Notices by Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)

The Guardian not taking any prisoners with this one. :blobcatgiggle:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/24/ai-washing-pr-firms-scrambling-rebrand

> UK companies are performing "yoga-level" stretches to describe themselves as AI specialists in an attempt to capitalise on the buzz around the technology, public relations firms have said.

> Some companies have been accused of “AI washing”, trying to rebrand familiar, often years-old, technologies as “AI”.

> “You can almost hear the eyes roll when you mention the word AI to a reporter”

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@jaythvv/116622235875062745

No way. I am shocked. Who, I say who could have seen this coming. Etc etc.

Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-hut-ai-system-dragontail-lawsuit-franchisee-2026-5

> A top Pizza Hut franchisee says the chain's rollout of an AI-powered delivery system turned once-speedy pizza orders into a cold, late-arriving mess — and cratered a business that had been outperforming nearly every other operator in the system.

:blobcatpopcornnom:

#AI #Hype

And if you've read that far and you're in IT, I have one word for you: unionize. ✊

The push for this is about labor, and is about power. CEOs all around the world have wet dreams of never having to pay people ever again. Of never having to hire people.

Slaves would be good though.

And AI "agents" is the closest CEOs can get to slaves. The next closest thing are employees that are too terrified of getting fired to stand up for themselves.

No surprise, then, that in this same blogpost, in the same breath, GitLab's CEO announced layoffs.

GitLab's CEO writes:
> Humans still own the judgment that matters most: architecture, deep understanding of the customer problem, the tradeoffs that require taste.

I hold judgement over this decision.

I see it as a symptom of lack of understanding of how good software is actually built. And of greed, directed by the hype train and FOMO.

And I find this blogpost, and the whole idea of pushing slop generators tasteless.

The outcome of this will be *worse* software.

It will feel even more plastic, it will be even more brittle, and it's not because we don't know how to write better, more reliable software, but because the industry decided that writing better software is not how money is made.

And GitLab just went all-in, announced to the world: we're here for plastic software, we're here for shit quality code, we're here for forcing people to review unreviewable slop and then blaming them for the bugs.

Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.

But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:

> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/

#GitLab #AI #FuckAI #SoftwareDevelopment

Software has been "built by machines, directed by people" for decades.

That's what compilers and linkers do, that's what uncountable lines of Bash and endless CI/CD pipelines are – machines building software, directed by people.

And for decades, the bottleneck has not been churning out code. It was code review, it was quality control, it was bug fixing. AI slop makes that *worse*, not better:
https://freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/89367

GitLab, and the rest of the industry, is solving for the wrong problem.

@packetcat ooof.

There is going to be a lot of stuff to learn from the post-mortem.

At this moment, please send #HugOps to folks at DENIC. They are dealing with a really bad and stressful situation and I am sure they are doing their best to resolve it as soon as possible.

#DNS #DENIC

Because it is DNS, everything is cached on multiple levels. Because there are nameservers in different TLDs (which is the correct thing to do!), combined with cache invalidation fun, this will keep looking like intermittent failures for a while most probably.

DENIC's status page:
https://status.denic.de/

Screenshot below in case you're not able to load it (as I said, stuff is going to be intermittently failing).

#DNS #DENIC #DNSSEC #InfoSec #SysAdmin

Here's a thought:

The fact that people are experiencing issues with DE sites and asking if CloudFlare is down speaks volumes about the stability of DE ccTLD and the broader DNS compared to big cloud providers.

:blobcatcoffee:

#DNS #InfoSec #SysAdmin

Looks like DE ccTLD is unresolvable due to DNSSEC issue:
https://dnsviz.net/d/nic.de/dnssec/

😬

#InfoSec #DNSSEC #DNS #Germany

If I am reading this correctly – and I might not, it's been a long day – the issue is not directly with DE itself, but with nic.de.

Which doesn't necessarily make it much better.

And that's why it doesn't make it much better:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
de. 86400 IN NS a.nic.de.
de. 86400 IN NS f.nic.de.
de. 86400 IN NS l.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS n.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS s.de.net.
de. 86400 IN NS z.nic.de.

If nic.de. is down, nameservers in nic.de. are down. Which will cause issues for DE.

@jon @pitrh trams are just "light rail" no?

:blobcatpeek:

@leadegroot @paco it was an interesting thought experiment and was somewhat useful for a while.

Remember it was created when computers started doing complex mathematical operations faster than humans could. People started making all sorts of "therefore computers think!" claims.

Turing test was useful in showing that computers of the day did not *actually* think.

Then somehow we ended up using this crutch as a definition of what "thinking" means. 🙄

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@paco/116504499864795870

Richard Dawkins, looking at a high-definition large-screen TV:

"If this is not a window, what more could it possibly take to convince you it is a window?"

#RichardDawkins #AI