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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Fake Amazon reviews is a service you can buy to boost your product. Using genAI is an obvious move for these providers. Makes it harder for Amazon to find the fakes, because they can generate more content variety.

    When you run a botnet for such a service, you can’t only put 5 star reviews on your client’s products. You want a variety of usage pattern modifiers to stay below the radar. Putting reviews on semi-random products is one technique.













  • Explaining my job is trivial compared to the insanity I cook up in my spare time.

    Oh, so you like gaming? No, I’m actually not playing the game. I’m building a mod for it. Erm, okay, so this is for other players then? No, I’m mostly building it for myself. Ah, so you haven’t put a lot of time into it yet? Roughly 12 years. What? So what does the mod do then? It plays the game for me, and publishes in-game metrics to a monitoring application, so that I can see the progress of the game in an abstract form while I’m on the couch, thinking about how to optimize the automation further.

    Regular fun stuff.



  • In boomer times, phone calls were expensive and were transferred over landlines. It had an impact on the quality of the conversation.

    Today people call you with 1% battery while at the register of the supermarket and instantly launch into a monologue about how they know it’s not a good time to call, and they might even cut off any moment, and they know you’re usually busy at 10am on a work day, but they really need to know if they can call you “later” to discuss something really important. And before you can tell them anything, they cut off. At least it’s over!

    10 minutes later they call you from their car and it takes them a couple of minutes to get the audio working so they can repeat everything they said earlier. It’s what you have to do if a call was cut off! Then they drive into a tunnel.

    Dealing with this shit is a dark art fr



  • Building houses is probably generally allowed, but not an easy solution.

    Someone who migrates to another country, to work there in a regular job, can get a regular apartment. But everyone wants to live where the living conditions are best. You can’t build infinite housing in those locations, and the increased demand drives prices.

    Someone who seeks asylum is in an entirely different situation, and housing them is a different challenge. Building a house in a nice place costs 10x what it costs in a remote country region. But now people have nobody to integrate with and less social options.

    Any house being built costs money. Building houses for people who are still in search of employment is a bad investment. Nobody wants to build those houses. They want to build the nice houses in the nice places that will gather lots of rent. If you want to have the houses anyway, because maybe the people are already here, you probably have to use taxes for it. Some citizens will never be able to accept that, creating conflict.