watching the various articles of "omg firms are choosing not to hire 'ai literate' employees" and thinking of the very obvious future where the rest of us are going to have to catch the slack for these people and help carry them forth into the future
don't get me wrong: it's always valuable to teach juniors
but this entire goddamned coming fuckshow could've not been, and .... sigh
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Digital shamanism, communes with machine spirits. Knower of arcana. Beardwielder even before lockdown beards. Perpetually overloaded atm.
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@Xkeeper@icosahedron.website oh holy shit you're the people! (from the thing I saw earlier)
it sounds like you may already have a handle on stuff, but shout if you want clueful eyes to look into it and see about possible assistance
(I loathe the scrapers and promptfondlers, fuck 'em all)
seeing huang falling over himself to congratulate openai on achieving Actually Gutted Intelligence
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that I am considering doing some kind of auto-diffing config tracker for my browser(s) is an EXTREMELY damning state of affairs
I am so fucking tired of surprising, consent-broaching software
Boosted by @oxy@social.bsdlab.au
oh hey, a possible timeline for a world market crash over christmas, just what every young child wants: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-tries-to-shore-up-investor-confidence-ahead-of-blockbuster-ipo-0ff736ad
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca counterpoint: schneier really doesn’t deserve as much of the respect (and leeway) he gets
if you go looking, the dude’s got a multi year track record of being out of touch with the now and then some-weeks-later posting some almost-correct silliness that still falls on its face
there are better voices to follow
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@liaizon@social.wake.st @dansup@mastodon.social some very "Among Us"-coded iconography, and yet that gunk on the fedi would be fairly universally accepted as "Without Us"
but the impression I get is that dan is an andreesen-class Builder(tm), and may not give a single fuck about input
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @aral@mastodon.ar.al @usernameswift@labyrinth.zone @ajn142@infosec.exchange he also apparently may be some kind of advisor in a danish public professional IT advisory group: https://bsky.app/profile/prosaole.bsky.social (as found by @fasterandworse@hci.social )
username under that profile has parallel-posting: https://old.reddit.com/user/prosaole/
skeeter profile pic and google scholar image match pretty closely, although aging appears to be at different epochs
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run @tante@tldr.nettime.org 17 correct criticisms flying in loose formation
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @kirakira@furry.engineer and rarely in the (tar)balls
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org something like this keeps floating among multiple circles I'm in, it really does feel like an idea whose time has come (or is near here)
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @atax1a@infosec.exchange @jsbarretto@social.coop The kill the noise remix, part of the lyrics swapped out to “I chat prompts” and “so I can chat more prompts”
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@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run @davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org and (especially at present) there's an extremely solid argument to be made for multi-regime resistance
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@LeonardoDiOttio@mastodon.social @alan@lighthouse.co.im @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net it's not only that kind of stuff, fwiw - go look up bright data's sdk (for example), then do some speculative math on how many people are out there with phones that are full of apps with that sort of shit in it (there's more than only bright-sdk out there)
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@nyanbinary@infosec.exchange @FritzAdalis@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange Cloudflare are also among the peak of the fucking problem :|
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org yup, a moveable feast of outsourced data, with a delivery shape that's utterly at the whims of what the peer side entity is entertaining that day
people keep forgetting the lessons from 10+ years of SaaS and vendor-driven development priority
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@catileptic yup. his responses are ... moderately self-reflective, and I am willing to see how that stance ... reflects/evolves over coming days
(the guy's been doing a lot of AI-flavour posting for quite a bit so I'm not instantly convinced, but I am willing to be convinced by change over time)
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@Sempf@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange The extent to which the US is committed to living in the past will never cease to entertain
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run @fasterandworse@hci.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org @hipsterelectron@circumstances.run there's absolutely that bit of pivot that's 7 posters in a trenchcoat
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @skjeggtroll@mastodon.online @fasterandworse@hci.social I enjoyed this toot and I'd buy you a beer
this is one of the downsides of how much China’s managed to get its hooks in across Africa (often with industrial redevelopment and other investments)
and, frustratingly, a lot of African leaders are too chickenshit to do anything about it (our own in ZA included in this) https://mastodon.social/@anirvan/116501623999056534
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems congratulations on your success this round of battle with bureaucracy! I imagine it’s a load off
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@glyph@mastodon.social @coderanger@cloudisland.nz @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io "past performance is not indicative of future outcomes" comes to mind, dressed in the regalia of a frog in a pot
e: you may be correct about preparedness for current infosphere, but then this may be _even more_ of a risk?
if they can't recognize (gods help me) cognitohazards in production leadup, outcomes may become multiplicative quite rapidly
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@schrotthaufen I'm aware of that, ime (anecdotal, last ~2y) they have not tracked very accurately
but your reply also indicates a reactive stance (this is not your fault - I blame moz), and I _really fucking wish that was not necessary_
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@schrotthaufen how do you handle new-prefs with that? because that's the other dimension here: they keep adding new shit
haha, fun thread
comical-tier swiss cheese security https://mastodon.social/@andrewnez/116430573551428386
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@amiserabilist also: see Patty Gurdy
(she also did some collab with Alestorm a couple years back)
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@troed @fishidwardrobe @fasterandworse really? "omg, he was serious once!"? that's your _whole_ pitch?
you ....do realize.... that people can, like, fuck up over time? can make mistakes later?
are you really *that* Hung Up(tm) on your once-exemplary colleague, that you've made _this_ series of posts?
.....I'm sorry, I know the next bit is gonna hurt
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems Uh, I meant thermal drop
Soz, brain wholly clutched out atm, it is languaging badly
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@aud @Andres4NY I was rather entertained some years ago when MS was hiring so many of the DevOps / infra / dev thotposters for Azure, and they all made such Excited For This Part Of My Journey noises (entertained because I suspected what was coming)
and indeed, most of them left within 12~18mo (and most _very_ quietly)
I giggled extremely frequently, and still do
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange The amount of places that have killed off their abuse@ channels lately is wild
One of the notable ones is google, who seem to be trying to make it near impossible for non-goog accounts to do abuse reporting
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@xabean@infosec.exchange iPhone charge port can also build up lint in the same manner. Kept wondering why I was having weirdness with charge, one day felt the connector not even click, scraped with a paperclip and oh hey, just over 1mm compacted lint blocking in the base
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@tante @hekatonchire I see it’s got c3voc icon - do you know if it was recorded as well? Would like to watch
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@htkszt@mastodon.com.pl @rysiek@mstdn.social @adamking@mastodon.social @njalla@njalla.social it was originally set up (at least in part) with at least one of the ex-TPB people involved, but I have no idea whether they’re still involved there
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@fishidwardrobe @fasterandworse I’m untagging them for this reply (because it doesn’t seem there will be a productive outcome)
they simply don’t seem to get it. that most recent “I already answered you! Why are you asking?!” post is …. well, yeah
I’m not gonna advocate punching bags, as much as I’d say: keep note of the who and what. Because that can provide rapid future devaluation where needed.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems A+, space-efficient kludging rig
(kinda interesting drop profile/behaviour - does it stay constant then drop, or gradual falloff until it hits some tolerance?)
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@glyph@mastodon.social @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @coderanger@cloudisland.nz that suggests that OOB comms with the guy might be worthwhile to attempt (once)?
if worth saving, "hey you're driving right into the maws" is worth attempting