astolarz (u/astolarz)

astolarz commented on I use zip bombs to protect my server idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-... · Posted by u/foxfired

sandworm101 · 4 months ago

Devide by zero happens to everyone eventually.

https://medium.com/@bishr_tabbaa/when-smart-ships-divide-by-...

"On 21 September 1997, the USS Yorktown halted for almost three hours during training maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia due to a divide-by-zero error in a database application that propagated throughout the ship’s control systems."

" technician tried to digitally calibrate and reset the fuel valve by entering a 0 value for one of the valve’s component properties into the SMCS Remote Database Manager (RDM)"

astolarz · 4 months ago

Bad bot

astolarz commented on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model about.fb.com/news/2025/01... · Posted by u/impish9208

Seattle3503 · 8 months ago

> As a result, we’re going to start treating civic content from people and Pages you follow on Facebook more like any other content in your feed, and we will start ranking and showing you that content based on explicit signals (for example, liking a piece of content) and implicit signals (like viewing posts) that help us predict what’s meaningful to people. We are also going to recommend more political content based on these personalized signals and are expanding the options people have to control how much of this content they see.

IMO the concerning part is hidden at the bottom. They want to go back to shoveling politics in front of users. They say it is based on viewing habits, but just because I stop my car to watch a train wreck doesn't mean I want to see more train wrecks. I just can't look away. FB makes theirnacrions sound noble or correct, but this is self serving engagement optimization.

Social media sites should give users an explicit lever to see political content or not. Maybe I'll turn it on for election season and off the rest of the year. Some political junkies will always have it set to "maximum". IMO that is better FB always making that decision for me.

astolarz · 8 months ago

>Social media sites should give users an explicit lever to see political content or not

Facebook does sorta have this, under Settings & Privacy > Content Preferences > Manage defaults. Note that the only options for "Political content" are "Show more" and "Default". The other categories listed also include "Show less". There is no "off" option for any of the categories.

astolarz commented on Halide rejected from App Store because it doesn't explain why it takes photos 9to5mac.com/2024/09/24/ha... · Posted by u/impish9208

bgidley · a year ago

The most bizarre App Store rejection I’ve seen was for a TV app which was rejected by Play for ‘Policy Violation’ without much explanation… After several rounds of resubmissions and emails it turned out the problem was some channels on it were in 4:3 (not widescreen). Google required we add a ‘warning’ to the App Store description that it contains 4:3 content!

astolarz · a year ago

That's on you for adding NSFW* content to your app.

*Not Safe For Widescreen

astolarz commented on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11... · Posted by u/SushiHippie

debacle · a year ago

I haven't seen a massive correlation in LLM popularity and reddit bots. A good old markov chain can simulate the average reddit thread, and the botting issue has been prevalent for quite a long time.

astolarz · a year ago

Bots used to just take other popular comments and repost them either in whole copies of threads, as in the example here, or taking a top comment in a new thread and reposting it elsewhere in the same thread. Now they're using LLMs to rephrase comments to try to avoid detection (though they often come across sounding a bit off so they're sometimes easy to spot).

astolarz commented on Why won't Meta do anything about the "I can't believe he's gone" scams? · Posted by u/astolarz

ChrisArchitect · a year ago

Page owners can hide posts from their timelines while the posts will still be accessible/show up elsewhere on FB. This isn't new.

astolarz · a year ago

I've edited the title to more accurately reflect the point I'm trying to get across.

astolarz commented on Why won't Meta do anything about the "I can't believe he's gone" scams? · Posted by u/astolarz

ChrisArchitect · a year ago

Page owners can hide posts from their timelines while the posts will still be accessible/show up elsewhere on FB. This isn't new.

astolarz · a year ago

Ok, some questions:

Where do these posts show up for the page owners, in case they want to delete them? (Or in case these posts were posted to their account without their knowledge because their account was compromised)

Why isn't Facebook doing anything to combat cases where users accounts are posting obvious compromising content to their accounts in a way that should be easily detectable and prevented?

astolarz commented on Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up wired.com/story/air-canad... · Posted by u/gavman

AlbertCory · 2 years ago

IANAL, but AFAIK you can't disclaim liability that you actually have. I'd love to hear an actual lawyer who knows (not a know-it-all amateur) declaim on this, but:

A Ferris Wheel operator cannot make you sign a disclaimer that they're not responsible if it collapses and kills you. Or rather, they can, but it will not hold up in court.

Similarly, you can say in your manual, "We're not responsible for anything we say here" but you still are.

I don't know about chatbots, but I'd expect that judges will look for other precedents that are analogous.

astolarz · 2 years ago

Personal anecdote: A few years back I left my car at a dealership for some warranty work that was going to take a few days. It has a soft top and they left it in their gated lot overnight, where it got broken into (slashed the top, ripped open the glove box, stole a cheap machete I got from a white elephant exchange). They claimed that they weren't liable at all since I signed a waiver and should go through my own insurance. After a little push back, they caved and covered it under their insurance like they should have from the beginning. I don't go to that dealership for anything anymore, for that and other reasons.

astolarz commented on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports missionlocal.org/2024/01/... · Posted by u/etc-hosts

Tarragon · 2 years ago

> "Stochastic terrorism" is just an excuse to crack down on free speech by conflating harsh criticism with violence

"Die slow motherfuckers" is harsh criticism?

astolarz · 2 years ago

You can say anything as long as you add a footnote saying "This is not intended as a threat" apparently.

astolarz commented on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's online rant spurs threats to supes, police reports missionlocal.org/2024/01/... · Posted by u/etc-hosts

EGG_CREAM · 2 years ago

It seems like you’re implying that donating to a campaign somehow goes to the government?

astolarz · 2 years ago

They also think their voter information was "leaked" when they registered to vote, so it doesn't sound like they're very civically informed...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39206679