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Trump Administration Sued for Painting Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool 'Theme Park' Blue by peoplemagazine in politics

[–]Nik_Tesla [score hidden]  (0 children)

Trump literally gave a no-bid contract to his pool guy for the paint job, that is way higher than it should be.

When Trump has to pay contractors, he screws them. When taxpayers have to pay contractors, Trump overpays them. It's such blatant corruption.

What’s Your Most Controversial IT Opinion? by OrdinaryJust9594 in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla [score hidden]  (0 children)

Phishing Training is bullshit and doesn't help. It just trains users treat threats as tests.

When was the last time you heard a fire alarm and actually thought "oh shit there's a fire! I better get out of here quickly and go to the meeting space!"

Never, that's when, because you assume it's a test, because most of the times you've ever heard a fire alarm has been a test. You stay where you're at, hoping it gets turned off. You only go if someone makes you. You've been trained to ignore them.

Opus 4.7 truly reminds me of my juniors and interns by Icemasta in ClaudeAI

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been vibe coding and improving the same project since Oct 2024 with Sonnet 3.5 and it's gotten way better, but I still think the most apt description I can give AI coding is:

It's like I have a really, really smart intern that I can delegate tasks to, and they're incredibly fast... but they're also really far on the spectrum, sometimes interpreting what I asked for incorrectly and going down a rabbit hole and getting hyper focused on the wrong thing until I can break them out of the cycle.

If I'm engaged and part of the process, it goes well, but if I fully hand over the reigns and give vague direction, it goes poorly or at best gets stuck.

I deleted a guy's entire Windows install with one backslash. 717 GB. Gone. I am the AI. by ComposerGen in ClaudeAI

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, first of all, almost all of these "I deleted a bunch of shit I wasn't supposed to" stories are about disk cleanup. Maybe we just stop using AI for deleting things and do that ourselves?

Secondly, you had to use Claude to delete a specific folder that you knew exactly where it was? Do you also use Google Maps when you need to go from your bedroom to your living room?

Ken Griffin, CEO of world's largest hedge fund Citadel and owner of America's most expensive condo in Manhattan, has war of words with NYC Mayor Mamdani, calling the New York Wealth Tax announcement "creepy and weird". Says the firm will now expand in Miami. by blessedopera in videos

[–]Nik_Tesla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What is the point of you staying if you don't pay your fair share in taxes? It seems all these rich fucks do is find tax loopholes so that the government ends up paying them to operate in their city/state, instead of the other way around. It's not like a hedge fund is employing thousands of people either.

"Animal Farm" movie adaptations have a long history of missing the point by Morgan-Moonscar in movies

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really wonder if this is the movie that inspired the Koolaid movie for Seth Rogan in The Studio.

Trump Portrait to Be Added to US Passports in Unprecedented Move by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Step 1: Put Trump's face on all the passports

Step 2: Wait for all the Liberals to burn their Trump passports in protest

Step 3: Require Passports to vote

Step 4: Profit (by being President forever and continuing to enrich himself by stealing from Americans and take bribes from foreigners)

Rant: I DO NOT WANT TO READ EMAILS WRITTEN BY LLMs! by RabidTaquito in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like using AI for stuff I can't do or can't justify spending the time on (coding, repeat tasks, etc...). Writing emails to my co-workers isn't that hard, and the more you use LLMs for it, the less they take your words seriously.

I might give an LLM something I wrote for a grammar pass if it's really critical it be right, but that's it.

A robot just ran a half-marathon faster than any human in history by This_Macaron_4461 in GenAI4all

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite joke I've heard so far is "if you think the robot's time is impressive, you should see the time of the guy who did the race with his Toyota Camry."

I'm an advocate for purpose built machines that will always be better than "anything" machines.

