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• My org saw AI as a threat and immediately banned it (blocking websites and restricting features in apps) until our IT folks could evaluate it and implement safeguards. Incidentally, they missed the window when vendors were more or less offering it for free. Now any AI solution doesn’t just have to be vetted against our security and privacy needs, but most likely requires a darn good business case, RFP’s, quotes, and contracts.

  It never became a part of the culture here, much to our benefit.

  on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• If you visit the site via its IP address, it says no.

  Source: I made that up.

  on there's mostly only two relentless hardships in programming: networking issues, naming things, and off by one errors. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026

• She’s just trying to crawl the web!

  on I'm not trying to emulate my capitalist landlord, but how can I impose rent on the spider that seems to have moved in to my network rack? 🕷️🕸️ in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 12 Sep 2026

• I wonder if the next generation will know if you’re watching the advertisements. They’ll probably call it something innocuous, like “auto pause.”

  It’s literally just an algorithm applied to the WiFi antenna.

  We’re fucked without comprehensive and effective privacy laws.
  But they won’t do that. Someone will (dishonestly) argue that TV’s and monitors that can count how many viewers are watching and force everyone in the room to verify their identity when the ACR detects a curse word or breasts is “for the children.”

  on LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026

• You’re right. I fucked up and have edited my comment.

  on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Oh, shoot, you’re right. I had just woken up. I was thinking of Jefferson.

  Damnit. Thank you for pointing that out.

  on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Their CEO, Garrett Langley, went on Fox News recently and argued that […] we all just need to accept a “compromise” between privacy and safety.

  I’m struck by what a giant load of bullshit this is and how Flock (and copycat companies like Axion) are just facilitating the sort of police state that would be required to make something like Project 2025 possible.

  “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

  — The U.S.’s own kite-flyin’, not slave fuckin’ (wrong guy, sorry!), $100 dollar bill havin’ Bennie F.

  on Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• They are, technically.

  Do you have confidence the government would actually give them to the public?

  It never hurts unless you try, but I suspect filling a FOIA for them will land you on the list.

  on A Hegseth Employee Created a Database to Track Americans Based on Their Political Affiliation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• I encourage everyone with the ability to do so to at least try to run their own networking, or even just periodically examine the logs. The weird things I’ve discovered about random devices on my network have made me seriously question what the fuck companies are doing.

  on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026

• People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.

  I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.

  on Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026

• I often say “earballs” instead of ears (because it’s funny and I’m weird), and I’m annoyed these fuckers are stealing my bit.

  on Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Yes. I expect privacy like I have a right to it.

  on SEC bought access to over a billion airline records to track travelers, no warrant required in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026

• How is this not unlawful search?

  I understand that because the use of and purchase/sharing of this kind of data (which for the purposes of my arguments includes any data broker data, including the data from Flock license plate readers) is not considered illegal due to a lack of consumer protection laws. But how is the government acquiring and using this data not considered a subversion of due process?

  on SEC bought access to over a billion airline records to track travelers, no warrant required in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026