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I don’t give a shit about that. OP misused a Picard quote. Completely unacceptable.

Quote taken completely out of context.

The context is that a partial descendant of an enemy species (Romulans) was the victim of a witch hunt. He was half human and a starfleet officer. He had lived in the federation his whole life.

A real world equivalent example to that would be banning Americans with Russian ancestry that were born in America and lived in America their whole lives from contributing.

That is not what’s happening here. You are arguing in bad faith. Picard would be perfectly fine with preventing Romulans in the Romulan Empire from accessing/modifying sensitive technology.

Fine, if there’s nothing left to say, then say nothing. That’ll be better than what you’ve been doing

Probably best to take your own advice.

To be quite frank, the vast majority of sexual violence against women is perpetrated by men. The vast majority of all sexual violence is against women.

I understand you feel your particular experience is unrepresented, but this particular case, and rallies, and signs etc… Are simply not about you or your experiences. This is about sexual violence against women. If you can’t see that, and you insist on inserting yourself into a context that has nothing to do with you, then there’s really nothing left to say.

My dude, this post, and that sign, are not about you. They’re about a woman being raped by over 100 men.

THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT YOU.

Nah, that’s just a pretext. They’re just as bad as the “all lives matter” folks.

I’m so tired of walking into a post about women getting sexually assaulted and seeing a wall of “BuT WhAt AbOuT MeN!?!” comments. You people are so fucking stupid.

Edit: To the downvoters, please explain why you think it’s appropriate to make a discussion about a woman being raped by 100+ men all about you. You’re so fucking fragile.

Edit 2: Just an amazing lack of self awareness in these replies. Turns out some people really don’t see a problem with hijacking a post about women being sexually assaulted to make it all about them instead. That’s enough internet for today.

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Good lord I would hope critical surgical computers like that aren’t networked externally… Somehow I’m guessing I’m wrong.

What reason could there possibly be to ban masks other than anti-science COVID denial.

I’d be afraid of this restaurant’s sanitary practices at this point. Do they believe in soap or is that also a hoax?

My point was to illustrate a comparable big corpo’s flippant response to negative PR.

We’ve entered a stage in the software industries development where these mega corps are making so much money off of your data that they simply don’t care about PR, very often responding to negative PR in a consumer hostile manner.

Besides, Microsoft has been scraping personal data through Windows for over a decade. Why would they stop now? Business/enterprise licenses will likely have the ability to disable the recall feature. Regular consumers can go fuck themselves, as usual.

Would Microsoft even care? Do normies think about this kind of thing?

Google’s gemini has been delivering some pants-on-head stupid results in the search and Google’s comment on the situation was basically “ya, it do be that way”.

No, it wouldn’t be. The base circumstance is the same, the software misidentifying a subject. The severity and context will vary from incident to incident, but the root cause is the same - false positives.

There’s no process in place to prevent something like this going very very bad. It’s random chance that this time was just a false positive for theft. Until there’s some legislative obligation (such as legal liability) in place to force the company to create procedures and processes for identifying and reviewing false positives, then it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

You don’t wait for someone to die before you start implementing safety nets. Or rather, you shouldn’t.

You lack imagination. What happens when the system mistakenly identifies someone as a violent offender and they get tackled by a bunch of cops, likely resulting in bodily injury.

Your comment explains exactly what happens when post-expiration companies like Google try to innovate

Hah well, in my defence I did do the sweaty five guys in a basement startup thing in my 20’s. Nowadays I’m more concerned with paying the mortgage and keeping my newborn alive.

I agree with everything you’re saying. Google hasn’t been the plucky, disruptive underdog in the arena for at least a decade. They’re corporate and bloated. All that matters to Google, and more broadly any incumbent and large corporation, is to inflate the stock price. The products don’t matter, the tech doesn’t matter, all that matters is make stock # go up. The stock is Google’s product.

Unfortunately in the current economic environment, capital is more expensive now and the incumbent heavy weights are doing everything they can to build regulatory moats around their cash cows. I don’t think we’ll see any competing startups with real tech and engineering innovations for some time.

Let’s be realistic here, google still pays out fat salaries. That would be more than enough incentive for me. I’d take the job and ride the wave until the inevitable lay offs.

That being said, it seems like it’s only downhill from here (arguable a few years ago). Reminds me of IBM at this point.

Yep. LTT just lives rent free in Lemmy’s collective consciousness.

He’s not. There were unsubstantiated accusations from a disgruntled former employee that were proved to be false.

Some people just hear what they want though.