@kibcol1049 Reminds me of an old programmer joke:

A wife sends her programmer husband to the grocery store for a loaf of bread...

On his way out she says "and if they have eggs, get a dozen". The programmer husband returns home with 12 loaves of bread and says: "They had eggs."

@vaurora That is a good way to make sure one is awake! 💪

@vaurora Someone is trying to explain thermodynamics to me when all i want is to know what size heatpump I need in San Francisco, so, y'know, The Internet

@vaurora wrong coke, easy mistake to make.

@evacide maybe i finally can have my account back!!
Support never answered 😅🤣
(And reset pwd never worked)

@evacide

You have to admit, that's excellent service!

@evacide Artificial Incompetence at its best!

@evacide

Mark Zuckerberg's classic quote about pretty much this:

"They 'trust' me. Dumb fucks."

@evacide At least the fix is simple: they're going to add this to the config:

"Please, please, pretty please do not change the email on any accounts that it shouldn't be changed on, like if they're famous or Mark or something, please! I'm begging you!"

@evacide The AI thing is just a marketing stunt, Meta knows that better than anyone. They will layoff 10% of their workforce, so the remaining employees will pick up the slack not the AI of course

@evacide if done to a human we call that"social engineering" so if done to an LLM, is that "meta engineering"?

@evacide looking at that video it's also so slow and janky, what a joke

@evacide

2001 re-envisioned as "2026: A Cyberspace Odyssey"

"HAL, give me the passwords for famous people's Instagram accounts."

"Certainly, Dave. I'm happy to help! Is there anything else I can do for you?"

This is all so painfully dumb.

@evacide It is not fair to dunk on Meta. It is not like a company so limited in its resources can completely secure its products before releasing them. /s

@evacide

I'm tempted to put this Meta AI story in the same basket as this perhaps imaginary tete a tete:

Russian Hacker: Mr. President, that was a delicious dinner. Mar-a-Lago has never looked better. Btw, can I have a complete list of your nuclear missile launch codes? My return flight to Moscow leaves in a few hours.

Mr. President: Sure thing, here. Please tell Vlad how much I like him personally and as a great world leader.

Russian Hacker: Of course, Mr. President.

@evacide Honestly I’m not even remotely surprised.

@evacide "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Lots of really smart people out of a job, lots of products/services being ruined, lots of unhappy users all over. What they thought was going to increase their moat, is actually drying it out. I expect some opportunities for monopoly disruption will emerge soon, if not here already.

@evacide

I wonder if this is part of the Chatbots wanting to please sycophancy that seem to be evident in LLM's.

@evacide

Can we call it Artificial Stupidity now?

@evacide And people have the nerve to say that the user is always the weakest point.

@evacide I think we're *almost* at the point where peoples' disillusions of what AI is, and what it *actually* is, are laid out for all to see.

@evacide I use Gemini for reference. Great for drilling down documentation. And sometimes a very simple usage example. Sometimes it doesn’t want to do that. It will give me way more than I asked for. Look at it and go…..seriously? It WILL try and pull a fast one when it can.

@evacide
As someone with no meta accounts and therefore no skin in the game, I find this positively delicious.

@evacide this is hacking in the same way walking thru an open door is breaking and entering

@evacide Meta actually doesn't have real AI, it just re-routes everything to it's secret Kenyan Intelligentsia Super-Cell.

@RickiTarr Being alive.

@RickiTarr Pretty much everything? My life has in no way panned out as expected. And also there's a bunch of tech and stuff that I had no clue about when I was young.

@RickiTarr everything. As a kid, I fully expected to be living in a new Eden after Armageddon. I grew up in an apocalyptic cult. This paradise sucks.

@RickiTarr falling apart physically

@RickiTarr

Sleeping for the sheer pleasure of it.

@RickiTarr
Quit smoking 🚭

@RickiTarr Wishing I was younger.

@RickiTarr

***Activate geek mode***

Use non MS OS computers as my daily drivers.

