Kissaki

@Kissaki@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  an exposed MongoDB database containing nearly 1 terabyte of personally identifiable information (PII) exposing approximately a billion sensitive records across 26 countries.

  Not even a hack. Pure incompetence and negligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about recent tech, it’s about historical territorial claims. Of course, while ignoring history/historic context at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  China claiming Taiwan is its territory and threatening invasion, the regular military “training exercises”, even including the specific goal of Taiwan landing operations, and continuous hybrid attacks for years already, like invasion of Taiwan waters with shipping vessels, and cyber attacks, and you’re sitting here claiming China isn’t a country that would invade others.

  The what-aboutism deflection does work very well on an international comment section, either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they, though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No way of actually checking that they did delete anything

  Not a random individual, but I would expect a court to be able to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Self-hug

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the original commenter, but in Germany, you can record in public, but can not record individuals specifically. People walking past in the background while you record something else is fine. Recording someone specifically is not.

  That’s the baseline, at least. Exceptions may apply (public figures, public interest, etc).

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#Germany

  A succinct statement of the German law can be found in the following judicial statement from the Marlene Dietrich case: the general right of personality has been recognised in the case law of the German Federal Court of Justice since 1954 as a basic right constitutionally guaranteed by Articles 1 and 2 of the Basic Law and at the same time as an “other right” protected in civil law under § 823 (1) of the BGB (established case law since BGHZ 13, 334, 338—readers’ letters). It guarantees as against all the world the protection of human dignity and the right to free development of the personality. Special forms of manifestation of the general right of personality are the right to one’s own picture (§§ 22 ff. of the KUG [de]) and the right to one’s name (§ 12 of the BGB). They guarantee protection of the personality for the sphere regulated by them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS suffered ‘at least two outages’ caused by AI tools, and now I’m convinced we’re living inside a ‘Silicon Valley’ episode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  across multiple availability zones

  Better spread across different providers.

  Remember that time a popular cloud hoster lost a customer’s data, including their in-service backups? Luckily, they had off-service backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the goal is not to kill the company, provoking the expected risks through malicious compliance is a good way to demonstrate the risks and push for a more careful and skeptical assessment and use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The beef cause of training claim is wrong.

  Quoting the Gentoo post:

  Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories,

  It seems to be about GitHub pushing copilot usage, not them training on data. (Moving away doesn’t prevent training anyway. And I’m sure someone will host a mirror on hitting if they don’t.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always bought Western Digital. The one time I bought Seagate I eventually had data loss. Stuck to WD ever since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure feeding more misinformation to our systems and society is that good of an idea. I don’t think it’d be an effective influencing strategy either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta patented an AI that lets you keep posting after you die⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, patentable materials must be novel, useful, and a non-obvious inventive step. - Wikipedia

  What does the patent contain? Where is the non-obvious inventive step? Using an AI to impersonate someone doesn’t strike me as novel, inventive, or surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  From The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address (via on Lemmy)

  Executives aren’t ignorant. They have the data. They commission the surveys. They attend the conferences where CTOs present their concerns. They know that:

  • 91% of CTOs cite technical debt as the biggest challenge
  • 75% of projects are expected to fail
  • 69% of developers lose significant time to inefficiencies
  • Only 39% of projects meet success criteria
  • The recommended 15–20% investment in technical debt management yields better long-term returns than crisis spending

  Yet they choose:

  • Not to allocate recommended budgets for technical debt management
  • Not to make quality a strategic priority despite CTOs’ and developers’ concerns
  • Not to mention these challenges in public communications to shareholders
  • To celebrate AI productivity gains whilst developers report record inefficiency
  • To focus on the next hype cycle (AI) rather than address fundamental problems

  This isn’t a failure of knowledge. It looks to me like a failure of courage and integrity. A failure of the very concept of leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s only vibe coding, going by vibe, being an expert makes no difference.

  If you go for thorough reviews and corrections, supposed code generation efficiency gains are typically offset by review and correction effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  function GetRandomNumber(): return 42;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Prompt: On line 23, between the words fn and close, write close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, between a copper wire, a banana, and wet mud, the mid-level stuff is the banana, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It always feels great seeing Mumble mentioned, especially with such a positive sentiment. I was a core dev, or am but have been mostly inactive for a long time now.

  Discord with millions in funding and a dev team - Mumble with contributors you can count on one hand obviously can’t keep up. If a community wants text messaging, that’s just not Mumble’s target of primarily voice communication. Whether that’s because of limited resources/people or a deliberate target scoping.

  My clan briefly switched from Mumble to Teamspeak for a while. I was happy to see that the majority preferred Mumble and we moved back to Mumble back then. That was still before Discord was a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was probably a sunset of languages. Only EN is much smaller than full with all languages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’d be great for distraction and irritation, but at the same time, they’re not as god for signaling and alarming, and, I would imagine, would desensitize us to human screams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it work for people with first name Al?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  forgetting to redact credentials that made it possible for all of Reddit to log into Epstein’s account and trample over all the evidence

  /o\ 🤦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was physical books?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s insane to be that you claim it doesn’t allow internal corruption when China is a very corrupt system.

  There may be good systematic foundations, I can’t speak much about those, but if they’re not applied to everyone and just then it’s besides the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Danish Students Face Legal Action and Fines Over Textbook Piracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a great cause for universities and students for pushing political reforms. Hindering education and development are good catchers for politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s good engineering practice to not be stuck in your own product.

  You want them to be using only copilot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For copilot in visual studio at least you can select between models it will use, depending on the org setup showing them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s the safe way. Uninstall, download current version, install. That’s it.

  Outside of being compromised already where you would have to notice and fix outside of notepad anyway. But that seems unlikely given the selective attack nature the hoster was able to confirm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The previous release already fixed this, or evaded the issue.

  The channel was the update mechanism. Upon Notepad++ checking for updates, they were able to inject their own. So if you updated via the apps own update checker they could have misdirected you into installing something else or something modified.