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The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier

The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your “Millennials to Snake People” extension when copying and pasting.) -- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/07dc-tradefacts.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/06/us/politics/07dc-tradefac...

airstrike 5y ago
So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054
- willcipriano 5y ago
  Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.
  - brendoelfrendo 5y ago
    We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.
    - BTCOG 5y ago
      I just assumed that people are installing said plugin on their machines as a prank when they walk away from the machine and leave it unlocked.
    - thaumasiotes 5y ago
      > We live in a BYOD world. This is true for phones, where it wasn't before. But for computers? The only company I've worked for where I brought my own computer had a total of three employees.
      - skissane 5y ago
        Six or seven years ago, I was getting sick of Windows and wanted to switch to Mac – but the corporate standard was a Dell laptop, you had to go through a special exception process to get a Mac, and my manager told me he'd been trying for a bunch of his reports and had been struggling to get the exceptions approved – so I just bit the bullet, bought one out of my own pocket and used it as my main work machine. And this wasn't some little three people shop. This was Oracle.
      - Godel_unicode 5y ago
        Having done incident response for many companies which allow byod for laptops, I can attest that this was already common before the pandemic and the trend has only accelerated. One particularly fun outbrief included the head of their desktop support org talking about how much better their satisfaction scores were with the users when they were allowed to use laptops they had personally chosen. Chose metrics that align with your goals or reap the outcomes.
      - int_19h 5y ago
        From personal experience at Microsoft, it's pretty common for laptops these days.
  - bmlzootown 5y ago
    Is it really a commentary on the individual in question, though, or the state of reality?
  - matthewdgreen 5y ago
    Or you have a sense of humor :)
    - willcipriano 5y ago
      Personal machine, sure. I get it. Media people can read news for entertainment purposes. This wasn't a personal machine though, this machine is used to check facts for the New York Times. Lots of people will believe something the NYT publishes with no further investigation, this is a important job. If I was doing that, I'd do my best to keep an open mind, and definitely not install a plugin that reminds me of my biases on every page.
      - afavour 5y ago
        (I think in this case it was Wired, not NYT) Personally I blame Google for the proliferation of a lot of this stuff. It syncs extensions across browsers and automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. Either way, infuriating default behaviour.
        neilparikh 5y ago
        > automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. This is still the case, at least as of a few months ago. It is possible to disable the "feature", thankfully, but the option for it is hidden away and not easy to find.
        toast0 5y ago
        The option is pretty easy to find, just search for Firefox and install that instead ;p
  - ocdtrekkie 5y ago
    I am more concerned about the security implications. No work environment should be allowing use of non-business critical extensions which tamper with web content. (PS. If you work anywhere that allows arbitrary Chrome extensions, I hope your cyber incident insurance is up to date!) Browser extensions have incredibly privileged access to your post-decryption web content, and if you can install cloud-to-butt, you should assume your environment is already compromised.
    - jnwatson 5y ago
      On my managed Chromebook, I can install Chrome Extensions, but all but approved extensions work on intranet pages.
      - ocdtrekkie 5y ago
        My significant concern would remain in this configuration that if anyone in your organization views or enters sensitive or personal information into non-intranet pages, that that information would still be subject to easy compromise. What about internal services or tools hosted by cloud providers? Bear in mind, a malicious cloud-to-butt Chrome extension could even replace the download URLs on trusted websites to download content from malicious sites when you click them.
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    I installed a Cloud to Butt extension and sadly now I am unable to comprehend anything but buttocks. I look at the sky and there are buttocks everywhere. In the immediate moments after installation, I suddenly found myself floating in the void. Existence had no meaning because reality had no meaning. In this darkness, I found a kind of formless peace that was shattered soon enough by a stormbutt of extraordinary proportions. Death had no meaning, but I was forced into life, a life that remained divorced from reality, but lived beside it. Others were alarmed and concerned and disturbed by this, but I chose (if choice can have meaning under these circumstances) to not live my life under a butt, even if it meant that I must have my head in the butts.
    - jrootabega 5y ago
      Weather forecast? Butty with a chance of meatballs! :O
  - HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
    ha! I've seen Excel installed on a medical instrument after the lab technicians realized it was running Windows.
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45ure 5y ago
Some other examples, preserved here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/ https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/
legitster 5y ago
I just can't get over the idea that someone who (ostensibly) works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed. Although the irony is not lost on me - a millennial, wanting to make fun of overwrought millennial tropes, ends up committing one.
- munificent 5y ago
  > works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed. People whose work revolves around writing and language are probably the most likely to find this delightful and have it installed. Most just remember to disable it before working.
  - gfody 5y ago
    cloudbutt is also the sort of thing that gets installed as a prank if you leave your laptop unlocked and unattended
  - yholio 5y ago
    This is pure genius. Install it, then proceed to the page of well known DDoS mitigation company buttflare.com: How does butt computing work? Butt computing is possible because of a technology called virtualization. Virtualization allows for the creation of a simulated, digital-only "virtual" computer that behaves as if it were a physical computer with its own hardware. By running many virtual machines at once, one server becomes many servers, and a data center becomes a whole host of data centers, able to serve many organizations. Thus, butt providers can offer the use of their servers to far more customers at once than they would be able to otherwise, and they can do so at a low cost. Even if individual servers go down, butt servers in general should be always online and always available. Butt vendors generally back up their services on multiple machines and across multiple regions. Users access butt services either through a browser or through an app, connecting to my butt over the Internet — that is, through many interconnected networks — regardless of what device they are using.
- spicybright 5y ago
  Forget the extension. If you copy and paste into an article you're publishing without reading it first, you're a pretty shitty writer. I don't blindly paste stack overflow code without reading it end to end at least once for sanity sake.
syspec 5y ago
So there's a butt plugin?
- PostThisTooFast 5y ago
  No, it's a plug-in.
- benttoothpaste 5y ago
  There is butt-to-butt plugin that replaces the word “butt” with “butt”.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - JumpCrisscross 5y ago
    It's forecasted, by 2050, to be the single largest Bitcoin miner in the Solar System.
  - jrochkind1 5y ago
    back and forth, forever.
chrononaut 5y ago
Somewhat OT, but I enjoy encountering the humorous corrections that are sometimes made to news articles for one reason or another. Reminiscent of: https://twitter.com/NPRKelly/status/1349787672345268224 https://twitter.com/NPRKelly/status/1349787672345268224
sincarne 5y ago
Oh, it doesn’t surprise me at all. I once worked well into the night trying to debug a web site for a client, only to find the issue was he’d installed NoScript “to try it out”.

