BelovedFlamingo

Pusheen enthusiast

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@TheICHpodcast How are you guys not pushing back on this? Even a junior consultant would smell the bullshit on this from a mile away

[MK, Ultra victim @MKaylaUltra]

Family won’t move our group chat to signal. Had to leave. Here comes the guilt trip 😒

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@gnukeith @xeliotrop @PryvitKyle What do you actually use Leo for that makes it such a must have?

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@_winter_wonders @rekdt I was about to argue more to the crypto point but your screenshot... So they accept cash. Is that not anonymous enough? I still think privacy enablers shouldn't be bundled in with criminal activities so easily

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@_winter_wonders @rekdt "Happy to share it" vs "ordered to" is a very different framing.
They do accept crypto as form of payment and have even suggested this for those who want to go the extra mile.
Feels like a lot of the details of this case are being incredibly overlooked.

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@rekdt Privacy does not mean masking traceable criminal activity.
What company does not have to abide by local laws? Your bar for what makes a "privacy larper" is absurd

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://t.co/8flkjD52Eg

[Micky D @DeMickyD]

Me whenever a muppet appears on the game awards

[Okami @OkamiOfficial]

@TheIshikawaRin is this more to your liking

[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.

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@IceSolst Found our users really just needed to store the secret key, but because the form came with "put password here" they were trying to do that which was such a pain. Was a bit of a damned if you and damned if you dont situation.

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@IceSolst Did a rollout and found no good answer for this sadly. The current version means you can allow other devices enrolled using said devices, and a browser counts as a separare device, so I think its not so needed now. SSO for 1Pass looks more and more the play

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

I overheard two German startup employees at a cafe discussing their company's financial results

I immediately approached their table

Told them I had overheard personal data and needed their consent to retain it

They looked confused but I explained this is basic GDPR

We spent 40 minutes filling out consent forms on my laptop

I always carry templates for situations like this

They signed everything and said "finally someone who understands data protection"

We shook hands

I went home and immediately reported them to the Financial Supervisory Authority for discussing confidential company information in public

I also reported the cafe for not having visible GDPR signage

This is how trust is built in society

Americans think freedom means saying anything anywhere

But freedom means proper documentation and accountability

Never been prouder to be European

[Proton @ProtonPrivacy]

The GrapheneOS team has said that “France isn’t a safe country for open source privacy projects,” pointing to what it describes as the expectations of encryption backdoors.

Last week, it announced it has removed all servers from France.

https://t.co/eLRly3aJes

1/5

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ A very important announcement from the GrapheneOS devs:

GrapheneOS is being heavily targeted by the French state because we provide highly secure devices and won't include backdoors for law enforcement access. They're conflating us with companies selling closed source products using portions of our code.

Both French state media and corporate media are publishing many stories attacking the GrapheneOS project based on false and unsubstantiated claims from French law enforcement. They've made a clear threat to seize our servers and arrest our developers if we do not cooperate by adding backdoors.

Due to this, we're leaving France and leaving French service providers including OVH. We need substantial help from the community to push back against this across platforms.

People malicious towards us are also using it as an opportunity to spread libel/harassment content targeting our team, raid our chat rooms and much more. /e/ and iodéOS are both based in France, and are both actively attacking GrapheneOS including spreading false narratives about it not being for regular people which helped to support the false narratives being propagated by French law enforcement. /e/ receives substantial government funding.

Both are extremely non-private and insecure which is why France is targeting us while those get government funding.

We need a lot more help than usual and we're sending our the first ever notification to everyone on the server because this is a particularly bad situation. If people help us, it will enable us to focus more on development again including releasing experimental Pixel 10 releases very soon.

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@WillLighthous @WillyMacShow So you agree that this position of WillyMacs is bad then? Or are you just here to play whataboutism for your antifan hobbies?

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

Every day I'm being pushed further and further into the troubleshooting nightmare that is the Linux end user experience

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Pavan Davuluri, Microsoft President who disabled comments when we (and everyone else) raised hell about Microsoft AI slop.

Blah, blah, blah, you DO NOT listen to feedback or give a fuck about developers. You're lying. You keep shoving dog shit slop piss into the OS.

Fuck Copilot
Fuck Recall
Fuck your Ads in the OS
Fuck your AI developers
Fuck Windows Defender
Fuck your AI integrations

Want to make people happy? Release a new version of Windows. I'm being completely serious

- Windows slop fucking piece of shit edition
- Windows with everything ripped out of it, no AI slop, no defender, no fancy UI. Make it Windows 7 or XP era UI. Even give it a dumb fuckin edgy name you guys like, like WINDOWS 11 DEVELOPER NANO CORE

You'll have developers throwing money at your face begging for non slop edition

[BelovedFlamingo @BelovedFlamingo]

@WillLighthous @WillyMacShow So the argument is that it's fine to dox someone so long as someone else did it first....? Is there a video still up with the alleged dox of this girl by Destiny?

[rekdt @rekdt]

If you’re using Linux, you’re probably not a real engineer because computer engineering is not real engineering