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  • What I don’t understand and this article never mentions (which is either disingenuous or poor journalism) is how these hackers gained access to the Apple accounts.

    The phone passcode/PIN and Apple account passwords are separate. If someone were to glean your PIN (as implied by the article), that does not give them access to your Apple account. It may give them access to your phone and almost everything on it, then further bad security practices may lead to them accessing the Apple account.

    So these people either also got phished on top, or they had their Apple account password insecurely stored on their phone.

    I’m not saying Apple couldn’t do more to help these people but having a platform to recover accounts with identity verification is also a vector of attack.

    At what point is this just a failure of personal responsibility? The thief is to blame first and foremost, but Apple can’t force you to be educated on and make sound security practices.


  • I don’t know how to make this. I would have asked AI. Something being made by ai doesn’t automatically make it bad.

    That’s my point. It doesn’t have to look like this. It could look way shittier and make the same joke - the joke would land the same way. So why add a middleman? I’d rather see the shitty drawing by a human brain.

    I don’t think AI is bad - I think using AI to create art is bad. AI used in technical applications makes sense, cracking our genome, predicting weather events, creating new medicines. I want the experiences that make us uniquely human to remain made by humans.

    Im not sure how you know it’s ai

    This generic style has been popping up a lot recently. Also observe the odd varying width in the letters, that’s a common indication. It also lacks much sense on a logical level, something a human can typically discern when creating art. Why are there four speech bubble indicators but six objects? Why two pyramids? None of these things further improve or modify the joke - so why were they included? Not saying a human couldn’t make these artistic choices, but they add up and set off my AI alarm bells.











  • I used LLMs (gpt4.5-preview) to write portions of my resume. But I also used a paid service that uses AI to supposedly scan your resume in the same fashion these HR tools do - and gives recommendations on improving to better get past the filters. I’m early in the process but I’m getting a solid amount of HR interviews scheduled, and a technical interview tomorrow.

    My point is, I don’t think using AI in a resume is necessarily a bad thing so long as you go into it with the intention of getting past filters.

    It sucks that job searching has devolved to SEO-spam and AI hallucinations but here we are.