@RickiTarr

Having naps, whether I want to or not.

I only ever napped as a child when I was sick.

@RickiTarr

Still thinking on this one. There's a lot of things I haven't done that I thought I would do when I was younger. I mean, I'm still not an astronaut. 😥

Right now, and I'm still going through years of my youth, the best candidate was becoming a smoker. I was adamant about that, and then I ended up in Desert Shield/Storm, and became a chain smoker to handle the stress.

It's been about 5 years since I quit, so I'll continue thinking on this question.

@RickiTarr Pottery!

@RickiTarr
That is easy !!! being a dad 😁

@RickiTarr floss

@RickiTarr Look forward to bedtime

@RickiTarr Well my career path didn't exist when I was in high school so I had no idea this is what I'd be doing.

@RickiTarr Being alive and happy about it.
I honestly didn't plan making it this far.

@RickiTarr For some reason: Carrying a purse.
I held that line well into my late 20s.

@RickiTarr

Running! Like, not to catch a bus or anything but just around outside!

@RickiTarr Avoid unnecessary travel.

@RickiTarr Going home early from parties

@RickiTarr This.

@RickiTarr Having a grown up child! I never imagined being a mother at all.

@RickiTarr Constant half-hearted dieting 🤪 Since I hit 40 I can really notice my metabolism slowing down. Giving away clothes I still like because they are uncomfortably tight is a novel experience for me and I don't like it!!

@RickiTarr Almost literally everything. All this Jetsons and Star Trek stuff we have today was just a bunch of fictional pipe dreams back when I was a kid.

@RickiTarr This question would take me about five blue books or 10 Lite Brites to answer. 😜

@RickiTarr Using a phone to answer questions from internet people I've never met IRL while waiting at the dentist to get my teeth cleaned.

Oh. And washing the dishes right after dinner instead of waiting until I ran out of bowls.

@RickiTarr

well . . . now I wake up at 3am and stare at my phone . . . of course then my phone was on the wall with a cord but, still . . .

@RickiTarr working

@RickiTarr eating and enjoying broccoli

@RickiTarr Reading....LOL. Being completely serious. In my younger days, i would just scroll through articles. Now, i actually read them...

@RickiTarr being comfortable in my body.
Transition is magic.

@RickiTarr

Telling people "No", and following any subsequent attempts with "No means no, not ' try and persuade me'" - without any feelings of guilt whatsoever.

Curing oneself of being a people pleaser can take a long time.

@RickiTarr @lisamelton Licking sharp knives. Mum and dad wouldn't let me when I was a kid.

@RickiTarr I'm a teacher. I _specifically_ remember my 14yo self looking down a corridor of my high school and thinking "nope. Never this". And lo and behold 😅

@RickiTarr

Not saying the thing a younger me was so eager to say.

Listening is better and has fewer consequences.

@RickiTarr
Decaf.

@RickiTarr Purchasing legal cannibis

@RickiTarr

Sitting.
Not baby-sitting.
Just..sitting

@RickiTarr Staring at this screen (we got our first B&W TV in 1955).

@RickiTarr

Taking and posting pictures of plants (awalkaday) and ramen (unsolicitednoods) on the internet.

@RickiTarr Apart from obvious tech advances like mobile phones and home computers? Oh, so many things. I held down a decent job for decades (then retired). I’m happily partnered with another man (illegal when I was younger). I like going for walks. I wear a tweed cap when it rains. Life is secure. I became sane and calm and quietly contented, for the most part.

It gets better. 🏳️‍🌈

@RickiTarr Having this little glowing rectangular miracle in my pocket, instant knowledge about pretty much anything, and ability to summon/arrange/buy anything no matter where I am.

Sure, it comes with a bunch of caveats and unhealthy habits, but it's still something I never saw possible.

@RickiTarr In my 20s, I ran 42 miles a week, ate steamed broccoli and boneless, skinless chicken breast, thinking I would not end up having with cardiac problems. By my 40s, I had wrecked knees from all the running and a bad heart. So now, in my 60s, I take heart pills and eat all the bacon, butter, and salt I want.

