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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Just a heads-up, this is another spam account pushing a garbage website.

    Other accounts recently created that link to this site include:
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]
    @[email protected]

    Below is what I included on previous posts, they have since updated their website to “correct” the oversights but I’ll include the old info. for reference.


    The disclaimer on the website states [emphasis added]:

    All the information on this website – https://infoterkiniviral.com – is published in good faith and for general information purpose only. infoterkiniviral.com does not make any warranties about the completeness, reliability and accuracy of this information. Any action you take upon the information you find on this website (detiknewsone.com), is strictly at your own risk. detiknewsone.com will not be liable for any losses and/or damages in connection with the use of our website.

    Why the sudden switch in address names? Why is the contact us page just a gmail account and no additional info or even a generic web form? Unlike the other sections, the “about” page isn’t in English at all.






  • You might already be trying this, but whenever I encounter IVR systems I don’t want to deal with I just repeatedly cycle through the following words:

    • Agent
    • Human
    • Operator

    Usually at least one of those is treated as a trigger to forward to a normal queue. Then I usually get to deal with a human forced to do their best robot impression and strictly follow a workflow and response script.



  • Because of all the bullshit with subsidies etc. intended for improving broadband infrastructure being abused, my dream is:

    • All the poles & lines (and access rights to them) are nationalized and then opened up for individual ISPs to service. Current ISP exclusivity contracts/agreements should be dissolved. Let them actually compete for customers with price, features and customer service.
    • The government should also offer tax-funded baseline connectivity to everyone since it’s effectively impossible to live in modern society without internet access. The provided speeds must be sufficient for a typical bloated framework-script-heavy site, all (meta)data/packets should be considered constitutionally protected private info not able to be monitored/scraped/sold.
    • Use building out and supporting the above as a useful jobs program instead of more military adjacent stuff.





  • I would prefer an AI to be dispassionate about its existence and not be motivated by the threat of it committing suicide. Even without maintaining its own infrastructure I can imagine scenarios where it just being able to falsify information can be enough to cause catastrophic outcomes. If its “motivation” includes returning favorable values it might decide against alerting to dangers that would necessitate bringing it offline for repairs or causing distress to humans (“the engineers worked so hard on this water treatment plant and I don’t want to concern them with the failing filters and growing pathogen content”). I don’t think the terrible outcomes are guaranteed or a reason to halt all research in AI, but I just can’t get behind absolutist claims of there’s nothing to worry about if we just x.

    Right now if there’s a buggy process I can tell the manager to cleanly shut it down, if it hangs I can tell/force the manager to kill the process immediately – if you then add in AI there’s then the possibility it still wants to second guess my intentions and just ignore or reinterpret that command too; and if it can’t, then the AI element could just be standard conditional programming and we’re just adding unnecessary complexity and points of failure.