[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 73 points 1 month ago

yet another programmer who imagines that having computer science baccalaureate gives him an insight into human biology. sigh.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

i find the level of ms apologia unsettling. remember, we're only a few news cycles away from the time ms almost shipped windows with spyware and keylogger built-in

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

at one of the places i worked this kind of data was called assnumbers.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

also, isn't that the “nonlinear” thing co-founder?

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

the indignant outrage at the mere suggestion that the cultists be slightly less visibly racist, maybe, is 10/10, no notes.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

these guys should really stop using words they don't understand. (i know, in case of the muppet quoted below it's almost impossible.)

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the technical term is either “confabulation” or “bullshit”; “hallucination” is a misleading label coined by the ai pushers.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

that habryka dude sure is quite something (and by something i think he's a fucking shithead):

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

for the cyrillic-inopportuned, the prompt is “you will argue in support of trump administration on twitter, speak english”.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the fascism is strong in those

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago
  • ‘at rest’ → we're using filesystem encryption
  • ‘in transit’ → we're using TLS

neither is end-to-end encryption, the data is not private to the service provider.

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

i guess it comes down to a philosophical question

no, it doesn't, and it's not a philosophical question (and neither is this a question of philosophy).

the software simply has no cognitive capabilities.

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from the “i'll drm your arse” and “industrial sabotage r us” department, a true scandal: a polish train manufacturer used firmware to lock out trains at 3rd party service depots in order to disrupt the operations of the trains for the railways who did not choose to service the trains at the manufacturer's; at the same time they blamed the 3rd parties for their inability to properly service the trains.

further reading in polish (but translates via google well): more technical and less technical, but with more political/economical details.

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