drwho
@drwho@beehaw.org
Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.
I try to post as sincerely as possible.
- Comment on OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us [404 Media] 2 days ago:
Waah.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 2 weeks ago:
It’s part of the Fediverse, so if you’re on a Pixelfed instance you can see other servers running Mastodon, et al. Pick an instance that seems like it feels nice to you.
- Comment on Brainwash An Executive Today! 2 weeks ago:
Reading that gave me a fucking headache.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 2 weeks ago:
We already have that. It’s been the state of affairs since 2016.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 3 weeks ago:
Politics sucked just as hard when people couldn’t. The only real difference is, now people know that there are folks who ignore them and they hate that.
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 3 weeks ago:
Why is it that every time somebody stands up to say that information bubbles are bad, it’s usually holding hands with “and I want you to be able to see every single thing I post and you are forbidden to opt out?”
- Comment on The Great Decentralization: What happens when sprawling online communities fracture into politically homogenous, self-governing communities? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the thing: We had this before. This is nothing new. This is not a crisis or even worthy of note. This might reflect the cycle repeating again at best, but ultimately it’s a tempest in a teapot.
BBSes were, for the most part, isolated but sometimes federated communities. They had their own moderation policies, their own rules of conduct, and their own local communities. Sometimes, if they were part of a BBS network those communities were in contact with each other. Those BBS networks had their own policies, moderators, and so forth. It was usual for users of a given BBS to also be users of other BBSes; those users fit into the community of each other system pretty normally.
Usenet was distributed across hundreds, if not thousands of servers across the Net; still is, if you read it. Each newsgroup had its own community, rules of conduct, FAQ (usually), and sometimes its own moderation team (the .moderated variants were well known). Rules were enforced, communities were unique to the newsgroup, and norms were followed. Again, it was not unusual for a given user to participate in multiple newsgroups and the communities thereof.
E-mail lists were not that different.
- Comment on Automation Should Be Like Iron Man, Not Ultron 3 weeks ago:
flips the switch on the wall
- Comment on On Friday SCOTUS Will Decide Whether TikTok Can Be Banned; We Told It The First Amendment Says No 3 weeks ago:
SCOTUS will decide after they check their bank account balances. But they’ll probably ban it, because China.
- Comment on Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
That’s how a lot of companies do stuff, though. They see what competitors get away with, figure out how moving the Overton window a little more will benefit them, and if the payoff is more than the risk they do it. That’s how advertising has become so ubiquitous, that’s how selling user data became so common: Wait for someone else to take the heat, make preparations while the controversy is happening, and when it dies down take the next step in that direction.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
unable to decrypt message
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
Here we go again. Once more, folks don’t fucking listen when they’re warned. And the ones who should have listened just got branched again.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
unable to decrypt message
- Comment on Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them 3 weeks ago:
Just look at Usenet these days. If there are any organics left hanging out on there.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 3 weeks ago:
If Luigi lives that long. We have a betting pool at work going that gives it 5:1 that he’ll be a Texas suicide.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 3 weeks ago:
Explains why so many people don’t seem to have consciences anymore, doesn’t it?
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 3 weeks ago:
They also have to keep their editors happy. One of an editor’s jobs is to push back on the folks who write articles, and occasionally rewrite parts of them. And the editors have folks above them in the food chain pulling the strings. News companies aren’t monoliths, they’re spiderwebs of people pushing and pulling on other people because there are obligations all over the place.
To put it another way, “You can’t say that or you’re fired. You’ll never work in this city again.” And, because there aren’t many celebrity journalists, it’s a very real risk.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Content Is a Challenge for Social Media Moderators - B… 3 weeks ago:
otherwise you’re just allowing the government to dictate moderation policies
I think that’s what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to manipulate how this particular memeplex is being circulated from person to person as an information control measure. They don’t want this idea catching on.
- Comment on Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business 3 weeks ago:
Does it really matter? The simulacrum is more real than real people these days, at least as far as the system as a whole is concerned.
Why not just let their constructs post at one another while us (mostly-) organics ignore them? Just like Usenet.
- Comment on Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI 1 month ago:
Our security@ address at $dayjob gets about that many a month. Lots of folks blindly sending bug reports and “politely requesting a finder’s fee for disclosing properly.”
The shit of it is, they’ll all for stuff we don’t even use. IIS vuln reports when we only use Apache. Stuff like that.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 2 months ago:
They sure make the task of keeping an eye on the chuds easier. Their OPSEC eats donkey ass.
- Comment on Facebook Is Auto-Generating Militia Group Pages as Extremists Continue to Organize in Plain Sight 2 months ago:
Why would they hide anymore? They figure they won. No sense in not taking advantage of everything that implies.
- Comment on China 'compromised' Canadian government networks and stole valuable info for years, Canada's cyber spy agency says 2 months ago:
The Great Game continues, same as it always has.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 2 months ago:
The true final exam would be writing code on an airgapped system.
- Comment on FBI created a crypto token so it could watch it being abused • The Register 3 months ago:
And study the techniques used for currency manipulation, fraud, and so forth.
- Comment on Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! 3 months ago:
Gee. It’s almost as if rich people don’t give a single shit about anyone else. /s
- Comment on Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable 3 months ago:
Like wrecking the biosphere in its persuit.
- Comment on Top EU Court’s Advisor Explains Why Video Game Cheats Are Not Copyright Infringement 4 months ago:
How do we keep having to have these legal discussions every decade or so?
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 4 months ago:
Odds I’ve been hearing for Trump being re-elected are about 3.4 to 1.
- Comment on Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register 4 months ago:
The thing about an operation as big as Amazon is that one or two people work on one component of one thing. If the folks who work on that one thing both bail, it doesn’t slow down Amazon or any of its constituent components overmuch. The way things are architected it can chug along for quite a while until somebody else is tasked with learning about and maintaining it.