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Post by willcipriano »

airstrike wrote: post #17
duskwuff wrote: post #13

The New York Times has run into similar issues in the past: > Because of an editing error involving a satirical text-swapping web browser extension, an earlier version of this article misquoted a passage from an article by the Times reporter Jim Tankersley. The sentence referred to America’s narrowing trade deficit during “the Great Recession,” not during “the Time of Shedding and Cold Rocks.” (Pro tip: Disable your…

So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054

Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by philwelch »

singingfish wrote: post #15

I use "arse" rather than "butt" due to not being american. After extensive discussion at my last workplace we configured the word replacer browser plugin to replace "cloud" with "arse", enterprise with "garbage" and architect with "clown". It makes marketing and technical docs a much easier read.

I love the way “cloud architect” becomes “arse clown”.

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by erdo »

That reminds me of when I was at university in the 90s, a favourite trick was to set MSWord's auto correct on the communal computers to change the word "the" to "wanker". People would arrive with their floppy disks, print out their assignments ready to hand in and then notice (or fail to notice) a page full of wankers. Hilarity ensued (...mostly)

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Post by beeboop »

isatty wrote: post #28
khazhoux wrote: post #23

I think this is the first time I've seen a job posting which instead gets someone fired.

Fired? This is instant, free and effective publicity for a faceless mega corp. They’ll take it.

Amazon leadership has zero sense of humor. I say this as someone who works with them professionally frequently. It's amazing the level of fear they instill throughout the whole organization

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by matthewdgreen »

willcipriano wrote: post #31
airstrike wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054

Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.

Or you have a sense of humor :)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

willcipriano wrote: post #31
airstrike wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So did Wired: > In 2016, Wired magazine made a similar mistake and published an article in which Donald Trump's name was replaced with "someone with tiny hands". > The error made it past the magazine's production team, who had assumed it was an intentional joke. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43331054

Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.

I am more concerned about the security implications. No work environment should be allowing use of non-business critical extensions which tamper with web content.

(PS. If you work anywhere that allows arbitrary Chrome extensions, I hope your cyber incident insurance is up to date!)

Browser extensions have incredibly privileged access to your post-decryption web content, and if you can install cloud-to-butt, you should assume your environment is already compromised.

Re: Cloud-to-butt plugin used in Amazon Job Posting?

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Post by willcipriano »

matthewdgreen wrote: post #36
willcipriano wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't get past the paywall but am I the only one who is a bit alarmed that a fact checker employs such a plugin via a work machine? If you need to alter words in text of news you read in order to find it palatable you aren't really a person living on reality's terms.

Or you have a sense of humor :)

Personal machine, sure. I get it. Media people can read news for entertainment purposes.

This wasn't a personal machine though, this machine is used to check facts for the New York Times. Lots of people will believe something the NYT publishes with no further investigation, this is a important job. If I was doing that, I'd do my best to keep an open mind, and definitely not install a plugin that reminds me of my biases on every page.

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