JackbyDev

I’d say that’s supportive of femme leaning enbies rather than transphobic towards trans women.

I mean believing you’re cheating if you protest.

This article constantly reloads and alternates between showing and hiding some warning about my privacy lol. Unreadable.

My wife and I have it on Google Maps. I can’t remember why, but we’ve had it for years. I think my wife worries if I’m safe sometimes. I think I check it less than once a year. I checked it once to see if they were on their way home once, that’s about it.

This is atypical.

I’ll toss this phone in a Blendtec blender

Oof, iSmoke. Don’t breathe this!

Instead, just prove you have a credit card by submitting the details. Also totally safe. Be sure to include the CVV, please!

Remember when the government published SSNs in HTML? https://www.zdnet.com/article/missouri-will-not-prosecute-hacker-reporter-for-daring-to-view-state-website-html/

this arguably is not even largely a hack.

While I agree in principle, I think we should still call it a hack. As in “to gain illegal access to (a computer network, system, etc.)” as Merriam-Webster puts it. It shouldn’t be legal to do do this just because the website had horrible (non-existent) security. You shouldn’t be allowed to rob a house just because the door wasn’t locked.

as a woman or woman categorized person

Can’t tell if you’re being transphobic to trans femmes or supportive to femme leaning enbies.

I’ve been seeing a lot of misogony here the past week or so. It’s disheartening.

I can’t open the article, but I think I read that this was hosted on an unprotected bucket. Assuming that’s correct I wouldn’t say this was a breach. A better headline would be “Women dating safety app ‘Tea’ exposed women’s PII”.

To be 100% clear, I’m not excusing the hackers. I don’t believe it’s morally correct to publicize something because it is exposed. For folks curious about that you can look into how to ethically disclose vulnerabilities. I still view this as doxxing. I still believe what the hackers did should be a criminal offense, it’s just that I also believe the app holds a ton of the blame as well. How can you proclaim to be about keeping women safe while putting them at risk? That should be punished as well.

Like if the storage facility you trusted to hold your stuff never had locks on the doors, shouldn’t they take a lot of the blame as well as the thief who found out a door was unlocked?

When I think about computer science as a field of science I think about things like algorithmic complexity. I believe things like what you mentioned should be taught in general education prior to university (or, like calculus, as an optional elective) and are only covered because you need to know those basics to cover the advanced things.

It’s really difficult to come up with other examples of this that aren’t contrived because computer programming is the only field I know of that’s like this. I might compare it to architects needing to know how to use tools, but I don’t think they actually cover that. Maybe a better example might be engineers needing to know how to use tools before designing machines. Either way, things like how to use tools aren’t covered in those classes and they’re either not taught or taught as shop classes (or maybe they are, I didn’t go into those fields). Things like for loops I view as learning how to make a computer operate. Like how someone who drives a car doesn’t need to know how to fix an engine but a mechanic does. But learning about computer science is more like learning about what car designers do than what mechanics do. A lot of programming work doesn’t need that low level of attention to detail.

Like I said before, it doesn’t hurt, but it’s not super critical. A classic example is something like learning how to make a linked list. This is an early example of an assignment that starts to get into the actual computer science stuff because you start to talk about the comparisons between different data structures, like linked lists versus array lists. So in university you may be thinking “damn I’m gonna be making list implementations all the time” but you quickly learn, no, you’re not. The standard library of your language already has one and it’s worlds better than anything you made. Plus, 99% of the time you’re gonna want an array list, at least in the types of work I do.

I hope that helps make it more clear what I’m trying to say. I’m not saying computer programming is easy or doesn’t require skills.

lol, I feel you, but what I’m trying to say is you often don’t need to know concepts like P vs. NP for work other than an extreme baseline “is this gonna take forever if I throw more data at it?” I am not saying it’s not useful, just that for lots of work it’s not always super useful to know. Computer science as a field of study is much more mathy than a lot of fields of dev work. Then again, you’ve got other fields where it’s more important. Like I’m sure folks doing 3d graphics need to know a lot more trigonometry than I do as a backend engineer.

I actually like it the way it is because i didn’t notice the mustache right away so it took me a second to get it. It’s very subtle. I like it.

Most programming already didn’t use computer science.

The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn’t figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.

Parental controls: exist

Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?

I don’t think someone saying they check the prospectus of a slot machine is spreading stupid bullshit, they’re making a joke. It’s okay if you didn’t get it. There’s no reason to be defensive or get upset.

Please show me the prospectus that slot machines have. Using a term associated with legitimate investing is why it’s humorous.

I’m fairly certain that was meant as sarcasm.