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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • I’m a senior dev and I want nothing to do with AI. By the time I understand what I want well enough to describe it in a complete sentence or paragraph, I can just write the fucking code myself. I figure it out as I go.

    The whole point of having devs under you that is to be able to trust them to get the job done and do it right. You want to be able to delegate tasks to them and not have to peek over their shoulder every five fucking minutes to be certain they’re not making a mess of things.

    I seriously doubt AI will ever be able to replace that. Not until they figure out how to make it afraid of fucking up.








  • Actually, I would love for you to explain to me how Secure Boot alone would protect someone from any of that. If you want to protect files, you need full disk encryption, not Secure Boot.

    Or are you seriously expecting a government-level threat actor to bother to:

    1. Sneak into your home while you’re away or asleep;
    2. Overwrite your bootloader or UEFI with a rootkitted image of the same version so it’s impossible to tell;
    3. Wait for you to boot your computer and enter your disk encryption password, then:
    4. Use the rootkit to read the decrypted files off your disk?

    That’s the great thing about fascist governments, is they have no need to be that sneaky. They can just change the laws to make whatever you’re doing illegal and jail you until you agree to give up your documents, or simply hit you with a $5 wrench until you tell them the password.


  • For a home desktop that’s never left unattended with anyone untrustworthy, I don’t see that Secure Boot is worth the effort in setting up.

    Given that you have to re-sign the boot image every time you upgrade, any malware already running with root privileges on the machine could easily slip itself into the new signed image.

    The best security is not running untrusted software to begin with.













  • It’s clear they did not walk out.

    By the time I placed my order - paying a 1% fee to the app makers in the process - I would have happily paid double for the experience of simply flipping through a menu and talking to another human being.

    (Emphasis mine.) This is from the very next paragraph after what I quoted.

    You also clearly missed the point of my comment, which is that unless consumers start refusing to take this bullshit lying down, this stuff will be unavoidable in the future because there will be no other choices left.