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Or they could be inadvertently flipped if the "locking" version was not installed: (see the avherald link):

>>India's media report that the investigation is NOT focussing on a human action causing the fuel switches to appear in the CUTOFF position, but on a system failure. Service Bulletins by Boeing issued in year 2018 recommending to upgrade the fuel switches to locked versions to prevent inadvertent flip of the switches, as well as the FAA/GE issued Service Bulletin FAA-2021-0273-0013 Attachment 2 relating to loss of control issue (also see above) were NOT implemented by Air India.


https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/NM-18-33.pdf/SIB_NM-18-33_1

> Recommendations The FAA recommends that all owners and operators of the affected airplanes incorporate the following actions at the earliest opportunity: 1) Inspect the locking feature of the fuel control switch to ensure its engagement. While the airplane is on the ground, check whether the fuel control switch can be moved between the two positions without lifting up the switch. If the switch can be moved without lifting it up, the locking feature has been disengaged and the switch should be replaced at the earliest opportunity. 2) For Boeing Model 737-700, -700C, -800, and -900ER series airplanes and Boeing Model 737- 8 and -9 airplanes delivered with a fuel control switch having P/N 766AT613-3D: Replace the fuel control switch with a switch having P/N 766AT614-3D, which includes an improved locking feature.


I’m sorry to tell you this, but that appears to be an AI hallucination.

https://www.regulations.gov/document/FAA-2021-0273-0013

None of the attachments reference the fuel cutoff switches.


The peer comment to your own has a link to a real doc that supports the claim:

https://ad.easa.europa.eu/blob/NM-18-33.pdf/SIB_NM-18-33_1


No because the report says that the switches were turned off 1 second apart. This was a deliberate action.


Except when they are not:

From the avherald link:

>Service Bulletins by Boeing issued in year 2018 recommending to upgrade the fuel switches to locked versions to prevent inadvertent flip of the switches, as well as the FAA/GE issued Service Bulletin FAA-2021-0273-0013 Attachment 2 relating to loss of control issue (also see above) were NOT implemented by Air India.


You've linked to something regarding an ECU component. Nothing about fuel switches. "This Service Bulletin provides instructions to replace the EEC MN4 bridge ball grid array (BGA) microprocessor"


Because that maintenance check is an optional one as stipulated by Boeing. I don't think most users of the 787 themselves carry out the check, so singling out Air India for this alone is just bad faith


Encrypted backups are "off" by default and need to be explicity turned on.


I haven't installed Whatsapp from scratch in a long time, aren't backups off by default, overall?


They're off by default, but there are regular prompts to enable them and I guess most people eventually do it.


>Does Whatsapp expose these messages via an API?

Whatsapp has dark patterns that "guide" you to "archive" your chats on google drive.


No other app can get to that backup data though except the original one that made the backup. Not even the owner of the account is allowed access to it (which I'm almost sure is a GDPR violation)!

I'm not saying it's impossible that Google just grants their own app an (IMO indefensible) exception to this. But the potential shitstorm would be massive, so I assume they probably use some other way, such as screen recording or accessibility features.


> If people aren’t willing to pay for the products, these companies have figured out how to make the customers’ data the product.

This happens even when people pay for the products. See for instance the enshittification of streaming "ad free" services.


>When you speak a foreign language than English, you accent is bound to be messed up. Look at Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans or other people who speak dual langauge. There is always something off about their accent.

in the case of Indian Americans or Pakistani Americans, I've seen that it's not about the accent, but about the vocalization: there are some sounds that are exclusive to English that simply don't exist in Indian languages. As an example: the "f" or "v" sound - made by lightly touching your bottom lip to your upper teeth and then blowing air through (unvocalized for "f" and vocalized for "v").

Similarly for "th" - you stick your tongue out between your teeth and the sound of the air flowing through that restriction is what defines the "th" (vocalized or unvocalized). I guarantee that if you start making these sounds in these ways, you will be seen as closer to a native speaker of English.


>If we can’t do anything about it, then might as well not think about it.

The thing is, we can do something about it, but unfortunately we've been lobbied into believing that profits trump "doing something about it".


One thing we can do is to understand denial is a normal human defense mechanism. Better to avoid triggering denial by not making people afraid of the future. And when denial exists in a person already, best to avoid arguing with or labeling that person and getting them more deeply invested in their denial. Yet, too often we’ve: overwhelmed people with fear, argued with them when they tended towards normal defense mechanisms to cope with that fear, and then labeled people so their initial reaction of denial becomes a permanent part of their identity. Amazingly that isn’t saving the planet too quickly.


That's fair, but it turns out that indulging the denial does not lead to positive results either. So where does that leave us?


I run slack as a tab in a browser too, and in my case _disabling_ browser notifications has made slack a joy to use.


Can't imagine myself doing that at work. People still ask me why it always takes me hours before responding to their messages, many of which are time-sensitive.


I guess every org uses Slack differently. Removing the notifications would remove 90% of the utility for me vs just using email.


Isn't "vibe coding" a natural progression from https://github.com/mattdiamond/fuckitjs ?

  Through a process known as Eval-Rinse-Reload-And-Repeat, FuckItJS repeatedly compiles your code, detecting errors and slicing those lines out of the script. To survive such a violent process, FuckItJS reloads itself after each iteration, allowing the onerror handler to catch every single error in your terribly written code.


One of my favorite JS libs. I assume it's part of the validator sequence in LLMs that write JS code :D


This is already being explored. See:

https://nlp.elvissaravia.com/i/159010545/auditing-llms-for-h...

  The researchers deliberately train a language model with a concealed objective (making it exploit reward model flaws in RLHF) and then attempt to expose it with different auditing techniques.


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