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> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.
lol and - furthermore - lmao
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Artificial intelligence agent instructed engineer to take actions that exposed user and company data internallyAisha Down (the Guardian)
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As predicted, humans are being turned into accountability sinks for #AI. AI code doesn’t work? You're fired!
"After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"
After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changesarstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/aft…
AWS has suffered at least two incidents linked to the use of AI coding assistants.
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@tknarr Because this *isn't* a structural construct (like if/for/etc) I indent up to the level of indentation of that block, then if I *really* need to make things align I fill in the remaining space with spaces. (tabs, if I don't)
This ensures that the block as a whole still indents/unindents correctly with tabs. I am never, ever going to adjust the level of indent of *part* of an expression in this way, so the use of spaces for intra-block expression alignment padding doesn't matter.
@tknarr if this expression by the unholy machinations of mathematics DOES become so gnarly that heavy use of brackets becomes mandatory...
...then I've just invented a new code block surrounded by a different kind of bracket, put the complete expression on a new line inside them, indent with tabs like it's a regular code block, and continue to apply the rules recursively as normal.
I hope he makes a full recovery: if he's able to form sentences and communicate (per the article) that's a very good sign.
We are following this story very closely and send our best wishes for recovery to Jello, multi-year HOPE speaker & keynote. kqed.org/arts/13987466/punk-le…Punk Legend Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke | KQED
The former Dead Kennedys frontman told fans he’s stable but has a “lotta rehabbing to do.”Nastia Voynovskaya (www.kqed.org)
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The AT Patreon let us know earlier, if only to get people to stop asking why he hasn't approved the latest remaster for the LARD re-releases.
Sounds like he's doing as good as possible under the circumstances.
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Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Room: H.2215 (Ferrer)
Day: Saturday
Start (UTC+1): 18:00
End (UTC+1): 18:10
stream: live.fosdem.org/watch/h2215
Roy Batty, model number N6MAA10816, a Nexus-6 combat model replicant, was the leader of a renegade replicant group that hijacked a shuttle and traveled to Earth to demand a longer lifespan.Contributors to Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki (Off-world: The Blade Runner Wiki)
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The stairway from a heavenly sleep … The Third Age Trust runs a number of interest groups online (collectively known as the IGO groups). A new one was started about 3 months ago; it’s c…stoneyfish (Crotchety Man)
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"The Mastermind Box Cover: What the Hell Were They Thinking?"
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- - -INVICTA GAMES, LTD. Packaging Team — Official Minutes Project: Mastermind / New Cover Presentation MARTIN SMITH (Marketing Senior Vice Presi...McSweeney's Internet Tendency
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cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6891969
If you write for a living, for studies, or even as a hobby, you should consider Emacs. It could be just what you need in an environment of enshittifying word processors and AI garbage.
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Happy 55th Oregon Blew Up A Whale Day for those who celebrate!
Also: if you're afraid of doing something because you're worried you'll look like a jackass if you mess up, PLEASE know that you will never look like as much of a jackass as the State of Oregon did as chunks of rotting whale blubber pelted onlookers.
They caught the whole debacle on the evening news.
popularmechanics.com/science/a…
The blubber chunks were ... everywhere.Caroline Delbert (Popular Mechanics)
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Falls jemand bis zum 23. November noch in Trier ist, kann ich die Sonderausstellung zu Marc Aurel dringend empfehlen.
Why do I only now discover that Control-0, Control-minus and Control-plus are next to eachother in the qwerty layout. Handy! qwerty, it's not just for easy access to []{} anymore!
By the way, altgr-weur (altgr-weur.eu/) for the win!
“We are all talking constantly about billionaire behaviour (...) but remain too shy to ask whether billionaires should exist at all. (...) We rigorously avoid the logical conclusion: that maybe having a billion dollars in the first place is innately bad.”
We're now running Mastodon v.4.5 which introduces "quote posts". Learn more about how to confirm your personal setting preferences here:
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I really do enjoy this show! They show a command line and commands that make sense. No Visual Basic like they did in a show years and years ago. And only one pair of hands typing on a keyboard.
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friendica.world/contact/blocke… is empty too.
I saw an account on the local feed that posted way to many posts to my liking, so I clicked on the three dots to ignore them. That account was NOT in my contacts. It worked as a charm. I got curious and tried to find out where I could find all the accounts I ignored that way, but that functionality does not seem to exist. friendica.world/contact/ignore… and friendica.world/contact/blocke… only work for accounts that are in my contacts.