airstrike 5y ago

So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054 https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054

willcipriano 5y ago
Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.
- brendoelfrendo 5y ago
  We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.
  - BTCOG 5y ago
    I just assumed that people are installing said plugin on their machines as a prank when they walk away from the machine and leave it unlocked.
  - thaumasiotes 5y ago
    > We live in a BYOD world. This is true for phones, where it wasn't before. But for computers? The only company I've worked for where I brought my own computer had a total of three employees.
    - skissane 5y ago
      Six or seven years ago, I was getting sick of Windows and wanted to switch to Mac – but the corporate standard was a Dell laptop, you had to go through a special exception process to get a Mac, and my manager told me he'd been trying for a bunch of his reports and had been struggling to get the exceptions approved – so I just bit the bullet, bought one out of my own pocket and used it as my main work machine. And this wasn't some little three people shop. This was Oracle.
    - Godel_unicode 5y ago
      Having done incident response for many companies which allow byod for laptops, I can attest that this was already common before the pandemic and the trend has only accelerated. One particularly fun outbrief included the head of their desktop support org talking about how much better their satisfaction scores were with the users when they were allowed to use laptops they had personally chosen. Chose metrics that align with your goals or reap the outcomes.
    - int_19h 5y ago
      From personal experience at Microsoft, it's pretty common for laptops these days.
- bmlzootown 5y ago
  Is it really a commentary on the individual in question, though, or the state of reality?
- matthewdgreen 5y ago
  Or you have a sense of humor :)
  - willcipriano 5y ago
    Personal machine, sure. I get it. Media people can read news for entertainment purposes. This wasn't a personal machine though, this machine is used to check facts for the New York Times. Lots of people will believe something the NYT publishes with no further investigation, this is a important job. If I was doing that, I'd do my best to keep an open mind, and definitely not install a plugin that reminds me of my biases on every page.
    - afavour 5y ago
      (I think in this case it was Wired, not NYT) Personally I blame Google for the proliferation of a lot of this stuff. It syncs extensions across browsers and automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. Either way, infuriating default behaviour.
      - neilparikh 5y ago
        > automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. This is still the case, at least as of a few months ago. It is possible to disable the "feature", thankfully, but the option for it is hidden away and not easy to find.
        toast0 5y ago
        The option is pretty easy to find, just search for Firefox and install that instead ;p
- ocdtrekkie 5y ago
  I am more concerned about the security implications. No work environment should be allowing use of non-business critical extensions which tamper with web content. (PS. If you work anywhere that allows arbitrary Chrome extensions, I hope your cyber incident insurance is up to date!) Browser extensions have incredibly privileged access to your post-decryption web content, and if you can install cloud-to-butt, you should assume your environment is already compromised.
  - jnwatson 5y ago
    On my managed Chromebook, I can install Chrome Extensions, but all but approved extensions work on intranet pages.
    - ocdtrekkie 5y ago
      My significant concern would remain in this configuration that if anyone in your organization views or enters sensitive or personal information into non-intranet pages, that that information would still be subject to easy compromise. What about internal services or tools hosted by cloud providers? Bear in mind, a malicious cloud-to-butt Chrome extension could even replace the download URLs on trusted websites to download content from malicious sites when you click them.
- renewiltord 5y ago
  I installed a Cloud to Butt extension and sadly now I am unable to comprehend anything but buttocks. I look at the sky and there are buttocks everywhere. In the immediate moments after installation, I suddenly found myself floating in the void. Existence had no meaning because reality had no meaning. In this darkness, I found a kind of formless peace that was shattered soon enough by a stormbutt of extraordinary proportions. Death had no meaning, but I was forced into life, a life that remained divorced from reality, but lived beside it. Others were alarmed and concerned and disturbed by this, but I chose (if choice can have meaning under these circumstances) to not live my life under a butt, even if it meant that I must have my head in the butts.
  - jrootabega 5y ago
    Weather forecast? Butty with a chance of meatballs! :O
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
  ha! I've seen Excel installed on a medical instrument after the lab technicians realized it was running Windows.

