ziegenberg

patrislav, 2 days ago to random

Heute am Frühstückstisch einen miesen Lachflash bekommen … Danke @sueddeutsche_feed

sarah, 4 days ago to random

I run a disaster test scenario at least once a quarter where I restore the database of mission critical components as though we were starting from scratch.

It's taught me three things:

1. Restoring a database is a lot more complicated than simply unzipping a file and importing it into a database program.
2. You inevitably forget things, so build a comprehensive checklist.
3. Database imports take longer than you think with full production data.

Practice makes perfect in disaster recovery.

GossiTheDog, 5 days ago to random

Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

benroyce, 6 days ago to ai

this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

amazing meteor video

KathyReid, 6 days ago to microsoft

Why does #Microsoft want to implement #Recall? It's not about images. It's about modelling what workers do on Windows, and then replacing them.

The most expensive part of a computer is the fallible feelings-filled unpredictable meat sack that operates it.

Google has YouTube, Google Photos, Maps, and a bucket load of search data, Google Analytics, advertising, as well as it's #GCP data (e.g. #STT transcriptions). And a bunch of data from Android services. From this data they can model speech, model videos and model advertising systems, and how humans respond to them.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Amazon has Prime data, and a bucket load of compute. But no operating system data. They can build models based around e-commerce and advertising systems.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Meta has waves hands enough analytics to model human behaviour in the Metaverse.

But they can't model what people do on computers.

Microsoft has GitHub.
Microsoft has LinkedIn.
Microsoft has SharePoint.
Microsoft has Teams.
Microsoft has Dynamics.
Microsoft has O365.
Microsoft has Windows telemetry data.

Microsoft can model what people do on (Windows) computers. Like fill out spreadsheets.Write emails. Synthesize web pages of research. Interact with colleagues on Teams. Create and edit documents.

Microsoft wants #MicrosoftRecall data so they can model what people do with operating systems.

Then replace them.

Imagine a CoPilot that doesn't just write buggy code. Imagine one that also does spreadsheets. That creates documents on SharePoint. That communicates with colleages on Teams. That has a customer pipeline on Dynamics.

That's what Recall is about - 360 degree surveillance of the worker, to model their functions, make them fungible, replicable - and replaceable.

nielsdos, 6 days ago to random

New RFC alert! https://wiki.php.net/rfc/dom_additions_84

lauren, 7 days ago to random

I've seen a LOT of horrible tech ideas in my time. But the Microsoft announcement for a Windows feature (apparently enabled by default) to take and store screenshots every few seconds of everything you do on your PC has to be one of the most high privacy risk concepts I've ever seen. Even stored locally on the PC, it's a recipe for domestic abuse, government abuses, and a long list of other nightmares. Microsoft has jumped the shark BIG TIME.

GossiTheDog, 7 days ago to random

For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog, 6 days ago to random

Pictured: companies explaining to people why AI is the future.

molly0xfff, 7 days ago to ai

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

GossiTheDog, 10 days ago to random

Burn the planet for shareholder value! Woo!!

Microsoft released its 2024 Sustainability Report. Last year, Microsoft's emissions went up 29%, and it used 23% more water, primarily due to "new technologies, including generative AI."

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/05/15/microsoft-environmental-sustainability-report-2024/

mattbrowndev, 11 days ago to random

(I work at Slack, opinions my own) A bunch of people are sharing viral social media posts saying that we train LLMs on customer data. It's a story that slots neatly into the hype/doom narrative around AI.

But it's not true — we even wrote a whole blog post about it last month: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/

Not discounting the other concerns around LLMs (e.g. hallucinations, environmental impact) that are totally legitimate.

cc @sebastian @derickr

GossiTheDog, 12 days ago to random

Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

evacide, 14 days ago to random

If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

chockenberry, 14 days ago to random

A not fun fact: I didn't get a security bounty for a macOS release that was done specifically to address an issue I found.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/05/14/no-bounty-for-kernel-vulnerability/

The rational was that I disclosed the issue publicly. Which I did after reporting it in the beta releases, and after they said “we're unable to identify an issue in your report”, AND AFTER THEY RELEASED THE FUCKING VULNERABILITY.

https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/111580066311950281

I have no energy/desire to argue with Apple, but this ain't a good look for a $3T company.

steely_glint, 15 days ago to random

Thanks to @saghul for the perfect illustration of the problems with chatGPT:

ramsey, 18 days ago to random

It’s official, now!

RFC 9562: Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs) https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9562.html

#UUID

KathyReid, 19 days ago to stackoverflow

Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the content was licensed CC-BY-SA - meaning that it was a public good. It brought me joy to help people figure out why their #ASR code wasn't working, or assist with a #CUDA bug.

Now that a deal has been struck with #OpenAI to scrape all the questions and answers in Stack Overflow, to train #GenerativeAI models, like #LLMs, without attribution to authors (as required under the CC-BY-SA license under which Stack Overflow content is licensed), to be sold back to us (the SA clause requires derivative works to be shared under the same license), I have issued a Data Deletion request to Stack Overflow to disassociate my username from my Stack Overflow username, and am closing my account, just like I did with Reddit, Inc.

https://policies.stackoverflow.co/data-request/

The data I helped create is going to be bundled in an #LLM and sold back to me.

In a single move, Stack Overflow has alienated its community - which is also its main source of competitive advantage, in exchange for token lucre.

Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow's former instantiation, used to fulfill a psychological contract - help others out when you can, for the expectation that others may in turn assist you in the future. Now it's not an exchange, it's #enshittification.

Programmers now join artists and copywriters, whose works have been snaffled up to create #GenAI solutions.

The silver lining I see is that once OpenAI creates LLMs that generate code - like Microsoft has done with Copilot on GitHub - where will they go to get help with the bugs that the generative AI models introduce, particularly, given the recent GitClear report, of the "downward pressure on code quality" caused by these tools?

While this is just one more example of #enshittification, it's also a salient lesson for #DevRel folks - if your community is your source of advantage, don't upset them.

thomasfuchs, 19 days ago to random

Gonna enjoy a bananum for breakfast

GossiTheDog, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

Like @Quinnypig, I’d love if Google went on the record about what happened with this one.

https://www.unisuper.com.au/contact-us/outage-update

Tl;dr is an entire org got wiped, and they’re trying to suggest it’s some kind of Google Cloud issue as the cause.

OndrejMirtes, 22 days ago to random

Some crazy new syntax coming to PHPStan 1.11 thanks to @ruud_ and @rvanvelzen that allows to basically create an object from a specific class-string... in PHPDoc.

Yeah, it's called new<...>.

Nonilex, 23 days ago to journalism

In yet another bad sign for #democracy:

#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet voted to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.

I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.

#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/

Edent, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

Volksverpetzer, 28 days ago to random German

Auf eine Anfrage wollte Cicero uns nicht verraten, wo angeblich die "Täuschung" im Pseudo-Skandal zu finden sei. Jeder Leser könne "sich selbst ein Urteil bilden". Das taten wir. Und bekamen prompt Post von ihrem Anwalt. Mit entlarvendem Inhalt. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/habeck-pseudo-skandal-cicero-volksverpetzer/?utm_source=mstdn

jonty, 29 days ago to random

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1