"posting from the slop hole" is probably the best description possible for this, brb stealing

To me, this is more akin to LARPing “Leave Britney alone!” than it is serious political activism.

I will be 0% surprised to learn that aella et co got paid 5+ figures for this shit

continuing on the theme of promptfondlers shitting up open source (or at least attempting to), look at this nightmare pr

for those who may not software:

• this pr is basically unreviewably large
• it’s clearly just autoplag-sourced slop
• there is zero engagement from the person with the actual goals of the project or open source

I would've stan'd syslog-ng but they've also been pulling some fuckery with docs again lately that's making me anxious, so I'm very :|||||

nasb, new torres piece out, promising title and opening

(I’ll have to read it after done with my present other currency-related diversions. old-man-shakes-fist-at-cloud.gif)

programming.dev: statistical sampling excellency (worst edition)

ran across this, just quickly wanted to scream infinitely

(as an aside, I've also recently (finally) joined the ACM, and clicking around in that has so far been .... quite the experience. I actually want to make a bigger post about it later on, because it is worth more than a single-comment sneer)

for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I'd post, even in jest

the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their "output" (for lack of a better word) may be in one's daily life, at the end of the day it's still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked

(e: I mention "callcenters" but "AI support centers"/"data review"/"remote shoppers"/.... - it's all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)

I am so fucking tired of "just tie the PoW into every protocol interaction and every device! what do you mean old devices can't be updated? you're just afraid of the future!" fucking fans

chucklefucks coming along shouting "you don't know what you're talking about!" while having little fucking idea what the person they're engaging with actually does

I just made an unfortunate discovery so now y'all get to see it too

following on from this comment, it is possible to get it turned off for a Workspace Suite Account

1. contact support (? button from admin view)
2. ask the first person to connect you to Workspace Support (otherwise you'll get some made-up bullshit from a person trying to buy time or Case Success or whatever, simply because they don't have the privileges to do what you're asking)
3. tell the referred-to person that you want to enable controls for "Gemini for Google Workspace" (optionally adding that you have already disabled "Gemini App")

hopefully you spend less time on this than the 40-something minutes I had to (a lot of which was spent watching some poor support bastard start-stop typing for minutes at a time because they didn't know how to respond to my request)

you know what really fucking gets me about this thing? even "before" all of the security and DV etc arguments (and, really, they are all valid)

consider the average consumer-human (present version of) windows desktop/laptop/workstation that has survived for more than a year or so without having been re-imaged. those are already often an unusable nightmare of built-up cruft in sticky corners

and now there's going to be something that'll do constant capture and analysis every fucking moment it's running?

how the fuck is this not going to go wrong? imagine the first time that sqlite table shits the bed. a dodgy character format goes into it, or a bit of disk corruption hits, or a file locking (lololol) issue hits, or .....

I just ..... I just really can't imagine any of this is going to go very well at all in the real world