NocturnalEngineer
@NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men 1 week ago:
Like most of my work’s processes… Shit goes in, shit comes out…
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Using a password manager would avoid this. Everyone should ideally use unique passwords per service, that way a single account can’t compromise the others.
The loss of personal data however is fricking annoying. If a company has no legitimate reason, I avoid signing up to them.
Looking at you Nvidia, Razar, etc…
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 5 weeks ago:
Execs don’t give a shit. They simply double down on the false cause fallacy instead. A no long would they ever admit they fucked up.
The company I work last year went through a run of redundancies, claiming AI and system improvements were the cause. Before this point we were growing (slowly) year on year. Just not growing fast enough for the shareholders.
They cut too deep, shit is falling apart, and we’re loosing bids to competitors. Now they’ve doubled down on AI, claiming blindness to the systems issues they created, and just made an employee’s “Can Do” attitude a performance goal.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
Unless some exec has a meltdown and demands them to revert the site
- Comment on So this is what my upstairs neighbor has been doing all morning 1 month ago:
Horniness & Sexual Frustration
- Comment on McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure 1 month ago:
Didn’t you hear? The future is the cloud!
Why host stuff locally when you can host it on someone else’s computer, and have fun, exciting, and completely foreseeable failures like this…
The internet is now just AWS, Azure, GCP and Cloudflare.
- Comment on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots 1 month ago:
I don’t know… In America they’re currently rolling back rights for women, inserted religion into supreme court decisions, and are seriously debating a second term of Trump.
None of that makes any fucking sense. If it requires elaborate mental hoops, they’ll find it.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 2 months ago:
It’s such a stupid name! Everytime it’s mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the “X” context.
And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what’s the fucking point of the rebrand?
- Comment on Vegan products not always safe for people with dairy allergy, watchdog says 2 months ago:
Cross-contamination is always a risk in shared factories, hence why “May contain” needs to exist - they’re listing known allergens the factory is handling. The vegan / vegetarian labelling supports a dietary choice rather than allergy advise.
As the article highlights, “free-from” labelling has more stringent controls and requirements to eliminate cross-contamination. The “free-from” products labels people should be seeking if they require it to be allergen-free.
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 2 months ago:
If it was a human agent, surely they would still liable?
They’re an agent of the company. They’re acting on behalf of the company, in accordance to their policy and procedures. It then becomes a training issue if they were providing incorrect information?
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 2 months ago:
Honestly surprised Sable was able to get settlements from Cisco, Fortinet, Check Point, SonicWall, and Juniper Networks. They’re not small names in the industry.
It was only Cloudflare’s legal strategy which managed to invalidate the patents.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 3 months ago:
Personally I’m noticing the opposite.
I tend to do a lot of technical-related searches. I’m finding I’m getting consistently better results from DuckDuckGo / Bing – what I’m looking for is usually available on the first page without having to faff around.
With Google however, it was drawing parallels to what I’m looking for but not what I explicitly queried. I had to either enable verbose search, or manipulate the search to look for specific words. Even then what I was looking for was in the 3-4 page.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 3 months ago:
I never had an issue with YT’s 1-2 skipable ads at the beginning, or even the banner ad. But they got greedy.
The midrolls and the unskipable ads was the trigger point for me.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 3 months ago:
They don’t care. It’s about control and real estate.
- Comment on Yummy 4 months ago:
All the foods I adore contains dairy. I’ve yet to find substitutes which doesn’t suck.
I tolerate my intolerance… All the tummy ache is worth.
- Comment on Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets 4 months ago:
The cost of retraining their pilots would bite into their profits.
- Comment on NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian 4 months ago:
They’re getting away with shady shit now, via the unencrypted channels, hiding behind qualified immunity and get away with literal murder.
The question should be how successful is it holding the police accountable based solely on their radio communications. I’d imagine the answer is “not fucking likely”.
- Comment on That escalated quickly 😬 4 months ago:
You’re in an abusive relationship with Duolingo. Support is available.
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 5 months ago:
Podman ftw!
- Comment on 'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla 5 months ago:
Never knew it was illegal in the UK. Didn’t surprise me though to learn it was Margaret Thatcher who outlawed it again in the 80s.
- Comment on My whole night is booked now 5 months ago:
Roblox_oof.mp3 is a masterpiece.
- Comment on Admit it there are some bangers. 6 months ago:
Everytime I listen to “Status Report”, I start grinning like a cheshire cat.
- Comment on Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons 6 months ago:
At least they have physical buttons below the screen for media, hazards and heated windscreens & seats, plus all the steering wheel controls.
- Comment on Even the Tesla Cybertruck's Brake Lights Don't Make Sense 6 months ago:
Much like naming a company “X”
- Comment on X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue 7 months ago:
Considering they dismantled every control they had to prevent disinformation, and it was already a cesspool to begin with… Why are people still using Twitter?
- Comment on Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices 7 months ago:
Hasn’t the travel, cruise and holiday industry been doing this for decades now?
- Comment on Pi-Hole Local DNS Record Spamming Query Log 7 months ago:
Sounds like the DNS TTL (Time to Live) is set extremely low, preventing clients caching the record. Each time your browser makes a request (such as updating the graphs), it’s submitting a new DNS query each time.
According to this post, this is intentional behaviour for PiHole to support situations where you change a domain from the block to allowed. The same post also references the necessary file modifications, should you wish to extend the TTL regardless.
The only downside you’ll notice is a delay after whitlisting a domain, and it actually being unblocked. You’ll need to wait for the TTL to expire. Setting it to something like 15 minutes would be a reasonable compromise.
- Comment on “Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes 7 months ago:
Forgot she even existed.
- Comment on FAA Throws Cold Water on SpaceX's Next Starship Orbital Launch 9 months ago:
As much as I’d like to see another attempt… Good on the FAA.
That launch was dangerous. Huge chunks of concrete were projected up to 6.5 miles away from the launch site.
They either significantly miscalculated the expected damage to the launch pad, or knew and did it anyway. Both are pretty bad.