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  • Arghblarg@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Nothing more permanent than a janky solution
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    16 days ago

    When I was young, my Atari ST’s video out was a DIN-13 connector. They were as rare as hens’ teeth, and my monitor was an analog RGB Magnavox 8CM515 with something else, so this sort of setup was literally what I had for about 4 years. Worked great, with the extra ‘feature’ that the whole display would twitch slightly to the side every time the floppy drive’s track stepper motor would move on disc seeks :-)

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbotEnglish
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    25 days ago

    This here. The dirty not-at-all-a-secret is that NONE of it is profitable. It is all a money-burning, water-wasting, RAM-market-sucking black hole.

    There is no road to profitability unless they somehow convince everyone to pay multiple thousands of dollars per year for subscriptions. At least that’s what I keep hearing; evidence otherwise with real references, I’m open to consider.

    EDIT: backblack

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.catoNews@lemmy.world•Why AI hasn’t caused a job apocalypse — so far
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    28 days ago

    This is (will be) the real damage… the disruption of the intern→apprentice→intermediate→journeyman→senior software dev/architect pipeline. I mean, companies in general have always tried to shirk their duty (IMO) to take on mentoring, always pushing educational institutions to give them raw meat who can ‘hit the ground running’; “AI” now gives them a new way to avoid in-house training and long-term commitment to their current and no-longer future employees.

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•I found a Vulnerability. They found a Lawyer.English
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    2 months ago

    I had a similar experience many, many years ago – before the rules for vuln embargoes were formalized; and I wasn’t even a security researcher. I was just a techie who discovered that the broker’s staff were resetting anyone’s forgotten password to the same temporary word. And like in this article, they had no mechanism to force users to reset the temp password on next login to something unique. I’d asked to have my password reset at some point, having forgotten it, and upon logging in with my user ID accidentally swapping two digits, found myself in someone else’s brokerage account, with substantial funds staring me in the face! And, their email and personal details.

    I disclosed the issue to the broker, but out of paranoia, did it through a throwaway email account, from home, not work (I should’ve used a VPN, but back then I wasn’t as aware of such things). From that throwaway email, I also notified the person whose account I’d accidentally logged into, urging them to check their account and contact the broker to ensure no one else might have gotten into their account.

    A day or so later, I got a call at my work phone from someone at said broker, asking if I had seen any unusual activity on my account, and that they had seen some suspicious activity from our company’s network (remember, the accidental login to the other person’s brokerage account occurred at my work PC)… I suspect they were fishing for info pointing to my being the one who accidentally accessed someone else’s account. I played dumb, as the call did NOT have good vibes; I could sense they were looking for a ‘hacker’ to scapegoat, not calling just to inform people there was a problem.

    Thank heavens I didn’t reveal that I knew anything about the vulnerability… I had just reset my password, nope nothing unusual here, nosirree… but within a day or two their password reset procedure had been changed for the better and emails were sent out stating that a ‘security incident’ had occurred.

    Lesson: Do NOT trust that your security report will be taken as being helpful. Most companies will try to throw you under the bus if they can, to save face.