Post #1931639
2026-05-02 06:07 UTC
@yacc143 @dotjayne
Yes, I agree.
My point was more: You could always blame a single person or human error.
"This was not a systematic problem, that was this one person doing something very wrong."
Not having an offline copy of your data is obviously a "systematic" problem at a certain scale. As is not revoking old keys, having a proper overview regarding permissions etc.
I think that so little goes wrong because people are normally rather careful. And our systems are designed for careful people, not careless ones.
Now we have tools that are essentially random, but it feels like "random with intent": Deleting one database is an accident, deleting all of them is having an accident, then following through.
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@yacc143@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 10:13
@wakame @dotjayne Not a full agree. We have no problem with laughing at the AIs. When humans screwed up, it was usually not reported as a gigantic headline, often not at all, because considerable effort was spent to cover up embarrassing failures. Philosophically, classifying roughly, probably 10% of work life was spent on some form of data recovery effort that some dear human colleague caused in the first place. Admittedly, that's likely related to the fact that I worked a good part of my