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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@Hex @szakib read the situation. Refusal can be powerful if you’re in a position of power
But otherwise yes, absolutely delay, defer, and sabotage if you’re being asked to do something unconscionable. Because if you refuse it just makes it faster for them to find someone else to do it.
And by all the gods, don’t tell anyone that you’re doing it. Anyone that knows can possibly leak or be compelled to out you.
My boss often avoids having us do "bad" shit that gets around our written policies by refusing to sign off without express senior management direction and documentation that they recognize and approve it violating policies.
Bottom line, know your written policies and procedures.
I doubt what dodgy is doing conforms with then SOC and other policies that are written and mandated.
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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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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Compare to:
»Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House«
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.
![A private security contractor at the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza on January 28, 2025 [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency]](https://friendica.world/photo/preview/640/9498229 "A private security contractor at the Netzarim Corridor in Gaza on January 28, 2025 [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu Agency]")
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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.
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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.
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My stomach turns every time I recall that.
Recently someone bring that up to me in a conversation 🤢 .
“How to care for your about-to-burst bubble”
This interview on the current crisis by OnTheMedia is actually very good:
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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Having been a smoking addict I can imagine to what depths quitting can drive you.
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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.
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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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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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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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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.
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.
And because like 99,9% of the ads require JavaScript, it kills that to
Changing account settings may potentially not do much.
See misskey.de/notes/a3ax4tqomg
Anyone who goes through my post history, knows I work for Meta (Facebook).I am "Consumer Content Administrative Manager". My primary duties include content appeals, account appeals, account reviews, and some peer review.
It is no surprise that my job depends on people using Facebook. Today, I am going to suggest, you not do so. I can make that suggestion because we have a user base of billions, and I know most people would keep using Facebook even if the Devil ran the company. People are strange.
But if you feel you can truly live without Facebook, do so. Internally, things are changing, and not for the better. You should especially consider leaving Meta if you are a minority, woman, LGBTQ+, trans, or identify as progressive, politically. If facts matter to you, and misinformation is something you do not want to be subject toward, you should especially consider leaving, Facebook.
You have no privacy from Meta, while using Meta. None. I do not care if you believe you disabled a "feature" or "opt out" of something. You only seem to have done so. And even if you're going to continue to use Meta, uninstall the app (all of them). We collect data on you, even when you're not using the app.
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #Threads
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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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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@User47
Seems improbable.
Caption probably reads "We Will Get You!"
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 
vi ASAP!
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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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
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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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.
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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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Content warning: On the Richest Nazi in the WorldMastodon 🐘
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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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@androcat
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
error output
fabrication
data anomaly
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@feliz
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?
@troed @feliz @androcat
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.
@troed @feliz @androcat
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.
naah....we call them bugs
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Microsoft har et jerngreb om danske kommuner: Magtesløse overfor prisstigninger i ny milliard-aftale
Ny offentlig kæmpe-kontrakt betyder, at de danske kommuner i de kommende år vil sende milliarder af kroner i lommen på Microsoft. Kommunerne er så tæt filtret ind i den amerikanske tech-gigant, at man ikke reelt kan gøre noget ved det, når pri
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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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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
By Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
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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.
(In Danish)
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Kilder til DR: Trumps folk 'bestak' hjemløse og socialt udsatte med hotelmiddag for at lege Trump-støtter
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
Some say it was an unambiguous Nazi salute but others are unsure and say focus should be on Musk’s stated support for far-rightKate Connolly (The Guardian)
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Statens og Kommunernes Indkøbsservice har netop offentliggjort et stort udbud på Microsoft-produkter
Danske kommuner kommer over de næste 3 år til at købe kontor-software for over 4 milliarder kroner
Kommunerne er så tæt filtret ind i den amerikanske tech-gigant, at man ikke reelt kan gøre noget ved det
- når priserne lige om lidt stiger
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Ny offentlig kæmpe-kontrakt betyder, at de danske kommuner i de kommende år vil sende milliarder af kroner i lommen på Microsoft.Louise Olifent (Version2)
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@crlcan81@bark.lgbt @RickiTarr
Wage theft - no wonder Bezos & Musk wants the Labor Board (NLRB) declared unconstitutional
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‘It has really gotten out of hand’: wage theft rampant in US construction
US regulators are cracking down on business practices that mean workers are not paid their due, a problem exacerbated in building industry by use of labor broker systemMichael Sainato (The Guardian)
@crlcan81@bark.lgbt @RickiTarr This story of the original 'welfare queen' is quite enlightening.
"The Truth Behind The Lies Of The Original 'Welfare Queen'"
The fact that the GOP used a criminal to criminalize an entire class of people is just their style.
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The original Slate article:
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The Real Story of Linda Taylor, America’s Original Welfare Queen
Ronald Reagan loved to tell stories. When he ran for president in 1976, many of Reagan’s anecdotes converged on a single point: The welfare state is br ...Josh Levin (Slate Magazine)
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"Jeg opfatter det ikke som snyd og bedrag. Det står ret tydeligt på Trumps hjemmeside, at man ikke skal anse det som en investering eller forvente at få noget igen, forklarer Mads Eberhardt."
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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@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.
@sambowne
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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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?
@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:
Does Democracy Demand the Tolerance of the Intolerant? Karl Popper's Paradox | Open Culture - openculture.com/2019/03/does-d…
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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I have the Wikipedia page on that and a very related topic on speed-dial:
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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."
The fossil fuel industry & its financiers gave Musk $44 billion to buy Twitter in time for the election.
aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/…
They took a $24 billion loss in valuation to make that salute happen.
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The oil industry has been laying the groundwork for today for a long time.
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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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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.
