Tech industry, please hire more writers. I can happily read docs for 3h and get much more out of them than watching a video for 3h. And while I'm watching the video, I'm making copious notes so that I don't have to watch the video *again* later to refresh my memory. If it was written down in the first place with good indexing I wouldn't have to do that. Video is such a crap way to document things.
Today: Software security staff laid off. Who needs them? They're expensive.
6 months later: *gets hacked*
Press release: "Sophisticated attackers compromised our information systems. We are not aware of any customer data that was stolen. Out of an abundance of caution, we are working with our cyber insurance company."
*cyber insurance policy cancelled*
JOB POSTING: Hiring software security staff! Immediate openings available!
Most folks I know who are worried about AI aren’t worried about these programs becoming self aware and oppressing us. That’s not a thing. We’re worried about all the ways these systems will ramp up existing inequalities and further obliterate our shared reality as human beings. That’s already happening.
I worked for the burningman project as Department of Public Works for 16 or so years. I have been programming since I was 12 and this is my 1st forray into social media. Here's hoping federation lives up to its promises!