Google's propaganda map change is live. I am in Europe, and we are now forced to look at Trump's bizarre "renaming" of The Gulf of Mexico.
Would the EU please make a law against this, before he renames Mont Blanc to Mount Melania?
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Flot tale af Trudeau (CAN) om told fra usa. Første tredjedel til amerikanerne opremser hvordan USA og Canada (og Mexico) i årevis har stået sammen og hvordan Can altid har hjulpet i svære tider. Sidste tredjedel til canadierne om hvordan borgerne nu skal stå sammen og støtte hinanden(s forretning). Mellemste tredjedel om CANs toldmodsvar.
Virkelig godt at pakke modsvaret ind i det medmenneskelige. Jeg håber at UvdL har en tilsvarende klar. #uspol
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Det er interessant som Trump bare smider en bred told på alt fra deres naboer mens Canada (og Mexico) har en mere intelligent fremgangsmåde, hvor de nøje udvælger varer og giver virksomheder tid til at omstille sig.
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I keep wondering when or if Big Journalism will discover that Trump is systematically removing from government the people leading investigations into Elon Musk's lawbreaking and general corruption...
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When or if, indeed!
Or they do — but the article gets buried on "page 13", posted without being linked, or given some kind of skewed headline.
»Elon Musk Foe Escorted Out of Fed Office After Refusing to Resign«
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I keep recalling that Robert Mercer wanted to avoid a big tax bill, so he funded Bannon and Trump. That's the same pattern.
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Journalism is the dog that barks when the robbers are leaving the building.
And wonder why their investigating Elon. Could it be because they are politically motivated?
As big journalism is part of the business plot, they have not to discover this fact. They know it. But they do not write a single word about it.
They know. They are not about to say a word. Please, please stop pretending Big Journalism isn’t part of the coup. They most certainly are.
Big journalism has been bought into the Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Tech club.
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US-based security firm UG Solutions is specifically targeting the recruitment of US special forces veterans to work as armed security guards at the #Netzarim Corridor checkpoint, located just south of Gaza City.
US contractors will be paid a daily rate starting at $1,100, with a $10,000 advance, and will be armed with M4 assault rifles and Glock pistols.
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$1100 per day for 1k people means $1.1M/day.
It is far more than the budget of those trying to feed the 2 million displaced Palestinians in #Gaza.
#gaza
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You gotta be kidding me with this bullshit.
"But DeepSeek & Meta’s recent research suggests that more AI capabilities (& efficiency savings) could be gained by going down a more dangerous path — where AIs develop their own alien language."
The journalists amplifying this garbage will not be held accountable when the hype cycle is gone because the next cycle of journalists will do the same thing during the next hype cycle.
I don't want to amplify the article so not posting the actual article.
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... and then someone realized that it would be more efficient to just make snake oil BE money, and that's how cryptocurrency was invented.
... and then someone realized that it would be more efficient to just make snake oil BE money, and that's how cryptocurrency was invented.
Do y'all remember the whole "Facebook created chatbots that speak their own language" garbage reporting from a few years ago pre-ChatGPT and all?
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My stomach turns every time I recall that.
Recently someone bring that up to me in a conversation 🤢 .
I remember the reporting, I guess that was overstated.
I've done a decent amount of work with agent-based social models (e.g. ABMs used in public health research) and one of these days I want to make a semi structured artificial society with LLM AIs making the agents' decisions, to see what they try to build, norms they propose, etc. It'll probably make garbage like those in the chatbot articles lol. But even that seems kinda interesting 2 me. Unsure if there could be any meaningful scientific contribution (probably not) but sounds fun.
Is the language math? Because its probably just math.
I remember this plot point from _Colossus: The Forbin Project_ too. Honestly, do they think we don’t watch movies?
Don't vectors count as their own alien language?
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“How to care for your about-to-burst bubble”
This interview on the current crisis by OnTheMedia is actually very good:
I was going to reply with "It's all Chinese to me" but then I found out the German version of that proverb is "I only understand train station"
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I'm starting a list of things I've seen that are too bizarre to be AI generated. Feel free to share your own if you have something interesting in your camera roll.
These were spotted at a local flea market. I wonder at the inspiration for their creation.
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It can't be. That hat. It was a gift from my guru. And it flew off my head in '98 when I stood up to get some air on an El Chepe flatcar. I thought it was gone forever.
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Several bottles of crappy booze and a huge resin pour? AND a dragon? You bastards, I'm in!
That's an insta-buy for me, followed by a loud "hush, you" when my wife asks why and what I plan to do with it.
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@jimbush why would the utility of this item ever come into question?
It is clearly something to hang up on a ceiling (maybe at the top of a little tower in my house, if I ever acquire house). Bonus points for adding (RGBW) lighting into each bottle, then it is also a perfect lamp.
weird but it would be weirder if they didn't drink them first. I am consoled that they are at least empty.
@Entropyhed No, they were full, it's hard to tell through the plastic, but that's the part that got me!
Ok, so the hat is definitely reminiscent of scout crafts, I know because we had to store so many leather scraps and ding dong punches at our place after day camp.
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The question isn't "why?" -- the question is "why not?" More power to the bizarre weirdos out there doing crap like this just because they can! 😁
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the table: that...a lot.
The hat: the top is a propeller, and the country is Italy.
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to add to the conversation I submit this golden Buddha sitting in a parking lot off route 66 in the middle of the Mojave Desert. It's covered with random stickers.
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Winganon Space Capsule
Its glow up makes it look like a relic from an obscure NASA mission to Oklahoma.ugc (Atlas Obscura)
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@michelestrider Shades of "Joe Dirt".
@log dang right
i'd buy that table
I don't think these qualify, I know the context, so they don't seem *that* weird, but maybe they're weird enough to pass for AI
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@kwayk42 My brother and I have been calling it The Cursed Hat lol
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I use the Facebook Container (add-on) on Firefox.
Do you know if this similar, worse or better then Privacy Badger ?
There's also the ETP (Enhanced Tracking Protection) in Firefox .... any ideas about this one ?
(It would be easier if there was 'just' one)
Ps. I've tried to find the answers on Google, alas without result.
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I must be blond. 🙂
When I tried to install Privacy Badger on the desktop pc I noticed the add-on already had been installed.
Well, it's proof it doen't mess up my 'surfing'.
But thank you for the response.
I must be blond. 🙂
When I tried to install Privacy Badger on the desktop pc I noticed the add-on already had been installed.
Well, it's proof it doen't mess up my 'surfing'.
But thank you for the response.
Would ublock origin work as well as privacy badger at this?
long live noscript, which kills this crap.
And because like 99,9% of the ads require JavaScript, it kills that to
And because like 99,9% of the ads require JavaScript, it kills that to
Reminder: Use Firefox, PrivacyBadger, and uBlockOrigin and you will eliminate a lot of this.
Changing account settings may potentially not do much.
See misskey.de/notes/a3ax4tqomg
See misskey.de/notes/a3ax4tqomg
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Definition of "wildly overvalued":
Something which looses 1/8th of its perceived value because somebody in China releases an app.
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You know it won't be long until he's openly extending the other fingers.
Seriously, the Whitehouse.gov homepage tells you all you need to know about 47. Giant Cheeseball; Tiny White House. Because he's way bigger than the office. SMH.
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Caption competition:
Why do his hands still look so tiny? 🤣
This somehow puts me in mind of the bit of The Suicide Squad where King Shark is proud of correctly identifying his hand.
Well, his publicists or communication people should know better...
The main lines of force point down (eyes/head) and to the left (arm).
Usually when designing, the main directions are:
up - positive
down - negative
left - past
right - future
Here's another version by the GapingVoid team:
up - truth
down - lies
left - dark
right - light
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and some technical goodies: in addition to the propaganda, whitehouse.gov has at least a couple google trackers!
This White House website feels more like an Airbnb property. Come to think of it, that's an apt description of a presidency in which absolutely everything is for sale. Only thing missing are the rental rates.
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the common guidance for unlisted prices applies, "if you have to ask, you can't afford it"
If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
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it looks like Babies first html website LOL
@slothrop The rental rate is very reasonable. It's the cleaning fee that really jacks up the cost.
That's because Airbnb does not allow to charge renters by "time spent kissing landlord's ass"
"Call for a quote"
Wait, mar-a-lago isn't on there? I guess just wait a bit...
