#badidea — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #badidea, aggregated by home.social.
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Got an email today touting AI-native software development. Which contained this quote:
'She contrasts sales-led consulting's "pilot purgatory" with outcome-focused delivery built on measured baselines and self-verifying systems.'
Self-verifying systems using AI, eh?
Does anyone see a way this can go badly off the rails? Like those recent reports of AI systems that forge compliance with requirements and lie about verification results?It's amazing how really smart people can be so terribly stupid.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@aboutsignal/117054734086971962
Many of my kids want to securely text other kids who have laptops but not a phone plan or a debit card or spare money securely. This will stop that.
This will also make new users think that signal is a greedy company doing pay for privacy.
#signal #money #privacy #kids #security #text #android #sms #thetruth #badidea #budgeting #floss #debitcard #nophone #frugal
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This might be the most ridiculous thing (and the worst mouse) I have ever seen.
https://prelaunch.com/projects/super-mouse-super-mouse-your-personal-command-center
#No #WTF #HID #UIUX #hardware #mouse #mice #tech #technews #badidea #computers #inputdevice
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An idle sketch I wrote earlier #BadIdea:
Does anyone know who the legal person for "lord #binface" is?
Wouldn't it be fun if no one knew, like superman. A quick custom change, having gotten into the building as a normal person with normal ID cards.
"lord binface" just appears in the right time and right place.
As all the bins are filled with liners, what if the bin is just the nearest bin of the right size.
What if lord binface always used a voice voda, like Darth vada. -
In the dim dark ages, I played in a big band. One rehearsal, the director conflated the titles "String of Pearls" and "Little Brown Jug" saying "String of Jugs". A trombone player called out "Little Brown Pearls" which elicited groans of revulsion from the band. Now Godiva is making actual little brown pearls. #wtf #wtaf #badIdea #badProduct
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All those #AI #notetakers? They’re making lawyers very nervous.
🤔"In Feb, Judge Jed S. Rakoff ruled tt te transcripts generated w #ClaudeAI when a defendant asked it for #legal advice weren't protected by attorney-client privilege.. As word of te risk spreads public cos hv largely heeded te warnings: “Initially I was seeing & hearing like: ‘Oh, this is great. Now I don’t hv to worry abt writing my corp minutes'. “But I think people hv realized quickly tt it’s a #badidea"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life/tech/3252700/all-those-ai-notetakers-theyre-making-lawyers-very-nervous -
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Apparently Lidl owns the `.lidl` TLD, and this (in part) gets their emails flagged as spam by my server.
These brand TLDs were a REALLY DUMB idea by ICANN. Why do we need TLDs per company? And do people actually trust them?
And then there's apparently another round coming 😐
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[#Realistic setting, effects of flying cars] In a #badidea 1970s retro-future, you are a regional exec in a Kombinate, and currently in a remote-weekly meeting with headoffice (Tokyo).
You abruptly apologise, and angle the stiff and heavy TV video-camera to show a micro-lite wreck that has just crashed through your sweeping office window. Your office block has been built with full FungShui, but the doctrine is ignorant about air-cars and speed taxis. -
#BadIdea, confuse a LLM by having code where all the variables mean "this" is various human languages, so "ceci", "Dies", "dit", "este", "这个" etc. Probably not using a the EN version as overlap with keywords.
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#FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge #MirrorSatellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime
"The implications for #wildlife, for all life, are enormous."
By Frank Landymore
Published Mar 10, 2026Excerpt: "The idea is as far-fetched as it is controversial. But something like it has been attempted before. In 1993, the Russian satellite Znamya, or 'Banner,' deployed a 65-foot-wide sheet of mylar that reflected a beam of light twice as bright as the Moon, illuminating a roughly three mile wide circle onto the Earth below like an orbital spotlight. It didn’t prove to be practical, however, with ground observers noticing no more than a flash of light, and it was exorbitantly expensive to pull off.
"Even so, it has the potential to massively disrupt the environment and interfere with many human operations. And the far-reaching consequences of such a technology is exposing the limits of the FCC’s remit.
"Experts fear that light from space mirrors could disrupt circadian rhythms in nature, posing a problem for flora and fauna alike. Animals might breed at the wrong time, and hibernating insects and migrating birds could be confused, Martha Hotz Vitaterna, a research professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University, told the NYT. And plants could bloom when pollinators aren’t active.
" 'The implications for wildlife, for all life, are enormous,' added Vitaterna, who is co-director of the Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology."
Read more:
https://futurism.com/space/fcc-huge-mirror-satellite#DarkSkies #LightPollution #BadIdea #USPol #Idiocracy #MirrorSatellites #CircadianRhythms
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Moin! In Ermangelung meines üblichen Duschgels habe ich mir gerade das Weihnachtsgeschenk meines Bruders auf die Primel geschmiert. Es war mit Menthol versetzt, sehr erfrischend und nicht zu empfehlen. Danke, Brudi!
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Doctors have said they already have problems with patients and "Dr Google".
Can you imagine how much of a mess it's going to be with Dr ChatGPT? 😬
I'm sure the disclaimer that it's not intended for "diagnosis or treatment" is going to solve ALL of the problems 🙄
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One of the issues with What3Words.
German hiker in the UK: I need help. My what three words location is
///aufgetragen.bauxit.locktRescue: Wait a minute, I can't enter that. Can you change your What3Words app to English.
(A couple of minutes after fiddling with settings)
The German hiker sees
///analogy.guidebook.tricklingI don't know these words. Maybe Anal loggy guidebook treekling.
Rescue: Hmm, "Anal loggy guidebook treacele-ing" That's four words. Let me try the first three...
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@Panera It’s called Black Pepper Focaccia, not So Salt Encrusted You Can’t Taste the Sandwich Black Pepper Focaccia.
The recently minted MBA who dreamed this change up and justified it with some hand-wavy charts needs to have their hand slapped and to be told to go sit in the corner.
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OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
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Small hard drive in my main computer containing only Ubuntu swap died. I have a replacement which I will install when i get around to it.
The thought did briefly cross my mind that it might be fun, before taking the failed drive to e-waste, to stick a label on it saying "bitcoin".
Probably shouldn't though...
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5 Reasons #SelfRepresentation Is a #BadIdea When Facing #CriminalCharges
Your #liberty, #reputation, and future will hang in the balance in a #criminalcourt.
