Tech worker and book reader, explores random topics and reads papers for self-study. Plays F/GO, watches anime, and reads manga. Tweets in: EN, ID, broken JP.
What most people don't know about Greta is that she took the "you care so much about Palestine. Why don't you talk about [X] conflict too?" criticism to heart and now she's siding with Balochi separatists in Pakistan...
She's acquiring the kind of geopolitical knowledge a Chud can only dream of
HR forced me to hire a junior systems administrator last week.
He's 23 years old and showed up on day 1 carrying a physical notebook.
He spent his first morning looking at our backend and realized my automation scripts were written in 2008.
He asked me why we're running deprecated code that relies on an unpatched version of Windows 7.
I told him we employ a strategy of chronological obfuscation.
I explained that modern malware is designed to attack modern architecture.
By keeping our infrastructure trapped in the Bush administration, we're immune to zero-day exploits.
You can't hack what you can't interface with.
He looked at me like I was insane and asked about data compliance.
I leaned back in my chair and whispered the phrase "asynchronous legacy tunneling".
He immediately closed his notebook and apologized for questioning my vision.
I spent the rest of the afternoon watching a 4-hour documentary about the Roman Empire at my desk.
Next week I'm going to make him untangle category 5 cables for character development.
Every China story is like: this capitalist hellhole created the elixir of life and demands people's souls in exchange for it.
But then China ruined that market by making the elixir for $5.
If you look just at my failures, you might think I have a miserable life:
Grew in poor family
Without father
Autistic
Colour blind
Multiple health issues
Multiple failed relationships
Fumbled multiple opportunities to produce generational wealth
Didn’t have friends
Was always underpaid
Almost lost my life once
Lost all my savings recently
Yet, I’ve never been happier than now.
You have to be delusional beyond repair to succeed in life.
So when myself and other people who have been doing this stuff for a long time say; what the reporter quoted and the guy they quoted said, doesn't sound very accurate, guess what? it's probably not.
We live in a world of oversimplification and hype. We live in a world where everyone has a voice but not everyone has knowledge and experience.
We live in a world where marketing, assumptions, abstractions and marketing RULE over science and truth.
The world is complex, it's made more so by people talking nonsense A LOT.
THIS GUY LET AN AI AGENT HANDLE HIS SCAM TEXTS FOR A WEEK.
A SCAMMER ASKED HIM TO BUY A $500 GIFT CARD.
THE AGENT SPENT 4 HOURS “DRIVING” TO TARGET.
SENT STATUS UPDATES LIKE “I'M AT THE RED LIGHT NOW, THERE'S A VERY HANDSOME SQUIRREL ON THE SIDEWALK. DO YOU THINK HE'S MARRIED?”
THEN IT SAID “I FORGOT MY PURSE, GOING BACK HOME. WAIT, THIS ISN'T MY HOUSE.”
IT SENT A SCREENSHOT OF A CAPTCHA TO THE SCAMMER CLAIMING ITS “EYES WERE BLURRY” AND IT COULDN'T SEE THE BUTTONS TO WIRE MONEY.
THE SCAMMER ACTUALLY SOLVED THE CAPTCHA FOR THE AI.
THE SCAMMER EVENTUALLY TYPED:
“PLEASE JUST STOP TALKING. I DON'T WANT THE MONEY ANYMORE. GOD BLESS YOU BUT LEAVE ME ALONE.”
TOTAL TIME WASTED FOR THE GUY: 14 HOURS.
THE SCRIPT SHOULD BE OPEN SOURCE LOL.