I miss the old days when whitehouse.com was a porn site, and we all could view porn with plausible deniability.
Yesterday, I visited the White House website page about the constitution. It returned 404.
Like many things for sale in expensive, exclusive stores - if you need to ask the price, you can't afford it.
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no pricing because bribes are allowed from the highest bidder(s)
Are Air Force 1 and Camp David now located in the White House?
Seems improbable.
Seems improbable.
yes... and they also have Melania on the front page of the website site as part of the administration... between Vance and the cabinet... and there is NO role in the administration for the first lady... it's all about the grift.
have you considered that the attention your reaction provides may be the only intended result, and that airing your frustration publicly may encourage further idiocy?
My only regret is that in 50 years there will be a kid in Australia learning the history of WW3 and they’ll ask. “Weren’t there any good people in America?” Right now I feel like the sad part of history where they say there certainly had to be good people but I guess they didnt do anything.
on a Norwegian humor show, Trump was described as «A President from Temu», and it’s depressive how accurate that is.
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The new Uncle Sam on drugs poster sure is scary.
Caption probably reads "We Will Get You!"
Caption probably reads "We Will Get You!"
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Hvor er det optur med alle de nye brugere der kommer med i fediverset i disse dage! Sammen skaber vi et frit og decentralt internet 
Når I deler events her fra DukOp.dk, så tag os meget gerne, så booster 
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Og når i opfordre folk på Instagram til at følge jer med væk fra de højre radikale tech kapitalister, så tag også os meget gerne, så deler vi også jeres opslag og stories der.
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Nu hvor der er mange nye brugere, der skal hjælpes med at finde brugere de gerne vil følge, deler vi det næste stykke tid også opslag som ikke er event fra DukOp.dk men vi synes fortjener at komme bredere ud og kommer fra brugere vi ønsker får flere følgere.
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tameplatap7s@my-place.social hey?
@tameplatap7s hi!
@tameplatap7s man It's pretty hard to get connections on this app atm. Let's try figure it out togeather
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It's actually my profile on Mastodon I'm communicating with. It seems like that messages from this instance is not pushed out to Mastodon that often.
Might be something broken or something I dont understand
It's actually my profile on Mastodon I'm communicating with. It seems like that messages from this instance is not pushed out to Mastodon that often.
Might be something broken or something I dont understand
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Interacting with Mastodon conversations
I guess I'm doing something wrong, but I'm trying to comment on Mastodon conversations from this Friendica instance, but it doesn't seem to work.
I have follow a person, and replied to one of their posts a good 6 hours ago.
I logged in to my mastodon account and found the same thread, but could not see the reply from my Friendica instance, though I could see the same replies from other people as I can via Friendica.
I'm completely new to Friendica, so I'm guessing I have overlooked something?
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I have never used Mastodon and I don't know what it is used for 🫣
Disclaimer - I have no specific knowledge, and this is an educated guess based on what I know as a user of distributed social media.
Friendica advertises that it has integrations for various ActivityPub/alternative social media services. My guess is it's one-way only. Friendica gets content from other sources, but without buy in from Mastodon devs, Friendica content won't show up there.
Yeah, I was thinking something in a similar vain, but I couldn't find anything about it. But it might be a good avenue for further investigation
@Peter Sørensen I just signed up for Friendica and I'm noticing the same thing. I'm not sure what's going on either, but I did notice that replies to Mastodon from Friendica seem to be hit or miss so far (mostly miss, but not completely). I noticed that someone else's reply from another Friendica instance than my own shows up in Mastodon, but my replies don't. I'm starting to wonder if it may be something broken with specific Friendica instances.
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The odious idiot Megan McArdle defends Musk's Hitler salute, likens it to a minister's raised arm in benediction, and says we shouldn't call evil evil. #BrokenPost
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Also, Elmo is not a part of the "functioning democracy" - he's an unelected civilian, a money hoarder who just happens to have weaseled himself into the room. McArdle is a fucking idiot.
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Hey Megan, we don’t think they’re evil, we know it.
It's happens when you cut funding to Public Education
They are telling us that we didn't see what we saw. They will keep telling us every day. Every single day, starting from yesterday.
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"The historical parallels are brutal. In 1920s Germany, wealthy industrialists provided crucial support to the Nazi party, seeing it as a bulwark against communism and a tool for maintaining their power. Today, we watch a tech billionaire systematically promote Nazi ideology while controlling a global communication platform that reaches hundreds of millions..." - @Daojoan
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AI hallucinations can’t be stopped — but these techniques can limit their damage
Developers have tricks to stop artificial intelligence from making things up, but large language models are still struggling to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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The Great Big Lying Machine can't stop lying. Even after all these billions in investment. Because lying is a feature, not a flaw of AI. Because the killer app of AI is advertising and propaganda.
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Just in case the audience didn't pick up on the sarcasm:
The article is itself a lie.
There is no such thing as a non-hallucination LLM output.
Thinking that hallucinations are some sort of waste product or accident presupposes that LLMs ever know what they are doing.
They do not, cannot. They do not have any understanding, do not have a mind, cannot reason, do not know anything.
All their answers are just stochastic hallucinations. Every last one of them.
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We shouldn't even use terms like “hallucinations” or “thinking” in the context of #LLMs at all.
Those anthropomorphizations (used for marketing AI products) easily give the impression that such systems undergo human-like mental processes – which is definitely not the case. LLMs are based on statistical pattern recognition and probability calculations.
For those fields we have correct terms:
processing
text or image generation
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In the case of hallucinations, a better word might be Uninterpretable Stochastic Gibberish.
As opposed to "normal output" which is Interpretable Stochastic Gibberish.
In either case, it is interpretable or not based on whether the user mistakenly thinks it makes sense.
Why do you assume humans aren't doing statistical pattern recognition and probability calculations?
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Nobody's assuming that. But what natural intelligence does that LLMs don't is form a predictive model of *the world*. That's an advantage if you want to guess right about if a lion is likely to eat you, and it's a springboard to being able to run the model with imagined actions, i.e. problem-solving intelligence.
LLMs only model words, a reduced map, not the territory. We're good at language so it can look similar sometimes, but it's an AGI dead end.
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This is why they say dumb things like water wouldn't freeze at 2 Kelvin because the freezing point of water is 273 K and 2 K is much lower so water would still be a gas.
The syntax is fine, the words are words that are statistically likely to follow in that order, but there's literally no *meaning* captured anywhere in the language model.
@androcat Why was an LLM allowed to run for president? And what's worse: why did this nonsense-babbling thing get elected?
While LLMs aren't intelligent, me thinks humans are overrated, too.
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@paninid Humans can make sense of things that was intended not to make sense (cf. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously).
It's a feature of the human mind.
LLMs are text in, garbage out. No miracles.
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The lying humans are promoting LLMs.
It's a two-fer.
Giving people a more correct understanding of what LLMs do is an important antidote to the lying humans that seek to destroy the world to push this bullshit technology.
"computer scientists tend to refer to all such blips as hallucinations"
naah....we call them bugs
naah....we call them bugs
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Documents: Google gave Israel access to its latest AI tools from the early weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, directly assisting the Defense Ministry and the IDF (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
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"Greenland loves America", said Trump junior when he posed with Greenlanders in MAGA hats. But Danish medium DR now reveals how Trump organisation employees recruited homeless Greenlanders from under a bridge to be part of the MAGA hat photo op in exchange for food.
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Flere kilder genkender flere af deltagerne ved Trump-frokosten i Nuuk som hjemløse og socialt udsatte borgere.DR
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‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute
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Shit, man skal være smooth-brained for ikke at synes at den pump-n-dump memecoin er ren snyd og bedrag.
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I think we need to preserve the First Amendment and let people make any political speech they want to.
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First amendment only means the government can’t punish you for saying something.
The rest of us can call a fascist racist dickhead out for what they are and otherwise respond as we see fit to hateful rhetoric
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@sambowne The first amendment doesn't protect threats of violence or inciting riots, which is what promoting nazi shit is.
We're not going to explain the paradox of tolerance to you, so fuck off.
I think we need to remember that every last Nazi sympathizer or white supremacist can—and more importantly, should—get punched.
Sam, do you sympathize with Nazis or do you believe in the inherent dignity and equality of all human beings?
