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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I have two; a male common corn snake and a male hognose. They are definitely not cuddly animals, as you stated. However, they absolutely can and do get to know their handlers, and learn how to be relaxed when handled - and they obviously enjoy it, since they often seek out being handled of their own free will (I usually open the enclosure when they’re “surfing” up against the glass and let them decide whether they want to slide into my hands). I’ve had them for a few years now and I have been bitten, but never out of “malice”. All biting incidents were my own fault due to inexperience, and the snakes mistaking my hands for their meal. A snakebite from a non-venomous or very mildly venomous snake is no worse than a bee sting. If you have cats, you’ve probably been through worse than whatever a snake can do to you.

    All in all, could recommend!

    Snake tax:






  • Oh, I’m very aware. My own (EU!) company has ISO certifications that “guarantee” our customers that all their data is perfectly protected.

    It is not. We, among other things, have plaintext user/password combos in scripting. Certain logs are certainly not being processed lawfully.

    It’s also not so bad as to be terrible but it still irks me a lot that we’re essentially lying to our users.



  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlMy CoPilot
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    No, the AI advised me to contact my direct superior and his superior, but mentioned their names.

    I have never provided it with this information, so that means it has a lot more access to our information than is officially known. Technically we aren’t even supposed to input anything that could possibly be identifying, again for GDPR purposes, so I have no idea where Copilot got the information from.

    I assume that MS lets companies tailor their instance of Copilot to a certain degree and maybe it was fed an organigram of the entire company, but AFAIK this is already not allowed under current legislation. Or maybe it is and I’m just a modern luddite.

    Regardless, I’ll be even more careful about what I use Copilot for from this point forward.


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    Today I was “talking” to copilot asking about how to tackle a certain issue. The fucking thing replied with my manager and his manager’s NAMES telling me to reach out to them. Of course I was aware that Copilot’s primary function is not as an AI assistant but as a surveillance tool, but working in the EU, this still surprised me a lot.

    That said, under the protections the EU affords me, I will absolutely continue to use Copilot for the most inane possible tasks. I know that they know, but they can’t act on it without breaking GDPR.

    Your move, corporation.