I’ve worked with massive customer databases of over a million people multiple times in jobs I’ve had. And while each company has spent tens-of-thousands of dollars in cyber security to protect that data from outside hackers, none have given any fucks at all about who accessed it internally or what they do with it.

I’ve literally exported the entire customer database in two different jobs, dropped the CSV into my personal Google Drive (from my work computer), and worked entire databases at home.

No one has ever known I’ve done it, cared, or checked if I have any customer personal data when I quit.

How long do you have? Here’s the very brief summary, and full disclaimer, I don’t have dog in this race.

1. Jerusalem is an important place for both Jews and Muslims.

2. They’ve been fighting over this space for two millenia. The Roman’s had it for a long time (Christian), the Ottomans had it for a long time (Islamic).

3. After WW1 and the Ottomans were defeated, it passed onto the Turkish (Islamic).

4. After WW2, with Britain now in control of it (Palestine) and with the surviving Jews now displaced worldwide with no country to live, the U.N decided to give Jews a new home and call this new place the State of Israel. They put Israel right in the middle of Palestine, which no Islamic nation could object to because they were all defeated in war.

5. Since then, Jews call Israel their home country. Surrounding Islamic countries don’t recognise Israel and want the Jews to leave.

6. Islamic nations including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Iran, Syria have all gone to war with Israel (the 6-day War) to kick the Jews out. They’ve all lost because Israel is militarily backed by world powers. Israel is now a military powerhouse and have full control of the region.

7. Israel allow Muslim Palestinians small areas to live in the area, namely Gaza and the West Bank, but they’re not particularity nice to the Muslims living there. This is the Palestinian/Israeli war that’s been going on for almost a century.

8. This space is now two main religions crammed into a very small space. Both claim that it’s their ancestral land. Islamic nations don’t recognise Israel as a country. Most of the rest of the world does.

9. Israel has become a defensive fortress with nukes, and is surrounded by five countries that hate it. No Islamic nation is strong enough to beat Israel. Skirmishes and shit fighting continues. Sometimes it gets serious. This week it got really serious.

10. This fight will probably go on forever because of the religious significance of Jerusalem which neither the Israelis or Palestinians will ever give up claim to.

11. So who’s right and who’s wrong? Probably neither. Probably both. Probably humans are just shit.

EDIT: I know there’s lots of missing parts here but honestly, the full story would be a semester of university worth of info. I tried to keep this ultra-digestible, without bias or conspiracy or finger pointing.

Thank you below for the corrections.

Spez is out of touch.

He’s forgotten what internet users are.

We are an entire cultural shift away from rule following and shit giving, to a movement of non-compliant Boaty McBoat Faces who will happily bring the whole system down on top of ourselves.

Personally, I think every woman should go to jail for keeping her eggs in her ovaries. That’s child imprisonment.

How dare they.

I started a new job a few months ago and was on my first business trip with four colleagues recently. To make conversation I asked if anyone used Reddit.

• Two dudes had heard of it but never used it.

• One dude said he uses it infrequently because it’s turned to shit.

• One dude said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

• I said fuck Reddit and it’s API bullshit.

Thats my anecdote. 100% of the people in that car didn’t use Reddit or now hated it. Probably 3 months ago that same car ride would have had three people loving Reddit and advocating it to the other two.

Same with the Google Nest Hub.

It cost me around $600 and has a known splash-screen issue which I just woke up to one morning.

No fix available when it happens. Nothing I did caused it. I just had to bin it.

It’s either planned obsolescence or just shitty design.

Piece of shit doesn’t contact piece of shit about piece of shit, shot by piece of shit.

Next.

Not a chance.

Right now we’re using lithium-ion. In maybe a decade we’ll move to lithium-sulphide, and in perhaps 25 years we might see lithium-oxygen.

Either way, lithium is all you’ll see in commercially viable batteries for the next 50 years because lithium as an anode is as good as it gets on the Table of Elements.

Yes, you’ll see 100 reports per year about new battery tech but none of them will ever be scalable, safe enough, or cheap enough.

People should also be aware of the growing number of alternative mental therapists popping up everywhere due to the shortage in actual psychologists.

