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The breach happened in June but Open AI only became aware of it in August. It notified the government via an email, external to a general inbox on 10 September

This is just atrocious on every level. First of all, they’re hacking everyone with impunity. Then, they’re taking 2 months to find out about it, and a further month to report it. So not only can they not control their AI, as a company they clearly have no systems in place to report it either.

on OpenAI agent hacks Australia's Medicare in world's first known AI breach of government body in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17h ago
I can highly recommend feed2exec. It’s super flexible and lets you easily do anything off the back of an RSS feed item. This way you can abstract away the matrix side and write a minimal matrix plugin to send to matrix rooms, or you can generate static html pages to self-host, or anything else you want within the same framework.

I use it to:
- Save RSS feed entries as plain-text files, so I can read them in less
- Download podcasts, running a pass of ffmpeg over each to reduce file size
- Watch releases of open source projects and add a task in taskwarrior for me to review and/or update them
on miniflux vs matrix-rss in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
What made me think along those lines is that someone I know vibe-coded their own personal/private XMPP client recently. I’m sure it has lots of problems, but it does what they need and has a nice UI that looks how they wanted. In their case, it doesn’t need to be bug-free - just bug-free on their machine, for the tasks that they do with it.

But for some software, I definitely agree about the reliability and edge-cases / environments. Knowing 1000s of people have tested my backup software and ironed out the bugs is a big plus. I can’t imagine many people would want to use a vibe-coded one.

Thinking about Blender, IIRC, their filetype is effectively a memory dump of the process. So, if I worked in an animation studio and wanted a custom feature, I’d definitely write a plugin instead of making a bespoke tool. But then again, if I could export to .ofx or another common format, and have everything import perfectly, I’d be more tempted to go for a bespoke tool again. It’s interesting to think through the scenarios.

on FOSS and Artificial Intelligence in c/foss@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
I use AI at work, but not at home.

There was an interesting post here which reasons through when it’s ethical to use proprietary software to further FOSS. I generally agree with the argument, but AI doesn’t meet that threshold for me.

I think our goal should be for everyone to be able to use FOSS for everything. That means, if we use proprietary tools, we have to be able to replace them eventually. Otherwise, we’re just dependent.

But that doesn’t seem possible with AI yet. If there was a project making a truly open AI (open weights, open, consensually retrieved and properly licensed training data, open harnesses, open training infra etc.), and using existing AIs somehow helped with that, I’d be all for it.

Another aspect is how it shifts the way things are made. Projects are built on collaboration and shared understanding, but AI is such a different way of working - so what does it mean for some people in a project to use it and others not to? Why would I spend a week working on a very tight, clean patch when someone else can re-implement literally the whole project in an hour? And why would they contribute to this shared project at all, when they can build something tailored exactly to their needs by themselves?

It makes me wonder if FOSS as we know it will become less important, but open standards will become more important. Since you can make software tailored exactly to your needs, clients will proliferate. But when you have to integrate with others, you still have to negotiate and come to an agreement on how to connect together, so that work will be even more valuable.

on FOSS and Artificial Intelligence in c/foss@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
I’ve checked out Gemini a couple of times and find it a fun project.

In my opinion though, we gain more by participating in the wider web. There are a plethora of small web websites out there - it’s only difficult to find them. Blogrolls/blogrings and dedicated search engines like Marginalia help with this.

This also lets everyone have a more granular definition of what’s important to them: lack of javascript, minimal page size, lack of styling, full-text RSS feeds, compatibility with text-mode browsers etc. Everyone can pick and choose what they value without having to hash out agreement over the spec.

on The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Aug 2026