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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The computer can't be held accountable, but the programmer and operator can.

I could go on a whole thing about mission rules and command decisions here, but I'm sick of typing for the day.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So when is Musk getting held accountable for making a literal US funded Nazi waifu bot

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

When the humans win the class war against the lizards.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 4 days ago

Lol what? I'm so out of the loop