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it turns out that it's possible to kill a company. who's next? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/flock-crisis-employee-buyouts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@culturednyc/117304464500318645 the worst part is that this isn't actually wrong, but for the wrong reason - the issue isn't that you can't represent arbitrary database types in Excel - you assuredly can - but instead that Excel is a general purpose functional programming IDE that got misfiled as an accounting tool, so you can implement any arbitrary software tool in it.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117377157178600747

I'm not really interested in offering rehabilitative services to people who made great heaping scads of money off of causing societal harm,

but I'd be happy to offer 'life coaching' and physical experiences that will provide emotional catharsis* for a reasonable*** fee to these individuals.

• mostly catharsis for me. we can set it up so that you think it's penitential for your sins, but bluntly it's going to be me beating the everliving shit out of you for my own personal satisfaction. **

** you'll survive.

*** I'm the sole judge of 'reasonable' here.

what is WRONG with people this week

I was going to go into a long explanation for why this is ludicrous but then I realized I have no reason not to just say "Kash is a sheepfucker and/or a comrade of sheepfuckers" and have done with it. https://meidasnews.com/news/gop-senator-dumbfounded-as-kash-patel-defends-fbi-bestiality-policy

looks like I have been drastically undercharging for my services for years.

remember back in the old days when "whatever you do, don't hack the feds" was the rule? lol. welp.

Hot take*:

Nobody wants features.

Nobody is shopping based on anticipated new features.

Nobody whatsoever is even slightly interested in 'new features' as a selling point for any kind of software product and, in fact, the addition of - or the promise of - new features is an anti-signal indicating that the product in question will be unreliable, useless, and insecure.

And the entire sales profession is full of lying sacks of shit who all need to be fired ballistically.

• if you have a differential opinion on the temperature of this take vis a vis your specific experience, start your own thread.

the fucking idiots at meta have gotten so up their own asses worshipping the machine-god that they've forgotten about some very basic fucking concepts around -permissions- https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117324790823856750

fuck claude, and fuck this asshole user.

if you work for flock then I am judging you as being harmful to information security generally, to national security generally, and to my safety specifically. quitting is the least that they can do. https://www.neowin.net/news/people-hate-flock-so-much-that-its-employees-are-now-demoralized-and-thinking-of-quitting/

if you need claude to install it for you, then you're not good enough to use it.

fucking unusuable-ass product from a fucking worthless company populated entirely by ablative meat carrying out the brainless demands of a fucking machine at another fucking company.

I don't even know who to fucking scream at. nothing fucking works and I have no way to fix it.

RE: https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/117307094446405114 when I was a kid, we had a cat who was, in fact, very happy to attack and cause bodily harm if someone unrecognized came into the house. my uncle was terrified of her.

hi, I have a -blinding- headache from being pissed off at this genai horseshit and a strong desire to commit physical harm as a result.

A refrigerator has ONE FUCKING JOB: it keeps a set temperature range in the refrigerator compartement, and a set temperature range in the freezer compartment. This can be done entirely electromechanically; there is no fucking need for a fucking NETWORK to be attached to this fucking appliance to do its fucking job.

like, can we get -anyone- with fucking access to those fucking lying sacks of shit to call them out on it. anybody at fucking all. because I am stressed the fuck out.

@pikhq@social.treehouse.systems I am literally screaming on a daily basis now. the fucking basics aren't even being respected by this cluster of utter idiots. I hate everything about this.

i feel sick.

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@myerman/117283020040413079 I am incredibly angry that the people perpetrating harms on me and mine are so godsdamned fucking incompetent.

.......have had the realization that -some- fraction of chatbot users are going to be asking for gambling advice, and am feeling intense irritation because I know the fucking things are egging them on.

but that's what happens when you stop enforcing classified information handling procedures for the people at the top. something every single one of us fucking assholes who used to have a clearance back when it mattered that you didn't fuck dogs could see coming literally years ago.

@da_667@infosec.exchange I mean there's also the other issue, where when people decide to fire you because you're the scapegoat for their fuckup, it becomes progressively harder to find jobs.

@da_667@infosec.exchange speaking as someone with deep and protracted experience in this role, when your job is "scapegoat" you're not going to have any kind of job satisfaction.

@da_667@infosec.exchange in other news I -really- need a new fucking job that doesn't involve llm-generated "work"

if anything you'll de-stress any of the queer people in your life who have been holding back from what they perceive as the obvious 'right' way to treat you, and are studiously treating you according to the mask you're insisting on maintaining. because yes we can fucking tell when someone is holding back from the obvious. it gets incredibly fucking obvious in some cases. which reminds me, I should remember to pack some spare estrogen for the fucking -egg- going camping with my group this weekend, in case -this- time that individual wants to actually fucking go through with it.

@varx@defcon.social people who have difficulty training cats are people who don't have the patience to learn to communicate and expect others to do the work of understanding them.

this is one of those things that's necessary for a specific thing but which I'm realizing is a utility that would have potentially been useful a bunch in the past, so I figured I'd check if someone else has done this

every time you find a body stuffed to the gills with horse, there's a whole-ass series of "you chose to do the wrong thing because it solved the immediate problem without consideration of the systemic impact" behind it.

lessee, how'd we do it in the bad old days.... oh yeah. they're gonna make the field circus shimmy up there with a usb drive or some shit, lol. break a leg, fellas. literally. no sympathy for fascist enablers.

@mattblaze@federate.social so if you're sufficiently insane, you might see a contract as a kind of futures option to, effectively, own a tranche of a proucer's output for a given amount of production, and the breach terms as being the cost to liquidate the option without purchase. and if you look at the world that way and you want to gamesmanship your way into being the only solvent company still claiming frontier development after your rivals have signaled they're slowing down, it would behoove you to maintain such contracts well in excess of actual plans. just as a thought.

@patcharcana@furry.engineer maybe might be worth bringing up. there's a bunch of shit that causes that, and some of which can be treated if you do shit early but gets worse later if you don't.

@patcharcana@furry.engineer my recent Medical Adventures revealed a "severe" foramenal stenosis at c6/7, which -would- cause that symptom...except it doesn't in me, lol, I have something else instead.

does flock even have the ability to push patches?

ok so you all know that the one thing I find more upsetting than an actual privacy-violating outrage that does harm to millions is when it's done -badly- and those fucking idiots at Flock STORED THE GODSDAMNED ENCRYPTION KEYS ON-DEVICE https://www.404media.co/hackers-stole-flocks-camera-software-revealing-how-the-company-tracks-cars-and-people-2/

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange ...idk 'chortles' it's more "screams loudly and then cuts off network connections for the rest of the day to go climbing" in my case

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space yeah that was part of the stuff I was gonna stuff in a shell script

@brie that's per question, minimum. and at anthropic, evidently.