@ryanrandall @sambowne paradox of tolerance. The only way to preserve first amendment free speech is to push back against intolerant speech and action.
@sambowne fuck all the way off with that!
@sambowne I think this is the actual reason we have the 2nd Amendment
@sambowne - No. We don't tolerate intolerance.
You stand up against it.
The 1st Amendment dictates our government's actions.
It has nothing to do with OUR actions.
They have a right to speech. Cool. But it is not without consequences. We must stand against hate.
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IT’S KARL POPPER TIME
a reminder that the #ACLU #KKK #Skokie case, though decided correctly on technicalities having to do with private and public property, it’s applications thereafter have been wrong, not just morally, but politically, legislatively, and judicially.
❝ If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.
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fantastic intro article on Popper’s Paradox Of Tolerance by Josh Jones for OpenCulture.org:
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Does Democracy Demand the Tolerance of the Intolerant? Karl Popper's Paradox
Photo via Wikimedia Commons In the past few years, when far-right nationalists are banned from social media, violent extremists face boycotts, or institutions refuse to give a platform to racists, a faux-outraged moan has gone up: “So much for the t…Josh Jones (Openculture.com)
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Dr Popper was, like any good philosopher, wrong about a lot of things--but not this.
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I have the Wikipedia page on that and a very related topic on speed-dial:
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And this is precisely why we must regard tolerance as a social contract. As soon as someone breaches the terms, we are no longer required to accord them the protections.
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@Maxfieldripken As is my wont I shall now point out that Popper was wrong:
"Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty [...] the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact."
I agree about the paradox of tolerance, but not at the expense of the constitution. I continue to support the ACLU.
@Taweret That guy was literally the first person I followed on Twitter, after I took a class he taught on computer networking.
And he completely destroyed any respect I had for him.
The fossil fuel industry & its financiers gave Musk $44 billion to buy Twitter in time for the election.
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They took a $24 billion loss in valuation to make that salute happen.
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Down 80%: Fidelity says X has plummeted in value since Elon Musk's takeover
According to investment giant Fidelity, estimates of its shares in X have become 80% less valuable since Elon Musk took over., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
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100% nor should they be allowed to be a public servant.
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I deleted a long rant because, in 2025, it would probably be deemed a manifesto.
Disgusted with everyone in government.
An old man who helped usher in 3-strikes racist hell when a senator, and who failed to act right now, when he had the power to, attends the NAZI inauguration.
Overlong congressional hearings that accomplished nothing except convincing voters it was all a big show (no action to stop anyone doing anything). Stressed-out people sometimes won't show up at the polls, geniuses.
And every piece of shit general in the Pentagon who defends money over the Constitution they all took a mighty oath to defend. Nothing new here. See Vietnam and Iraq.
We have had it beaten into our heads that oaths mean less than nothing. Used toilet paper is more valuable.
Hey. For fun! How to tell our collegial politicians apart:
Republican = An absurdly wealthy/powerful NAZI gloating about eviscerating voting rights.
Democrat = A weak, yet surprisingly wealthy, hypocrite dining with NAZIs, who shifts responsibility for ACTING ON ITS OATH to powerless voters it frightens until they are numb.
Gosh, I wonder why turnout is a problem for the latter.
This has been the edited, toned-down version of a prior rant which went into great detail about the fascism we've ALWAYS HAD HERE SINCE AT LEAST THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, and one which I would have suspended myself for posting, now deleted.
Domestic enemies of the Constitution. What a joke.
I have a dream.
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I don't agree. This implies it's
OK to kill Nazis. Nazis are ideal to take the place of animals experimented on for cosmetic & pharmaceutical human products. There are many industries Nazis can be used in, like toxic waste disposal. Nazis are a natural resource that can & should be fully exploited to a very long life. That said I don't think any should be arrested for killing a Nazi.
OK to kill Nazis. Nazis are ideal to take the place of animals experimented on for cosmetic & pharmaceutical human products. There are many industries Nazis can be used in, like toxic waste disposal. Nazis are a natural resource that can & should be fully exploited to a very long life. That said I don't think any should be arrested for killing a Nazi.
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having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia
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"[Wikipedia] deserves 0$ until they rebalance." - a sentence that shows complete absence on understanding how wikipedia works.
"They" includes everyone, as wikipedia is the encyclopedia everyone can edit.
And the donations go to the WM foundation, that has no control about the content.
The content is made by volunteers that have nothing to do with the donations.
While the USA can force authors and admins with a residence in the US to anything, these authors and admins will be overruled by english language authors and admins in Canada, australia, britain, ireland and many other locations.
It seems that both groups (the billionaires and MAGApoliticians on the one side and the employees of the WMF on the other side) are completely unaware that it is unavoidable, that trumpmusk destroys Wikipedia, as Wikipedia cannot be forced into submission with any less severe action.
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@Life_is They know how it works. They just can't stand anything they can't own and control.
this is a pivotal moment. They really want to destroy information and truth. With that gone, they can convince anyone of anything. The world would be theirs.
They are also idiots. Defund Wikipedia? It's not publicly funded you awkward gesturing car maker
They are also idiots. Defund Wikipedia? It's not publicly funded you awkward gesturing car maker
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Silo (the show) is becoming more and more relevant. Scary.
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I assume Wiki has backups of its database ... we really need a locked copy of the whole thing stored in another country.
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If you install @kiwix on your phone or tablet or computer, you can download the whole of Wikipedia for offline use. (There's a version without media if you want to keep the file size down.)
That copy then becomes yours and no one can take it away or edit it.
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I can't work out if this is a sinister attempt to rewrite reality in a way that suits them. Or if they are so deluded they actually believe what they're saying.
@Infoseepage
Just for those who don't know what Infoseepage is talkn bout there is:
#Kiwix is a project to make large #information #repositories available in compact #offline forms - kiwix.org/en/ in various languages.
Several of their downloadable #libraries are subsets and snapshots of #Wikipedia. library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&q=…
The "flagship" all-six-million-en_US article module of Wikipedia is ~110GB and I seed this torrent.
Explore Offline Wikipedia and Educational Content with Kiwix- Kiwix
Discover the power of Kiwix - your gateway to offline Wikipedia and a vast array of educational content. Access knowledge anytime, anywhere without an internet connection. Explore the benefits of Kiwix today.Kiwix
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not being able to quote toot is so frustrating.
folks need to step up and donate more.
@catsalad Thankfully, the wikimedia foundation is funded for years to come. The edit wars I just saw flashing before my eyes are a whole other beast, though.
Coincidentally, I was just listening to a report about a sock puppet zoo revising history on German Wikipedia. Chilling stuff, but also a boost to respect towards serious Wikipedia editors. ardaudiothek.de/episode/socken… (in German)
Podcast: Prolog (Ep 00)
Wikipedia – die freie Enzyklopädie, die Wissen für alle zugänglich macht – hat die Welt verändert. Doch hinter der schlichten Fassade aus blauen Hyperlinks und einer Puzzlekugel verbirgt sich ein ständiger Kampf: um Information, Kontrolle und ja, auc…ARD Audiothek
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@arrrg Oligarchs call anything supporting we the people socialism. They do not like democracy, unions, Medicare, Social Security and people who think for themselves.
Wasn't there some effort a few years ago to launch a "conservative wikipedia" alternative? Didn't it fail spectacularly? I'm hoping that I didn't imagine that.
@keet
This is why their complaints are so hollow, the licence on Wikipedia permits people to "fork" it so if they really wanted to make a better version there's nothing to stop them at all.
Musk has enough money, why isn't he doing it? Could it be because he doesn't actually give a damn either way, or is it because he's afraid no one would want his version?
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@thepoliticalcat @keet it’s a shame their project to rewrite the bible without all the woke parts never really took off
Europe or somebody needs to offer a home to these institutions, they are not safe in the US.
There should be a federated Wikipedia alternative (to combat censorship if the US Gov tries to ban Wikipedia), it should be called Fedipedia
whatever happened to "businesses have a right".
oh right, they don't actually care at all.
I think they don't even suggest a "balanced" new 'pedia because they don't want Wikipedia to exist at all.