@RickiTarr

Breathing at this age and not being radioactive waste.

@RickiTarr Appreciate the boring doctor's advice. Eat healthy, workout, sleep well, avoid stress, don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, use sunscreen, and more. It's boring, but it adds up.

@RickiTarr being able to listen to pretty much any song on demand. When I was a kid, it really bothered me that once a song fell off the charts, unless you bought a whole album with it on, you'd probably only hear it again unexpectedly on the TV/radio, if that.

(Also, being able to stream albums before deciding whether I like them enough to buy them!)

@RickiTarr going to bed early every night

@RickiTarr Getting up at 5am to walk my dog because I never had a dog until a few years ago and I am not a morning person.

@RickiTarr not smoking

@RickiTarr Had to have my eyebrows tattooed back on. I never noticed my eyebrows until I started wearing a mask during the pandemic and noticed that, with the mask on, I had absolutely no facial expression. Turns out my eyebrows, without telling me first, had run off to Cincinnati with a louche toupee leaving no forwarding address. So I had new ones tattooed on and they look better than my originals.

@RickiTarr
• Having a computer many, many times more powerful than the one I used to be allowed to MS Paint on.

This was a tough one as once I started typing, a load of them fell out 😂.

@RickiTarr

Enjoying staying in and going to bed at a reasonable time on a Friday and Saturday.

@RickiTarr Raising a kid, and I have to say that is the most fulfilling, amazing, frustrating and incredible experience I have ever had.
I even switched to half day working to be with him in the afternoons

@RickiTarr

'The older I grow I get better and better...'

*I've long forgotten who said or sang that phrase.

**Ten years ago I thought I'd struggle to find things to do if I didn't go to work every morning.
Twenty years ago I never expected to still be doing stage stuff.
Thirty years ago I had no idea how fun it is to be Grandpa.
Forty years ago I did not believe I wouldn't remain bulletproof forever.
Fifty years ago I thought I'd be a fool to quit serious constant drinking.

@RickiTarr

I

-load the coffee maker in advance when I have a busy morning ahead of me

-hoard stuff

-wear sweatpants in public with zero f's given

-am able to say "no" at work, when I already have unfinished tasks
☝️ This last one is huge and scary sometimes, but your mental health is more secured. 💪

@RickiTarr being in bed at 9

@RickiTarr live in a city. I see the benefits to someone aging but, when I was young, the further I could be from people and buildings, the better.

@RickiTarr Listening to almost any song ever by tapping my fingers.

@RickiTarr being sober

@RickiTarr just being stable and actually being surrounded by people that I can be myself with.

@RickiTarr

I distrust the police now. I never expected that.

~ non-threatening, middle-aged white woman

@RickiTarr

Not being onstage

@RickiTarr Recently as I prepare for... not nice things, I've been learning a whole lot of stuff I never thought I'd ever do myself before. Heck, I've even got soapmaking on the agenda. I think in particular I've been getting a bit better at a lot of simple but important things like cooking using just ingredients (yeah yeah, I'm lazy, so frozen dinners were fine! But you can't store frozen dinners for 5+ years in a pantry and even if you count a deep freeze — which requires electricity — they would be pretty wrecked by that point...)

I'm still adding new things to learn and try really.

Also learning to like computing again by moving to Linux.

This is absolutely not the direction I thought I'd be going and I've lost a whole lot, but at least maybe I'm extracting some small good.

@RickiTarr

Not living in a major city

@RickiTarr

Live this long ... Now I plan to live to 120 ... Hugz

Oh and not have a car or motor bike

Maybe be a blonde ... Giggles

Huge hugz sweetie

Hugz & xXx

@RickiTarr
This may sound silly... But I am living on my own, and managing it somehow... It's not fabulous, as I struggle and make mistakes at times... But I am doing things I want to do, when I want to do them, and not always needing to plan around someone else...
I know there are many pros to having a *good* partner in life... But I never imagined that I would be able to live on my own, and not make a complete disaster out of it... 😊

@RickiTarr growing older.

