Mastodawn

Today I was reminded that old online chats offered context awareness for the people online: you knew you won't be a bother to a friend who has a smiley flower as a status; and you knew you might not be getting a quick reply from someone who's Away.

Today I don't even know if my friends are online or not. The messenger apps make the assumption that everyone is online, and if not, they will receive a push notification, and will reply to you as soon as possible. But this assumption is barely true. I bet it makes lives harder, especially for ND people

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Mike. 🩼🇨🇦3d ago

#InTheGoodOleDays
#HashTagGames

Street Cents was on #Canada's national broadcaster, the #CBC. It taught kids like me the reality of a consumerist culture that is wallowing in advertisements, brain washing, and companies ripping us off. I learned how to shop smart, boycott brands, and fight against pure evil.

Also, it launched J-Roc's career!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sMW0ZvEbFc

Street Cents Bumber 1997

YouTube

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daniel:// stenberg://3d ago

I've been talking to GitHub and giving them feedback on their "create issues with Copilot" thing they have in the works.

Today I tested a version for them and using it I asked copilot to find and report a security problem in curl and make it sound terrifying.

In about ten seconds it had a 100-line description of a "catastrophic vulnerability" it was happy to create an issue for. Entirely made up of course, but sounded plausible.

Proved my point excellently.

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Andy Davies 6d ago

@GossiTheDog @tdp_org

If it is the case then the leaders of businesses like M&S who outsource these services to the lowest cost providers should also be held to account

It’s typical of British business management to know the cost of technology but not the value of it

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Dave 🐶6d ago

@GossiTheDog The root problem here isn't that TCS are shockingly bad (they are, just about everyone knows that).

The root problem is that "management decisions" constantly overrule those that raise concerns about their service and tell any remaining internal IT and security staff to "deal with it as best you can."

I'm very much of the view that, yes, the outsourced provider can be the cause of an incident, they can provide a shockingly bad service, they can cost your business millions of pounds. But the decision to continue to use them when you already know this is a real possibility - that's a decision by senior management within the company. That's on you.

@GossiTheDog as someone who has been subjected to Tata on multiple occasions going back over a decade?

This isn't nearly spicy enough. I don't even describe them as a 'body shop' because they'd gladly route you to a corpse and try to charge extra for '24x7 coverage.'

When one employer did a basic security audit of their helpdesk services, Tata failed so severely that the contract was pulled for cause before the audit was even completed. They moved it all back in-house.

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