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by bigiain 1y ago
> I’ve found laypeople to be _more_ creeped out by targeted advertising, in particular, than tech people "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" -- Upton Sincla
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by bigiain 1y ago
And we have better Plague Masks these days. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/plague-do... (I am making popcorn, in preparation for the inevitable administration schism and late night TweetRants b
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by bigiain 1y ago
And have uniform density.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Fake exif data with lat/longs showing the image was taken inside Area 51 or The Cheyenne Mountain Complex or Guantanamo Bay...
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by bigiain 1y ago
The FZ itself is very unlikely to even be capable of phoning home. I do sometimes wonder how concerned I need to be about the companion app though.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Not the OP, but a quick look at the /sitemap.xml shows about 55 pages, the oldest of which seem to be dated 2018.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Been there, done that. I have old paperwork for significant shareholdings in 3 extinct companies I worked at that tried to outsource all development. Out of 6 or 7 major outsourced projects I was involved in or responsible for, only one cou
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by bigiain 1y ago
Had you ever heard of IKKO before this? I hadn't, and I'm at least adjacent to the hifi and audio nerd crowd. Apple have a reputation and brand that allows them to charge premium prices. IKKO seems, at least to me, to be effective
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by bigiain 1y ago
At that stage you just rotate the company name or branding...
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by bigiain 1y ago
And the Saudi Bone Saw Diplomatic Team.
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by bigiain 1y ago
TACO...
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by bigiain 1y ago
Popping Calc! (I'm showing my age here, aren't I?)
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by bigiain 1y ago
Eventually someone is going to get a bill for the OpenAPI key usage. That will provide some incentive. (Incentive to just rotate the key and brick all the devices rather than fix the problem, most likely.
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by bigiain 1y ago
In my head at least, Bluesky are way closer to "the bad guys'. I don't trust them at all, pretty sure that in spite of what they say, they're going to do the same sort of rug pull that Google did with their "do no e
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by bigiain 1y ago
Google circa 2005? Twitter circa 2012? In 2025? Nobody, I don't think. Even Mozilla is turning into the bad guys these days.
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by bigiain 1y ago
I will also freely admit to not understanding MCP much, but using it without an LLM was (at least to my reading) pretty much the main thesis of the linked article. "Okay but. But. What if you just... removed the AI part? What if it&#x2
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by bigiain 1y ago
Blamestorming, fingerpointing, and avoiding saying anything that might make Trump tweet about them in allcaps at 2am.
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by bigiain 1y ago
> Mcp is a fad, it’s not long term tech. But I’m betting shoveling data at llm agents isn’t. I'd bet that while "shoveling data at llm agents" might not be a fad, sometime fairly soon doing so for free while someone else&#
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by bigiain 1y ago
And some of the most ridiculous songs. I remember (vaguely) a Bootie show at DNA Lounge back in the early 2000s that was entirely mashups. It was hilarious. Lady Gaga mashes up with Eurythmics, Coldplay and Metallica, Robert Palmer and Radi
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by bigiain 1y ago
I am pondering if I should do this. If I have a app who's backend needs to connect to, say, a CRM platform - I wonder if instead of writing APIs to connect to Dynamics or Salesforce or Hubspot specifically, if there's benefit in a
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by bigiain 1y ago
Part of me thinks that's just the Oracle equivalent of janitorial and catering staff, the people you need to keep around to ensure the people creating the company profit, the sales people and lawyers, can work most efficiently.
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by bigiain 1y ago
I'd guess less then 1 or 2 hyped AI startup valuations that eventually collapse to nothing.
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by bigiain 1y ago
I look forward to the schadenfreude I will feel when someone makes the right FOI request and we discover this "feature" was built by Meta at the request of the NSA or the FBI or some other government TLA.
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by bigiain 1y ago
Mine has been deleted for almost 10 years now. I fully assume they've retained and are mining every post I made, every photo I uploaded, and every interaction I ever had on FB, and are still using FB tracking pixels on every website ru
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by bigiain 1y ago
"Somebody moved fast and broke things. We have no idea why they thought that was appropriate behaviour on production systems, it's completely against company policy." It's surprising(not) how that class of error always s
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by bigiain 1y ago
I dunno, but as a almost-boomer (57 years old) I felt seen by the "Illustrated for boomers" pic. I had almost exactly that display in the headunit/cd player I installed in my '72 VW Beetle back in the early 90s...
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by bigiain 1y ago
While that's all true, it does hilariously increase the difficulty for the government showing up and seizing your server hardware...
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by bigiain 1y ago
"Hello Ma'am, we're from the government. We're here for your cat, the one in the YouTube video. We need it to attempt to reproduce scientific research."
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by bigiain 1y ago
But I don't want my San Francisco meeting to display in my calendar as 1am the day before when I'm in Sydney, then switch to 4pm on Tuesday once I'm in California. And I sure as hell don't want the displayed time in Sydn
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by bigiain 1y ago
I avoid running "daily" cron jobs or other scheduled tasks around 2am for that reason, they might not get run or them might get run twice. Where practical I schedule them around 12:00 (but I'm sure one day I'll get stung

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