this has been happening for a while, just getting coverage again now. first coverage was months ago. morphed/evolved pretty quickly out of the typosquatting shit

((a lot of people in the) security space absolutely fucking loves “giving names” to things that have been happening before, and acting like suddenly they’re the ones who first saw the thing. see this nonsense for another good example of that happening)

for the same reasons as this, not really a thing I’d post, even in jest

the existence of these callcenters (often in india, but hardly only there - much of africa is beset by the same problem) is an outright fucking feature of the years-long capitalist market optimisation hell-loop. and as annoying as their “output” (for lack of a better word) may be in one’s daily life, at the end of the day it’s still a bunch of people at the bottom rung getting fucked

(e: I mention “callcenters” but “AI support centers”/“data review”/“remote shoppers”/… - it’s all the same fucking exploitation-offshoring dynamic)

+1! and there’s so many better options anyway!

right off the top of my head (in addition to inside/instead): incognito, insecurely

not true! if I want to be really fucking angry, pgp is a great solution to getting that done quickly!

[✅] “achievement” unclocked

oh good for once it’s not me thinking up the cursed word

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I am so fucking tired of “just tie the PoW into every protocol interaction and every device! what do you mean old devices can’t be updated? you’re just afraid of the future!” fucking fans

chucklefucks coming along shouting “you don’t know what you’re talking about!” while having little fucking idea what the person they’re engaging with actually does

oh yes, keep telling me how I don’t know things, that’s the stuff. straight into my veins! such a good, clever little poster!

the services I host in my home

I’m sorry but PoW is a very basic subject in CS and you are the one showing your ignorance

arf arf arf

you are not tall enough for this ride, go have some candyfloss and throw some balls in holes

how does one become an irate anteater? is it mostly by lacking ants to eat and instead consuming only inaccurate thinkpieces about how the will-never-pay-you-the-bagholder casino “works”?

an accurate point! and completely irrelevant! congratulations

tell me you’ve never dealt with human-facing network systems without telling me you’ve never dealt with human facing network systems

Samizdat of the Sneer ?

Has your friend talked with current bio research students? It’s very common to hear that people are having success writing Python/R/Matlab/bash scripts using these tools when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to.

Possibly this is just among the smallish group of students I know at MIT, but I would be surprised to hear that a biomedical researcher has no use for them.

ahahahahaaha

cross-posting to here as well for whoever finds this thread from pivot: please enjoy this unfortunate discovery that I stumbled upon yesterday

it’s also such a weird position for critique to take, imo; DCs don’t really do much in the way of Local Job Generation, and I’d fucking bet that each of these locations also got selected because of favourable gladhanding credits (tax incentives, power incentives, etc)

I suppose “all the ${whatever business} that got bought out and flattened (for buildout space) is still gone” is maybe one harm, but again… these things don’t get built on high streets

I found it really fun to drag the filter sliders around and cackle at the remaining details

roll up to 180k and you get one that can do 18kg load! amazing

I also quite like Themis V2! “$120k for the privilege of being sued by disney for looking too starwars” is just one hell of a pitch

I just made an unfortunate discovery so now y’all get to see it too