I was kinda new to linux so I used https://www.papertrail.com/ and hooked it up to my syslogs, and then went “oh… oh no… oh god no…” and immediately turned off SSH.

This was about 20 years ago btw. I know it’s gotten worse. But it started earlier than most think.

The only time I ever exposed my SSH port to the WAN, I got about 750 connection attempts from China and 250 attemps from Russia per hour.

Doesn’t matter, the future of software engineering is always going to be “your boss saying into a machine what he wants”, one way or another. He’ll pay for it, and he’ll pay for the mistakes, too, because it’s always cheaper than human labour.

They translate everything live.

It hasn’t been fun for the past few years, it’s been bots reposting other people’s comments and an algorithm designed to get you angry and depressed enough to keep coming back for more.

There should be a volunteer group you could give your reddit account to that would do as much damage to spezs shitty site as possible with it.

There is! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Timeline_of_the_Internet_Research_Agency_interference_in_United_States_elections

I warned my fellow software engineering students that this was the future back in 2006. And they believed me, but they also got really pissed.

I’m sharing this post for a few reasons:

1. I thought it was neat

How dare you.

Why is your video not syncing itself with your bluetooth?

Couldn’t we all just agree to unionize anyway?

Yeah because I could never afford a Noctua fan in the first place.

Did you forget about the Great Firewall?

Not that even it can defeat VPNs anyway.

Competition is good. Two spheres of influence.

Chinese sphere of influence is not good. Theirs includes the worst countries in the world, like North Korea, and Russia.

You mean you guys don’t rotate between 10 free accounts and use their monthly quotas?

I did read the whole article, it feels rambling, vague, and incoherent, with full of these classic talking points.

Like congratulations, in talking about AI, you somehow managed to shoehorn in - unhoused people, MAGA, labour value, worker solidarity, migration, the normalization of violence… you write like a tweaker.

I am autistic, and expecting me to prefer asking people to do things and building community, instead of being fine with solitariness and the tools that help me achieve it, feels a bit ableist tbh.

The right loves those patterns because they confirm their prejudices: Ask an image generator for a picture of two people kissing and you most often get a heterosexual couple, often white. Because that’s what the training data looks like. That makes “AI” perfect for creating the form of idealized, fictional “past” that fascists love to allude to (“make America great again“), a past that never existed but that needs to be saved or restored (we’ll get back to that later).

It depends which AI you ask, no? Ask AI made in a mostly white country, you’re going to get pictures of mostly white people. Ask AI made in a mostly Asian country, it’ll be mostly Asian people.

This same dilemma came up with search engines. Everyone complained that “doctor” in Google Image search showed mostly white doctors. Except if you made the same search in Weibo, in showed mostly Asian doctors.

Same goes for heterosexual couples, it’s just what’s more common.

I’m starting to get the impression a lot of this anti-AI push is coming from Russia and China, the way it’s being framed as an “anti-West” thing. Because the chips for it are coming from the West. It’s just like vaccines, and how a lot of the anti-vaccine propaganda was coming from Russia and China. Because they need to make the thing that’s saving the world look bad.

I’m not saying AI is saving the world. But a “fascist artifact”? Come on. That’s classic Russian propaganda hyperbole.