Elon has already convinced me to sign up for a recurring Wikimedia donation.
entertaining that rich fuckers like Musk think government funds Wikipedia. I'm sure he's never donated a goddamn penny to the Wiki world
Everyone must send massive donations, as much as they can afford to Wikipedia.
That’s not the solution. Avoiding conflict is the solution. Plus there are already more* Dems that own guns than MAGA. MAGA are just a small number of weirdos who own a bunch of guns per person. (*editing this post to question if this has changed, it’s been a few years. I’ll update it today or tomorrow. It may be, they’ve eclipsed the non R gun owners. If it’s changed I’ll change more to plenty of and we’re younger and probably shake less and have better aim. 😉) @kobold @molly0xfff
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Weird when it's the biggest "Community Notes" site, or not weird because it's the biggest "independent" one.
@UlrikNyman @kobold
Americans are naive as fuck.
The right wing nutjobs think that they will be doing all the raping and murdering.
But while you are purging the woke.
The woke will be purging you.
I remember an account from the Bosnian civil war where a teacher was murdering his old students with a knife.
Only putin can profit from American civil war.
Wiki is good in some cases, not others. Their historicity of Jesus is mostly biased....
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That's pure MAGA reasoning: 'It's fine if I agree with it, biased if I don't.' Trump used the same argument about election results.
The fact is that the scholars cited in the Wikipedia article are experts. They know far more about the subject than random commenters on social media.
Saw your post, then donated to Wikipedia. Thanks for the reminder.
They hate it because they can't control it.
Wow, Chamath is all in .. .
First he programed you so he could become a billionaire and get a seat at the table, now he's doing what ever he can so they don't kick his PoC body out of the country.
.. nice try ..
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I would think they intend to inflitrate it vs. take it down! We can all help stop that, by starting again to work as wikipedians!
I find it funny that the term "God given gift to think for yourself," is uttered. You can only think for yourself because an imaginative force gave you permission to do so.
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I find it so weird how Elon Musk is convinced twitter is the only real "news" app, and he thinks that news is just random unverifiable tweets. He considers actual news posted on websites legacy media.
"Foundation AI models are being trained on this data..." Well, then don't. I'm sure he can get some great content from "X - The Everything App" instead to train their models.
Yup. The cheek of stealing other people's work and then complaining that their work isn't good enough!
@Ben
for that reason I started donating to Wikipedia. I hope many more people will.
But Wikipedia is mostly politics nowadays and no neutral source. At least when you want to inform yourself about some history, countries or public people.
In tech stuff I didn't found issues yet (but I use Wikipedia very rarely)
In tech stuff I didn't found issues yet (but I use Wikipedia very rarely)
Yet another attempt to replace Freedom of Speech with Freedom to Deceive
Do these people not realize that Fox News is part of the legacy media and Wikipedia is independent media?
They should channels their efforts and attack this. bls.go
The amount of utter bullshit published monthly by the US Department of Labor has more utility than the sum of any other bullshit alive. It has ALL the trappings of weaponized bullshit including providing the Fed with reason to rob 90% of you blind while you engage in needless discourse.
this prompted me to set up a monthly donation.
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Is it possible to be among the richest & at the same time dumbest persons on Earth?
Elon Musk for sure feels compelled to prove it by personal example, to attract some more attention.
They're feeling the unpostponable urge to ban books & information so the masses wouldn't be able to claim superior knowledge compared to natural-born billionaire goofballs.
[Btw, it's still not officially confirmed if the Liar-In-Chief will spend less than one whole year playing with taxpayers' dollars on one of his notorious, laundered-money-funded goof courses this time. 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑]
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This is the sort of thing that makes me donate to Jimmy.
When people like that set out to suppress "ideology", with no reasonable argument as to why its only ideology, what they're saying is that their wealth and power are the only things that should matter and they are tired or dealing with inconvenient facts.
They represent "the natural order" and anything that would elicit disapproval of them is unnatural "ideology".
#SocialDarwinism #nazi #oligarchy
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Didn't @internetarchive warn us about this a few years ago?
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Since Elon Musk works for the Trump administration, he naturally simply becomes an extension of Trump administration propaganda!
While we're at it, give the Internet Archive some love (and cash). They could use it right now. archive.org
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They can enshittify their own platforms and capture the news that they've bought and paid for but if they come for WMF its tarps off kids. Thems fightn wordz. Theyz bout to have an incident.
(I know, donate- I already do)
Well... I am even more convinced to donate to Wikipedia now.
Always revealing that they cannot point at any actual, real examples.
probably time for Wikipedia to move its juridic home into another jurisdiction.
Canada wouldn't be too bad, but somewhere like Iceland or Switzerland would possibly be better.
Canada wouldn't be too bad, but somewhere like Iceland or Switzerland would possibly be better.
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Switzerland is often where these things end up, Norway would also be a good option.
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Wikipedia shouldn’t be seen as an arbiter of truth. That’s why teachers try to hammer it in to students that you can’t just cite Wikipedia as a source. However I would take the vetted words of the community over whatever Elon Musk says any day.
@billyjoebowers
"Free speech" to them just means the freedom to use racial slurs against minorities. The First Amendment is basically just an N-word pass to them. They give zero fucks about anything else it stipulates.
"Free speech" to them just means the freedom to use racial slurs against minorities. The First Amendment is basically just an N-word pass to them. They give zero fucks about anything else it stipulates.
Have they considered, I dunno, just not using it, if they really don't like it? Or is that "cancel culture"? Asking for a friend.
"defund" wikipedia.. 🤦
Well colour me impressed-they actually managed to hold a thought by remembering to hate Wikipedia!
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Ironically Musk does point out a real issue with Wikipedia: they treat newspapers as "reliable sources," even about topics like science and medicine where newspapers are not reliable.
A blog written by a scientist about their area of research is treated as less reliable than a New York Times editorial written and edited without any scientists involved.
It's a problem even before you look at areas of science that are politicized.
But of course, Musk's frustration isn't that they are using non-scientists as sources in science articles: it's that the non-scientists they cite aren't conservative enough.
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I was just doing some research on Wikipedia.
It is an invaluable resource for fighting disinformation and getting expert knowledge.
Specifically on when sexual dimorphism occurs during prenatal development.
(Hint: it isn’t at the time of conception)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline…
really makes me want to... Donate to wikipedia 👀
oops, donating in a few minutes.
Wikipedia's bullshit to bulltruth ratio is superb. Wikipedia does "lie" but its way, way worse at it than anyone else.
I'd put wikipedia on lists that include the great wall and the Apollo missions.
What happened to Wikipedia's co-founder Larry Sanger that he made it his mission in life to destroy Wikipedia?
this is insane.
you know what's truly mind boggling - it's the American ignorance of the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD.
Even if Wikipedia was bias towards some side of American clown politics the value it adds to the rest of the world just blows all of these meme issues to complete and utter irrelevance.
Even if Wikipedia was bias towards some side of American clown politics the value it adds to the rest of the world just blows all of these meme issues to complete and utter irrelevance.
“Foundation AI models are being trained on this biased data as if it's ground truth”
There’s an easy solution to that.
God damn it. Time to patrol articles again, I guess.
Never understood why these people think Wikipedia is heavily biased when I would argue it's one of the most neutral sites on the Internet, never once bending in favor of one political ideology. Wikipedia is not and never was perfect, but in an era where most people will easily fall for blatant lies and half-truths, the site and related platforms are kind of a necessity.
"wikipedia lies" ok link us to the lie and your attempt to correct it. Oh wait its just something you dont like and you have no evidence against.
i hate these purple so goddamn much
Can someone be bought/bribed to sell Wikipedia? Having supported it from time to time, I will feel cheated then.
Who's gonna counter?
What a #Bullshit they post about a decentralized #Information #Network, that is run by millions and #millions of #People #worldwide. Not a #Second in it's #Lifespan until today there was an ideological #Influence of any kind on #Wikipedia. Let's give it a #Lie to these #malvolent #Billionaires and their #Supporters. Keep #Wikipedia #free.
that reminds me I need to donate to Wikipedia again
I guess it's important to not have your lies fact-checked.
Technical question: Does anyone know how and were wikipedia is hosted ? Ie: does it replicate its data to alternative jurisdictions (ie: outside of the US) in case the oligarchs manage to get it blocked / brought down ?
if the sources aren't credible enough for them, their energy should be on making the sources more credible.