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I ignored your account, which I don't follow, as a test. You then appear in the list of ignored contacts (here in German).
It works as expected here. The question is why it does not work as expected on your server?
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In the admin settings is a configuration called 'Posts per user on community page'. When this is set, it will restrict the number of posts per user.
Also the admin could restrict the number of posts that a user can create per hour/day/week.
Funny side note: I created these settings for exactly that user. That account had been on several other Friendica servers before and - I guess - annoyed tons of admins because of this flooding.
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”What stands out to me about the conversations on the fediverse is how much focus is placed on the singular fediverse, and how its decentralised nature can be a powerful tool for dealing with government overreach. In contrast, very limited attention is given to the very real problem that this means that there are a large number of server operators who do have to make the challenging decision for themselves: do they comply with Mississippi's Age Assurance Law, block access to Mississippi IP addresses, or ignore it altogether?“
— @LaurensHof in this weeks' Connected Places
This absolutely nails the issues facing the fediverse, especially as we go more mainstream and have to deal with regulations with legal requirements around the globe, especially in countries and states where we have people accessing our services from.
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Reasons for Linux laptops?
- A Windows computer always has a higher price for the Windows license.
- Linux-Computers have been extensively tested for hardware compatibility. You can be sure that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth will work in your system.
- By purchasing Linux laptops and desktops, Linux is indirectly supported. Higher sales indicate a demand for Linux products, and therefore more vendors may be inclined to offer Linux as the operating system of choice.
Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or specialize only in Linux systems.
public.quodari.com/public/memo…
Looking for Linux laptops? Here I list some online stores that sell Linux computers or sp...public.quodari.com
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in reply to David Gerard • • •d@nny disc@ mc²
in reply to David Gerard • • •a friend of mine caused an incident at fb when he removed an incredible amount of duplicated vendored code ostensibly because they have an ML-based packaging tool that suddenly failed in response to a much smaller input. one issue with vendored code is that changes to it are not really detectable; the second issue is that you can't update it for security fixes.
i mention this because facebook has very frequently spoken of how security needs to be the default and tooling built to make it easier to write secure code; sure, it's facebook, perhaps best to ignore that. but there should be no way a single change makes this possible in the first place. twitter was under a 10-year FTC consent decree for failing to sufficiently protect user data (they lied about this to their engineers). accessing user data is not something a single code change can achieve unless user data is already visible to insufficiently permissioned services.
the point is this sounds like a great thing to leak to the press if you believe your sneaky code path is about to get burned by a whistleblower. it
... Show more...a friend of mine caused an incident at fb when he removed an incredible amount of duplicated vendored code ostensibly because they have an ML-based packaging tool that suddenly failed in response to a much smaller input. one issue with vendored code is that changes to it are not really detectable; the second issue is that you can't update it for security fixes.
i mention this because facebook has very frequently spoken of how security needs to be the default and tooling built to make it easier to write secure code; sure, it's facebook, perhaps best to ignore that. but there should be no way a single change makes this possible in the first place. twitter was under a 10-year FTC consent decree for failing to sufficiently protect user data (they lied about this to their engineers). accessing user data is not something a single code change can achieve unless user data is already visible to insufficiently permissioned services.
the point is this sounds like a great thing to leak to the press if you believe your sneaky code path is about to get burned by a whistleblower. it also serves as an explanation to their own employees. stochastic parrot can't generate a cryptographic key and any security engineer would know this. what this does say is that the regulatory environment is sufficiently dead in the water that they feel safe to leak criminal neglect to the press.
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in reply to David Gerard • • •and let me ask you, who wears the risk, liability, and consequences here given the corporate push to use AI?
I hope the employee doesn’t suffer any consequences (above the background radiation of consequences any Meta employee should suffer).
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in reply to David Gerard • • •> “The vulnerability would have been very, very obvious to Meta in retrospect, if not in the moment. And what I can say and will say is this is Meta experimenting at scale. It’s Meta being bold.”
No, it's Meta being very, very stupid. A company that deploys agentic AI, *knowing* its limitations, without safeguards is not "clever" or "bold". It's reckless and stupid.
#AI #AgenticAI #Meta
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in reply to David Gerard • • •#AI is #clankers 🤖 all the way down.
#Resist #AIslop.