!" :D

@adamrice@c.im @cratermoon@zirk.us @bruces@mastodon.social During the late 1990's, there were job ads for Java programmers that required 7+ years experience in a 5-year-old technology. They were trying to poach the Java dev team, but weren't offering the salaries to match... :|

@gert@social.coop The thing that "The Tragedy of The Commons" got wrong, is that The Commons were always actively defended.

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange That's fair enough, but they've worked with more windows software, so they will have an idea if the software can be set up to work at all. :D Then you'll know whether it is possible, and you can start to work on the problem of making it simple for a non-technical user. :D . I've had to do similar things, when transferring some of my old customers away from MS systems.

@dangillmor@mastodon.social Always remember that the USA definitions of political parties are always farther to the right of the EU versions.

@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social Bookmarked the cartoon under "Lesson to Learn From"... 🤣

@thelinuxEXP@mastodon.social Also take a look at the work done by @coopcloud@social.coophttps://coopcloud.tech/ :D

@karlauerbach I didn't know about the ratchet effect of passkeys. :|

@DM_Ronin@mstdn.social Give it a year, and you'll be able to find them in thrift stores. :D Same as the trendiest of stupid technologies from the early 2020's. :D

@nash@labyrinth.social Have you read "The Raw Shark Texts"? :D

@grickle@mstdn.social Me before I drink my breakfast... :D