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There was a post the other day that Amadeus (one of the major backend GDS systems) had been persistently exposing passenger information via a vulnerable endpoint since 2023

So that or similar other hacks

Safe to say that money and prosperity can be linked, but are not equal.

Lack of regulation in tech causes real harm, like addiction, social issues and misinformation,not to mention issues with cyber bullying and suicide in teens.

Do some people make out like bandits with billions or millions of dollars, sure but I don't think that's a good barometer for progress or prosperity.

To paraphrase Doctor Who "Human progress isn't measured by industry, it's measured by the value you place on a life. An unimportant life. A life without privilege"

And by that measure we are still cavemen.

Even if you don't want to personally remove them, it should be easy and front and centre to do so.

It's my disk space, processing power and electricity. Apple shouldn't get to use it as they please

Two options from what I could see.

You can entirely opt out of algorithmic feed and just see an unfiltered list of your connections posts.

Or if you choose the algorithmic option, there's some ability for the ministers to request content be removed.

Could it be abused to remove content they don't like? Of course

Is it a marked improvement on Meta/Tiktok getting carte Blanche to select what people see? I think so.

500k doesn't get you much house in Australia these days, try double that.

I'm constantly using the "Extract this in basic technical terms, be succinct and assume the reader has technical knowledge"."

Because good lord, does claude waffle when left to its own devices.

A PR is a collection of commits?

Integration into main ideally is squashed down to a single merge commit though.

It shouldn't matter how many commits a pr takes to from 0 to finished

Half of being a staff engineer is politics unfortunately, you need to build capital with "sponsors" in different areas of the business and use that to nudge change where you don't have direct control.

Quick coffee chats, trading favours and the like can get you pretty far in large orgs.

I tend to judge my impact as a staff engineer by the things I stop other engineers from shipping, as much as the things I "fix".

It's one thing to make architecture changes and features that people need, but being in the right conversation to say "don't do X, Y will cover 80% of your requirements for no extra tech debt" is afaic more valuable.

You've just taken a feature from a 3mth chunk to a 6 week chunk and thats a big thing.

Not USA based so do with that what you will.

Independent cameras, often not networked let alone internet connected are not the same thing as a single entity controlling a huge, internet capable, always on, cloud recording panopticon.

Logistically the first limits things like police access by units of both access and time (is it recording? Does the memory card overwrite? Did it expire before a warrant was issued?)

Putting that all in a convenient console and handing direct god eye view to police with a "oh you need a warrant first, wink wink", massively reduces friction for abuse of power.

You're right I was thinking of civil vs criminal penalties.

Personal downloading is generally only a civil violation, requiring the rights holder to sue you for reparations.

Torrents are legal?

Seeding is often considered the actual point of infringement, aka sharing copyrighted material without the right licence.

I should note I suppose that I don't agree with companies using artists or developers hard work for their own financial gain without compensation, whatever form that may take.

The problem as usual is the availability of legal loopholes when you have a team of lawyers and near infinite money.

Obtained, read, viewed, learned, discovered.

The knowledge wasn't obtained illegally or illicitly, immorally perhaps.

Illegal entry/trespass is a crime regardless of the method used however.

In your analogy copying the code (online content) isn't necessarily illegal, however using that knowledge without compensation, permission or attribution may be a crime (depending on copyright law, judges rulings etc).

KEMH already do some fantastic work for prem babies, this is just icing on the cake (really good icing)

$580 aud for a single 32gb module last month, that really hurt

Which is completely irrelevant because as the government of the country they have the power to make laws, now and in the future which compel private entities to perform actions like AML (anti money laundering) and KYC (know your customers).

The end result is private entities taking money out of the system at some stage, and it doesn't shield you in any way from government incompetence or malice.

This is beautiful Thankyou

> Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy LLM of Antioch towards thy task, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.

Yesss, the multiple levels and the overhanging gardens.

Perfect on a hot day for a cold one.

Joburg?

When you come home and sneeze black after a few minutes on the platform twice a day, it's safe to assume that's not great for your lungs...

You could just have left off the last part of that :D

> Culture wars are sadly one of the biggest inhibitors of progress

Then don't move to a country that has another language as a requirement?

Art is subjective, entirely so.

People pay more for works by famous artists or specific artists despite there being artists who can replicate their style exactly.

So having someone discount AI art or what they think is AI art isn't a new phenomenon, just an extension of the existing norms

I appreciate the measured discussion on what can be a thorny subject.

So extended clarification on the "belief shaping morality" point.

I hold no issue with it, until one person's belief driven morality impinges on another persons own autonomy, you're free to act on your own life and person based on your beliefs but using that belief system as a weapon to cause others harm or reduce their autonomy as a person is where I draw the line.

To answer your first question (apologies should have done so in the first reply)

It isn't worse, objectively the end result is favourable even if the "driver" for it is not (to me).

I accept your counter point that at a macro level society requires a set of checks and reinforcement to bias individuals towards social good behaviour, community enforcement is obviously one and religion can be another.

But I would argue that while the state legal framework is secular it encodes some moral principles that society has agreed on such as murder, theft, harming other physically or otherwise etc.

I also hold no issue with others holding beliefs that shape their morality, I just reject the argument that people without a god cannot have innate morality or a secular morality (a common refrain).

But those aren't the only options?

There's 4 at least

Seeing eye believer feeds the needy

Non believer feeds the needy

Non believer doesn't feed the needy

Believer doesn't feed the needy for some reason or another

That said I never said it was worse, I asked how it was better than "the state" acting as an all seeing eye for the masses.

Morality is a social construct.

We created it for ourselves and at its core is our social nature and the ability to feel Empathy for other humans/creatures.

Now I lead with that because there are historical cases for both religious and non religious people committing horrific acts, both groups having whatever form of "morals" and still those acts happened.

Morals based on the idea of an all seeing eye are also questionable at the root, if you only do the "right" thing because you fear consequences then how is that better than the government, police etc acting as a your personal moral compass except to extend the potential punishment beyond the current perceived lifetime.

Writing code by LLM feels like management, or tech leading a project.

It's tiring in a different way, but without the flow state or "high" of solving a particular problem in a clever or intuitive way.

Some days I enjoy shipping a change that would never have been greenlit for the sprint points it would have required, other days it's like herding cats and I'm tired with nothing to show for it.

So Silicon Valley's big-head is based on an actual stereotype?