Post B2c8TG9KAuqcTN2ZTk by mhoye@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #B2c8SxqEFAsTgvy4DQ by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T14:17:53Z
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Increasingly angry so many people are happy to say "well what did you expect, is anyone surprised by this, why don't you have backup plans, it's your own fault," whenever a corporate IT system wrecks somebody's life for clicking the wrong button. It's sanctimonious victim blaming and it's one hundred percent bullshit, a symptom of a deeply immature industry getting permission to fuck up from an army of deeply immature people. Reflexively shilling for corporate negligence should humiliate you.
(DIR) Post #B2c8Sz31l4i3Quxnns by dmaonR@mastodon.online
2026-01-24T15:02:50Z
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@mhoye Kelly Shortridge wrote something like:> "we can't blame users for clicking on things on the thing-clicking machine."More than once security has lost out to so a company can make a few extra dollars.
(DIR) Post #B2c8SzpErpH3qRWIwy by thoe@snac.9space.no
2026-01-24T15:30:41Z
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@mhoye@mastodon.socialThe fact that you have to have a backup plan is infuriating. Not only do you have to tolerate that your data is analyzed, tokenized, whateverelseized, and used to tailor advertisements to you, but you also have to ensure that it's safe somewhere else, even though you entered into the "agreement" to store your data safely in the first place. I lost a decade's worth of photos on a onedrive blunder a while back, so this pisses me off.It's poor operational risk management. Someone should sit down with the product development lead and the developers and go through every step of the process, asking what could go possibly go wrong in this step that could cause the customer harm? How big would that harm be? Do we tolerate that? If not, how do we prevent it from happening?
(DIR) Post #B2c8T3lqCOvu53xeD2 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T14:54:51Z
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Industrial paper cutters will glide through bone like putty. Hobart mixers can easily pull an arm off. But somehow it's _impossible_ to hurt yourself with those things accidentally, and there are a million other examples out there of heavy, fast-moving, razor sharp tools running red hot all day every day, operated safely by people with half a grade school education because we decided that guardrails and safety interlocks are better for society than saying "I told you so" over and over again.
(DIR) Post #B2c8T9qJcg4qug6J16 by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T15:01:06Z
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But somehow out here there are computer-touchers willing to look at an incident where somebody clicks one checkbox in error and loses years of their professional life, and say "well it's your fault for reasons?"What would it take, in your head, for you to believe the company that built that checkbox, that owns every byte of code and all the infrastructure behind it, has a duty of care? That maybe that company has a positive moral obligation to people, and even - gasp - society?
(DIR) Post #B2c8TG9KAuqcTN2ZTk by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T15:09:41Z
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What would it take for you to believe that we have an obligation to get past the choice of wringing our hands or washing them. That we have a moral duty to rise above gesturing vaguely at entropy while excusing negligence with sanctimony. What would need to happen to you, for you to stop believing that these pervasive abdications of responsibility, these systemic moral failures are somehow unavoidable, and start recognizing that they're inexcusable?Do you need to wait for the day it happens?
(DIR) Post #B2c8rSC138H4m5ptvU by thoe@snac.9space.no
2026-01-24T15:35:12Z
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@mhoye@mastodon.socialThe fact that you have to have a backup plan is infuriating. Not only do you have to tolerate that your data is analyzed, tokenized, whateverelseized, and used to tailor advertisements to you, but you also have to ensure that it's safe somewhere else, even though you entered into the "agreement" to store your data safely in the first place. I lost a decade's worth of photos on a onedrive blunder a while back, so this pisses me off.It's poor operational risk management. Someone should sit down with the product development lead and the developers and go through every step of the process, asking what could go possibly go wrong in this step that could cause the customer harm? How big would that harm be? Do we tolerate that? If not, how do we prevent it from happening?
(DIR) Post #B2cWK5NLGDs5LrkuAq by mhoye@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T19:54:57Z
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In conclusion, here's the blog post and I'm just going to block people doing this in the future. https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/01/24/obligatory/
(DIR) Post #B2cWK6JTm4NMGAxKnA by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
2026-01-24T19:58:26Z
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@mhoye ... and not just code.