This is myth and legend.

Mostly it was equipment being destroyed if they destroyed everything.

ahhhmm…no? at least, that wasn’t the point being made by the workers.

sabotaging factory equipment was a show of intent: “we are serious about causing damage. this time it’s equipment, next time it’s you!”

the factory vandalism was a threat.

if the threat was understood as being serious, and working conditions improved as a result, no further escalation was necessary. that’s why relatively few escalations happened.

however, A) escalations DID go further on quite a few occasions, and B) the threat preventing the necessity of further escalation was the entire point.

so, no, it wasn’t “myth and legend”. it worked exactly as intended.

and it worked, because of the couple of times the threat was not taken seriously. those times made it clear that the threat is real.

sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it’s consequences, which AIs can’t do, because they can’t absorb the context of the entire project.

look, I’m not saying you can’t use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

I’m saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it’s some magical genie that can everything.

yes, that’s exactly the point of everything I’ve said:

to an inexperienced user/developer/admin the output LLMs produce look perfectly valid, and for relatively trivial tasks they might even work out…but when it gets more specialized it fails spectacularly and it gets extremely obvious just how limited of a system it really is.

which is why there is so much pushback from professionals. actually that’s pretty much all professionals, not just in IT.

yeah, no… that’s not at all what i said.

i didn’t say “AI doesn’t work”, i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

I’d much rather not use it, but it’s pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

what absolutely doesn’t work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

“what’s a common way to do this configuration?” works well enough.

“fix this config file for me!” doesn’t work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. …unless “there” is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here…) for proof…

no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn’t work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn’t.

LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

they have no concept of actually making sense.

this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.

it’s an inherent, fundamental flaw.

ublock has the same function; it’s the thunderbolt icon, which let’s you just zap away whatever html element offends you!

…no fancy animation tho…is there a plugin that animates the ublock zapper? that would be very fun!

exactly!

using a “detector” is how (not all, but a lot of) AIs (LLMs, GenAI) are trained:

have one AI that’s a “student”, and one that’s a “teacher” and pit them against one another until the student fools the teacher nearly 100% of the time. this is what’s usually called “training” an AI.

one can do very funny things with this tech!

for anyone that wants to see this process in action, here’s a great example:

Benn Jorda: Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

afaik, there actually aren’t any reliable tools for this.

the highest accuracy rate I’ve seen reported for “AI detectors” is somewhere around 60%; barely better than a random guess…

edit: i think that way for text/LLM, to be fair.

kinda doubt images are much better though…happy to hear otherwise, if there are better ones!

oh, i am VERY interested in this!

seems like it’d be a very handy tool for modding, since file conversions are usually either done through gimp, if it supports the format, or some random ass tool/website that does only one thing…

having a swiss army knife type solution would be excellent!

one point of feedback about the interface:

anytime there’s a slider, there should also be a direct input field to type into.

this is to prevent things like UI scaling, or mouse sensitivity preventing proper input…ask me how i know…

might also be an accessibility thing; for example people with tremors, or generally low dexterity.

text input is never the wrong choice, but sliders can be!

you can just run battlenet through steam:

• add the installer as non-steam game
• set compatibility to proton experimental
• launch/install
• find the filepath for the battlenet .exe
• change the filepath for the target of the battlenet installer to the .exe instead
• never touch it again; it just works!

a tiny bit of effort, but only required once. everything afterwards just works!

because it’s completely unsubstantiated bullshit?

why would anyone upvote “someone’s feelings” on a technical subject?

this is a technology we’re talking about: there is an objective right and wrong, feelings are irrelevant. especially when those feelings are completely baseless.

the better question is: why would anyone upvote this garbage?

generally, yes, but it’s a couple more now;

• Austria’s military is moving to open source
• couple of french cities (was is lyon?)
• i think denmark?
• pretty sure there’s a couple others

point being: it’s a clear trend!

it’s slow, yes, but it seems to be picking up steam!

the idea is being seriously discussed at basically all state institutions.

and more importantly: the reason for this trend is clearly data security. which states actually care about. so there’s a very clear and easy to understand incentive, which makes it politically palatable.

we’ll have to see, but the trend seems to be heading in the right direction!

tesla/spaceX have literal teams whose only job it is to keep this moron from driving the company into the ground.

he’s an idiot.

"Error: Missing unit designation!

>> defaulting to kg"

i mean…not anymore!

space age added tons of content after the rocket launch!

in space age the goal is to travel to the edge of the solar system ;)

That logo is fucking massive holy shit.

“massive” just makes it right on brand! ;)

oh hey, that’s great! thank you!

our admins are regularly straight up fighting against this bs!

“where the fuck has this fucked off to now?? it was right here last month?!”

so glad I’m not doing MS administration…

this is the part that’s really frustrating:

i sometimes feel forced to use chatGPT (duck.ai) to simply search for Microsoft things, because search engines only return SEO garbage with the exact same content spammed across like a million “tech tips for beginners” sites…and the docs, as established, are pretty useless…

keep in mind: i fucking hats “AI”.

making me use it makes me not have anything to do with whatever you’re selling.

it’s getting progressively more impossible to simply use MS products, because the information you need to use them is so hidden away!

combine those two things and ta-da: that’s why all my stuff at home is running linux now.

Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:

if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there’s a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn’t doing what it’s supposed to.

from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.

the newer docs are straight up trash!

you’re better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs…