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

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

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.

We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.

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

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Post by thaumasiotes »

brendoelfrendo wrote: post #41
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.

We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.

> We live in a BYOD world.

This is true for phones, where it wasn't before.

But for computers? The only company I've worked for where I brought my own computer had a total of three employees.

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

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Post by the_hoser »

I have a funny story about this plugin.

The team I was working on was developing a new product with the word 'cloud' in the name. We were deploying database changes to facilitate the new product. This was a long time ago, and the organization still deployed things by hand, so there was no tooling for us to automate the deployment. Part of the deployment process involved pasting some SQL to create the tables and populate the initial data into a JIRA ticket for an administrator to run in production.

Said administrator was a fan of the cloud-to-butt plugin, and dutifully copied and pasted the SQL that they saw, like we instructed. When our code failed, an inspection of the production database revealed the culprit. Fortunately, 'cloud' and 'butt' are close to each other, alphabetically, so we didn't need to search very long.

We never let that admin live that down.

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

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Post by Godel_unicode »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #42
brendoelfrendo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.

> We live in a BYOD world. This is true for phones, where it wasn't before. But for computers? The only company I've worked for where I brought my own computer had a total of three employees.

Having done incident response for many companies which allow byod for laptops, I can attest that this was already common before the pandemic and the trend has only accelerated.

One particularly fun outbrief included the head of their desktop support org talking about how much better their satisfaction scores were with the users when they were allowed to use laptops they had personally chosen. Chose metrics that align with your goals or reap the outcomes.

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

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Post by int_19h »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #42
brendoelfrendo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We live in a BYOD world. They probably mix work on business and personal machines.

> We live in a BYOD world. This is true for phones, where it wasn't before. But for computers? The only company I've worked for where I brought my own computer had a total of three employees.

From personal experience at Microsoft, it's pretty common for laptops these days.

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

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Post by SJMosley »

Minor49er wrote: post #14

This takes the term "backend engineer" to a whole new level

When you take this joke super far and make a coffee enema website for your boss.

www.lifesapeach.club

>Backend Engineer (This is actually what we call all our employees, regardless of your job)

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

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Post by bmlzootown »

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.

Is it really a commentary on the individual in question, though, or the state of reality?

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

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Post by 45ure »

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…

Some other examples, preserved here:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/cloud-to-butt/pool/

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