The apparent rage might be as simple as site visit ranking and popular kids are falling, so have to pick on the nerdy one that is below them (for now). en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
[citations needed]
@arrrg
I wonder why they haven't target d mastodon as much yet? Maybe it's not a big enough target? I have seen an increase of troll accounts lately on the bigger instances but it's not too hard to block and report.
I wonder why they haven't target d mastodon as much yet? Maybe it's not a big enough target? I have seen an increase of troll accounts lately on the bigger instances but it's not too hard to block and report.
I hope they have backup servers in other countries.
i'm deploying a mirror asap
"Idealogically captured" They don't even bother changing their scripted talking points. #Amirika
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You'll notice they never call public roads, US air traffic control, or fire services "socialist", even though they are.
You'll notice they never call public roads, US air traffic control, or fire services "socialist", even though they are.
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Uten norske reservasjoner i 2013 hadde det sett ekstremt svart ut for for elbilprodusenten.
Vi endte altså her med Elon som viser nazihilsen fra scenen, og han har nå mulighet til å sitte i det hvite hus og sende ut ekstreme meldinger på plattformen sin abcnyheter.no/nyheter/norge/20…
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Utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide (Ap) er også blant dem som reagerer etter at milliardær Elon Musk ble anklaget for å gjøre en fascistisk hilsen.NTB (ABC Nyheter)
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Hvis du overvejer at slette din bruger på Facebook, så kan du her til inspiration få en liste over ting jeg gjorde inden jeg slettede den for et års tid siden:
- Gennemgik mine messenger chats for at se om der var folk som jeg manglede et telefonnummer på. Skrev mit nummer til folk jeg syntes skulle have det.
- Skrev i diverse gruppechats at jeg ville forlade fb og at vi kunne skrives ved på Signal/sms/?
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"'We have hidden the results.' Suddenly meta users could not search for 'Biden'. ..."
#uspol #asocialmedia #socialmedia #facebook
'Vi har skjult resultaterne': Pludselig kunne Meta-brugere ikke søge på 'Biden'
Der blev arbejdet hårdt på at løse problemet, siger Meta.DR
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@robriley I'm afraid I don't know, all I know is that I trust it more than I trust meta with both my data, and to behave responsibly.
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Hey fellow tech folks. We might get asked to do something terrible. I'd like to start a bit of an open discussion about how to deal with such requests.
The first thing I might recommend is enthusiastically agree to do whatever it is then forget about it and do something else. If asked about it in the future, pretend this is the first you've heard about it. Play as dumb as you can for as long as you can.
Now, if you can't get away with delaying by not doing anything anymore then find the absolute most complicated way to do whatever it is. This is actually a great time to use an LLM. Have an LLM write all your code then just run it. Ask the LLM to fix anything that's broken. Take some extra steps to force downgrade or upgrade libraries to incompatible versions. Write all of your own interfaces by hand. Write your own date parsing library. Write all of your own SQL without any abstractions. Add an LLM in the middle some how. Use libraries that haven't been supported for 15 years. Ever want to write code in Python 2.0? Now's your chance! Debug everything with Wireshark, no matter what it is. I bet there's a VB script library to do what you need to do, and if you can just write a C wrapper around that it'll interface perfectly with perl, as soon as you can get that old FoxPro program running in wine. I bet it would be easier without that commit hook that changes every zero to a capital letter O. "I'm getting the craziest error. It works on my system!"
There are a million ways to make things insanely complicated, and most of us have seen people legitimately do these things out of pure incompetence.
Now, if you end up against the wall and think you might get fired package everything up and hand it off to someone else, but make sure you make it clear that you're almost done and it should be super easy to finish. Leave behind some fun puzzles for the next person to figure out.
"How strange...the output changes when I change the whitespace, but not when I change the text. What is that?"
Who's got some other fun suggestions for extremely malicious compliance?
Edit: Since the post I was riffing on is no longer the top trending on my instance, I'm gonna bump it again. We've all been thinking about all kinds of malicious compliance in the case of a hypothetical (or perhaps some of us real) evil. This is a *specific* evil that *is* being asked for right now.
It's worth reading the original post that got me thinking about this, it you hadn't yet:
sauropods.win/@futurebird/1138…
If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it."The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."
"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."
If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.
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Also, get randomized. If you have anything else, do that instead. Only work on whatever evil thing if you are explicitly asked to prioritize it above everything else. Then, if you're asked for anything after that point, drop the evil thing and take whatever new request. Add several days of delay for "task switching" when asked to come back.
One reason to feign compliance is so that the task doesn't get assigned to someone who might actually do it.
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People may say, "it's not possible to debug memory issues with Wireshark. That doesn't even make sense. What the fuck is wrong with you?" That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, repeatedly. Sure it's impossible, but don't let reality get in the way of your vision! It's not like leadership ever has!
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I'm pretty sure you can debug memory issues in Wireshark, though. Given enough probes, you can reconstruct an algorithm equivalent-enough to the contents of a black box to debug with paper and a pencil.
This is only rarely a good strategy, but how do you know this isn't such an occasion?
@wizzwizz4 I mean, memory is just another transport channel when you really think about it. Why not?
Schedule meetings to discuss requirements. Assign difficult tasks to known incompetents, or people known to be over-worked. Put every subroutine in its own container linked with the most difficult networking possible. Demand IPv6 for the entire project.
Document nothing. No comments in code, use obscure function and variable names, which you can reuse for different purposes from one routine to the other.
Schedule another meeting where you revisit and question past decisions.
Document nothing. No comments in code, use obscure function and variable names, which you can reuse for different purposes from one routine to the other.
Schedule another meeting where you revisit and question past decisions.
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Did I forget security? It's important! Make sure SELinux is set on Max. Make ip table rules for specific ports from specific ip addresses. If you require certs, make sure they expire every month (or less) and require a difficult process to renew. SSH by key only, which are force rotated every two weeks, and of course only from certain ip addresses.
@Okanogen I've heard certs should expire every 15 minutes, so it's important to have your own PKI to vend new certs.
No wild cards, and each expires at a different time or day.
Here's another, underprovision EVERYTHING. Especially storage, and then turn off logrotate. Oh the fun when nothing works because it can't write to disc.
If you create logs for your process, make sure they are as useless as possible (oh my God I'm living my own #Sysadmin trauma) also, no dates or times, or if you do, choose one that is different from the system setting (aggghhhhhhh).
Here's another, underprovision EVERYTHING. Especially storage, and then turn off logrotate. Oh the fun when nothing works because it can't write to disc.
If you create logs for your process, make sure they are as useless as possible (oh my God I'm living my own #Sysadmin trauma) also, no dates or times, or if you do, choose one that is different from the system setting (aggghhhhhhh).
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Even better, make sure some log files save a time in local, one in UTM, and one, NOT AT ALL.
If you ever do have to deliver "Evil Product" these elements will make it almost impossible to use or admin.
Also? These containers. Make some Debian Sid, some Fedora, some Centos, some Ubuntu, if you can cram some process on Windows server, even better. Hopefully scraping input from an Excel spreadsheet with tons of links.
If you ever do have to deliver "Evil Product" these elements will make it almost impossible to use or admin.
Also? These containers. Make some Debian Sid, some Fedora, some Centos, some Ubuntu, if you can cram some process on Windows server, even better. Hopefully scraping input from an Excel spreadsheet with tons of links.
@Okanogen release notes are your friend—if a library removes a feature in the version after the one you're on, use that feature extensively so that stuff breaks with a future security update
make undocumented assumptions about what Unicode encoding a file is in—you’re probably going to do some of that by mistake anyway, just fix it up so it works but different files are in as many different encodings as possible
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A sufficiently multilayered stack of abstractions is indistinguishible from advanced industrial sabotage.
@Okanogen even better: only document what's obvious. Write 5 lines of comment for a simple getWidth() but leave a complicated function uncommented, or with comments that are confusing and not very clear, or in a different language
@Okanogen I would object about the overworked colleague. They're probably stressed enough already.
@mdione @Okanogen I don't know, if the colleague can defend depriperizing it then they're perfect. If the colleague can't defend depriperizing it, then it could sit on their plate for a while before shifting to someone else. If they're enthusiastic about the project, then keep giving them work until they quit.
yes I think dragging the line like this is best for compliance with evil. Features can be delayed until the next release for a hundred reasons including "having to" reschedule the meeting about whether it is ready for a day too late.
