the urge to prank being much stronger than the “i built the stalker machine” signal, it’s fucking disgusting and i hate these people. i hate people like this so much and engineering is full of them

These ones at least aren’t releasing the code for it. A lot would.

I don’t understand how you don’t think of this and immediately realize all the ways it could be used for evil then not do it.

Please stop. We know it’s a privacy hell hole out there. Enabling people isn’t responsible.

Guy played Watch_Dogs and took it as inspiration instead of a warning.

jeff goldblum's character in jurassic park continues to have hit the nail on the head: "your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should" but probably worse, bc i don't think these mf'ers have a concept of "should" vs "shouldn't"

@jasonkpargin.bsky.social This seems very relevant to the stuff you write about.

Teaching STEM and nothing else has brought us to a dark place

love to have an industry led by guys who can't imagine experiencing any kind of meaningful harm themselves

at least we know that this type of thing can exist now and it's realistic, it's better than this being created by a creep and thats how we find out about this stuff.

This is scary! But it can also be done by anybody with a smart phone, an internet connection, and five minutes