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The AI Slop Backlash Is Having an Impact

infinitelurker — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:24:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-ai-slop-backlash-is-actually-having-an-impact/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242714

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by infinitelurker in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

infinitelurker — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:23:12 +0000

You can dismiss that by clicking on the notification without clicking on either option. It will pull up the System Settings, which you can then close.

New comment by infinitelurker in "Not in a Million Years – 1Password"

infinitelurker — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:57:56 +0000

Am I the only one who thinks it's crazy to put all of your passwords on a companies cloud where every single one of their other customers password vaults also lives?

Aside from putting the burden for file management of the vault on the customer, help me understand how local storage (with backups) isn't the safest place to keep my passwords from being compromised.

New comment by infinitelurker in "Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics"

infinitelurker — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:57:58 +0000

Ghost/spam traffic is a real problem for GA. UA codes are public and can be targeted with spam referrals or simply randomly hit (especially for UA codes that end in -1).

Filtering spam and getting useful data on GA is a never ending job that Google keeps making harder. (re removal of Service Provider / Network Domain [1])

[1]: https://support.google.com/analytics/thread/27808046?hl=en

New comment by infinitelurker in "Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation"

infinitelurker — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:41:59 +0000

Are those fees also present for transactions that are refunded immediately before they batch (i.e. testing). Let's say a stripe IP wasn't whitelisted on the server and started being denied coming back, causing transactions to fail. If I want to do a quick live environment test on this it now costs my client money, which is not ideal.

New comment by infinitelurker in "How Pushing to Extremes Led an Amateur Cyclist to Ventricular Tachycardia"

infinitelurker — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 02:58:02 +0000

..but some are better than others, and having that personality trait isn't necessarily a choice

New comment by infinitelurker in "Phishing attack against Lastpass"

infinitelurker — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 02:52:27 +0000

>the reality is that it's no different than using 1Password with sync enabled.

Except that a users LastPass vault lives in the "cloud" so that a compromise of that password can likely open the door and makes it a more enticing target to begin with. Compared the likely hood of merely getting at the 1password vault (assuming it's not synced to the cloud) being a significant barrier.

Again, for me this discussion is educational, I'm curious how having this data in the cloud could ever be considered more secure than local storage.

New comment by infinitelurker in "Phishing attack against Lastpass"

infinitelurker — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:55:44 +0000

Thanks for the link to the 1password compromise, although, I stand by my point, that compromise is due to extraneous features as opposed to the core functionality. Being conservative myself, that's not a feature I use.

I see 1password's main vulnerability being that someone could gaining access to a device and vault passcode or obtaining that passcode through a keylogger.

I'm not sure how difficult it would be to brute force into 1Password locally but either way it's a low benefit game compared to the potential access with a compromise to a cloud based scenario like LastPass.

But I'm always open to security advice...

New comment by infinitelurker in "Phishing attack against Lastpass"

infinitelurker — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 00:22:18 +0000

This isn't the first time that LastPass has had security issues and it seems like a fools game to use a password manager that keeps you data in the cloud.

https://www.blackhat.com/eu-15/briefings.html#even-the-lastp...

https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.h...

I've been very happy with 1password, runs locally can be synced directly to other devices. https://agilebits.com/onepassword

Does anyone have experience with 1password security breaches?

New comment by infinitelurker in "Remind HN: Update your wordpress sites"

infinitelurker — Thu, 14 May 2015 12:53:36 +0000

Yes, currently back to 3.7.x

https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Versions