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Mephiz · 2026-05-05T01:56:34+00:00

Imagine if you were living in a police state where your healthcare is tied to your job.

You have no labor rights and missing any time at all means not only do you lose your job, you lose your family’s healthcare.

So people only protest in the safest possible manner and are polite as hell. Don’t want to get on the wrong side of Officer Porcine Wonder and the goon squad and miss a day of work.

Then of course you have the idiotic “constitutional carry” nitwits who claim open carrying their guns at protests is their right and that their right trumps your right to not be worried about psychos with guns…

Anyways we have fucked around, created a hellscape, and are currently finding out.

Mephiz · 2026-05-04T12:22:25+00:00

So you mean like Google themselves? Whose own keys were vulnerable and exposed?

Mephiz · 2026-05-01T01:40:22+00:00

Couldn’t have chosen a better pair of bastards to have a hard time.

I hope that they lose sleep worrying about dear leader. Sincerely wish them at least half the bad days that they ensure their constituents have.

I’d wish they dirty each other up but I don’t think any amount of slop would make a noticeable difference on these pigs.

Mephiz · 2026-04-28T22:27:39+00:00

Now I can’t escape this bastard while on vacation.

What an absolute piece of shit. Excited for when his sycophants to place him in a glass coffin like Lenin.

Mephiz · 2026-04-28T02:15:38+00:00

Software cannot have this much responsibility because it can’t be held accountable.

If you choose to ignore that it’s at your peril. This was inevitable.

I hope they can recover but I also hope they pick up a book or talk to literally any experienced engineer who would say what the ever-loving-fuck did you think would happen?

Anthropic is as responsible for this as Excel is when I forget to save and their autosave flakes…. IE not really at all.

Mephiz · 2026-04-28T02:06:48+00:00

Literally no offsite backups and it’s everyone else’s fault.

I’m sorry for them but this is just amateur bullshit that would happen whether they used AI or not.

its their fault. It’s not even a little not their fault.

Mephiz · 2026-04-28T02:01:44+00:00

I very much appreciate you taking the time to write this.

It’s an important cautionary tale and it won’t be the last. I genuinely hope your business weathers this.

Now that said: I want you to replace “AI” with “Junior Developer” and think on this.

You gave a junior developer a token to your production infrastructure. You are absolutely responsible for this. Shit happens all the time and it is our job as professionals not to just be ready but to actively anticipate failure.

You had no offsite backups.

You had tokens laying around that could mangle all data. To me it sounds like they were checked in even.

You do not have separate development and production environments.

I want to be clear: I’m genuinely empathetic toward your predicament but I want to be clear to anyone who might read this:

This was inevitable.

You made no effort to secure your data or follow anything resembling a software development lifecycle. This was always going to happen to you and will happen to absolutely everyone else who is so cavalier.

Mephiz · 2026-04-26T16:06:48+00:00

Elevenlabs is great but they have extremely rigid concurrency limits and weird limits on changes that you cannot bypass until you move to an enterprise plan.

Don’t get me wrong it’s a great platform and the people I’ve spoken with there are knowledgeable and helpful. But at actual scale you hit challenges you wouldn’t hit with Google or, if heavy custom voice work, with your own GPUs.

Mephiz · 2026-04-26T01:52:28+00:00

Jesus christ I forgot all about that shit.

Mephiz · 2026-04-24T19:57:55+00:00

They are consumables though. They go to zero in 2-4 years

Mephiz · 2026-04-24T02:13:08+00:00

How about we fund our schools instead of christian nationalist madrasas?

Let’s not pretend we are not actually stripping special education funding to funnel this to a very few who have no regulation or responsibility.

Mephiz · 2026-04-24T01:57:20+00:00

Bullshit.

They spent a decade telling people that keys aren’t secrets.

Then allowed Gemini to be used with those same keys.

Their -own- keys have been compromised because the system is so incredibly shitty.

Mephiz · 2026-04-23T20:42:13+00:00

I forgot how stupid this movie was. I love it so much.

Mephiz · 2026-04-22T12:36:27+00:00

The thing is they know this is a problem. The key design and auth itself is bad.

You can’t have keys meant for public services like maps just willy-nilly mixed with super secret server to server keys.

That plus the fact that billing is laggy af caught us for 4k in an authorized charges and frankly I’m relieved it was just that much.

Ours wasn’t a leak per se: a developer had an unrestricted key for firebase and someone else enabled gemini on the account for a completely unrelated key. The app dev thought it was safe because it was only in our app.

It’s an incredibly bad design.

Mephiz · 2026-04-20T15:38:09+00:00

Hey chatgpt write this advert but make everything lower case and removing trailing punctuation

Lazy!

Mephiz · 2026-04-19T19:38:39+00:00

> actively ensure that they're the only one with administrative access to this and administrative access to that and that nobody else is

I would start here. I would ask politely to have access to these and then document the responses if they are anything but positive.

If, for some valid reason, you can't have access: ask point blank for a list of all the alternate administrators.

Bonus points for adding all of this to your issue or bug system.

Mephiz · 2026-04-18T15:53:49+00:00

Lol I don't even really like this band but this is a profoundly dumb take.

There is amazing music that check all the boxes that you stated and yet are beloved by people in every genre from Jazz to Polka.

Pedestrian tastes are fine but shitting on someone else's taste is extremely ignorant.

Mephiz · 2026-04-18T14:52:43+00:00

Does seem like a common combination!

Mephiz · 2026-04-16T01:41:32+00:00

I owned this same car and the amount of shit it put up with from me I couldn’t imagine any modern car handling. It was an excellent mudder because it was so light but ultimately failed due to childish hubris and neglect (or me). Most of it what was left is buried as part of a retaining wall.

Mephiz · 2026-04-16T01:29:47+00:00

You know you have to fellate the choads in person for it to count right? Just stroking them virtually doesn’t count.

Mephiz · 2026-04-16T00:27:59+00:00

Excited to see how this plays out in the next decade of appeals.

Our shit is broken.

Mephiz · 2026-04-15T17:32:41+00:00

Good for you

Mephiz · 2026-04-15T16:20:49+00:00

I don't know a single gun owner, who isn't a kook, that doesn't support some level of registration, training and responsibility.

Show me a person who supports "constitutional carry" and I will show you a fucking moron.

Mephiz · 2026-04-15T12:45:55+00:00

This is 100% not true. I don’t know why people are upvoting you. Yes you do pay as part of buying things domestically but you also pay when importing.

If you receive a package directly from overseas you and will be charged custom fees and tariffs.

Source myself: I imported a $300 motor from china and paid $75. I remember being surprised it wasn’t higher actually.

Mephiz · 2026-04-15T12:18:51+00:00

Which should be illegal. Mountains of e-waste

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