Technology

as in RTFA

It's a trash source that gets a lot of traffic because its editorial lean is anti-AI and it summarizes other paywalled sources. I'm not a fan, even if I'm also anti-AI.

100% user error.

If you work (as in LITERALLY GET PAID TO DO SO) back/front end, IT or devops there's absolutely no excuse to expose your digital self like an absolute fucking idiot not checking where the fuck are you & what the fuck are you running.

Sleazy propaganda is sleazy propaganda even if it's in my favor.

Yeah, Futurism's presentation is always overly dramatic and clickbaity. I end up learning more by clicking on the embedded links in the articles than the articles themselves.

Also crazy how they are just allowed to “indulge” themselves with vibecoding on a machine that can access live production servers.

If we blamed every low level individual idiot who falls for malware, we'd be here all day and the malware would still be there. How about we blame the people pushing malware to millions of idiots? Also the companies who can't even employ the most basic cybersecurity best practices to protect their own assets. It's not like they were a small startup that can't afford to.

Yeah but a secure system should have stopped them. And even if that first safety net failed another one should have stopped the hackers from accessing the client’s crypto accounts. Why does a software dev’s computer need access to the live accounts.

Also why can they just access any website? Shit should’ve been locked down. They should’ve only be able to access whitelisted websites.

I'll still blame the corporation gaining god knows how much money with this over the individual person, even if I also think a Developer should have known better.

Vibe coders

An argument could be made that someone untrained (many vibe coders) shouldn't be in positions that would fall for this. A stretch, but still valid.

Frankly, I'm horrified at the idea of someone with so little self-preservation that they would turn off the security cameras in a school bus. The person that camera most helps is the bus driver.

I work as a substitute teacher, and frankly I WISH we had cameras in the classrooms. The horror stories I've heard? Kids are not above making false allegations against teachers they don't like. Hell, groups of them will collude to do so to bring down a teacher they don't like. Some kids a are just psychos. (Or more charitably, they simply haven't morally matured.)

I've been lucky to not have this happen to me, but sometimes kids will just straight-up lie to cover for their own bad behavior, or to get back at a teacher that dared to discipline them. With regular teachers, they usually have enough protections to require a formal investigation. But with substitutes? Often schools or districts will just fire a sub and not think twice of it, even when an allegation is completely ridiculous. It's easier to make the sub disappear than to thoroughly investigate a claim.

I WISH I had cameras in my classrooms. As a substitute, it would allow the teacher to directly see the kind of behavior their kids engage in while away, and to discipline the troublemakers accordingly. For regular teachers, it would both prevent false allegations and also prevent litigious parents of disruptive students from working the system. Plenty of parents think so little of teachers that they will believe a lying 6th grader over an adult, trained, and licensed teacher.

I wouldn't feel any lack of privacy as a teacher from having cameras right in the classroom. I already have to deal with many eyes on me all day long. I work every day knowing I have to be careful with what I say or how I act.

I can understand why the students wouldn't want cameras in the classroom. The bad kids don't want accountability and everyone wants a little privacy. But for the school employee? It's baffling to me why you wouldn't want your workplace recorded. One false accusation can ruin your entire career.

What the fuck? I did that when i was like 13. If someone wrote this as a story, no one would believe it, because its too stupid, but fucking hell, reality is dumber than fiction.