StrangerThanGene

StrangerThanGene t1_j63xi3b wrote

>My laser cutter failed to properly cut through some Perspex

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> in my experience failure is in some sense always the impetus

The impetus was whatever made you want the cut Perspex in the first place. The failure was just a hindrance.

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StrangerThanGene t1_j4tkrxd wrote

It's 2023.

The spell-check changed impetus to impotence - two entirely different words with two entirely different meanings because I typed 'impotus.'

You're talking about a future where based on this concept... we're going to start using AI for homework... which directly contradicts the entire point of homework and it's going to be normal in academia.

Dude, have you seen what the Chromebooks in schools are actually used for? It isn't education.

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StrangerThanGene t1_j2xd0da wrote

>The internal ByteDance report, as first reported by the New York Times, found that the employees accessed IP addresses and other data of two U.S.-based reporters via their TikTok accounts — one for BuzzFeed News and one at the Financial Times — along with several individuals connected to the reporters.

This should be even more concerning. ByteDance is a company that allows employees user-access to database entries.

This is... wildly unsecure. Screw the employees, how in the hell did they even have access to client IP information? It's literally not something any employee would ever have cause to access. This is why we write functions to handle traffic.

The fact that this happened at all should be setting off every alarm bell and red flag you have about data security.

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