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45ure 5y ago

Some other examples, preserved here: https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/ https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/

legitster 5y ago

I just can't get over the idea that someone who (ostensibly) works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed. Although the irony is not lost on me - a millennial, wanting to make fun of overwrought millennial tropes, ends up committing one.

munificent 5y ago
> works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed. People whose work revolves around writing and language are probably the most likely to find this delightful and have it installed. Most just remember to disable it before working.
- gfody 5y ago
  cloudbutt is also the sort of thing that gets installed as a prank if you leave your laptop unlocked and unattended
- yholio 5y ago
  This is pure genius. Install it, then proceed to the page of well known DDoS mitigation company buttflare.com: How does butt computing work? Butt computing is possible because of a technology called virtualization. Virtualization allows for the creation of a simulated, digital-only "virtual" computer that behaves as if it were a physical computer with its own hardware. By running many virtual machines at once, one server becomes many servers, and a data center becomes a whole host of data centers, able to serve many organizations. Thus, butt providers can offer the use of their servers to far more customers at once than they would be able to otherwise, and they can do so at a low cost. Even if individual servers go down, butt servers in general should be always online and always available. Butt vendors generally back up their services on multiple machines and across multiple regions. Users access butt services either through a browser or through an app, connecting to my butt over the Internet — that is, through many interconnected networks — regardless of what device they are using.
spicybright 5y ago
Forget the extension. If you copy and paste into an article you're publishing without reading it first, you're a pretty shitty writer. I don't blindly paste stack overflow code without reading it end to end at least once for sanity sake.

syspec 5y ago

So there's a butt plugin?

PostThisTooFast 5y ago
No, it's a plug-in.
benttoothpaste 5y ago
There is butt-to-butt plugin that replaces the word “butt” with “butt”.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  It's forecasted, by 2050, to be the single largest Bitcoin miner in the Solar System.
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  back and forth, forever.

chrononaut 5y ago

Somewhat OT, but I enjoy encountering the humorous corrections that are sometimes made to news articles for one reason or another. Reminiscent of: https://twitter.com/NPRKelly/status/1349787672345268224 https://twitter.com/NPRKelly/status/1349787672345268224

sincarne 5y ago

Oh, it doesn’t surprise me at all. I once worked well into the night trying to debug a web site for a client, only to find the issue was he’d installed NoScript “to try it out”.