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same lamp, this morning on the way to work, and this evening on the way home from work, the latter much more rainy and bro's still there, what a trooper >^..^<
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A lot of corporate software development has turned out to be an example of Graeber's "bullshit job". The work consists of shuffling pucks for a business hierarchy. Value comes from oligopolies, abusive business models, and strip-mining old innovations. Design exists to squeeze the customer. Next to none of the outcomes really matter. Few projects ship and those that do make the world a worse place
Makes sense that such a bullshit job would be perfectly automated by an LLM bullshit generator
@baldur this is exactly what I'm seeing too. It doesn't matter that you produce value for your customer, it only matters that they *think* you're producing value for them. It's basically a scam. And I'm a cog in that scam machine, it's depressing
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“The harvest always follows the work."
...and we're not done, yet. 🙏
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:27djlszfjuyd3ig4uptwmotd/post/3mzvtux3whk2h
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いいおっぱいの日、3日目――
アイコン用に描いたけどアイコン映えしませんでした…
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Ich hab dann mal wieder was ins Blog geschrieben. Über letzte Bilder und über Weinen…
https://schallundstille.de/vom-weinen/
(ja, ich weiß, das mit der Werbewirksamkeit, das muss ich noch üben…)
Over the past few weeks, I've found myself increasingly having to explain to people close to me that those videos on social media are not reliable sources of information. That the so-called guru isn't really a guru. That having a degree doesn't automatically make you respectable. And that installing those apps on your phone is dangerous.
Then, just a few days later, they're back to sending me the same videos, from the same platforms, or reinstalling the same shady apps. "Because they're cute" or "because they're useful."
Never mind all the security issues I warned them about, starting with the fact that they downloaded the app from "g00gle.com".
Then, one day, their phone stops working properly, showing ads everywhere. Or worse.
"Who they gonna call?"
More and more often, I've also found myself saying: no, I'm not giving you root access to the server so you can "let Claude optimize it."
Who's responsible for that server, me or Claude? Either it's me, or it's nobody.
Because when Claude inevitably messes something up...
"Who they gonna call?"
Then I get an email asking for my opinion on a quote from a large competing company. A quote that's worse than the one I prepared months ago, which was never approved. And now they're "ready to approve this company's quote if you tell us it's okay."
Never mind mine, of course. As always, with that particular customer.
And the problem isn't that they've consciously evaluated two proposals and decided to go with someone else. That would be perfectly fine.
But apparently, mine had completely slipped their minds. As usual.
The problem is that the well-dressed, nice-smelling salesman shows up with his AI-generated documents, a few impressive promises, and the usual "most amazing service ever" pitch. And suddenly, he's credible.
Meanwhile, my proposals, perhaps less flashy, but at least containing actual technical details, something mysteriously absent from those wonderful sales pitches, are consistently pushed aside.
They trust my expertise when something goes wrong. But when it's time to make decisions, somehow a shiny sales pitch from a total stranger is more convincing than ten years of mutual trust.
And for over ten years, I've been the one cleaning up the mess left behind by these people's brilliant solutions. Fixing problems, untangling chaos, and trying to make things work after the excitement has worn off and the salesman has moved on to the next customer.
Because at 5:30 in the morning, when someone is suffering and that shiny, wonderful system isn't working as promised, guess what?
"Who they gonna call?"
Me.
Not the charming salesman who sold them the dream. He's probably still dreaming. Especially at 5:30.
And not their wonderful support service either, because the call center doesn't open until 8:30, when they'll finally be allowed to open a ticket.
Meanwhile, there's a real person with a real problem, and a system that needs to work. Now.
And for more than ten years, I've been the one picking up that phone and cleaning up the mess. More than ten years of this.
So this time, I suggested they go ahead. But I also reminded them that when things go wrong, they won't be able to call me to fix them.
Not for that. And not just for this project. For anything else, either. After more than ten years of being the one who picks up the pieces, my availability ends here.
I'm happy to share my knowledge. I'm happy to help. But I'm no longer willing to take responsibility for decisions made by people who consistently ignore my advice.
Not anymore.
Always a barista. ALWAYS!
An idiot? I try to avoid being one whenever possible. 😆
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Notion AIの情報漏洩やばすぎるのでみんな確認してね（公式からも情報出ました）
https://www.notion.com/ja/help/security-incident-involving-a-third-party-ai-vendor
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My idea is to limit the scope of the rulings to be limited to very basic laws (like preventing illegal material). Everything outside this scope is still the sole matter of the individual instances. It is like the International Court of Justice, only to judge based on common rules, while not interfering with "local politics" (while it can be used to get consent of all participating instances for other procedures).
When it is visible that judges use their position to apply rules of their home instance to everyone else, they should be voted out.
Illegal in one country may not be in another. Like in Brazil, to my knowledge there is not rules against console mods and game dumping, but in Japan console mods are illegal and in the USA dumping Nintendo cartridges. Furthermore, in the Brazilian constitution, one of the opening statements is that "you shall not do or cease to do anything if not in virtue of law".
So in this example, if 3 instances are tied by such an external organization, one for each country, which will be breaking their local laws to allow or not discussion on modding and dumping?
And on judges being voted out, Brazil also works as an example: Ill-intended judges just need to sit quietly enough for long enough until they have a majority, and then they can rule as they please.
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@futzle
This broke my brain a little bit
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What are you thoughts about (semi-) centralized moderation?
As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.
The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.
This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.
And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.
What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?
This is especially problematic as media […] gets duplicated to every receiving instance.
I’m not sure this is actually the case. The posts certainly do get duplicated to every instance, of course, but the media contained in them are always hosted by the originating instance, as far as I can tell. So once it is deleted from there, no one can access it anymore.
I think it’s an interesting idea though. Since you mentioned votes by members of the individual instances, I wonder how you would handle the different sizes of instances. I’m the only user of my instance, for example. I probably wouldn’t be able to be judge then, right?
@davidgerard Bloody hell. What’s wrong with people?!
@aral @davidgerard This Milady thing is quite influential in the crapto space. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re involved with The Com.
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