Notices by Daniel Nazer (danielnazer@mastodon.social)

This one from Ben Collins over on the bird hell site.

It's just stunning to me how quickly these features are being rolled out.

Google search over the years:

1998-2016: Decent quality web search.

2016-2024: Mediocre web search dominated by SEO garbage and sponsored links.

2024-___: Whatever this is.

I wrote a fairly mundane post on Reddit that led to me getting an AI-prompted message with suicide prevention resources.

I was completely mystified but then I realized it was probably because I included the phrase: "I find it hard to manage" (in a context like "I find it hard to manage the crabgrass in my garden ... ").

This is the future isn't it? AI pestering us with context-free misunderstood nonsense. I guess I should just count myself lucky that the AI didn't institutionalize me.

I would really love to have footage of the marketing meeting that led to this.

No satire could ever hope to compete.

Don't use country code top-level domains for your community or business (unless you want to be at the mercy of some random government).

https://mastodon.social/@josephcox@infosec.exchange/111919754786586871

I was searching my house (unsuccessfully) for my external CD drive and instead stumbled upon a very different relic.

Until today I'd never heard of the Horizon scandal in the UK - hundreds of people falsely convicted thanks to faulty accounting software used by the Post Office

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036

Very similar to the Robodebt scheme in Australia, where thousands of people were falsely accused of owing money to the government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54970253

In both cases it took years for authorities to accept the software was defective.

I'm sure things will be fine as we give software even more autonomy.

I just love the comic timing of this paragraph from the X Corp. v Media Matters Complaint.

All of our big advertisers fled when they saw their ads next to Nazi content! Well, except for Oracle, that is.

Important and worrying news on the long-running proposal in Europe to require browsers to trust government certificates - the latest version would mandate browsers to comply even if such certificates are used to intercept web traffic. https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

If you’re a European citizen, you can write to the member of the European Parliament responsible for the eIDAS file - Romana JERKOVIĆ - and register your concern. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/112747/ROMANA_JERKOVIC/home

I don't know why so few engineers seem to appreciate that "this tool makes me twice as productive" probably means "this tool creates a 50% chance that I'll lose my job."

I think it's the same optimism bias seen in students at law schools with 50% bar passage rates -- no one in the incoming class at those schools thinks they are part of the group that will never get to be a lawyer ... but half of them are.