Albert Garcia

[hannah bahng @hannahhbbahng]

BEFORE I FORGET: DUBLIN >:)

[Robert Youssef @rryssf]

https://t.co/QKytBnGcps

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The @Tesla_AI team is epicly hardcore. No one can match Tesla’s real-world AI.

[Doctor Frusna @doctorfrusna]

Feliz Navidad!! Brindemos porque en el peor de los casos... sigan siendo lo mejor 😅
#MatDamon #SNL

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Albert Garcia @AlbertG_]

@olesovhcom Many OVH clients are suffering from UCEPROTECT L3 blacklisting your ASN.
Any solution for the customers impacted?
What legal actions is OVH taking against UCEPROTECT? Can you talk to Microsoft to not use them?
https://t.co/a6IvqfwNnp
#ovh #uceprotect #defenseless

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Apple: all devices have the exact same border radius, also used throughout software and marketing
Google: 4 different border radii for the exact same UI elements on a single screen

Do Google designers even give a shit?

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

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[Ché Sáez @BarrigaNo]

Opera Soft, 1986-1992
Paco Suárez, autor de La Pulga y La Plaga Galáctica, y un grupo de talentos provenientes de Indescomp formaron uno de los estudios españoles de videojuegos más recordados.
¿Conocéis todos sus juegos?
Vamos a verlos, abro hilo:

[Ángel Martín @angelmartin_nc]

Por si te sirve 🤷🏻‍♂️😘

[Simone Margaritelli @evilsocket]

Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS, Part I

https://t.co/T6SqraB5nh

[Simone Margaritelli @evilsocket]

* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago.
* Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs).
* Still no CVE assigned (there should be at least 3, possibly 4, ideally 6).
* Still no working fix.
* Canonical, RedHat and others have confirmed the severity, a 9.9, check screenshot.
* Devs are still arguing about whether or not some of the issues have a security impact.

I've spent the last 3 weeks of my sabbatical working full time on this research, reporting, coordination and so on with the sole purpose of helping and pretty much only got patronized because the devs just can't accept that their code is crap - responsible disclosure: no more.

[Núria Codina Forcada @nuricod]

Us vull explicar el què m’ha passat per si pot ajudar a algú a evitar una nova estafa, utilizant BIZUM.
Sí, m’han estafat. Et sembla que a tu no et pot passar… i sí, un dia, et deixes enredar!
M’arriba un whats d’un veí. “Hola veïna, sé que no t’hauria de demanar això...“ FIL

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

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[Enric Cambray @enriccambray]

Acompanyeu-me en aquesta història titulada “De com un serraller estafa i extorsiona un dissabte d’agost a la meva mare, i l’asseguradora i l’empresa d’alarmes se’n renten les mans”.

I, de pas, quedeu-vos amb el número de telèfon del serraller per no trucar-lo mai!

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[Javier Martinez @JavierM21161125]

Hola persones boniques, us agrairíem màxima difusió. OBRO FIL...
Després de 7 anys d'aquell fatídic dia, aquest any vam tancar el procés judicial del #17A a Espanya amb el recurs al Tribunal Constitucional.

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

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[molpe @molpe]

A ver, visto el jaleo del hilo de @JaimeObregon sobre los bancos, me voy a aventurar a crear un hilo para intentar poner un poco de orden sin entrar en demasiados tecnicismos. Espero que os sirva de algo. https://t.co/eTUOjUksZH

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

Ouch.

The Windows Wi-Fi driver can be exploited by an attacker that is within Wi-Fi range. It requires no interaction from the victim and no prior knowledge of the system from the attacker. Just like the movies!

It affects all modern versions of Windows.
Patch immediately! 👇