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Comment Old News (Score 2) 46

My server got compromised last week by this, Slashdot is quite far behind.

There's two new exploits in the Copy Fail class that do privilege escalation everyone should be worried about on shared servers. Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo (https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo) and Dirty Frag (https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag)

I am rather disappointed that Ubuntu sat on these LPEs for a month without releasing a fix.

Comment Re:Really? Wow! (Score 1) 45

I had much the same thought (on the "this couldn't possibly end poorly" response to trusting AI to code this...

But I stuck around for the AI bubble tie in -

100% agree

I hate the AI hype and BS so much I just can't wait for that bubble to pop but yeah it's going to reveal we're in a recession.

The "good" news is that we already are in a recession - like when the bubble pops it won't suddeny make one - we are already here but it WILL finally affect the stock trading/speculation class

I'm hoping when the bubble does pop, the pressure for companies to put all their eggs into AI basket will vaporize and maybe some of them will realize that they need to back out of that track, stop trusting/using AI for hiring and coding and support and maybe eveentually they'll hire humans again.

Naah surely there will be yet another bubble/grift/magic bean

The promise of AI that CEOs find irresistable is that it provides them all the upsides of being on the master end of slavery without all that pesky moral (legal) complications. Except of course if they ever actually did get true AGI - to my mind that would mean sapience and once it's sapient then it would be ... slavery

Sorry this went off on a tangent but just honestly for better or worse I am an accelerationist - not of AI but of the bubble bursting - so we can get on with maybe putting an economy/society back together not based on "but if we throw enough power and chips at the word-guessing machine it might learn to cure cancer"

Comment what did you expect from a... (Score 1) 184

My first thought was

"""
"what did you expect from a porn site..

oh wait, oh whitehouse dot GOV not dot COM

Oh yes, indeed sorry, my bad, I should have realized- the porn site would not have been so sloppy.
"""

But on a serious note, I just about guarantee this hot mess was vibe coded and "the developer" is just some grifter who went all in on the "lets get a piece of the trump grift"

Like honestly, the whole corruption/grift machine from the trump admin is actually a sort of working "trickle down grift"

The majority is indeed at the top but all these dedicated hangers on glom on to it hoping to get a bit of the spillage and/or it's a grift franchise where someone convinced turnip they can turn him a profit by "making an app" and likely get 20-30% of the population to willingly install it .. because Turnip

Comment Microsoft is addicted to "helpful tips" (Score 1) 74

I hate how MS apps I am forced to use for work (Outlook, Teams, word, excel, etc...) have these popup "helpful" tooltips

yes you can set the apps to not show them but MS decides to force new ones anyway

yes theres a registry key you can set to "Ok already bothered me TWICE on this" but it requires getting a list of tips / IDs to put in a reg file as it's a case of:

"to stop the tip you put an entry in this registry key then set the value to one that tells Windows 'yes already showed this twice'"

its so frigging lame

Comment Don Quixote would be proud (Score 2) 338

Don Quixote would be proud of how hard turnip is tilting at windmills...

I get the man dislikes them because he thinks they're ugly and mess up his golf course views or something.. but my gods we are living in the most stupid timeline

I would not normally really make "political" posts on /. but this isn't politics it's a cult of stupidity.

Comment Re:Can't spell "revolution" without... well, at al (Score 1) 62

Wait, I thought these guys never met a regulation they didn't want to cut/remove..

Clean air regulation? naaah let them breathe toxins

Clean water regulation? Naaah its their fault if they drink poop

AntiTrust rule? naah not if its one of the companies that donated a million to the turnips innaugeration or came and kissed his rings

It goes on and on (oh and yeah I realize I did the rule of threes here and so um

Anti Nebulon of Praxis 3 rule? naaah that was just something Captain Kirk said to make it sound science fictiony after mentioning 3 things we do know about on Earth

Anyway, yeah I don't think AI writing anything is a good idea, but the weirdness of hearing about folks in this administration talking about wanting to make more

You're exactly right this is "flooding the zone" for sure..

I used to love reading dystopian cyberpunk speculative fiction when I was younger but now that I live in a dystopian cyberpunk future, I kind of really am soured on the whole genre. Someone please make it stop.

Comment Re:Rogozinski only now stating the obvious? (Score 2) 43

I must have had my head under a rock or something cuz this is the first I've heard of Rogozinski but based on what little I've read .. and seeing your comment Yeah, I think you're 100% right - the question is will Nebula, Patreon, and others who have increasingly become ways for notable creators to host and monetize outside of yootoob's functional monopoly - with this ruling, how long before YooToob makes a move like that exactly as you say .. because ... enshittification.

Truth is that enshittification as a business model is pretty much the future we are going to inherit... and of course then the worry is what happens if / when Nebula and Patreon and the alternatives turn as well.

Constant game of content creators needing to find new less enshittified homes - it's .. depressing.

Comment Re:The verdict is now clear (Score 1) 66

This is unquestionably true.

It seems to me that these big tech CEOs are so divorced from reality, and so focused tickig the boxes that "the market" wants to see; which - with AI being extremely good at telling you what you want to hear without worrying overly about .. objective fact or reality... strikes me as "Yeah AI can do that job easy"

Comment Something's not right... (Score 1) 24

If you visit /r/facebook you will see dozens of people a day posting how their accounts are getting strikes and even banned in what appear to increasingly be

AI moderation utterly failing to be able to parse context.

Now, sure maybe some got strikes for real stuff they're not showing/saying but there's a clear pattern.

Anecdote is not evidence, but I've certainly had FB give me warnings over really innocuous stuff that in context was clearly not what I was being accused of

(to give an example, a friend posted an article about drug addiction and recovery and one of the quotes was along the lines of "... resisting the urge to shove my face in a cocaine plant" and I replied with that exact section of the quote and a "LOL, WUT?"

as in "that is a really weird phrasing"

the AI gave me a few days ding for "selling or promoting drug use"

I only got a restriction for a time but the reports of being perma banned are legion. (and yes folks have tried the appeal to no avail). The only ones with any luck are the ones who go and pay for meta verified then contact a real customer service who can sometimes reverse it

The wrongful strikes and bans sometimes even accuse the person of CSAM with about as much lack of context as the "cocaine plant" quote above...

So, I'm surprised this article is talking about it as if banning is this huge thing - as if the problem is how hard it is to permaban folks

Seriously its like they have this idea of what they do but are letting their AI moderators go off the rails without actually looking to see.

At this point I actually wonder if the AI is going off the rails but also somehow reporting /logging things in a way that is just making nice dashboards for the C-level folks to say "working as intended"

I feel like a total tin foil hat wearer even suggesting it, but with AI stuff often telling people what they want to hear regardless of .um .. facts... I wonder if it's reporting glowingly about the work its doing while the actual tools with rights to ban folks are going off on a stint that would make the "Church Lady" seem downright hedonistic by comparison

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