Lol, I wrote contractor code for DoD. Obviously, DoD wants really good security on their code. One particularly bad project I ended up as a subcontractor on, management kept insisting that what we were coding was a prototype, and we could add in the security in the actual project. And all us coders were like, "No, you're having us write the actual project and the security has to be designed into it from the base up, 'adding it in later' like you won't admit you're planning on doing will leave way too many places for security holes to occur. Let us stop programming this shit and design some actual security and then get back to work." We were told "lol, no, you don't know what you're talking about, this is just a prototype, get back to work."
We had little buttons printed up saying, "Don't worry: this is just the prototype, we'll do the real programming later."
Of course, two years later, the "prototype phase" ends, and management comes to us and says, "Hey, okay, so we've decided that what you've been working on is what we're actually going to ship. You need to go back and make it fit all these really-high-level-security requirements." Which of course would mean going through all this code and essentially redesigning and rewriting over half of it from scratch. Over half the coders were gone in six weeks.
higher education hasn’t done a great job of making every viewpoint feel welcome
That's fine, there are plenty of viewpoints that shouldn't be welcome in college - I can't flat earthers or 6000-year-history people passing geology, for example. The problem is that they have an entire generation of right-wing homeschooled kids who are being confronted by the unpleasant reality that their parents lied to them and did a shit job preparing them for the real world, and the parents are desperate for their charade (and their relationships with the kids they lied to) to continue for a few more years.
The researcher points out that births “will increasingly be concentrated in the areas of the world that are most vulnerable to climate change, resource scarcity, political instability, poverty and infant mortality.”
I agree with you, but ... I was on reddit since the Digg exodus. It always had it's bad side (violentacrez, jailbait, etc), but it got so much worse after GamerGate/Ellen Pao - the misogyny became weaponized. And then the alt-right moved in, deliberately trying to radicalize people, and we worked so. fucking. hard to keep their voices out of our subreddits. And we kept reporting users and other subreddits that were breaking rules, promoting violence and hatred, and all fucking spez would do is shrug and say, "hey it's a free speech issue", which was somewhere between "hey, I agree with those guys" and "nah, I can't be bothered".
So it's not like this was something reddit wasn't aware of (I'm not on Facebook or YouTube). They were warned, repeatedly, vehemently, starting all the way back in 2014, that something was going wrong with their platform and they need to do something. And they deliberately and repeatedly choose to ignore it, all the way up to the summer of 2021. Seven fucking years of warnings they ignored, from a massive range of users and moderators, including some of the top moderators on the site. And all reddit would do is shrug it's shoulders and say, "hey, free speech!" like it was a magic wand, and very occasionally try to defend itself by quoting it's 'hate speech policy', which they invoke with the same regular repetitiveness and 'thoughts and prayers' inaction as a school shooting brings. In fact, they did it in this very article:
In a statement to CNN, Reddit said, “Hate and violence have no place on Reddit. Our sitewide policies explicitly prohibit content that promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability, as well as content that encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence or physical harm against an individual or group of people. We are constantly evaluating ways to improve our detection and removal of this content, including through enhanced image-hashing systems, and we will continue to review the communities on our platform to ensure they are upholding our rules.”
As someone who modded for a number of years, that's just bullshit.
Back when I took my Anthropology class, one of the things we covered (briefly) was different styles of communicating and how the unrecognized differences between those styles causes stress and frustration between different styles. My professor said the classic example were the stereotypical differences between men and women in American culture, as evidenced in the classic complaints "my husband never listens to me!" and "my wife is always changing her mind!"
There are people who communicate that they're listening: they nod their head, they said "uhm-hmm", make eye contact, etc. And there are people who ... don't. When a person who does this style of communication doesn't get that feedback, they feel unheard and get frustrated. And when a person who doesn't do that style of feedback receives that feedback, they think the other person is agreeing with them, so they're blindsided and frustrated when the other person 'changes their mind'.
I'd suggest explaining this communication difference style to your sibling, because while it's a frustrating thing to your family right now, I've no doubt that your sibling finds (or will find) being on the other side of the divide just as frustrating.
I'd also explain that for some people, making or maintaining eye contact can be difficult, but you can get away with looking at people's chins or ears; and if even that's difficult, that's fine, but then other means of communicating that you're listening (nodding, going "uhn-hunh" or whatever) becomes even more important.
“I know there’s a ton of skepticism about Meta entering the fediverse — it’s completely understandable,” Cottle says. “I do want to kind of make a plea that I think everyone on the team has really good intentions. We really want to be a good member of the community and give people the ability to experience what the fediverse is.”
If I wanted Facebook shitposts and forwards from KlanMa, I'd've joined Facebook. And I don't believe Meta has good intentions, I believe they want to overwhelm the fediverse, and I believe they want to make money. Middle-manager Cottle and their team may have good intentions, but corporate certainly doesn't, and I certainly don't trust their users.
It was pretty obvious that Trump would try to scam Musk. Fortunately, given his own difficulties, Musk was unlikely to agree - we're just fortunate these bills are coming due so far in advance of the election. And also that, given Musk's foreign birth, he'll never be eligible to be president or vice president (something that I'm sure sticks in his craw).
He'd already said he wouldn't sell reelection. If he was really tired of the inability to get things done in Congress, and really wanted to represent the people who elected him, he'd stay til the end of his term, working across party lines to try to get things done or at least break down the perception of hard-line politics.
Instead, he's walking off the job because he wants to put space between himself and this wreck of a Congress.
They were kept in the open on a stage at MaL. They were kept in an unlocked bathroom next to a copier at MaL. They were repeatedly moved around to prevent the FBI from finding them, she the FBI didn't even search every place they were supposed to search.
Of course there are still documents he's kept, and he surely has xeroxes or photographs of everything that was "recovered".
I got it on at least 3 of my accounts, and I can't be bothered. Honestly, I think spez has been pumping whatever numbers he can to make it look good, but I don't think that'll last long, especially since he wants to pocket his shares and then go finish his doomsday bunker. And I don't think anyone they bring in to replace him will understand reddit, either.
Lol, I wrote contractor code for DoD. Obviously, DoD wants really good security on their code. One particularly bad project I ended up as a subcontractor on, management kept insisting that what we were coding was a prototype, and we could add in the security in the actual project. And all us coders were like, "No, you're having us write the actual project and the security has to be designed into it from the base up, 'adding it in later' like you won't admit you're planning on doing will leave way too many places for security holes to occur. Let us stop programming this shit and design some actual security and then get back to work." We were told "lol, no, you don't know what you're talking about, this is just a prototype, get back to work."
We had little buttons printed up saying, "Don't worry: this is just the prototype, we'll do the real programming later."
Of course, two years later, the "prototype phase" ends, and management comes to us and says, "Hey, okay, so we've decided that what you've been working on is what we're actually going to ship. You need to go back and make it fit all these really-high-level-security requirements." Which of course would mean going through all this code and essentially redesigning and rewriting over half of it from scratch. Over half the coders were gone in six weeks.
I still have my nifty little button, though.