@patrickcmiller every time I see this, I have a big flashback to the mid 90s and acidwarp.exe for Windows (before screen savers - outside of Star Wars Screen Entertainment - had much to offer)
@inkican@alice “BetterHelp was caught selling data to Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo, and Pinterest.” <— that right there should be a fatal and immediate end for any company managing personal health data. If someone in leadership had such phenomenally poor judgment as to think that was a good idea (or even acceptable), they cannot be trusted in the space ever again.
not often does somebody drop the mic in the 3rd paragraph of a 7-page talk, but Schneier did:
“In this talk, I am going to make several arguments. One, that there are two different kinds of trust—interpersonal trust and social trust—and that we regularly confuse them. Two, that the confusion will increase with artificial intelligence. We will make a fundamental category error. We will think of AIs as friends when they’re really just services. Three, that the corporations controlling AI systems will take advantage of our confusion to take advantage of us. They will not be trustworthy. And four, that it is the role of government to create trust in society. And therefore, it is their role to create an environment for trustworthy AI. And that means regulation. Not regulating AI, but regulating the organizations that control and use AI.”
@inthehands 100% (but much of that is git’s fault with its significantly more-complex-than-necessary design and operating model, especially when compared to other VCS options)
@promovicz@lzg from a purely pragmatic perspective (one of avoiding hassles, operational and otherwise), simplicity is vastly underestimated as a design requirement in almost all systems. This is why on my list of rules, rule 1 is “as simple as possible” (rule 0 is “it has to work”).
Have a friend that was just abruptly laid off, no severance - but they *did* have to pay out his accrued PTO. And that, my friends, is why unlimited vacation is a scam: the only reason he has anything to keep him going until the next gig starts is because he had accrued vacation that his employer was required by law to pay him.
Bad idea prophet @ Accenture (leading AWS Security), opinions: mine • Internet ops and security since the 20th century • simplicity evangelist • we know not yet what we shall become • eternally curious • be kind • SoCal 🌊