They are nothing more than life coaches with a six-month certificate in whatever-the-fuck, most of which are disguised as Masters qualifications from wherever-the-fuck.

I need to understand how one explodes diarrhoea so violently that it extends the length of the aisle of an entire plane… while fully clothed.

Maybe it was a lady in a skirt.

“You owe damages of $3M, Mr. Trump.”

“Well, she’s a nasty person.”

“You now owe $3.2M.”

“And a liar.”

“$3.5M.”

“She’s not even…”

“$4M.”

“This is horse…”

“$4.2M.”

“But I…”

“$4.8M.”

“You’re a nasty person, too.”

“$5M, Mr. Trump, plus you’re now in contempt of court. I can do this all day.”

a) discussions aren’t a crime.

b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?

c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.

Err… Venus has one of the most hostile environments in the Solar System. A titanium probe can only survive there a few hours.

Dumb.

Haha, please. You’re talking about machine learning when the best any business is using is antivirus. You forget, Boomers are still running big business and IT departments are running security.

It’s perfect world vs. real world my dude, and real world puts out tender for the cheapest solution.

Marketing Exec here. I specialise in generation segmentation. I wrote this recently for my employer:

Gen-Z

Are recession learned, young, with low disposable income and low income. They are in education, are career starters and living at home.

They are lonely, single, and spend 10 hours p/day online (hyper online consumption / always logged in) with the least attention to ads. They are engaged in people-discussing-products-and-services, prefer information over ads, and use ad blockers.

Otherwise known as ‘digital natives’, Gen-Z are highly socially consciousness (body image, cyberbullying, mental health) and highly environmentally conscious. They have a strong focus on saving and responsible spending and are quite frugal. They are study and career minded and prefer money over perks and benefits in employment. They dislike having their time wasted. They have a low attention span.

Millennials

Have long-term debt (mortgage/car/student loan) and have young children. They are not at full purchasing power, are the most adaptable generation ever to pre-and post-technology, are delayed in marriage, delayed in independence, and came of age through globalisation and economic rollercoasters.

They prefer texting/messaging, are high use smartphone users, and sleep with their phone. They are the most active and health conscious generation, environmentally conscious, and the highest consumers of web content. Learning is more compelling than buying to Millennials as they spend an average of 4 hours p/day online or with phone/apps. They prefer advisors, advice, and opinions over a corporate story. They prefer sharing economy (access not ownership). Prefer e-commerce as entertainment.

Millennials are impatient, have reduced brand loyalty, and are extremely tech savvy. They are researchers of ideas, thoughtful and seeking expertise, and love to collaborate and help companies or causes achieve. Online they use acronyms, slang, and respond to authentic but complex language. They prefer honesty and being empowered. They are price aware.

Religion.

You’re all like Star Wars fans to me.

This isn’t over by a long stretch, dude. There will be guerrilla shit going on for a long time. Mods who have returned are already half-assing their jobs, people are demanding pay, and the user base is fractured.

Plus, this isn’t the end of Reddit’s bullshit. They’ll keep pumping out more ads and making more unpopular changes. Name the last big company that ever said, “Okay, that’s enough money made. We can go back to good service and a reliable product now.”

Aussie subtleties of the c-word.

1. “Silly Cunt” = funny person (endearing)

2. “Stupid Cunt” = complete idiot (serious)

3. “Dumb Cunt” = a good mate acting stupid (jovial)

4. “This Cunt” = referring to a good mate who’s done/said something uniquely odd (jovial)

5. “Acting like a Cunt” = acting terribly (serious)

6. “Don’t be a Cunt” = stop acting terribly (serious)

7. “Bunch of Cunts” = all your good mates (endearing)

8. “Good Cunt” = the best compliment you can receive (endearing)

9. “Dog Cunt” = the worst insult you can receive (get ready to fight)

10. “Shit Cunt” = insult (serious)

11. “Bit of a Cunt” = insult (jovial)

I’ve been saying this for years. The internet was better when you had to be a little bit more intelligent than the average person to access it.