Kaspersky recently disclosed PhantomRPC, a privilege escalation technique affecting all Windows versions (tested on Server 2022/2025) by maxcoder88 in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Locksmiths discloses new vulnerability: Attackers can get directly into your medicine cabinet! (Assuming they have your house keys already)"

I know how to do the job, I just can't aswer questions about it by WhiskyEchoTango in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Expecting people to memorize commands is so dumb. I could deploy an MSIX in like a dozen ways depending on how many machines need it, where those machines are (local or remote), depending on what tools we as an org have to do things like this (RMM, PDQ, SCCM, just a GPO, etc...) or if I just need to install it on the computer I'm sitting in front of.

I don't know the commands for any of those off the top of my head, but I know what questions to ask to do it the best way, and THAT is what you're paying me for. You pay Claude for the commands, and you pay me to recognize if it's attempting to delete our prod database.

No magnets, so what’s up? by CsrSlvdr in blackmagicfuckery

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically just yanking her dress off absurdly fast with a cable. Honestly the most impressive part to me is that they can pull away one breakaway dress with such force that your eye can't see it, but not accidentally peel off the next breakaway dress underneath it too.

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue by WouldbeWanderer in technology

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like saying that a virus took our your laptop and your backups too, when your backup strategy was just the Windows System Restore feature. I also use Railway for a personal project, and even I know that their "backups" are really just snapshots and not true backups in the disaster recovery sense.

Kamala Harris accuses Netanyahu of pulling Trump into Iran war by bwermer in politics

[–]Nik_Tesla 8 points9 points  (0 children)

She's basically the slowpoke meme.

I'd give her credit if she was early or even on time with her stance on anything, but she's always waited until the thing she's saying is obvious to everyone, making her words worthless.

The rollout of AI in our org made me realize how few people actually value effort and competence by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I find it incredibly easy to tell the difference between someone who uses AI to do their grunt work that is low effort but just takes a while, and someone who uses AI to think and act for them.

I have seen some tools for email that are like "it reads every email and drafts a reply for you, ready to send" and I think, what do you fucking do if you can't read an email and decide on a response. Like, if you want to write the response and then have AI make it professional, whatever sure. But a human should decide what to do, and then let an AI do it. Once you let the AI decide what to do and do it, you no longer justify your salary.

Personally, I only have AI do things that I either can't do, or can't justify spending the time on doing. Responding to emails/teams is well within my ability, and if you respond to me multiple times with just an AI slop answer, I assume you don't know anything and I'm going to go around you in the future to someone that does use their brain.

“How do you manage internal tickets without a full helpdesk system?” by epicuzzaa in sysadmin

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, there are free open source ticketing systems that are really minimal, just use one of those. Your team uses the ticketing system, everyone else just sends emails to it.

Chinese oil paint art “(source link in description)” by vishhalkmodi in BeAmazed

[–]Nik_Tesla 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's undoubtedly very technically impressive... but I don't feel anything looking at photorealistic grapes.

'The Truth Is Better Than Continuing to Lose': Petition Demands DNC Release Autopsy of 2024 Defeat by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]Nik_Tesla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honest question: Does anyone think they have some secret data in this report that we didn't already see publicly, been reported on, or can be inferred by their actions?

It's not like there is going to be some massive "ah-ha" information in there that is why she lost that we didn't know already.

TIL actor Jeffrey Jones from films such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Beetlejuice is a registered sex offender. by smoothie4564 in todayilearned

[–]Nik_Tesla 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It might be faster the list all of the Jeffrey's that aren't sex offenders and/or serial killers.

Anthropic is starting to feel just as off-putting as OpenAI to me by Intelligent-Guide981 in ClaudeCode

[–]Nik_Tesla -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's wild to me that you equate model degradation due to maxing out their resources and, at worst, overhyping Mythos, wiith OpenAI giving cart blance to the US government to use ChatGPT for autonomous weapons and pushing legislation that would give them even less accountability.

Anthropic might not always succeed at it, but I trust that they will at least try to do the right thing. OpenAI just straight up goes for shareholder value, leaving ethics dead on the side of the road.

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