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by richbell 3y ago
> What they are doing is finding posts from queer children, teachers, or parents, adding a line that frames it as inherently pedophilic or something Can you provide some examples of this? "Pedophilic or something" is pretty ope
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by richbell 3y ago
> didnt read the article but even if the clickbait was true... If you didn't read the article then calling it clickbait is extremely disingenuous.
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by richbell 3y ago
Intervening in specific parts _does_ cause problems for the site as a whole: it damages Wikipedia's reputation.
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And was so severely rate-limited that it was unusable for even logged in members for a while?
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by richbell 3y ago
> admins don’t intervene often enough for their misjudgements to cause a problem for the whole website Sure, but admins can influence the narrative of specific topics/pages that they care about.
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by richbell 3y ago
There's also https://www.hackerone.com/internet-bug-bounty
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by richbell 3y ago
A popular belief in the Deaf community is that having hearing children is undesirable. Some people argue that things like cochlear implants are "genocide."
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by richbell 3y ago
> Since the first author name is zero characters long, the regex skips that line, and the fake second author line is used instead. Git ignores extra author lines after the first, so Codespaces looks at the second author line but Git look
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by richbell 3y ago
> Epstein is a saint compared to a truly evil person. What did he even do? Him and his buddies slept with some 16 year olds from what I know. That’s not even a crime in most countries. Child prostitution and sex trafficking is a crime in
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by richbell 3y ago
IBM conveniently does not seem to offer bug bounties. Granted, it's possible that they have a private program. https://hackerone.com/ibm
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by richbell 3y ago
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?' https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-p...
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by richbell 3y ago
It's rampant. Locksmiths, appliance repairs, flowers, you name it. Unfortunately, I have not had similar luck in reporting obviously fake businesses. https://youtu.be/bvlzZnhZhrc
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by richbell 3y ago
Yeah. The issue wasn't that nobody knew it was broken, it's that they knew it was broken and rolled it out anyway .
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by richbell 3y ago
My friend's company hires one of the big consulting firms every year to create a report of all their "innovative" research and development. It's both hilarious and disheartening how much of a tax grift it is.
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by richbell 3y ago
You'd think such obvious payroll issues would be caught, yet there's stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pay_system
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by richbell 3y ago
I wonder what their testing looks like these days. My impression is that they fired their QA and never looked back... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20557488
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by richbell 3y ago
This is a reductive take that adds nothing to the discussion. If "work[ing] all the time" was really what differentiated the wealthy from the poor, my 70 year old neighbour working 2 jobs would be a millionaire.
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by richbell 3y ago
It's intriguing how many people frame this as "stealing." How do you think many people become billionaires? It isn't through fair competition and treating workers well.
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by richbell 3y ago
Does anyone know what "MC" and "RC" refer to?
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by richbell 3y ago
It depends. Sometimes companies only permit testing in specific test domains, other times they permit it as long as your activity is clearly identifiable (e.g., including a custom header in all request). It does seem like walking a precario
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by richbell 3y ago
You can't do much beyond setting up a corporate proxy that blocks or inspects outbound connections. Even then, you're relying on luck. These days it's practically a necessity for companies to shell out money to some sort of s
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by richbell 3y ago
It depends on the company. Many companies have bug bounty or vulnerability disclosure programs that explicitly guarantee safe harbor+protections for researchers. However, not all organizations are happy to be contacted about security issues
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by richbell 3y ago
Drew DeVault isn't exactly known for his thoughtful and well-reasoned takes.
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by richbell 3y ago
What exactly are you trying to say here?
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by richbell 3y ago
This seems quite condescending; I'm not sure if that's your intent. I've met people who have "taken refuge" in such communities precisely because of real life interactions. E.g., being bullied continuously through s
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by richbell 3y ago
It's important to note that the use of the phrase "its important to consider" is not a reliable indicator that text was generated by ChatGPT. It is a common phrase used by many people across the world.
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by richbell 3y ago
Maybe where you live. A lot of places only require single party consent.
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Is it possible to learn how to fluently read APL or do people create programs for sport, similar to Brainfuck? As someone unfamiliar with it, this looks like the product of some sort of charset/unicorn decoding error rather than a cohe
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by richbell 3y ago
> > I understand that this is not your use case, but it doesn't apply to everybody, right? Please notice that this is not a feature request, but a regression report. Something in 1.17.1 broke a useful feature, but no changelog ex
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by richbell 3y ago
Hopefully!

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