This is anecdotal, but every time I say I have a bad feeling about something

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@vegai Trump and his ear bullet

[regguy@mstdn.social]

@loke @hacks4pancakes More info I just thought of, it predated OS/2, probably 1984 (also ironic).

[mrrmot@oldbytes.space]

@cford I think it's mostly that many a) men, and b) people in tech do honestly believe that they have a more reasonable, more logical, more correct view of whatever is being discussed than the layman, and sometimes even than people with somehow less knowledge on the subject (or at least they think the other party has less knowledge, often without bothering to check). The urge to correct somebody may stem either from an honest desire to teach them, or from an egotistical desire to demonstrate one's own superiority. Combine the two, and men in tech are, in some ways, indeed the worst.

Please note that I am not excusing anybody's behavior; people MUST learn to question their own PoV, and people absolutely MUST learn to treat others as human beings.

And yes, I do say all of this with a full realization that I have behaved like the man in tech that I am many times, and sometimes do it still.

@hacks4pancakes

[regguy@mstdn.social]

@standev @loke That page won't load for me.

[standev@mstdn.social]

@RegGuy sorry, looks like a dead end

[jzp@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes so much this. It is like people are too weak to admit sunk cost fallacy outside of business contexts. I want to grab them by the shoulders DEAR DERP - IT IS IS YOU NOW

[nils_ballmann@infosec.exchange]

@kauer But why do they attack the person that's telling the fear they have instead of addressing the fear itself? Why shoot the messenger? This will change nothing.

(western interpretation)

@hacks4pancakes

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

The one I haven’t won out on because thankfully the other shoe hasn’t dropped is insecure child tracking apps but omg

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@hacks4pancakes Yeah. Somebody bad is gonna... yeah.

[hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange]

@jmax hate this so much

[lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Last night, my uncle (investor/manager, zero computing background) called me saying he wants to install OpenClaw on his machine (and "to automate my company") with a lot of FOMO energy. He asked me because he didn't have the skill to figure out how to install that (and yet still thinks it is fine to let it "automate" his company, unmaintained?) I honestly don't know how to dissuade him.

[rachel@transitory.social]

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I really hope I'm wrong about the bad feelings I have right now but I have no reason to think we'd be that lucky

[karl@infosec.exchange]

@hacks4pancakes the curse of Cassandra.

[mikesiegel@infosec.exchange]

@schrotthaufen @hacks4pancakes Something can be terrible and still become somewhat useful and unavoidably ubiquitous. Smart Phones are a great example.

I wish I didn't need one to live in modern society, but if I'm going to need one I want to know how they work and what fun tricks they can do. That's sort of how I see LLMs. Maybe I'm just old and tired of yelling at clouds.

[grumpydad@infosec.exchange]

@lesley @RegGuy @hacks4pancakes Don't. He'll find out eventually.

[accordingtowouter@mastodon.world]

@hacks4pancakes I especially dislike it when people yell at you!