tonnydourado

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by tonnydourado 2y ago
The first step for safely sharing passwords is not doing it. SSO as much as possible, give people actual accounts where not. As a last resource, at a Former Employer™, people put a public key in their profile, and we used GPG to encrypt sec
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
> It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick. You gotta be fucking kidding me
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
When you're paying $39/month for something that generates $0/month, that is a very sensible policy. When you're paying $50,000/month for something that generates $200,000/month in value, or if an outage can gen
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
Asking a design question like "Design a booking system, but with recurring appointments" is like asking "Write a function to order a list of string, but it has to work with arbitrary UTF-8 strings, in any locale, respecting a
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
The idea of a chatbot pretending to be a famous scientist trying to help me understand physics made me vomit in my mouth a little bit.
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
I've seen "Penetrate and Patch" play out a lot on software development in general. When a new requirement shows up, or technical debt starts to grow, or performance issues, the first instinct of a lot of people is to try and
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by tonnydourado 2y ago
My first thought is that "where TRUE" is just a wonky thing to have to write, but on further reflection, maybe that's kinda the point. Where-less deletes should be harder to write, making it look stupid will probably help.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Well, that was some nightmare fuel early in the morning. I've been diagnosed with Crohn's almost 20 years ago, had two surgeries, and am currently on meds. No fistulas, thankfully, but the whole thing is a Damocles sword, neverthe
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
You might not know them, but HR does. No way your employer is sending them money every month without a reasonable degree of certainty that they are who they say they are. Or, at the very least, that they aren't 3 hackers in a trenchcoa
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
From the story, I wouldn't call them successful =P
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
> If people would log all what they eat and how they feel. Dietary data is one of the hardest things to collect. Either you need to hospitalize people and control their whole diet, and your sample size is small, because of costs, or you
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Not sure we're talking about the same thing. By validation I mean of identity. On proprietary software , before an attacker get inside access to the code, they would have to interview, get hired, submit (presumably, fake) document id,
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Yeah, less eyes on it means it would be less likely to be caught, but there's also much more upfront validation on who gets to change it. Although, I can imagine a sub-sub-contractor identity being somewhat easily forged, it's sti
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Gonna have a serious talk with my mother about not trying to hack into opensource software that powers most of the world's software. I know retirement is boring, but that's no excuse.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
The maintainer did mention mental health issues. It can be hard to say no in the best of times, let alone when your own mind is trying to screw with you.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
You're assuming worse of me than I'm assuming of the technology. There's almost no reply here with a use that is a) not somewhat bad and b) has enough of an upside to compensate the downsides. Except maybe this one, but I do
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Your view smacks of contempt for workers, particularly in the arts. Specially the emphasis on "do", as if voice actors don't actually work, and just live of royalties or something. The kind of worldview that the rich and the
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
As another reply put, I'm very skeptical that the benefits for small content creators will offset the damaged to society as a whole, from increased fraud and harassment.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
I mean, I explicitly used "wonder" because I don't wanna assume about blind people's experiences and needs. What else should I have done so you wouldn't come in kicking me in the nuts?
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
I don't know what else to tell you, I just think people deserve to be paid for the work they do. Your vision of a world where anyone can create voice for their projects for cheap CAN NOT exist without someone getting exploited. Nor is
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
That would be non-evil, sure. But I wonder if blind people even want it? They're already listening to screen readers at insane speeds, up to 6-8x, I think. Do they even care that it doesn't sound "realistic"?
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
That's kinda what I was thinking on the second paragraph. Still, gotta be a small market.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
I'm not saying that this should be forbidden or something. I just wonder what is the motivation for the people pitching and actually developing this. I'm all for basic, non-profit-driven, research, but at some point you gotta ask
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Have you seen how big studios treat vfx artists? They absolutely will replace voice actors with AI. Also: > This technology is incredibly powerful and useful At what, exactly? The only "useful" case you presented is "actua
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
> I can imagine a fairly big market (...) I can't, and if I could, I think this would be fairly dystopian. Didn't black mirror have an episode about something similar? I vaguely remember an Asimov/Arthur C. Clark short sto
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
Reasonable, but I'm skeptical of the market
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
That's basically replacing voice actors and stealing their likeness: both are arguably evil, and mentioned. So, I haven't missed them. P.S.: "but what about small, indie creators" that's not who's gonna embrace
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
I might be missing something, but what are the non-questionable, or at least non-evil, uses of this technology? Because every single application I can think of is fucked up: porn, identity theft, impersonation, replacing voice actors, steal
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
God, please, not to Oracle.
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by tonnydourado 3y ago
> Certainly they can (...) No, that's the problem. You don't have certainty, not in any remotely scientific definition of the word, because you don't have enough data, and the data you do have is crap. Also: > I see n

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