Aaron K @farktal@higheredweb.social

It's 2023. "Gosh, we didn't realize how people would misuse this" just isn't believable anymore.

Bare minimum, with any new tech:
1) How would a stalker use this?
2) What will 4chan do with this?

And don't release, not even as alpha or beta, before mitigating those risks.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/31/23579289/ai-voice-clone-deepfake-abuse-4chan-elevenlabs

#AIethics #ethNLP

Facebook/Meta laid off 11,000 people and now is doing 40 BILLION in stock buybacks. None of these companies care about cost cutting, they saw an opportunity to suppress wages without any criticism and they took it. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/facebook-parent-meta-announces-40-billion-stock-buyback.html

"I thought you said you were a full stack developer"

Yeah, full stackoverflow.

If I have to prove I'm not a computer by identifying traffic lights and busses, perhaps we're not quite ready for self-driving cars.

Main salutary thing about Pence docs is they frame a clean story that even bothsidesing journalists will be hard pressed to ignore. Transitions are messy, seem to result in sensitive docs getting swept up for VPs of both parties. By contrast, Trump stole a bunch of TS/SCI shit.

Awkward!

“Shares of Tesla closed 1.25% lower Internal emails showed Chief Elon Musk oversaw the creation of a 2016 video that exaggerated the abilities of Tesla's driver-assistance system Autopilot, while even dictating the opening text which claimed the company's car drove itself.”

when you need to fix something on a legacy project

There aren’t words adequate to express how infuriating this is.

I've said this before but the most pathetic thing about current RW culture wars is that they are defending a lifestyle -- giant SUVs, highways, strip malls, fast food, suburbs, poisonous/deadly consumer products -- that is 100% a creation of late-20th century corporations.

OH: "“Nothing is as permanent as a temporary solution that works”.

Hits close to home especially if you're a developer.

🙌 I'm so excited to add this staff position at HighEdWeb!

The assistant executive director will lead and help implement sponsorship, membership and marketing/communications efforts.

#nonprofit #hiring #heweb #highereducation

https://membership.highedweb.org/job/assistant-executive-director/

Developers, PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, don't disable pasting into password fields.

We all want to use more secure passwords, but if for some reason our password manager doesn't work with your site or app, having to 10-finger a long password is annoying.