Some of the comments are fun:
Dumb shit didn’t even know enough to put info on a thumb drive hidden inside a Rubik’s Cube.
a spokesperson stressed that posts are only shared when users tap the “share” button at the top-right corner of the Meta AI interface after asking the chatbot a question. There’s also a “post” button to send the exchange to Discover.
I haven’t seen this Meta AI. But the thing is these ‘buttons’ are very often not at all obvious. Especially on a touchscreen where there can’t even be a mouse-over tooltip and they can’t fit a text label.
At work, we switched to a new system, and the old system when it ran a build, had a whole list of what it did, in text, linked to each file, so if something failed, you could just click the link to see what happened when it tried to run that particular step.
The new system doesn’t.
It just shows two seemingly empty directory names - no files, no links. So I stayed up until nearly 5am debugging something purely on the “guess and try” method, since there was no output to see why it was failing. I managed to get it fixed by pure perseverance.
But I brought that up at our meeting and one of the younger people said “Oh, you just need to click on that little cloud icon way over on the right, two feet away from the listing that you’re looking at, and then you can download all the details of what was happening there.”
I felt like such an old cranky person. How the fuck are you supposed to know that you need to do that? Or that that’s what that little picture of a cloud does? Why not just link the title at least?
They are really not designing anything for adults these days. Even professional software developers with decades of experience, using professional software, can’t figure out the UIs that the new generation is coming up with. So I can’t really blame old people for falling for that and hitting the wrong thing.
Oh, yay.
Friend gave us a heads up on a discord server i’m in that there’s a new scam on Steam, if you get a playtest invite/message do not click on it
It wasn´t a real hacker attack. They simply co-opted an employee who was unhappy with his salary, gave him about $3,000.00 and the poor guy used his own credentials to execute commands on the system.
Also - the little box that holds consecrated hosts.
TIL, thanks.
The Central Bank is about to release a virtual currency called Digital Real or just Drex. It won´t be a cryptocurrency, as it will be backed by the Central Bank of Brazil and will have a value that corresponds to that of the physical money currently issued.
Of course, this created a bit of a buzz in the tinfoil hat community, who believe that this time it’s the implementation of the cipher 666, for real. Unfortunately, not every American conspiracy theory gains traction here, as cultural transposition is not automatic.
