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A very entertaining read. I’m completely unsurprised, based on my experience trying to use Azure. Garbage platform.

And now they’re hacking on that shitshow with CoPilot. Jesus wept.

More info at https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

If you installed or updated Claude Code via npm on March 31, 2026, between 00:21 and 03:29 UTC, you may have inadvertently pulled in a malicious version of axios (1.14.1 or 0.30.4) that contains a Remote Access Trojan (RAT). You should immediately search your project lockfiles (package-lock.json, yarn.lock, or bun.lockb) for these specific versions or the dependency plain-crypto-js. If found, treat the host machine as fully compromised, rotate all secrets, and perform a clean OS reinstallation.

Lol 😂

“this meeting could have been an email” --> “this app could have been a website”

I couldn’t get past the second level :(

And then there’s the helium supply shortage, on top of that - https://www.techspot.com/news/111683-critical-semiconductor-gas-lost-third-global-supply-drone.html

I am employed by a tiny software dev shop that develops a few apps used in education. No AI at all, unless I proactively choose to and pay for it out of my own pocket.

Without reading the article I knew it would be Terrorgram.

This will not stand. Remember, TACO.

I left news@lemmy.world, politics@lemmy.world & world@lemmy.world and noticed an instant improvement! YMMV

Yes there is. Check this out - https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

It’s up to the instance admins to make use of those but I certainly have on https://piefed.social/. I have no qualms about banning negative, bad-faith or douchy losers to save people from blocking them. And if a community is bad enough, I’ll ban the whole community.

Also by deciding what to include in the starter-packs used during onboarding the admin can encourage people to join good communities while leaving toxic ones harder to find.

Thousands of disinfo websites are blocked out of the box and I’ve manually added warnings onto dozens more that are frequently posted on Lemmy.

There’s more, way more. But you get the idea.

huh, TIL. Thanks!

So it’s just 17 times more likely to burn you to death than average cars.

Cybertrucks are 17 times more likely to kill you in a fiery way than the Ford Pinto, the previous record holder.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/

It was full of antivax bullshit during the pandemic so I feel really angry about it. Fuck Odysee.

I can confirm - it is slop.

In the article the chatter is a woman but it can just as easily be a man. So all those customers are sexting with men half the time, heh.

This may come as a surprise to you so brace yourself.

I am not stupid.

Maybe they’ll relaunch as a piefed instance, lol

No, but there is on PieFed.social. Mods and admins have functionality to check any post or comment for LLM-generated text. There’s more stuff too.

Generally I share my findings with Lemmy admins so they can ban the account.

I think this is a pretty big threat to the fediverse and social media in general and am taking it very seriously. At the moment the amount of slop is pretty low but we need to be ready for the deluge when it comes.

The sycopathy is because to make the chat bot (trained on Reddit posts, etc) to respond helpfully (instead of “well ackshually…”) and in a prosocial manner they’ve skewed it. What we’re interacting with is a very small subset of the personalities it can exhibit because a lot of them are extremely nasty or just unhelpful. To reduce the chance of them popping up to an acceptable level they’ve had to skew the weights so much that they become like this.

There’s no easy way around that, afaik.