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@haverholm oh apparently they are

number go up uP UP!!

I think the real story here is not that it happened, but how their incident response flailed around as if they don't even know their own infrastructure anymore. That's a cultural shift that can be pinned on dogmatic "AI" adoption even if you can't point directly to a PR from Claude as the trigger.

@davidgerard the narcissist playbook is manifest with AI pushers. If you as a project set a boundary, they will constantly push against it, gaslight you on your view, use other people to put pressure on you to change your mind (triangulation). It's eerily similar, but I spose that shouldn't be a surprise.

Durov, of course, denied any issue exists:
https://nitter.catsarch.com/durov/status/2121274027285307903

This fits a pattern with Telegram: when serious issues are raised, Durov denies them and attacks the researchers, while the issues are quietly fixed.

This was the story, for example, with MTproto (the old version of Telegram's protocol). Researchers were attacked by Durov, and then quietly MTproto v2 got rolled out.

Telegram is not trustworthy.

#Telegram #InfoSec

@futurebird I always failed the "show your work" bit. My results were correct. My process was "wrong". Luckily I had one teacher who focused on the results. We had a daily 20 problem quiz. Do the work in your head, write the result only on paper. It's my only A in math. I was lucky to scrape by with C or D's most of the time.
That teacher made me realize I can do math. (Although I've had co-workers mystified that my nonsensical -to them- equations allow me to reach the correct result 😂)

CPUs are so sophisticated now that when you do things like "precompute a lookup table" or "use a clever domain-specific data structure", they just find it patronizing. it doesn't impress them. any attempt to be smart with the instructions you provide? they just roll their eyes. if you tell them to go chase a pointer they're passive-aggressively muttering "great, another linked list" as they performatively brush all the stuff they were working on straight off their desk and onto the floor

My baseline assumption these days that any white dude content creator from 2010 or so who I haven't heard from in a while is now either a Nazi or a communist puppygirl.

@davidgerard @futurebird 💯 I agree that people in general have no obligation to give these clowns any benefit of the doubt, I still want good journalists to preserve their credibility and dig for the facts. Your poll the other day about covering Humble Bundle vs MS was a good example of that.

@_elena I run a lot of Linux distros in virtual machines, but although I've been tempted by Mint, I love my Debian setup too much to probably ever change it. 😄

Any direct evidence will be laundered under a human name, anyway.

But I think for Microsoft we can confidently say it's at least indirectly responsible, if not for the fuckup happening in the first place, then for the time-to-diagnose, which was uncharacteristically long for Microsoft.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5aeagkpy2ch5eencyi2elahk/post/3n2bfkuytgk2k

@serge I'm sorry to hear that. It's definitely a big issue if the people who are supposed to help you are part of the problem. And I heard that a few times, and not just with one instance.

@nokke you deserve an award for this comment! thank youuuuu!!! I indeed prefer Debian to Ubuntu, so this is the perfect compromise. I willl make sure to credit you when I write about the process. Thank you again!