BrianTheeBiscuiteer
@BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 6 days ago:
Today it’s for CSAM. Tomorrow it could be for saying anything negative about dear leader. Our Constitution clearly won’t protect us.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sounds like Stolen Valor to me.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
Installing. We just call it installing.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
They already showed their hand. Doesn’t matter if they’ve backed down. My new phone is going to use GrapheneOS and if this shit trickles down (Graphene is still based on Android) I’m going full Linux phone.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 1 week ago:
You could almost say it’s like being put into an oven.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 1 week ago:
Or duct tape
- Comment on The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it 1 week ago:
Nice. I used Splinter Cell to mod mine.
- Comment on Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Pollster Finds 1 week ago:
It’s been this way for decades. Productivity gains largely go towards profits, not wages.
- Comment on brands on tw*tter make me frown 2 weeks ago:
Funny, I haven’t seen s single ad on X since Musk bought it… or post.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 2 weeks ago:
Oh, no! Not Meta! Or Oracle! Or umm, Palantir! Or… guys, help me here.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
It’s usually fine code but it just doesn’t follow the same conventions and flow. It’s kind of like reading a novel typed in block letters written in 3rd person then suddenly it’s cursive letters and 1st person.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
Seniors reviewing code is fine but only when, as someone else mentioned, the code writer is learning from the review. The AI doesn’t learn at all and the Jr Dev probably learns very little because they didn’t understand the original code. Reviewing AI code often turns into me rewriting most of it.
- Comment on Warning: Your AI-Generated Password Is a Major Security Risk. Here’s What to Use Instead 2 weeks ago:
I always say I’m not interested in asking an LLM to add 2 + 2 for me. Of course my managers are always pushing us to use LLMs and coworkers keep suggesting we replace efficient, testable, and consistent processes with AI. If you’re going to use it at least think of scenarios that are hard to code for and it would take you at least 10 min to solve.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
Junior and mid-level engineers will now require more senior engineers to sign off any AI-assisted changes, Treadwell added.
So instead of getting a human to write it and AI peer reviewing it you want the most expensive per hour developers to look at stuff a human didn’t write and the other engineers can’t explain? Yeah, this is where the efficiency gains disappear.
I read stuff from one of my Jr’s all the time and most of it is made with AI. I don’t understand most of it and neither does the Dev. He keeps saying how much he’s learned from AI but peer programming with him is the pits. I try to say stuff like, “Oops! Looks like we forgot the packages.” And then 10 secs of silence later, “So you can go to line 24 and type…”
- Comment on MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow 2 weeks ago:
This is a feature and not a bug. The biggest distro maintainers will try to comply and the smallest ones will start banning usage or even closing up shop.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 2 weeks ago:
And that’s why handcounts should be mandatory and randomized after every election.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know how common this is but in my state the machine is digital but it prints out a filled, paper ballot. That’s what gets counted and not the voting machine data itself (which hopefully doesn’t keep its own tally).
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 3 weeks ago:
That should really be someone’s day job. Think of all the horrible shit that could be invented and patent it so it is never actually created.
- Comment on A man trying to steer his DJI robot vacuum with a PlayStation gamepad gained audio and video into 7K homes. Now DJI awards $30K for research, perhaps that research. 3 weeks ago:
So the accidental hacking is the scary part? Not the fact DJI has 7K live feeds into peoples homes?
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 3 weeks ago:
Whether human, AI, or code, you don’t give a single entity this much power in production.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
I use the term home automation loosely. Mostly I use it for initiating Tasker scripts at home with a single tap.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
Tap to pay is whatever but I do use NFC for some home automatons.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 3 weeks ago:
As long as they have basic shit like NFC or wireless charging. One of the main reasons I stopped buying them. 2nd was the tablet sized screens.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 3 weeks ago:
Plenty of companies you already deal with already know who you are, thus how old you are. Cell carriers, ISPs, banks, stock brokerages, utility companies, and so on. It would be much more secure, done properly, for a service like this to provide a simple “yes/no” answer to the age question.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 3 weeks ago:
It’s already easy as fuck. Most patents just don’t bother. The mandates should be on ISPs and cell carriers to provide network-level filtering. I filter adult sites on my home network and there’s no getting around that without cracking the password on the service or factory resetting the gateway.
- Comment on CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements 3 weeks ago:
I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. I have no problem with ads if you stop fucking tracking me. I will look at nearly every ad I get in the mail because I know there’s almost zero risk of it coming back to bite me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Trump is actively trying to destroy ours. Why would he give democracy to another country?
- Comment on Southern California air board rejected pollution rules after AI-generated flood of comments 4 weeks ago:
Public comment shouldn’t be used as an opinion poll. It should give regulators and politicians a range of viewpoints they may not have previously considered.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 4 weeks ago:
Republicans used to be against governments that told businesses how they should be run. 🙄
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 4 weeks ago:
They also have no greater sense of humanity. Do you accept your own defeat to save the human race or do you want the new society of cockroaches to admire your tenacity?