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There's a contingent that like it. For some, they don't have to even pretend to have social skills since they can outsource writing to AI. They are also increasingly using it in place of google/copy-pasting from stackoverflow/etc to get "quick fix" solutions to their problems. It's not particularly good at those tasks IMO, but I genuinely think for some people the dopamine hit of copy-pasting something directly from chatgpt and not having to so much as lift a finger and it working first try, is addictive, and even though they usually have to troubleshoot it and re-prompt and then make changes by hand, they just keep trying for that sweet no-effort fix. For some of them they seem to treat it like a junior coworker you can offload all your work onto, forever.

In my experience (I've literally never used it but had coworkers try to feed its answers to me when we're working together on something, or giving what it spit out to me to fix for them), it tends to do okay for common use-cases, ones that you can almost always just look up in documentation or stackoverflow anyhow, but in more niche problems, it will often hallucinate that there's a magic parameter that does exactly what you want. It will never tell you "Nope, can't be done, you have to restructure around doing it this other way", unless you basically figure it out yourself and prompt it into doing so.

also sushi! (unless you count coffee and an allergy pill)

it was really good. best reasonably priced sushi I've had in years, place seems to be run by a single old japanese lady, just cranking out sushi to-go all day.

note that I said provider not developer. Obviously people don't have much choice and their location isn't a reason to cast judgment on them, but what jurisdiction a service provider operates out of is pretty impactful. I'm certainly not envious of the current political situation in the Kid Starver regime

we've left the realm of "do nothing, win" and now they're doing stuff! love to see it

holy shit lol are these AI

yeah, I'm not buying the whole nuclear bullshit story,. Getting USD into the economy is probably useful for them on a wide enough level though, for getting around sanctions or whatever. If anything the guy at my work is probably doing the same "scam" (not really a scam just circumventing immigration and labor law a little to make a US salary while being from elsewhere...) just from a different country of origin, not DPRK. Of course if a good opportunity arises I suppose having ins in US companies computer systems provides some espionage opportunities but for the most part it'd be pointless.

Its just a high tech version of workers from mexico coming to the US to work and sending money home tbh.

manipulating global markets all at once would be a new one tbf. New in scale not in kind though. And it is likely to crash economies and endanger the lives of millions if he fucks around long enough

Although I think the thesis of this guy's previous article on the subject - that trump is using tariffs (and then relief from them) to extract pledges of loyalty from private industry, feels pretty weak/unfounded (unsurprising since it was sourced from a dem politician.) It'd be interesting if it were happening but I see no evidence of it, and the fact that it goes unmentioned in this follow up article makes me think this guy is just writing whatever will get the most clicks

Posting Mao and Reagan back to back

https://xcancel.com/SpoxCHN_MaoNing/status/1910211617201213447#m

I was going to say it's pretty ironic that a privacy focused provider would be based in the UK what with their laws lately, but apparently email providers are exempted from the bill I was thinking of (no general carveout though, they name emails, SMS and MMS specifically. If you want to create a new protocol that does the same thing as email, or as SMS, its regulated as social media for some reason...)

Either way self hosting takes care of that problem. Neat!

My work has received a lot of job applications and emails that feel like they're sent by AI in the past year or two, who then frequently cancel at the last minute or even after the interview should have started, claiming either an unavoidable conflict or technical difficulties with joining the call. And one guy we hired... Nowadays I'm not so sure but originally I thought he was at least overseas if not part of an outright scheme like this, he had a very bad internet connection that couldn't hardly handle video and terrible audio on top of it, despite supposedly being in socal.

I didn't say shit because I'm not a narc but if I am working with a team of north korean agents just using this guy as a front... I just hope I get to meet them some day

Bit of trivia but I think I know why the 4 digit pin thing existed! It's an out-of-the-box feature on freeRADIUS, I ran across it in a pfsense environment in the past. I thought it was neat (esp. in the absence of passwords, this was primary auth with public keys and then 2fa on top) but ultimately too convoluted for most users

Well China does hold a lot of treasuries. There's speculation (though nothing substantive so probably just cope?) that they are selling them off