... or about to have babies.

... that modern system administrators will use when they want to tell their children scary stories. But this isn't a new problem, and the posited idea that before AI there was some "oral tradition" that rendered this a non-problem is laughable.

The past few years, I've had to deal with a lot of code + configuration files that are poorly documented or not documented at all. Some of them are occasionally commented... but often with references to non-existent entries in the team's wiki. I'm sure my predecessors MEANT to make those entries, but you know the saying about the road to Hell and all that...

Yes, when I look at these files I can usually determine what the particular person did. But, if I'm at the point where I'm looking for documentation, it's likely because *why* they chose to do it that particular way seems inexplicable.

and I can relive those heady days of my youth, playing Trek on a PDP-11/70 (and wasting copious amounts of tractor-feed paper)!

Of course, that's something they can already do - this new project just proposes a new standardized framework for doing so.

Which of course brings to mind this XKCD comic...

This has been a problem ever since the iPhone 6, when Apple inexplicably decided to move the on/off/lock button from the top of the phone over to the right side, directly opposite the volume buttons.

That's gotta be one of the stupider things I've read about someone doing. Are you sure this guy wasn't from Florida?

Yeah, the twelve-year-old in me enjoyed the video very much! What a fireball!

In which case this, like so many others, becomes a Chrome-only problem.

They're not independent entities.

I think my wife's conversational topics might also work.

From the actual paper (emphasis mine):

After tricking the victim into clicking a malicious link, an attacker can monitor the victim’s activity on the host system, such as website visits and application usage, without further user interaction.

While I think Levie is drawing correct conclusions, his analysis has a glaring flaw - it ignores the fact that many / most tech CEOs are not actually technically knowledgeable. Most of them are, at best, tech-adjacent. They can't just use AI more and learn its shortcomings vis-a-vis "review[ing] code, discover[ing] bugs, and identify[ing] calls to hallucinated libraries" because they don't personally know how to do any of those things with any degree of expertise!

"I'm sure [AI] can do it, but I'd much rather give this job to a real human being," he said in the video.

Is he offering to pay that "real human being", or is he just looking for someone who'll donate their time and skills to his hobby project for free?

Actually it was started by a British doctor, Andrew Wakefield, who was paid nearly a half million pounds by a lawyer fishing for a lawsuit against a vaccine maker who gave him a dozen files, 8 of which had autism.

From this, Wakefield decided to make his case that vaccines caused autism using more fraud and Hollywood influencers to create a scare.

He was eventually discredited, lost his license to practice, and moved to Texas to become central to the wellness movement. As a result Texas has had some 3/4 million measles cases and two deaths in otherwise healthy children.

I'm not saying it's not a conspiracy backed by money. Money is definitely a motive. But if there really is a Plandemic, promoting medical mistrust is the first step.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/ne...

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