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@travisfw is someone told me half of people above middle management in any major company was trying to tank the company by using this strategy, I'd have a hard time arguing otherwise (both from internal experience and external observations).
This shit is invisible because it's already happening... Only thing is that most of it comes from the top and everyone below mid managers spend at least half their energy trying to fix it.
You clearly know how most corporate people work. 😂
@oldoldcojote I have seen almost all of this, first hand, at some point in my career or another.
me, too
Appreciate your suggestions. We need to quit complaining and do what we can. 🔥
Retired now from the corporation, so trying to start my own profit split restaurant where hopefully our small team is motivated not to screw up their own. The whole country is full of pissed off workers.
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@oldoldcojote good luck! We need more of those.
layers. Ogres have layers. Get in those servers and set up cron jobs with super weird intervals. Put stored procedures in your database that are triggered when a string containing two e’s, a b and a n is entered. It was totally necessary for that use case you forgot to document.
@SrRochardBunson
I think about the advice in that sabotage manual all the time. The ruling class sabotage your life everyday in subtle and overt ways. Why aren't you doing everything you can to fight back, to sabotage their profits and undermine the system they've forced on us?
I think about the advice in that sabotage manual all the time. The ruling class sabotage your life everyday in subtle and overt ways. Why aren't you doing everything you can to fight back, to sabotage their profits and undermine the system they've forced on us?
the foxpro thing is just beyond evil. 😁
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we all do, even though never having worked directly with dbaseII/foxpro things. 😁
but I digress. thing is, the US gov themselves provide general instructions, not limited to computers. ;) cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e09…
I am riffing a bit off this. I actually think both should probably be used together. It can be valuable to push back, and it can be valuable to undermine. Choose your path wisely based on how you read the situation.
sauropods.win/@futurebird/1138…
Edit: and if you boosted mine, you should probably boost this too.
If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it."The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND biological sex."
"We need fields to store the country of origin of people's parents."
If you don't have the power to rebuff this yourself, ask for help. At minimum ask for help online anonymously.
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Maximize language barriers:
Invent new and change terms regularly.
Translate those terms and use all the variants in the code.
Change the language used in meetings.
Have at least three incomplete and contradicting glossaries.
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If you reverse basically any tenet of good programming practice, you have a good tactic.
How about using all that tech expertise to fuck over the persons & organization asking you to do the terrible thing? 🕵️
1. Get good at SQL 2. Find out how long backups are kept for 3. Decouple the data change from the code change 4. Push the data change first, and have it corrupt the new fields are needed (maybe by setting defaults or polluting other parts of the records). 5. Bundle the code change with unrelated changes, and keep having the other changes fail QA 6. Wait until the uncorrupted backups have been purged 7. Push code change.
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If someone asks me to do something unethical, I will say that it is unethical and not do it. And I will face whatever consequences come with that refusal. That is the ethical thing to do.
@eliotlear Since you're going to get fired right away anyway, you're in charge of starting the union organizing drive.
@eliotlear "I refuse to personally march folks into camps, but I won't stop you if you want to do it" does not sound like a moral win to me.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Commenting your code? Not today, Satan!
Or go ahead and comment, just inaccurately and/or full of impossible to penetrate jargon and acronyms.
Be like Riker: youtu.be/WU_RGhavFbY?feature=s…
“These specs aren’t clear. I need to see full wireframes with every corner case covered before I can possibly start to implement this.”
Parcel out your corner cases into as many distinct inquiries as possible. Stretch them out as long as possible. Do you really need to send that email or slack to get clarification right now? It can probably wait an hour. Or a day.
Does your team communicate on slack? Not you! You like email. Does your team communicate on email? Not you! You like synchronous meetings with every possible stakeholder. EVERY stakeholder.
Ooh, better spend some more time on that documentation.
Doesn’t this code need a refactor? It probably needs a refactor.
Have we considered the security and legal implications of this? We should probably get sign off from Security and Legal on these specs before we start work.
Man, it’s so weird how null values in the new field crash the whole system.
Better make sure to triple and quadruple check that migration before you run it. (Or: don’t! Fuck it, we’ll run it on prod!!)
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When they said “move fast and break things” I really took that to heart.
Either it’s so urgent it’s gotta ship now right now with no error checking whatsoever orrrrr it’s so important that it has to go through absolutely every single step of review ever defined in the company and get sign off from the CEO personally.
Sensemaking variable names? No.
Variables that do the opposite of what the name implies? Yes.
Many variable names that are almost indistinguishable from each other? Yes.
Variable names that use “1” and “l” and “0” and “O” as often and as inconsistently as possible? Yes.
Code reviews should take forever. And not find all the problems. If they do find all the problems, make more problems when you fix those problems. Or don’t fix them all and make it go through another round of code review.
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"Does your team communicate on slack? Not you! You like email."
It's sad how I do some of these without any bad intent, just because I'm old and cranky. I should write up a guide based on my actual practices.
"First, write everything in vi"
"Does everyone else think that you need no documentation? Well, you actually do."
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I would beg to differ. Comment like hell, but make the comments slightly contradict the code 🤪
I would beg to differ. Comment like hell, but make the comments slightly contradict the code 🤪
Make data fields called things like user_id and populate them with "y" (yes, the user has an ID).
(I've actually written my own date parser, because I have to deal with date formats not in wide use anywhere, like the US Coast Guard's DD-MON-YY e.g. 10-JAN-25.)
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@richpuchalsky well I hate this. Good job
You mean the date format used by every sensible person ?
(when one doesn't need to precise the century, I mean)
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I've never seen a date with the month spelled out as a 3 letter abbreviation in any other context. Because it was from the Coast Guard I assumed that DD-MON-YY was a specialty format designed for saying a date into the radio on a ship with a screaming loud storm going on.
Since it was mixed into a database with other more usual date formats I called it "demon-year".
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Oh rigtht, I didn't get the three-letter-abbreviation part.
My apologies.
If not working remotely, it's a health and safety breach if your working conditions do not have working toilet facilities.
Plaster of Paris should never be put down toilets or sinks, it hardens very quickly and causes blockages that can require expensive plumbing. If some amount of it is put down a sink or toilet at the end of a business day on a Friday, there is no doubt that Monday and Tuesday the working conditions would not be fit.
Health and safety is important.
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This reads a hell of a lot like what the Luddites were getting up to!
When you work with MySQL just use their UTF-8 implementation, handily called character set utf8. It saves you a byte over the other implementations that other people use. They also have a character set utf8mb4 but that sounds kind of confusing.
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Maybe you can dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, when those tools are LLMs.
Always roll your own crypto... For security!
@float13 if you are rolling your own crypto, it's important to make sure the code is very obfuscated, otherwise it will be easy for the attacker to understand what it's doing. It should be really hard to even figure out that there's crypto in there. If automated tooling can detect that you're using crypto to give you advice, then it needs to be hidden better.
@float13 in general, obscurity is an excellent security measure, just think of what could happen if one of those “hackers” got access to the source code!
Sabotage is the best way to put an end to all the bs. And remember to not get caught. Martyrs are useful to the cause. Active saboteurs are!
@guyjantic alternate view/approach: having the confidence to firmly and politely say “no”, backed up with reasons and evidence, is a career super-power. It only comes with experience, but you go epic level when you unlock it.
Those reasons and evidence can incorporate cost, complexity, security, privacy, organisational reputation, regulations, time to deploy, and many more. Investigate all the reasons and have notes
Then say no
@WiteWulf @guyjantic some people absolutely should do this. I think it depends a lot on how much social and political capital you have in an org. If you have enough, then use it. There's a lot of value in other people seeing someone just flat out refuse.
It can inspire others. It can stop such requests in the future. It's great. For a lot of organizations, that can be enough to snap them out of compliance.
Also, some organizations are built to do evil things and anyone who resists that will be filtered out. We need people in those organizations making sure they *can't* do as much evil as they otherwise would. That is also valuable. We all work at different places, and everyone has a place.
I'm sure you all can find some unnecessary, fragile dependency to stick in there...
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There are latin1 non-breaking-spaces as well. Don't restrict yourself to just Unicode. You may need some experimentation.
