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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

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Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#61

Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

I never understood how anybody would think this way. At work for example from day one of using AI our rule was, AI is just a tool and if you break something due to not reviewing the code properly etc. it's on you as if you wrote that code yourself.

You're an employee. This use case is for people much richer than you.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#62

Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

> Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

Relevant (NSFW):

> Guns don't kill people, I kill people - with guns

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk

:-D

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#63
post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Neither the invention date or the mental health terminology have anything to do with the fact that js being commonplace is a privacy and security nightmare -- which was actually the point.

JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way... and "privacy and security nightmare" can be used to describe most of the internet at this point with or without it

> JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way

I'm not aware of any other language that is layered on top of a perfectly serviceable user-facing content delivery syntax?

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#65
post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

JavaScript asceticism is a weird trend that has just never died out, no one treats any other language this way... and "privacy and security nightmare" can be used to describe most of the internet at this point with or without it

It can certainly come across as a "weird trend" but I've found that the most insistent for disabling JS are the folks who have deep knowledge of browsers and the security plane running webapps. YMMV.

I don't drive a car because I have deep knowledge of mortality statistics, but I don't complain when I can't easily get somewhere 100 miles away

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#66

Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

> Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer. Relevant (NSFW): > Guns don't kill people, I kill people - with guns > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC03hmS1Brk :-D

POW!

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#68

Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

I never understood how anybody would think this way. At work for example from day one of using AI our rule was, AI is just a tool and if you break something due to not reviewing the code properly etc. it's on you as if you wrote that code yourself.

The efficiency of responsibility laundering depends on your social standing. If people like you they welcome reasons not to prosecute you, if you are disliked people might go as far as to start prosecuting you for made up reasons.

Institutional rules that require people to break them (eg putting pressure on them to work faster than possible while adhering to all rules) are a great means to selectively enforce them to get rid of undesirables.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#69

Love it. AI as Responsibility Laundering. Like the gun that kills people rather than the murderer.

I never understood how anybody would think this way. At work for example from day one of using AI our rule was, AI is just a tool and if you break something due to not reviewing the code properly etc. it's on you as if you wrote that code yourself.

But if you are in a full selfdriving car and it kills someone, is it on the user, or on the vendor of the car? Or does it depend on what is in the EULA and whether the user agreed to it?

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

#70
post #14
post #2

I'll copy the whole announcement here for those who don't want to click: > I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this…

Thanks. Its insane how "Twitter, but for tech nerds" has a hard requirement to either enable Javascript or download some app.

Patches welcome
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