Back when you needed knowledge of computers and software, modems, anti-virus, hardware etc, it kind of meant you needed a brain in your head to gain access. I’m not saying that made the internet an overtly-intelligent space, but it was more intelligent and measured than it is today.

As soon a smart phones and data plans entered the game, you could be as dumb as a second coat of paint and gain access with a single button. That opened the flood gates for the stupid. Now the stupid are here en mass and internet is just a dumpster fire full of retards.

I love Starfield. My mates love Starfield. It’s Fallout meets No Man’s Sky meets Mass Effect.

It’s just another kick ass Bethesda game in a long list of kick ass Bethesda games IMO.

Trump strikes me as the kind of guy you’d so easily bait using his ego against him.

“You don’t know the location of the U.S nuclear submarine fleet.”

“OH YEAH??” >>> tells you the location of the U.S nuclear submarine fleet

” Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”

I’m an Aussie and took on my first management role in 2011. In 2012 I was voted best manager of the year and my employer rewarded me with an all-expenses paid trip to America for two weeks to visit San Diego, L.A, and Las Vegas.

Then in the same job in 2017 I entered my business into a national sales competition and amongst 400-something businesses nationwide, I won it. The prize was an all-expenses paid trip for two weeks to Texas, Kentucky, and Indiana, and they sent me.

This year; new job, two weeks in, my boss tells me the company want to start sending management to the U.S for integration, so as the first employee to ever go in the company’s 40-year history I was sent all-expenses paid to New York.

Three trips to America, three completely different, blindside reasons. Six states - east, west, south and mid.

Close.

Yup. $20 every year.

I just like that it’s there and I’ve used it a lot, and I want it to be there for the next generation.

Plus, they’ve maintained staying ad free, sub free, and bullshit free. I can’t think of another site that’s kept that level of decency.

Fairytale believers angry that fairytale is changing.

I don’t get the migration issues, at all.

I’m literally an idiot and all I did was type ‘Lemmy World’ into Google, clicked the top result, created an account, and selected 50 or so communities to follow. Then I started posting.

I don’t know what the Fediverse is or other instances or how it all works (and I don’t really care).

This was dumb-shit easy to figure out - as easy as Facebook or Twitter or… Reddit.

Source: am dumb shit.

Palestine breached walls and took hostages. That hasn’t happened in decades. Israel is going to make a statement in retaliation.

So this isn’t going away anytime soon.

Oooh, I simply must know the answer to this intriguing title.

/s

India is the world’s biggest source of immigrants.

I would have happily paid $50 p/year for Apollo. I won’t pay $0.05c for Reddit.

I said I’d leave Reddit on July 12 and July 12 is when I left. Sure, I miss it, but it was an unhealthy, 4 hour per day/8 year addiction that’s been broken.

Now I scroll Lemmy for maybe 30 mins a day.

If Biden had half of one tiny, stepped-on bump, he’d die.

I’m 6’1” (186cm) barefoot and measured. Trump claims to be 6’3” (190cm).

I stood next to a wax statue of him at Madame Tussaud’s, which is famous for its exact replicas, and I was comfortably an inch taller than that statue and it was in heeled shoes (I was wearing flat-soled Connie’s), so Trump is 6’0” max, but my guess is he’s just under - maybe 5’11” (183cm).

Oooh, a vague headline. I can’t wait to click. I won’t believe what happens next.

Ahh, fair. I got some WW1 and WW2 details mixed up. I’ll edit so I’m not feeding false info.

An anagram for Steven Huffman is ‘Tuff Shaven Men’.

You dummies. You know he says this shit intentionally, yeah?

1. He knows his fan base won’t care and probably agree. They’re locked in.
2. He knows the media with cover his outrageous statements, so that means…
3. He gets another front page/headline/viral bump to get another small piece of the swing voters.

He is an absolute master PR-man, and no one has ever respected that fact to their own detriment.

Disclaimer: I hate the dickhead.

Nice one. Who’d’ve guessed.

I fucked with a phone scammer so bad once that he kept calling me for two weeks to abuse me. I answered every call with, “You mad, bro?” He was fucking infuriated.

Three years later I’m still waiting for Ramal to pool together all his rupees and fly over here and kill me like he promised.