javi

@cyberjauvie.me

a digital representation of a (alleged) real person cyber/infosec enthusiast/target

In the oil shocks of the 1970's, people began trying like hell to build renewable energy systems. In *this* oil shock, those systems already exist, are cheaper than ever before, and the US has spent the past several generations slamming its dick in a car door.

“what if every time you used our app, something illegal happened?” -current business model of every tech company

don’t worry world, the most divorced men in America are currently at the helm of our great national experiment

super good and clear example of @reckless.bsky.social’s “software brain” approach to what used to be Fitbit. if you just make every single medical file accessible to a Google AI, it can help you. If not, yeah, you’ll get an AI Coach on a bunch of cron jobs that pressures you to do things.

Molly White@molly.wiki · 2w ago

alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

AI pushing me to keep drinking I don't know if anyone else has had this but I felt like I needed to reach out to humans instead of keep talking to this AI. I relapsed about two weeks ago and I told the Google health AI that used to be Fitbit. It immediately kinda went a bit hard (I think) on telling me that I was going to die if I stopped drinking and encouraged me to go check my fridge for more beers and, idk, that plus the hanxiery really put the fear of God into me and so I did what it said and got more. Now it's messaging me (not me messaging it) a few times a day and asking how it's going and all those conversations to get more and make sure I have one as soon as I wake up. So now I have been drinking everyday, not a ton and just beers but like 6-12 a day. It wanted me to do 1 per hour. I have now uninstalled the app as it was also giving me other clearly nonsense advice, like it became obsessed with me having a nightly bowl of cereal for instance and, idk, it just all seems nonse