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  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlSomething is broken.. I know it..
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    10 hours ago

    i start everything i do w chatgpt and it’s twice given me a dummy function/method that immediately worked and this was my reaction both times. lol

    it shipped both times and not even the senior guys caught it in any of the peer reviews before it reached the clients; it’s been almost a year for the first one and they’re still happy w it. 🤷




  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlApocalyptic Net Loses of Mass Surveillance
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    15 hours ago

    … Politicians either don’t understand or don’t want to understand that once an encryption is broken, it is equivalent to there being no encryption in the first place. And their ignorance… And I truly want to believe that that’s their ignorance. It causes such disproportional oppression, that I am stupefied that not enough people scream about it.

    Still there is a possibility that it is not ignorance. There is a possibility that it is just a political stunt. A sort of red herring, to mislead you into not asking the questions of proportionality. And that they are actually just trying to take control over us all.

    the politicians are merely mouth pieces and useful idiots to enable such draconian measures and the author is right in believing that it’s not all merely ignorance.

    my own experience as as software engineer tells me that the most gifted engineers are gung-ho about these measures because it appeals to their intellectual curiosity and the affects upon humanity for such intellectual pursuits doesn’t enter into the equation at all; even the ones who are sympathetic to leftists causes don’t care so long as their mortgages are paid and they can afford to put their children into the best schools.

    expect no help from the tech bros and tech lefty’s alike.



  • eldavi@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.mlConsent not required
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    18 hours ago

    not yet and that’s why the black market and the dark web exist.

    it’s impossible for the police’s human eyes to detect that your glasses or your makeup is capable of reflecting the light that face recognition needs to identify you; at least for now.









  • … until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

    the most recent version i’ve seen of this are my colleague software developers who don’t give a rat’s ass about the impact that their work will have on humanity so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.

    i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.