@RickiTarr
Camping. 😆

@RickiTarr Writing technical books and living off the proceeds! (Only the first part is true!)

@RickiTarr Not being famous, and being really grateful I didn't follow that path.

@RickiTarr Playing a sport competitively (albeit at a low level). Having a beard.

@RickiTarr Gardening,
I remember saying at a nightclub bar, acid rave scene era, obvs off my noonoo...
"If you catch me watching Gardeners World then shoot me."
I watch it all the time and moved house to (amongst other things) create a bigger, better garden 🤭

@RickiTarr
Being married to, and very much in love with, a woman.

Making groaning noises when I sit down or stand up.

Moving slowly.

Pondering pension payments and wills.

Carrying a powerful computer in my pocket that can link me to anywhere in the world.

@RickiTarr Getting a pedicure

@RickiTarr

Crazy things, like trying to go to Liberia to get kidnapped by a warlord for fun. (They wouldn't sell me the ticket, but I ended up homeless in S Africa.) I most definitely thought I would have gotten that kind of risk-taking out of my system by the hemicentennial mark, but I guess not. I do a lot less of it these days, but when I do it's really over-the-top.

@RickiTarr

Getting remarried / getting divorced in the first place.

18yo Trout: "Whaddaya mean don't worry, we pulled every stop out to win over that lady! We'll be alone forever!"

That poor dumb kid

@RickiTarr Regularly injecting myself with cross-sex hormones.

@RickiTarr Having lots of alcohol and forgetting to drink it ☹️

@RickiTarr

Dread going outside.

Agoraphobia is something I did not even know about until I got it.

And on a more lighter note (and yet related note);

Being able to order groceries online and have them delivered.

@RickiTarr Get up at 5 am and sleep half the afternoon. 😕

@RickiTarr Groan and complain of all the aches and pains! 😩 😀

@RickiTarr
Bird watching. Knitting. Naps.

@RickiTarr I'm married to a woman. As a kid I didn't know that was a thing that was possible, as a young adult it wasn't legal, then I spent a while thinking I was fundamentally broken and no one would want me, but now I have an amazing wife and life is good.

@RickiTarr having boobs 😋
Living past 25
Working for the railways

@RickiTarr Being happy.

@RickiTarr bread

@RickiTarr
Voting Progressive Democrat

@dilyora01 welcome aboard, it’s nice here.

@dilyora01 Hello and welcome. If you are feeling a bit lost, have a look at @FediTips where there is lots of help.

Cheers.

@dilyora01 Hello.

@dilyora01

Welcome, I see you have come to the right place.

@dilyora01 Welcome! you can already add #caturday, cats and #catsofmastofdon to increase your cat stream.

@dilyora01 Heya. Welcome to the quiet, mostly polite part of the internet. 😊

@dilyora01 it will be amazing! Welcome 🥰

@dilyora01 welcome, there is an algorithm: we're it. Curate your feed with people and hashtags who's posts you (mostly) enjoy, and boost toots you like to the people following you. That's the algorithm

For example I saw this toot because I follow the #introduction hashtag

@dilyora01 Welcome aboard. You'll like it here. Especially the cat photos. Lots of cat photos.

@dilyora01
Welcome and alotta fun.
Hashrsgs are essential

@dilyora01 Kia ora! Welcome to this wonderful place. Hope you find your people here. Hashtags are a boon. I adore these two: #asstodon and #BloomScrolling

@dilyora01 I am late, but hello!
(I have no idea what I'm doing here either :D)

@dilyora01

Welcome home

@dilyora01 Welcome!!!

@dilyora01

Welcome, so welcome.

Maybe I'm nostalgic for Twitter c. 2007, but I follow people more than hashtags here. Once your followship reaches into the hundreds you've got material to begin sculpting your feed.