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@smitty@mastodon.halibut.com I mean, To be clear, AI doesn't have to be BETTER at your job to take your job, it has to be CHEAPER than you are. Even if it's bad at what you do.
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@shellsharks
There's a real irony of a client with the raison d'etre of discoverability being iOS only.
edit: it has come to my attention that they are in fact FOSS
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@Michigander@toad.social Facebook three months later: just the tiktok video ripped and stripped of its watermark
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@jiva@devoe.social @mrzaius@hachyderm.io @uliwitness@chaos.social You're not going to get it no matter how I explain it so why am I bothering.
Motivation matters, kindness matters, empathy matters, and to be deceived into thinking something kind was being done when instead I was just being deceived into generating more profit for Amazon pisses me the fuck off.
Anyway, perhaps consider empathy. You need some.
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@jiva@devoe.social @mrzaius@hachyderm.io @uliwitness@chaos.social because their messaging is about being compassionate and actually giving of their own money when really what they're trying to do is use you to make money.
How about this: You have some items around your house that you really want to throw in the trash or take to goodwill or something but your friend says that they'll deal with it for you. What they actually do is sell them on craigslist and make a tidy profit, but they never share that information with you. So you keep giving them stuff thinking that they're just being altruistic and helping you get rid of things that you don't want anymore - And they are, but they are leaving out the whole minor detail that they're profiting off your stuff. Immoral? No. The sort of thing a friend would do? Definitely not.
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@jiva@devoe.social @mrzaius@hachyderm.io @uliwitness@chaos.social I can't help but think this is exactly how we get to the Torment Nexus, because some group of developers thought they were doing us a favor
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@The_T I'm recalling a couple of stories.
A former student giving me a tour of a boutique machining house that makes one-off parts for everyone from the place down the street that makes fences for pig farms to federal contracts for classified parts. They had several pieces of machining equipment he was tasked to maintain because all of them ran end of life operating systems, all Windows of some sort, on which the software had been purposely EOLd by the manufacturer. The owner didn't want to replace a half million dollar piece of machining equipment because the software was old, so instead they relied on sneakernet and keeping internal IT staff that could maintain those old systems.
At one of my earliest IT jobs, in the early 2000s, we had one system locked in a physical cage, and when I asked what it was for, found out it was one machine that ran proprietary point of sale credit card processing for their one retail front in this facility. Their BANK, who provided the software, refused to update it and demanded they buy new hardware. So they kept a couple of WINDOWS 95 systems in a physical cage and only provided access to the IT director and accounting floor manager.
IMO these sorts of things should really be illegal. Maybe they could say something like businesses could be released of their liability by openly releasing the source for their apps and file formats, if customers want to take on the task of managing them. Some things are so hilariously expensive it'd be cheaper to hire a full time in house developer to maintain an app than EOL it and replace the devices it runs.
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@hankgreen I mean the obvious big question here - is the coffee shop returning or not? Sounds kind of like not.
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@evacide
This is essentially just the thing that has been wrong with the press for literally decades, but really started to do massive damage after 2015.
They allow the monsters to frame the debate, and they only communicate inside that frame.
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@DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz @LockEx@ioc.exchange he's done one infosec con that I know of, @SAINTCON@infosec.exchange, a regional security conference in Provo, Utah. Say what you want about Utah (and there are many things you could say) but the people at saintcon are the absolute best. I remember LPL talking about the original pitch for him to come, something like:
LPL: Can you be reasonably sure people won't take photos & so on?
Troy: Reasonably, yes
LPL: How?
Troy: Ask nicely?
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@tprophet@defcon.social this is very informative thread, thank you for sharing all of this
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@jiva@devoe.social @mrzaius@hachyderm.io @uliwitness@chaos.social yeah they lied to us for 10 years to psychologically influence how we did things and serve us ads but sure I guess that's just fine ☹️
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@bornach@fosstodon.org @DotMaetrix@chitter.xyz @LockEx@ioc.exchange
I wonder if we could get him on something Dropout is doing.
We could talk Brendan into doing a D20 series. Would be hilarious to have one series where the player's faces never appear. D20: The Almost Podcast. That'd be _rad_
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@koherecoWatchdog@freeradical.zone @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social @c_9@mstdn.ca What do you propose for the country
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@danderson@hachyderm.io wow, I really like the whole idea of this. In fact, I almost want to play it just to get involved. That sounds amazingly cathartic.
I keep thinking of the fact that in Fallout 4 one of the most fun things to do is build these incredibly cool, survivable settlements (which the NPCs never take advantage of, but still, one can dream)
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hey @jerry@infosec.exchange what are the CISA accounts? i'd like to follow them. this is one thing mastodon does not do well, I tried the obvious names but no accounts seem to exist.
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@Strandjunker@mstdn.social
Eat.
We can't tax them enough to matter, but we can minimize their ability to harm anyone else.
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@nileane@nileane.fr
As close as I can tell, it just means that the bulk of bsky moderation is passed off to users, at which point... They might as well just be here.
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Here's the receipts I collected over on bluesky.
https://bsky.app/profile/mav.wtf/post/3lfqtwxntzk2s
It's not so much that he's MAGA, just fully supportive of it so long as they're doing things he wants. Which, IMO, is being at the table.
