Notices by RootWyrm 🇺🇦:progress: (rootwyrm@weird.autos)

@grimalkina *THAT* is a very interesting question, in part because I don't see anybody looking at the very obvious degradation in systemic *comprehension*.
I work with people who are all-in on 'vibe coding,' and I can very, very clearly see how they no longer comprehend that their code does not operate in a vacuum. They have no comprehension at all of operating as part of a whole, only the small window the "AI" can work in.
But how do you *quantify* that?

@grimalkina yeah, there's a lot of questions. But when it's applied in the code/infra space, at least a basic systemic understanding is critical.

e.g. You have a basic systemic understanding of your electrical. Power comes in from the pole, goes into the breaker or fuse box, comes out the outlet or light. If you turn off a breaker, no power at the outlet connected to it. Turn on the switch for lights.

The output products I'm seeing basically treat the outlet as PFM(TM) and "what's a switch?"

@grimalkina I wouldn't necessarily argue that. But what I do know for fact is that more often than not, I have to argue with them about literally everything. Because they insist the AI can never be wrong. And if it says the switch is magic, and I say that the switch turns the light on, then I am wrong.
And if I say toppling this domino will topple other dominoes, then I am also wrong. They either can't or *refuse* to look past the very, very narrow window of the "AI."

@blogdiva the fact that two people who were kidnapped and being illegally held are worth more to the FBI than the capture of a terrorist who had already assassinated two, attempted two more, and fired at police officers... *REALLY* says it all.

@bortzmeyer the year is 1997. I am explaining why there is no such thing as a 'safe' backdoor.

The year is 2001. I am explaining why there is no such thing as a 'safe' backdoor.

The year is 2007. I am explaining why there is no such thing as a 'safe' backdoor.

The year is 2011. I am explaining why there is no such thing as a 'safe' backdoor.

The year is 2016. I am explaining why there is no such thing as a 'safe' backdoor.

The year is 2025. I really want to just chug bleach now.

@dangillmor now Dan, let's not be too hasty here. To demand consequences would do irreparable damage to the tradition of collegiality and imperil their ability to pass any legislation!

But if you donate just $5, $20, or $250 per month then they can draft a sternly worded letter to back up their empty words!

(Nope, you still didn't read it with enough sarcasm, I assure you.)

@cR0w @darfplatypus @da_667 please start with Google and NaziFlare's personal data harvesting operations.

@cR0w @darfplatypus @da_667 the hilarious thing is that this will instantly nuke an offensive number of applications and infrastructure that thinks that hard-coding public resolvers used for data stealing is a great idea.

Hey, uh, folks?

I don't know if you missed it, and I REALLY hope you didn't, but Muskrat and Twitler are having a very, VERY, *VERY* public fight replete with threats of taking away subsidies and immediately decommissioning rockets.

And my gods, the world's popcorn supply may NEVER recover if we don't die of schadenfreude overdose first.

@anildash you are absolutely presenting them as equivalent.
Someone who has worked at the VA for 20 years, doing the job across 3+ administrations, has absolutely NOTHING in common with some 'founder' joining up as an 'adviser' to grandstand proudly alongside a man who gives Nazi salutes and spouts Nazi ideologies.

Or are you claiming that people making $75k pre-tax can afford just give up all their income, healthcare, and hope of retirement?

@anildash piss off with the insulting false equivalence. These aren't even remotely comparable things, something you claim to be smart enough to know.

But I guess since he's an "entrepreneur" he gets a free pass for signing on months AFTER Elon's Nazi salutes, embracing of openly Nazi organizations, and blatant bigotry?

@anildash or are we going to pretend that, in his own words, he didn't sign up on MARCH 17, 2025.

Literally the day after the regime signed an illegal 'executive order' shutting down Voice of America and Radio Liberty among others.
Two days after Judge Boasberg issued the first injunction (still being ignored) that blocked illegal deportations to concentration camps.

So no. He knew full well, 100% he was signing up for literal Nazi ideology.

@anildash "Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff Christopher Syrek, and my salary, $0." And then a bunch of excuse making for literal Nazis.

Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas. Absolutely no sympathy, no mercy, and NO redemption for fascist collaborators like this OR their business Gumroad.

NONE.

They actively chose to support this knowing full well what it was. They collaborated with Nazis. The end.

@GossiTheDog it's even worse than that. They're fucking with this bullshit in the .NET ecosystem, and pushing 'vibe coding' hard.

Literally over a decade of effort to make it open, accessible, building rapport with numerous communities, and untold hours proving .NET's real worth.

This isn't just customer code; this is literally an entire ecosystem impacting over a hundred million users.

Just getting pissed right down the drain.

@GossiTheDog "there's no way it-" Samsung Tizen OS.
Every smart TV from Samsung is running .NET. Not just running it but very heavily dependent on it.
Those idiotic smart fridges? .NET inside.

And the list just goes on and on to the point where 100M devices is likely a massive underestimate.

(Disclosure: I am a member of the .NET Foundation. But I don't speak for them.)

@GossiTheDog and boy howdy are those products full of red flags.

For example:
https://www.smarsh.com/platform/enterprise/conduct

"Supervise[s] more than 100 communication channels (including audio and video)"

So it's not so much 'archiving' as 'spyware' where everything is being dumped into S3 buckets by people with ... *questionable* security practices.

@GossiTheDog and people are still sleeping on the fact that this is not some 'small fry' company. "TM_SGNL" can reasonably be assumed to reflect the practices of OTHER products at parent company Smarsh. Which is actually a fairly large player in the compliance archiving space.

Which tells me that there's a non-zero chance their other products (which are all SaaS) have similar 'security' practices.

Just what you want from a company selling you 'Conduct Surveillance.'

@amszmidt I don't engage with or tolerate illiterates minimizing the regime.

You are not at all cordially invited to choke on a brick.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

REMINDER: do NOT sign up for protests. No matter how 'innocent' it seems. No matter how trustworthy the signup sheet. No matter what.
Nazis are going to get their hands on these lists. They are already surveilling these protests, recording license plates and photos, using fake cell sites to capture phones, and building lists of opponents to send to the concentration camps.
Practice good security.

@da_667 @GossiTheDog oh, it's even more trivially readable. Because I can pretty much fucking guarantee you that the SQLite isn't ACTUALLY encrypted. Because presumably they're using Microsoft.Data.Sqlite. Which means no proper encryption. So there's a fleet of trucks sized hole there.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/data/sqlite/encryption?tabs=net-cli