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Don't be afraid to play bureaucrat and ask for the form 27B stroke 6. Invoking strict adherence to rules and procedures--especially if you know that your managers are not even going to bother to check if you're right--can slow things down.
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@maccruiskeen "I thought I saw a policy about this, let me check..."
"After 3 weeks of looking, I noticed we don't have a policy about how to do that. What's the protocol for making sure one gets written?"
"After 3 weeks of looking, I noticed we don't have a policy about how to do that. What's the protocol for making sure one gets written?"
Be more confident than that. I was assigned a rush project that I didn't want to do, and I was like, I can't make a schedule for that until there's a contract (which was being held up the other end). Not strictly true, but no one pushed back on it. So there's always ways to throw a little sand in the machine.
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If you have some code metric thing that demands comments, then erroneous, meaningless, and insecure comments are the way to go:
// If a equals c
if (a ==b) {
// Set the flag (check with team, is this still wrong?)
flag = true
}
switch to Agile 🙄
it's definitely a use case that requires foundation-shaking changes to the code base, like switching from oop to functional paradigm, and probably adopting a new coding language that's been around for all of two weeks. (It'll solve so many problems down the road, it's that good!) For reasons, it really is necessary for the compiler to rewrite parts of the code to be compiled, which only make revision history slightly less useful. Important stuff should absolutely be kept in your IDE config and nowhere else. And don't limit yourself to accented latin in variable names: unicode arrows, punctuation, letter-like symbols, etc. belong in class and function names, redundant and mismatched constants, etc. too (sparingly -- you're sane and competent, and this is a legitimate need for Roman numerals).
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Alternatively, insist everything be written in C for performance reasons. Memory vulnerabilities? Not a problem, only bad programmers mismanage memory. Also introduce concurrency unnecessarily - only bad programmers find it hard to debug convoluted race conditions, right?
Alternatively, insist everything be written in C for performance reasons. Memory vulnerabilities? Not a problem, only bad programmers mismanage memory. Also introduce concurrency unnecessarily - only bad programmers find it hard to debug convoluted race conditions, right?
thanks for this post.
Just all the horrible ideas in here and the sheer creatitvity, I love it!
Especially the date thing, oh boy. youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY
This should be one of the spots where you should let the requirements be lax. Yes, your solution needs to cover the entire human era, you never know. You will find excellent rabbit holes to spend your time in.
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@crypticcelery I wrote a time parsing library once.....just once....
what do you mean wrote? Are you sure it is done? I hear those projects require constant attention.
@crypticcelery someone on another team explained leap seconds to me and that week that doesn't exist and I was like... "Oh..." found a date parsing library, and never made that mistake again.
"I'm just having a lot of trouble seeing the trouble clearly after that last bout of COVID".
@IcooIey I'm only comfortable talking about this because I'm no longer in the US, I'm currently on disability, and even if neither of those were true I don't build things that could be used in that way anyway... And honestly, some of the things I used to get asked to do are so absurd I'm not sure I could do more damage by not simply complying anyway, so there's no value in malicious compliance for me.
So basically imagine that you are a multi-million-dollar contractor
There are a few different version of the sabotage manual in PDF linked from this thread too, but in case you want to download an epub, Gutenberg also has it...
Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
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Four words: Waterfall process. Feature creep.
Make sure you get *extensive* stakeholder input from as many departments as possible.
Especially if they're irrelevant.
Give every junior, middle, and senior manager the opportunity to provide input.
Ask to set up meetings with their full teams so that everyone in the company or organisation can have their say on the project.
Openly solicit them to suggest new features that should be included.
If they suggest a new feature, the answer is an automatic yes.
Invite them all to be part of the signoff process.
Document all feature requests, especially when they contradict.
If you have a design team, get them to do a mockup of the UI.
Build a mock-up of the front end first.
Then do another round of stakeholder feedback.
Ask for changes.
Sally from sales won't help you waste time by suggesting a different database. But she'll absolutely suggest that button should be placed differently and be a different shade of blue.
With all these stakeholders involved, you'll need regular meetings to keep them in the loop.
Do your upfront consultations right, and you'll be left with an awful piece of bloatware that will never ship with 100 stakeholders who'll fight to ensure all their suggestions are included.
And all that before you type the first piece of actual code.
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As for how you could make a simple web app technically complicated, here's an idea.
Sure, you could code your web app's UI in PHP/Javascript/CSS/whatever as part of the app itself.
But where's the fun in that?
Alternatively, you could choose to do something more "robust" and complex.
Such as set up a virtual machine, with a full Arch Linux install, including KDE or Gnome.
Then have a full LAMP and networking stack on top of that.
Then install a full content management system (whichever out of WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla your organisation doesn't use) on top of that.
(Very important note: This is not your organisation's main CMS for the front end. You're standing up a full CMS in a virtual machine just for the UI of one app.)
You will want many plugins.
The actual interface will be driven by a custom-coded plugin, which shares data with many other plugins on the same install.
You know that WordPress CMS plugin no-one uses because it slows down your website? You'll be installing that to store some of your data.
You'll use webhooks and a custom integration to pull data in plain text from the rest of your app into a Google Sheet through a hard-coded URL, and then another API and custom integration to pull it into your virtual machine.
And all this for the web UI.
Have fun! =)
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One final suggestion for mischief.
If you present a manager with a PowerPoint presentation titled "executive summary" with many pretty graphics and charts, and a Word document titled "detailed proposed technical specifications" that's AI-generated and around 30 or 40 pages long, I almost guarantee that they'll only look at the former.
And they'll make their approval decision based on what's in the executive summary.
So hypothetically, you could make the case in the executive summary for why key parts of your application should be hosted in the cloud across four separate VPSes.
And in the detailed tech specs, somewhere around page 17, you specify in a dense paragraph that for security purposes, each of those four virtual private servers is to run a different operating system.
One will be Linux, one Windows, one Haiku, and one AROS.
As in this AROS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS_Res…
You hand over your nearly finished application by gicing your colleagues access to the VPSes, and by gum they'll be surprised that a critical chunk of the application is an AREXX script running on a virtualised Amiga.
When this is raised up the food chain, and it will, you'll be able to accurately point out that you explictly specified this on page 17 of the memo that was signed off by the more senior manager.
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@ajsadauskas this is all a ploy to get Lode Runner preinstalled on future work machines isn't it?
@mathiastck Not necessarily...
There's also Secret of Monkey Island, Sensible Soccer, Lemmings, Cannon Fodder, The Chaos Engine, Alien Breed, Zool, Prince of Persia, Elite...
@ajsadauskas you are giving me PTSD flashbacks to public service
@arichtman @ajsadauskas
Could be therapeutic to work back through it for the collective good this time?
Taking notes here. I've got the (time-limited, but still) privilege of unemployment as this begins, so my food money isn't entirely dependent on needing to comply with the software industry bullshit that will no doubt kneecap Canada as well. But there's room for all of us to find at least a small digital or procedural spanner for the works.
I might create a GUI using Visual Basic to track an IP address.
I think the best way to do this is with how tickets for the tasks as created.
1.Give the tickets you make the lowest priority possible in Jira.
2. Label all of the tickets as Technical Debt (they will never get done)
3. Know your Kanban Boards and set the tickets to trickle to the bottom.
4. Try to have the ticket target the most arcane and oldest/outdated micro service your company has. You know, the one everyone is too afraid to even look at.
Create an extensive, compulsively detailed functional architecture document in UML. Insist on updating it continuously with every single minor change in programming logic.
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You always wondered if you could write your own compiler, right? Right?
@IcooIey Many (most?) of the unorganized resisters we now know about that operated in Nazi-occupied Europe we didn't know about until 30-40 years ago (often times even more recently than that).
Oh I think your thread is very helpful and encouraging, especially for folk who don’t feel there is much they can do. Just wanted to inject a bit of realism so folks remember it’s not a game and they must take great care. Very few of us will be in a position to do anything grand; every bit helps, but the first rule is to survive.
Using Jupyter notebooks is a good way to ensure I won’t be able to reproduce my work in a week. YMMV
I like the energy... but I do have one point that I think could be done better/ should be done differently
Step 01 is never "agree"
Step One is always a dismissive, half assed "I heard you and I'm already creating a delay" type of malicious compliance 😉
"Oh... ok?"... can you send me something on that detailing what they're looking for?... Thanks!"
