Hope this virus will be smart enough to understand that at least for brief amount of time its existence strictly relies on humans maintaining and developing physical infrastructure and decide to be only non-lethal parasite on our society.
But you can silently sneak into devs accounts, steal tokens/keys and run small agents on their budget in some stolen VMs. Small so it's not noticeable.
Basically a virus spreading agents of some operation.
It should be in scope of imagination with anyone with brief knowledge how bot nets are made and behave.
This is silly question, but is your family managing trust in you as lone guy - cousin, father, brother - having potentially access to all their emails?
I feel that I more trust some corpo (Google, etc) that one particular person.
I don't imagine setup where you can effictevely guarantee them full privacy.
Some people in my family use it as their main address, others don't, it's entirely their call.
But yes, ultimately I control the domain and could be nefarious if I wanted to. But there's a certain baseline level of trust as a family, I'm reasonably certain my wife won't poison the milk in the fridge and she's reasonably certain I'm not going to read her emails.
I'm reasonably certain my wife won't poison the milk in the fridge and she's reasonably certain I'm not going to read her emails.
This is only a safe bet until it isn't. If she starts asking about your life insurance and hiding her phone from your view, you will know it isn't a safe bet anymore.
There's a document explaining how it all works, and I have Google's Inactive Account Manager setup to transfer credentials to my trusted contacts if I go permanently offline.
> This is silly question, but is your family managing trust in you as lone guy - cousin, father, brother - having potentially access to all their emails?
I believe this is a very common setup: the "computer wizard" kid of the family manages the computers for the whole family. Not just emails, they have access to the whole computer (and have to fix when it breaks).
I manage the email accounts for the others in my household because it's free for them and I'm happy to do it. Plus, they trust me more than they trust a random tech company. Maybe that is not a universal thing among all families or parts of the world.
The implication, that one should make a plan for that, is a valid reminder not enough of us probably do.
But it hardly needs to be difficult. If you're running dovecot and postfix on a server somewhere then yes, family is screwed. But it's simple to use either some mail forwarding service that you pay for with a credit card, or something like fastmail (etc). Leave 2 pages of instructions for how to log into and renew the domain (print the QR code used for the 2fa enrollment!) and how to log in and pay for whatever the underlying services are. Place in a binder and label "Family.Name Email Management" and put it with your other important documents.
But more seriously, my domain and VPS is on auto-pay, so it doesn't just shut off the day I die. My survivors will have plenty of time to back up their emails and do whatever they want with them afterward.
Plus, the password for my computers and keychain is in a safe-deposit box if they feel like handing it over to a trusted tech-savvy friend of the family to shut down properly.
That's besides point, the point is that classical software bugs are contained and we have process and understanding allowing us to discover them, triqge and fix. For AI based sw you can guess and try another prompt.
Why is that "the point"? You are the second person in this thread to insist on owning it.
I get why it's problematic, obviously, but if it produces statistically better results (which I have no idea of), I don't think it's right to just write it off because of this.
Because you cannot hold people accountable, since it isn't "people".
We humans are emotional creatures, and we will always prefer systems where someone can be held accountable for mistakes. The developer, the doctor. Whoever.
I do not oppose AI integration; I'm not a Luddite. But having a "move fast, who cares if a couple die" isn't the way to go with sensitive fields, like the medical field.
I suppose we will come up with proper responsibility-hierarchies and guardrails around AI, but until then, people have a right to complain about the lack of them.
(usually) You're not in position of power to effectively keep that position. As comments aroiund - standing against will mark you as anti-ai luddite and will now end well for you, not AI-spammer.
This is the third place. There is no real 3rd place in real companies usually. Not in mine, when i work remotely for company from other side of continent.
There is also something about train routes, but these messages are conflicting... also you don't immediately see explanation that it is curated d that's why people complain about missing routes.
Really hard to understand purpose when visiting first time.
For brief time ...