The amount of CS grads who don't even know how to pleasure a woman is astounding

— Nanami (@hot_girl_spring) June 15, 2024

🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: OPENAI APPOINTS FORMER NSA HEAD PAUL NAKASONE TO BOARD

OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, retired US Army general and former NSA head, to its board of directors.

Nakasone, who led the NSA from 2018 to 2023, will join OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee.… pic.twitter.com/VZOHlcXull

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) June 14, 2024

They've gone full mask-off: 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 trust @OpenAI or its products (ChatGPT etc). There is only one reason for appointing an @NSAGov Director to your board. This is a willful, calculated betrayal of the rights of every person on Earth. You have been warned. https://t.co/bzHcOYvtko

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) June 14, 2024

Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board https://t.co/PohZ7sLOoE

— The Verge (@verge) June 13, 2024

YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection. This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

This breaks sponsorblock since now all timestamps are offset by the ad times.

— SponsorBlock (@[email protected]) (@SponsorBlock) June 12, 2024

Take the new pill. 💊 your mind is waiting.

In response to constant bitching from jannies (unpaid) that new users aren't asking good questions, Stack Overflow have added a new feature called the Staging Ground:

Basically new users aren't even allowed to ask questions directly onto the site anymore and their questions are instead pushed into a separate pipeline where no one can give them answers and their questions are instead disseminated by powerusers. Only if a question passes this multi-stage process does it actually make it onto SO proper. Spoiler: nothing ever passes.

Let's look at what this new user experience looks like...

A new user asks a Python question (now deleted so no link). It's correctly formatted, it explains the question clearly and shows the error. This sounds like a good question, right? WRONG.

They're asked to edit the question (which they do), and then they're told to edit it again. The question is then closed as being "off topic" (it's a Python coding question lol) and to rub salt into the wounds a poweruser asks the Meta (aka poweruser sneed) forum how to punish them further in How should we respond in the Staging Ground when OP ignores feedback, makes a trivial edit and submits for re-evaluation?.

The response? Ask for more changes:

This is exactly what declined re-eval was added for. To elaborate more: we added this feature for this exact scenario, and it is designed to give the reviewer a frictionless way to both tell the author that they still need to address the original feedback (IIRC, banner tells them this). And if the author continues to ignore it, they will be temporarily blocked, with clear explanations why

Of course OP can't actually do this because their question has been closed as off topic.

Congrats Stack Overflow, you're going to die even faster.

TL;DR - carefully watch what he does when he says no, and then punish him for it until he loses the ability to ever refuse you.

This technique is also effective on human moids.

>YouTube is currently experimenting with server-side ad injection.

>This means that the ad is being added directly into the video stream.

>Adblockers won’t work anymore and u will have to eat the whole adds pic.twitter.com/wDU5nJPNrB

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) June 12, 2024

Ads are now directly submitted in the video meaning they will appear even if you download the video.

Ars Technica have a zillion articles reporting on Apple's little event yesterday. The most interesting is "Apple's AI promise: “Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple”. As always I don't give a shit what the article itself says so let's head straight to the comments.

It turns out the tech savvy geniuses who comment on Ars Technica articles would trust Apple with their lives, and anyone doubting Apple's security motives is torn apart.

Top comments:

Too many lies - from you and everyone else.

I'm sorry Apple, but I don't believe anyone that makes these kinds of claims... [downmarseyd to shit]

I'll be fascinated by your audit results, and am impressed at how quickly you work. [top comment]

no you have to blindly trust Apple

This is a nice change of pace, given recent events from companies like Abode, instead of the standard

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In Capitalist America, corporation monetizes YOU!!

Just a reminder that Ars users believe they're the most intelligent commenters on the Internet, and even Reddit-tier comments like this don't introduce self-doubt.

Do you for a fricking second believe them? Like really? [downmarseyd to shit]

Yes, because not everything is a conspiracy.

It may turn out that Apple are wrong, but I don't believe they're lying, because that would be incredibly stupid of them. [top comment]

I tend to trust companies to act in their own enlightened self-interest. In Apple's case, that mostly means they have more to lose from a leak indicating their privacy claims are ingenuous than they have to gain from whatever they might do with people's personal data.