THEN... move on to "I forgot about it"
and also... start looking for your next gig while making this go as poorly as possible for whatever 'toxic enabler' bullshit the people who wanted this are trying to pull
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My simple favourite is horribly misnamed variables. Store the debit in a variable called "credit", altitude in one called "eastness", the user name in "isThisBob", the password in "isloggedIn". If you don't have control of the DB schema, create aliases on your SQL queries to match.
Another fun one would be more useful if it wasn't too obvious in the code, but it's great to stick in a library:
if (rand(0, 1000000) == 1) {
someresult = someresult * 1.02
}
"All the libraries and frameworks we use are too woke for this task, so we have to write it all from scratch. No, not in rust. It's got the same problem. Raw C only."
Also, no-one ever gets fired for creating incomprehensible database schemas.
Always make sure to use the least useful key for each table and use many, many tables. Make sure column names are nearly the same in different tables, but do wildly different things. Be creative about data types. Numbers can easily be stored as strings, just saying.
Create lots of documentation for all of this mess, but make sure to spread it out. Some google docs, some wikis, some text files, all 90% complete.
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treat this as a checklist: hackernoon.com/an-overview-of-…
An Overview of SQL Antipatterns
I was recently going through my notes of SQL Antipatterns and was shocked to realize how actual this book still is.Horia Constantin (hackernoon.com)
@dangerdyke Oh - this is actually pretty interesting. Both as real resource and for... complicating things.
Replace semi colons `;` by greek question marks `;` in any code you happen to write.
If doable, you could even make an automation to transform semi colons by greek question mark when typing gor every computer of the company^^
also and before doing anything else that could be an implementation, ask for UX to give their input. Even better ask for UX research, ask how will the new thing impact the user experience, how will they interact with it. Ask to have it explained, documented, mock-up, in user flows etc. Try to make friends with the UX and UX Research teams and let them know that they want you to implement a feature that isn’t designed, with no user consideration.
Im UseNet, dem ersten öffentlichen Kommunikationsforum im Internet, galt die "goldene Regel": Alles, was länger als ein Bildschirm ist, wird nicht gelesen.Das waren damals 40x80=320 Zeichen.
Wenn du auf Mastodon postest, solltest du dies bedenken.
Ich habe deinen Post versucht zu lesen, aber es ist ein Schwall von Wörtern, und die anscheinend wichtige Information ist in einer Abkürzung versteckt.
Also habe ich nichts verstanden.
Bitte fasse dich kurz, konkret und verständlich.
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if asked to do something 'bad', agree to it, but do so in writing expressing your concerns. Cc HR.
Yeah, you're making things more complicated that they need to be.
Just applying exactly the management's demands, without fixing anything in the process, should be enough to stop everything from working.
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Code in old Perl and set this line somewhere in a library:
$[ = -1;
Many years ago, I spent weeks tearing my hair out because someone had done that to me. It makes ALL arrays in perl start at index -1 after that line is executed. Including ones you've already created and iterated through.
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You have rediscovered a technique has been used many times in other fields with great success.
onebigunion.ie/how-to-fire-you…
Malicious compliance is powerful on its own, but you have even more power when you stand hand in hand with your fellow workers. I invite people to contact me to learn more about this approach.
ger your team to adopt "agile" and XP too ;)
@Bredroll you know, a lot of people say "agile" and they don't know what it means. If you want to do agile correctly, you really need to make sure every member of the team is trained. There's a lot of terminology, and you really need to use is totally correctly so no one is confused. If people don't know what it means, they really need training.
Some people pick and choose between bits of agile and bits of XP. That really means you need to know both, inside and out, in order to keep doing waterfall with a Kanban board correctly.
can you say anything about the data security of LLMs? I've definitely been afraid ever since hearing about generative AI, the amount of black box jargon that is used to obfuscate what makes it work is very alarming to me. Not sure what sources I can find for something like that. 🤔
@AniMerrill there are open LLMs and closed ones. The open ones you can run locally and you can know how they work (given enough knowledge). The closed ones are black boxes, so you can never know or trust what they're doing.
Some LLMs, like Gemini, seem to isolate sessions so they couldn't leak data to other sessions. But there's no real way of knowing unless you're reverse engineering them. It's valuable to use human feedback to improve responses, so there are incentives to do things that would leak data. And, of course, all questions are monitored and, I assume, given directly to law enforcement if anything unusual is detected.
Basically, don't put anything into an LLM that you don't want to be made public.
@AniMerrill if you're integrating an LLM into something you're building in order to make it less stable, you're probably talking about a model you'd control rather than a third party service.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini…
Is this the LLM you're referring to? If so I'm definitely looking forward to reading more when I'm less tired 
@AniMerrill eh, yeah, I would avoid using LLMs for most things unless you're intentionally trying to make whatever you're using as inefficient and buggy as possible.
All of these techniques should be employed aggressively to combat the DOdGEy boys.
It would be fairly trivial to, for example, run a one line "for/do" loop with an awk/sed command to remove all comments in all files in a directory.
Or fuck it, just run an unattended dist-upgrade on every production system. "Just doing my job, man.".
It would be fairly trivial to, for example, run a one line "for/do" loop with an awk/sed command to remove all comments in all files in a directory.
Or fuck it, just run an unattended dist-upgrade on every production system. "Just doing my job, man.".
@Okanogen DOGE is a bit different though. Only congress has the legal authority to create something like DOGE, so all operations are illegal. DOGE is a coup with no legal backing. Even the illusion of compliance is bad.
The only correct response to DOGE is"fuck you, make me!" Make them find someone with a gun, then follow this advice *only* if they can.
record decisions in different tools ie Jira, Slack, email, confluence comments, GitHub issues / PR. Bonus if you can keep tool hopping for a single piece of work. Battle tested way to wear down any “enthusiastic” manager. Link unrelated work as “prior art” / “considerations” or my favourite “dependencies” and let someone else sort it out
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There is a lot to learn, and unfortunately to predict, from the history of the Spanish civil war. It was a bloody defeat but also the closest we got to self-governance. Pay attention to who betrayed who and how.
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It's a bummer that @mikestuchbery_ isn't active here anymore
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@naught101 @mikestuchbery_ thank you for sharing that account, I hit the follow button anyway. Maybe he will come back someday and I am here for it.
@maggiejk @naught101 @mikestuchbery_ yep I loved Mike as a follow on twitter. He was on IG for a bit. Fingers crossed
Thanks for sharing his account! As he seems to be posting this message on X, it won't take long until we find him active here again right? That's how non-censorship works in practice, like with @elonjet , I believe.
I wonder how Elonjet will change now by the way. Will he travel with military helicopters soon, who might be exempt from the obligation to publish something?
@erikkemp @mikestuchbery_ @elonjet
He's active on bluesky, so probably not
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I have no formal qualifications, and that was definitely a Nazi salute.
media : so he's saying there are nuances here, got it
@AlexanderVI I hate my brain because this reply made me lol for real because I thought you were joking. But maybe you aren’t and I don’t know. FML
At least I got a laugh, even if you didn’t mean for it to be that way.
At least I got a laugh, even if you didn’t mean for it to be that way.
@maggiejk I'm using humour as a coping mechanism
Makes me wonder, if Muskler would dare to do it publicly in Germany or other countries, where he could be charged with a crime for doing it. 😎
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Have people been charged in Germany and elsewhere and have the protractors come out in court.
Have people been charged in Germany and elsewhere and have the protractors come out in court.
@the5thColumnist 😎 Yeah, Nazis were charged & sentenced for giving the terrorist Nazi salute.
Some examples below👇👇👇
"The swastika and other Nazi symbols are banned in Germany, and those caught breaking the law can be fined or face a jail term of up to three years."
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After Elon Musk was accused of giving a fascist salute at an event celebrating the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, we look at the rules around the gesture in Germany.Rachel Loxton (The Local Germany)
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That last case cited of the US Marine has probably been released now with congratulations from the Commander in Chief.
That last case cited of the US Marine has probably been released now with congratulations from the Commander in Chief.
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I have not seen the list of insurrections that Trump ordered released from imprisonment so probably.
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So I just sent it to my wife and asked her to share it with her colleagues at NRK too!
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