Guantanamo-a
Fascists to Guantanamo-a
Guantanamo-a
Send them to Guantanamo-a
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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Loops is our short video sharing platform, we're running the first server at loops.video
While it's not open source or federated yet, we are working on that.
If you are on Loops.video, you will be able to migrate your full account to another Loops server without losing your followers, videos, comments or likes!
It's pretty amazing what is possible with open platforms and protocols ✨
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@pixelfed
It's not changed. pixelfed.social has at no point communicated it's been running in degraded mode (federation was off, imports and migration still are) and pixelfed.org still lists it at the top of the server list. @dansup keeps saying he's for federation, but promotes a closed system. I get it, he's overwhelmed and isn't thinking clearly, but we've seen this before and this is not how it should be done.
@pixelfed
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@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.
"[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, and they know that their followers are completely ignorant and would refuse to learn even if asked.
They WANT people to not believe anything except what they tell them. It's a classic Cult tactic.
They are also idiots. Defund Wikipedia? It's not publicly funded you awkward gesturing car maker
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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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@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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@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)
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@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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Europe or somebody needs to offer a home to these institutions, they are not safe in the US.
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.
@lednaBM
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.
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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>Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The novel follows in the viewpoint of Guy Montag, a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings.<
Yup. The cheek of stealing other people's work and then complaining that their work isn't good enough!
In tech stuff I didn't found issues yet (but I use Wikipedia very rarely)
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.
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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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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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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)
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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"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.
Beginning to think we need a botnet that just takes all those posts, changes a few nouns so that the meaning is reversed, and blasts them back out again.
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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.
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…
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.
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.
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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…
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.
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You'll notice they never call public roads, US air traffic control, or fire services "socialist", even though they are.
Uten de norske #elbil incentivene ville #Tesla antagelig ikke eksistert i dag. Nå har Elon gått i kompaniskap med Trump som går hardt inn for å fjerne incentiver i USA.
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…
Eide om Musk-gest: – Vekker klare assosiasjoner til en grusom tid i historien
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/?
(fortsætter i tråd)
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Morskaben fortsætter ...
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The fun continues ...
"'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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E39-40: The Spanish civil war
Double podcast episode where we give a brief general overview of the Spanish civil war and revolution which broke out after the attempted military coup by right-wing general Francisco Franco 1936-1…Working Class History
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"Yes, but poor people abuse the system!"
Do they? Let's talk about how rich people abuse the system then.
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The soundtrack of whitch a neverending "California Girls" loop, with a distorted Katty Perry voice randomly asking you to end her suffering...
Cherry-O!
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one of my favorite examples of this:
my aunt's second husband
an ex COO of Verizon - totally rich
he had these fake vouchers he would use at Maryland-area tolls, so he did not have to pay the $2 to go thru the Harbor Tunnel
bc this man was a total POS.
(he turned out to be a financial abuser, aunt had to leave him, she lost everything)
@RickiTarr@beige.partyI like to spin a hypothetical scenario for people that bring this up.
- When poor people "abuse the system" they do how much "economic" damage?
- When rich people "abuse the system" they do how much "economic" damage?
Despite the fact that this language is awful and robs people of basic decency and/or courtesy... most people will never believe me that we cannot "afford" rich people.
"Oh no! A person scammed 600€ this year because they got 50€ per month that they were actually not entitled to! Would you be furious if they got more money they were not entitled to? Where do you draw the line? Because I can point to examples of filthy rich people that scam everyone out of billions by not paying their taxes!"
Silence.
Hypocrites. At least admit you like kicking down because you think it's easier.
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Read the Panama Papers and tell me otherwise. They cheat at paying their taxes, and the biggest companies in the US don't even PAY taxes.
But sure, the poor abuse the system.
one south african immigrant welfare queen gets billions of sweet tax payers dollars to keep one his e-waste selling shit show afloat and another one existing clearly outside of his control, but with his name in it.
Yeah, little Elon sells useless e-cars that do not solve the problem they promise to fix and just has a title of CEO of a NASA's puppet SpaceX and all of it to have 340 bils of USD and write 60 tweets every day ON AVERAGE. That clown abuses system than local kebab man
I don't know about over there, but here (where we get the same 'poor people abuse the system crap), the amount the Treasury loses to benefit fraud each year is significantly less than the amount the Treasury gains from benefits being unclaimed.
Both are dwarfed by the amount lost to rich people avoiding tax.
It's open source, encrypted, and more importantly perhaps, not associated with #Meta in any way.
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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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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?
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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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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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.
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A sufficiently multilayered stack of abstractions is indistinguishible from advanced industrial sabotage.
@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.
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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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 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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@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.
"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."
@Hex
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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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".
@Hex
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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@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.
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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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"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?"
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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
}
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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?
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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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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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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@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...
@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 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.
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
}
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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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)
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^^
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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 
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.
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It's been here for some time now...nothing new
maybe now you guys will get off your ass and DO SOMETHING eh?
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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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Showed it to my grandparents, that when they were children had to do the salute under the nazis and saw others do it.
They said that is definitely a nazi salute.
At least I got a laugh, even if you didn’t mean for it to be that way.
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. 😎
#Nazism #Narcissism #ElonMusk #NaziSalute #Muskler #Law #justice #Democracy #USPol #USPolitics
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."
cbsnews.com/news/marine-nazi-s…
thelocal.de/20250121/what-are-…
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What are the rules around showing the 'Nazi salute' in Germany?
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)
That last case cited of the US Marine has probably been released now with congratulations from the Commander in Chief.
@ArenaCops
I have not seen the list of insurrections that Trump ordered released from imprisonment so probably.
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Sex tape. Title of Trump's sex tape.
Damnit!
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one alternative to android and iphone. fairphone with un-googled o.s..
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