NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 day ago:
…maybe? I’m not so much of an absolutist… I think there’s room in the world for companies that focus on design over production…
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 2 days ago:
Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 2 days ago:
Hmm… counterpoint: Arm Holdings
- Comment on Are you sure about that? 4 days ago:
It’s not paranoia if they really are out to get you!
- Comment on Change my Mind 1 week ago:
A lot of advertising is built around making consumers feel good for buying particular products, not convincing them to buy in the first place. Debate in this context would be useless because it’s more about confirmation bias.
- Comment on Where Winds Meet: Why China's Wuxia RPG is Winning Over Global Gamers 1 week ago:
This is an ad.
- Comment on UK campaigners condemn ‘creepy’ digital billboards that can track viewers’ responses 1 week ago:
The supplier, 30Seconds Group, says the cameras allow them to track “occupant engagement” from residents who are a “captive audience” as they wait for lifts to their apartments.
JFC, how do these people sleep with themselves at night.
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 1 week ago:
…move fast and break things?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 week ago:
To be fair, they’ve been doing mobile surveillance for a long time.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
OK, sure, but again the claim was:
there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI
Whether or not human-written code also requires review is outside the context of this discussion, and entirely irrelevant.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
OK, sure, but again the claim was:
there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI
Whether or not human-written code also requires review is outside the context of this discussion, and entirely irrelevant.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Bookmarks are where projects go to die.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, what exactly do you think this conversation is about if not using AI for code generation?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
No, I want worker protections, regulatory enforcement, and broad public distrust of the exploitative owner class who will use AI to extract more wealth while destroying the environment we all live in.
Patronizing “AI” systems is collaboration with the worst garbage of the human race, the robber barons who are comfortable killing people for quarterly profits.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
So don’t accept code that is shit. Have decent PR process. Accountability is still on human.
If this is necessary then there is, in point of fact, a “problem with keeping code quality when using AI”.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
Every person in every industry in a rush to replace the work of creative people with output from machine learning models can fuck right off.
Every consumer who is content with products made by such people can also fuck right off.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 3 weeks ago:
there is no problem in keeping code quality while using AI
This opinion is contradicted by basically everyone who has attempted to use models to generate useful code which must interface with existing codebases. There are always quality issues, it must always be reviewed for functional errors, it rarely interoperates with existing code correctly, and it might just delete your production database no matter how careful you try to be.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 3 weeks ago:
If you want your tea to actually be drinkable and not taste like just bitter water, you don’t use boiling water. A proper electric kettle allows you to set the water temperature to 85, 90 or 95°C.
- Comment on I'm in a hotel in America with no kettle in my room, if I want tea I have to microwave it. 3 weeks ago:
And taste like a decade of old, burnt, low grade hotel coffee.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 3 weeks ago:
It’s vibes man.
- Comment on Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? 3 weeks ago:
um… it’s no improvement… it is in fact no change at all…
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 weeks ago:
“Why don’t people like our user surveillance systems? they’re so impressively good at invading your privacy!”
- Comment on A man can dream, can’t he? 4 weeks ago:
What are you going to do with half a pirate flag?
- Comment on I'M SAAAAAVVVVIIIIIINNNNGGGGGGGGGGG (me_irl) 4 weeks ago:
3-2-1
3 copies, 2 onsite, 1 offsite.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Personally I think that every mistake is a teaching opportunity. In this context, rather than try to sweep the racism under the rug of history as quickly and quietly as possible, I think changes should be made but in a way that invites people (especially children) to ask questions about the background of the traditions and why those representations of persons of color are problematic and should be changed. Without this it just looks like an attempt to cover up and deny the existence of the past firms of discrimination, which especially does a disservice to people experiencing present forms of discrimination.
And also, maybe, dealing with these things should not be fast or easy.
Nothing about this is imaginary, because in some ways these problems haven’t changed much. There is value in spending time on it in the present.
All of that said, I am a white guy from North America, not a POC from the Netherlands, so my input is just an opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
the last twenty years or so there is a different battle going on between team “Dutch tradition” and team “kick out zwarte Piet”. Both of these last two teams are obnoxious, and would choose confrontation over dialogue every day of the week. This has resulted in a conflict with no end,
Social conflicts like this are never about solutions but about performance, for the sake of getting attention. Ending the conflict would end the attention.
where it would have been easy to phase out the blackface character with no fuss in a short time.
Hmm, by removing Piet and thus hiding the traditional representation of black people, or by whitewashing him?
- Comment on YSK Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, diplomats, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 4 weeks ago:
There’s a pretty good Behind the Bastards episode on Stahlin. Basically he was an ultra-paranoid drunk that forced his cabinet members to get drunk with him on a regular basis, which pretty much ruined any potential for effective government in the USSR.
Russia has a strong-man fetish which even the Bolsheviks couldn’t overcome. For all the post-revolution ideology and communist rhetoric, they still just want a Tsar.
- Comment on Tell us the truth Donny. 4 weeks ago:
Teflon Don, even semen won’t stick to him.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 4 weeks ago:
He’s on third.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 4 weeks ago:
Maybe?
