Yeah, I actually had a nice Monday for once. After seeing this, it suddenly got worse again. Much worse. Thank you for that.

> Solved problem no 174 in my software
> Push to prod, build runs fine, release
> Finally, all problem solved
> Relax, weekend, go do stuff with my wonderful wife and kids
> Monday, back to work
> 296 new problem

👉😏👉

Ich dachte erst, dass Messer stecke in der Brust der Ente und war somit der Meinung, dass vom ihr keine Gefahr mehr ausgeht. Erst bei näherer Betrachtung sah ich, dass sie das Messer im Schnabel hält. Ich bin mir sicher, dass sie auf diese Weise ihre Opfer näher lockt.

The really scary thing is probably the malicious npm dependencies. If I think about the projects at work with and all the different packages and the hundreds of dependencies no one knows. And it’s probably even worse in really big companies like Microsoft or Facebook, they probably got thousands across their products. I hope for us all that they scan them very regularly.

No, it’s the same incident but it was another guy called Vernon Unsworth, I think he was the head of the operation whereas the one in the article was “just” one of the guys on the team providing medical aid.

I’m also glad that the article does not mention Musk and his whole stupid PR stunt at all but instead focuses on the people actually involved.

Really had to do a double take. Like, what the fuck, the ocean is boiling, it can’t be that be that bad, right? Then it clicked that you’re using that weird Fahrenheit system.

Yes, sorry, it’s weird. Celsius is easy - water freezes at 0 and boils at 100 and there we go…

That would be in the far future if even. Right now there are many ways to identify an AI generated picture especially if it has people in it (the infamous hands problem). And there’s software that can reliably tell, too.

It’s, as always, not a question about the tech but how we deal with it. If we were all reasonable and questioned such pictures if they pop up somewhere, you’d be right. However, if just enough people believe them to be real, the damage is done, even though if it proven to be fake afterwards.

That is most likely the reason blackmail and believing fakes are real didn’t die and never will. Too many people believe what they want to believe, no matter what the actual truth is.