VitoRobles

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[–] VitoRobles 3 points 18 hours ago

Just joined tuta a week ago from jumping ship out of Proton. They had a pretty nice sale going on.

[–] VitoRobles 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

When I emailed their support team about this, they went real fucking weird on the response.

They linked to that medium post too. They linked to a random Reddit post.

They said things like, "He can't be racist", which is fucking weird because I was pointing out that I don't want a company that focuses on privacy to be licking the boot of any government. Which is extra strange they didn't bring that up at all.

Proton and their whole company is suspicious as fuck. I absolutely believe if their company starts to flounder financially, they're going to sell access - no question.

[–] VitoRobles 3 points 18 hours ago

This bothers me more than it should.

Shoddy writeups quickly inject reference links just to make their page look more trustworthy and SEO-friendly, while also not actually READING the links they add.

[–] VitoRobles 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My friend in her 30s avoids dating apps because on those apps, either the guy calls himself a centralist and then wants a trad wife and a woman to know her place, or he calls himself not politically active and only listens to Joe Rogan for the discussions nobody else talks about.

Where my single male friends who are good dudes are afraid every woman is just a OF influencer.

I feel sorry for the dating scene.

[–] VitoRobles 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I'm not a Republican, I'm a centralist." (Proceeds to list pro-republican things, bash Democrats, then talk about how weed is okay.)

[–] VitoRobles 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The cyber security emails in my company are so fucked up that everyone is paranoid to open up any email. Maybe it was fear. Or maybe it was collective malicious compliance. Or maybe we're all just sick of it.

A manager last week said nobody filled out a company intake form because they used a new survey software, so the url didn't look familiar.

The CFO emailed a PDF of a presentation and people were afraid to view it during meetings.

In the chat software, we are constantly going, "Is this real?"

Congrats security nerds.

[–] VitoRobles 77 points 4 days ago

Had a economics professor who wore cargo shorts and a hoodie to lecture halls. He rode a foldable bike and I'm pretty sure he skateboarded on weekends.

He was getting an achievement award for something and he goes in a full blown suit and tie. I asked him why he didn't go in his usual clothes, and he said, "I need a couple more awards and sit at the top before I can do that."

That's my goal.

[–] VitoRobles 25 points 5 days ago (4 children)

And then we laugh and go, "What a sick and crazy idea and by pointing out how crazy it is, society will learn not to do this."

And then a decade later, you'll see it in stores.

Source: am in marketing.

[–] VitoRobles 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was not expecting this to be a 40 minute youtube video.

[–] VitoRobles 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I feel old because I remember when this conversation was happening with airbrushing photographs and then Photoshop.

And now these days, really good Photoshop is invisible. We can remove people from backgrounds. We can improve the lighting. Movie CGI is just photoshooting stills.

AI will reach that stage too, where it will be so good, it's scary that you can't tell.

[–] VitoRobles 17 points 6 days ago

Average Republican.

[–] VitoRobles 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, always do this for subscriptions. Go to their website.

The company is losing money if you subscribe via the app. But being on the app store is critical for them.

 

I work downtown. I personally take the bus to work and walk.

While getting feedback from our paid intern's experience, one complained about having to pay for parking.

Because I naturally always support the interns, I pushed for that perk. Why shouldn't they get all the help they need? They're young, they have a busy life and they're trying their best.

But my coworker (who drives) said, "Theres street parking and they are complaining they have to walk 14 minutes over."

Now my internal "Fuck Cars" position is battling with my "Give the Interns everything".

I'm not the deciding factor. Just wanted to share this.

 

John Schwarz, the 57-year-old founder of The People's Union USA, is calling on Americans to boycott Amazon and its companies, including Zappos, Ring, Whole Foods, Twitch and Prime Video, for one week.

 

Summary

Alan Filion, an 18-year-old from California, was sentenced to four years in federal prison for orchestrating 375 swatting incidents between August 2022 and January 2024. Operating under various aliases, Filion charged clients for making false emergency calls that prompted significant police responses. His hoaxes included threats of school shootings and bombings, targeting institutions across the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Despite being questioned by the FBI in July 2023, he continued his activities until his arrest in January 2024, where he pled guilty to multiple charges.

 

A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.

The updates, shown in Github commits, are to a database for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Head Start program. They show a project called “Remove-DEI,” which reveal some of the back-and-forth that is happening behind the scenes to align federal agencies with Donald Trump’s executive orders that forbid almost anything having to do with race or gender within federal agencies. The Github pages show software engineers discussing amongst themselves how to best remove all instances of “forbidden words” from a specific database, and the code updates they used to do it. The changes also show that, while thousands of government datasets are disappearing from the internet, even ones that remain are having parts of their utility deprecated or broken in a way that may not be visible to those outside the government.

 
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The new phenomenon involves Gen Z employees accepting job offers but not showing up on their first day without informing their employers.

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