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  • Dionysus@leminal.spacetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Anthropic nuked a company's access to Claude, stopping 60 employees dead in their tracks — support via Google Form is the only recourse for vague usage policy violationEnglish
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    5 days ago

    We’re in a period where the tools, agentic systems in this case, are gated by large companies.

    This is like if IBM or Cray in the 60s through 90s only allowed rental of mainframes that they owned, and they can cut you off.

    That wasn’t the case then, but just like Google shutting down the father’s entire Google account cause the pediatric doctor wanted a photo of the kid who had a rash to see if they needed to be brought into the ER or a cream, then got his phone (Google Fi), email (Gmail), and all his paperwork backups (drive) cut off… When you don’t own the infrastructure you live at the whims of things you can not even appeal to.

    This is a story about people and companies putting their entire business workflows in the hands of big tech who really don’t care about anyone.

    So, AI drama aside, the moment your life or business is fully dependent on an unreliable partner, this is what happens.

  • Dionysus@leminal.spacetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA)
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    23 days ago

    It’s not internet companies.

    It’s the backbones.

    CID is an arbitrary field sent over the D channel of a ISDN or T1/T3/etc.

    Nearly every phone system, be it Lucent, ATT, Cisco, etc can set the outbound caller ID to anything they want.

    The carriers accept it and transmit it. They do that so things like Hospitals can all call from the same number, or one office can call from a specific number and the hospital can change it as needed without the phone company.

    And that’s where shit falls apart cause it’s built with the assumption of good intent, like the first mainframes didn’t have logons and passwords, they just accepted anything given.

    People ruin things.

    Internet companies contribute heavily, but they are more like a flat tire on a car with a bad transmission.

    Sure, fix the tire and it’ll roll better… The car is still fucked.