The man that is friends with a bunch of pedophiles owns a website that is becoming known for generating CSAM? What are the chances?
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wnevets commented on Amazon One palm authentication discontinued amazonone.aws.com/help... · Posted by u/KerryJones
oh no! [1]
wnevets commented on Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/01-_-
I know blaming everything on LLMs is in vogue right now; but this is much more to do with Microsoft very publically firing the QA department[0][1] as a cost savings measure and claiming developers will do their own QA (long before LLMs were on the scene). It started in 2014 and the trickle never stopped.
Microsoft has a cultural problem; it went from an "engineers" company to an MBA directed one, trying to maximize short-term shareholder value at the cost of long-term company reputation/growth. It is very common and typical of US Corporate culture today, and catastrophic in the long-run.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-m...
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/business/microsoft-expected-...
> but this is much more to do with Microsoft very publically firing the QA department[0][1] as a cost savings measure and claiming developers will do their own QA (long before LLMs were on the scene). It started in 2014 and the trickle never stopped.
We know this was the correct move because Microsoft's stock price has gone up tremendously since 2014, those in the c-suite received massive bonuses and the worlds most efficient system for resource allocation has deemed it so.
wnevets commented on Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores finance.yahoo.com/news/am... · Posted by u/trenning
Fortunately my Amazon branded subcutaneous chip still works at Wholefoods.
wnevets commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori
My understanding is there was a bug that let you wipe and re-enable a phone that had been disabled due to theft. This prevents a downgrade attack. It's in OnePlus's interest to make their phones less appealing for theft, or, in their interest to comply with requirements to be disableable from carriers, Google, etc.
> My understanding is there was a bug that let you wipe and re-enable a phone that had been disabled due to theft. This prevents a downgrade attack.
This makes sense and much less dystopia than some of the other commenters are suggesting.
wnevets commented on ICE Releases RFI for User Tracking Tools wired.com/story/ice-asks-... · Posted by u/eoskx
> I can’t afford healthcare or electricity, and ICE just abducted my neighbor. But at least I no longer have to see plaques that mention slavery when I visit national landmarks.
The biggest surprise to me with all this low-quality contribution spam is how little shame people apparently have. I have a handful of open source contributions. All of them are for small-ish projects and the complexity of my contributions are in the same ball-park as what I work on day-to-day. And even though I am relatively confident in my competency as a developer, these contributions are probably the most thoroughly tested and reviewed pieces of code I have ever written. I just really, really don't want to bother someone with low quality "help" who graciously offers their time to work on open source stuff.
Other people apparently don't have this feeling at all. Maybe I shouldn't have been surprised by this, but I've definitely been caught off guard by it.
> how little shame people apparently have
You can expand this sentiment to everyday life. The things some people are willing to say and do in public is a never ending supply of surprising.
wnevets commented on Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds di.se/nyheter/di-avslojar... · Posted by u/madspindel
is America great again yet?
[1] https://people.com/waymo-exec-reveals-company-uses-operators...
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