Yeah… that is a pretty shit article?

Describing Bilibili as “a social media company” is like describing Google as “a search engine” or Microsoft as “the people what make the calculator app”.

Duckov seems solid from what I have seen. It also has the full might of Chinese Youtube behind it and has been doing sponsorships with basically any influencer who will take the money. Its as simple as that.

You will never have resources to “test absolutely everything”. It is ALWAYS about building out personas and deriving tests from those.

What this tells us is that one of two things happened:

1. This was not tested at all
2. The testing harness resets the environment after every check (e.g. “does process close when killed”) rather than involving a manual reset (i.e. “close and re-open task manager”)

The latter is a lot more common than you would think since it makes it much easier to automate these harnesses rather than having a human at a VM. But… this is what happens when you don’t step through the entire workflow.

That is the reality.

The problem isn’t “vibe coding” (anyone who has ever managed early career staff will be able to attest that… the bar is REAL fucking low). The problem is a complete lack of testing or any sort of “investment” in caring if production breaks.

A lot of it is general apathy induced by… gestures around. But it very much goes beyond just the obnoxious rise in brain drains over “vibe coding”. Personally speaking, I am THIS fucking close to driving over to my company’s head of IT’s house and burning it down with him in it (For legal purposes, this is a joke) as that entire team continues to think “We’ll just wait until people tell us what is broken” is at all fucking acceptable.

But pretty much any SDLC is going to be built around code review. And code review is how you handle developers of different skill and sanity levels. Whether they are old hats who have been in the basement since before you were born, youngins who can’t stop talking about Rust, or chatbots.

Gasp, shock, and amazement: it is almost like having a populace with more guns than books is a bad idea.

Still… this is REALLY fucking fast. Less than 9 months in and they have one foot in the bunker. Which… is probably the actual reason behind The Ballroom.

I guess I just hope it is because kirk got got and not because they know things are about to get even worse.

Then don’t fucking parrot their nonsense.

“jokes” are fun until it is indistinguishable from the same bullshit the people raping humanity are saying. At every step of the way, call them out on their shit.

No, they very much fucking do. They’ll be the first to talk about how the weather is getting wild and it is so great they live in florida where every day is beautiful except during hurricane season where they refuse to move.

They believe in the existence of climate change. They just refuse to do anything that will ever inconvenience themselves even the slightest iota. And they’ll bend over backwards to insist “it is just sun cycles” to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

I don’t fault the boomers for spending “their” money.

I very much do fault them for, at every single step, insisting on legislature and behavior that makes the world actively a worse place from a climate and human rights perspective.

Keep your own money. A lot of kids would benefit from “earning their own way” and the fallacious bootstraps. But don’t pull the ladder up behind you and piss on those below you.

Boomers didn’t steal their kids money. They stole their future.

… Is it?

Ten years ago, definitely. Now? We can already see the impact of climate change and it is only getting worse. This is why American and Russian oligarchs want Canada.

It’s more likely the world already got what it wanted out of the Caribbean and just doesn’t care about the inhabitants.

Eww.

The touchpad are amazing but do not replace an analog stick or dpad. If this is legit, it is going to be the steam controller 1 all over again where it really is only good for games without xinput gamepad support

Yeah. I am deeply terrified of what happens next week (let alone as we get closer to thanksgiving travel and the like) when SNAP et al shut down. People are going to be hungry and people are already VERY armed. And the most impulsively violent crowd tends to be the ones who actually believe “its the democrats behind the shutdown” and… yeah.

addy also took a good chunk of his cabinet and cronies with him over the years.

But the problem with that is the sheer amount of violence required to get that point. I am… not that optimistic that we have a peaceful transition of power. But I would still rather not a full blown fourth reich along the way.

Oh yeah. They 100% destroyed a very countable number of historic arguments and important documents. And likely lost even more to the construction crew and whoever else was around taking souvenirs.

And yeah. Asbestos is 100% a concern and a LOT of people are likely going to have respiratory issues from the clean-up and just being in the area.

Assuming true:

I… weirdly am at least really happy that it was intentional destruction and not just complete and utter incompetence with tearing down a single exterior wall?

I’m saying we shouldn’t be in the habit of handing it out.

And I agree. But, like I said

Because maybe you DO care about the principle of it (I know I do). But “It is the principle of the matter” is just as ineffective an argument as “I have nothing to hide”.

Almost all of that is just cell tower or internet traffic data combined with calling Fred at the DMV who has zero issues pulling records for money. Let alone all the megacorps that have varying levels of legitimate access to the DB themselves.

While I agree with the sentiment, let’s just go down that list:

• Where he lives: DMV and taxes cover that
• What he looks like: DMV covers that
• How many devices are on the network: The vast majority of people have no reason to care about that. Hell. I am not even sure I are about that
• How many kids he has and their ages: Taxes and social security
• What times they are home: Their internet usage patterns and likely cell towers logging their sim cards
• What types of food they have delivered and how often: Traffic cameras and asking uber eats or whatever. Although… this goes back to “how important is this data?”
• Guest info: See above regarding sim cards

I 100% agree it is important to be aware of what data a given device/vulnerability has access to. It is ALSO important to figure out if that is actually any new data being available and to think about what orgs/agencies would be a concern.

Because maybe you DO care about the principle of it (I know I do). But “It is the principle of the matter” is just as ineffective an argument as “I have nothing to hide”.

Then is he also in charge of Youtube? And pornhub? And spotify?

This is the problem with these nonsense titles but, presumably, he is in charge of caring about “grok ai” in general, but not “grok ai in a tesla”.

Which lines up with the actual quote

Canada has a minister of artificial intelligence, who does not regulate specific in-vehicle software. The minister’s said in an emailed statement it wasn’t aware of Tesla’s plan to integrate Grok into vehicles sold in Canada but that it takes complaints seriously.

Yeah.

I can’t speak to Mexico. But, at least in the US, video games very much have been a pipeline for both rehabilitation of the military’s image and direct recruitment. It is what leads to generations that believe tier ninety special force operators are the greatest people ever which both provides “They know what they are doing and have their reasons” and “I want to be one of those”

I am not aware of any cartel friendly games (unless you REALLY disliked Fifty Cent, I guess?) but I wouldn’t immediately rule this out IF it is part of a wider media push.

Violent video games do not make you violent. But “cool guys doing cool shit” makes people want to “do cool shit”. There is a reason (para)militaries around the world tend to cooperate with, and outright fund, so much media that glazes them. Hell, military/spy porn is sometimes so good that it makes you ALMOST stop making jokes about how Sullivan Stapleton should play Hank Hill in a live action KOTH (that man wishes he had Hank Hill’s ass).

This seems reasonable?

It is not car specific and is fundamentally no different than having a youtube video running on your car entertainment center’s dashboard. There SHOULD be some fucking regulations regarding what can actually run on those but the end result of that is android/apple auto going away and it all being super proprietary subscription models.

As long as you run the proprietary nvidia drivers, performance is more or less noise for a given driver version. There IS some annoyance with slower releases for drivers to Linux but… nvidia has had much bigger problems with new driver releases over the past year.

The big issue is if you run the open source community drivers. And… if you are spending leather jacket money and then using low performance drivers… you are an idiot. Because Mistah J already has the metrics and money he wants and doesn’t care if you actually use your card after buying it.