Yeh everyone knows that personal data isn't useful to companies

Very curious how it's at all possible to reliably verify the code running on a remote machine. [downmarseyd to shit]

Isn't that the entire premise of Open Source? How can you reliably verify the code running anywhere? [top comment]

Suspend disbelief? That's asking a lot. We shall see… [downmarseyd to shit]

What has Apple done in the last 10 years that requires you to suspend disbelief? I haven't heard of anything that would break my trust in them. [top comment]

TRUST APPLE

"You should totally believe us". [downmarseyd to shit]

Their architecture documents are public. [top comment]

Everyone knows that architecture documents are legally binding and definitely reflect what's actually running.

These guys are fricking idiots.

Now firefox is my best friend. The youtube ads are finally gone.. I am never trusting a chromium browser ever again.

Many weird nerds are on the spectrum and require very good people managers above them to mitigate their quirks, and should never go into people management themselves. The industry has really changed though. It is much easier to hire social well adapted people who can code at all than to hire a bunch of people with social problems who can code really good. The former is scalable at least, the latter breaks down as no one can get along.

Neurodivergents need to be coddled because they're so smart

The author is missing a crucial pressure that pushes against weird nerds, the people that have to work underneath them. I've had to answer to a Weird Nerd when I was starting out in my field, it was the worst fricking experience of my life, and I've spent the years since warning people away from that person, their career and their contributions to their field have stagnated due to all the people like me that they burned.

Actually they're a terror to be around

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627558

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1dc43ap/how_a_single_chatgpt_mistake_cost_us_10000/

Folks, I've been in the game industry for decades. I've seen _plenty_ of women/trans/gay/third worlder harassment there and It's widespread. It happens and It's real.
Making it simple: CoC is there exactly to avoid this in our spaces. It won't change. Deal with it when engaging.

— Juan Linietsky (@reduzio) June 9, 2024

I want to inform you about a very bad situation for you. However, you can benefit from it, if you will act wisеly.

Have you heard of Pegasus? This is a spyware program that installs on computers and smartphones and allows hackers to monitor the activity of device owners. It provides access to your webcam, messengers, emails, call records, etc. It works well on Android, iOS, and Windows. I guess, you already figured out where I'm getting at.

It's been a few months since I installed it on all your dеviсеs because you were not quite choosy about what links to click on the intеrnеt. During this period, I've learned about all aspects of your private life, but оnе is of special significance to me.

I've recorded many videos of you jerking off to highly controversial роrn videos. Given that the “questionable” genre is almost always the same, I can conclude that you have sick реrvеrsiоn.

I doubt you'd want your friends, family and co-workers to know about it. However, I can do it in a few clicks.

Every number in your contact Iist will suddenly receive these vidеоs – on WhatsApp, on Telegram, on Instagram, on Facebook, on email – everywhere. It is going to be a tsunami that will sweep away everything in its path, and first of all, your fоrmеr life.

Don't think of yourself as an innocent victim. No one knows where your реrvеrsiоn might lead in the future, so consider this a kind of deserved рunishmеnt to stop you.

I'm some kind of God who sees everything. However, don't panic. As we know, God is merciful and forgiving, and so do I. But my mеrсy is not free.

Daaamn neighbor

Transfer 1000 USD to my Litecoin (LTC) wallet

Once I receive confirmation of the transaction, I will реrmanently delete all videos compromising you, uninstаll Pegasus from all of your devices, and disappear from your life. You can be sure – my benefit is only money. Otherwise, I wouldn't be writing to you, but destroy your life without a word in a second.

I'll be notified when you open my email, and from that moment you have exactly 48 hours to send the money. If cryptocurrencies are uncharted waters for you, don't worry, it's very simple. Just google “crypto exchange” or "buy Litecoin" and then it will be no harder than buying some useless stuff on Amazon.

I strongly warn you against the following:

• Do not reply to this email. I've sent it from your iCloud mail.

• Do not contact the police. I have access to all your dеviсеs, and as soon as I find out you ran to the cops, videos will be published.

• Don't try to reset or destroy your dеviсеs. As I mentioned above: I'm monitoring all your activity, so you either agree to my terms or the vidеоs are рublished.

Also, don't forget that cryptocurrencies are anonymous, so it's impossible to identify me using the provided аddrеss.

Good luck, my perverted friend. I hope this is the last time we hear from each other.

And some friendly advice: from now on, don't be so careless about your online security.

Man he is such a badass

I also get tons of messages in my spam box from j.p. morgan bank to log into my account

I even feeling good about it like I am some kinda big man because outside burgers not much people use this bank locally and before those emails I didn't even knew that the bank was also working in my country