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Post by afavour »

willcipriano wrote: post #39
matthewdgreen wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 bias…

(I think in this case it was Wired, not NYT)

Personally I blame Google for the proliferation of a lot of this stuff. It syncs extensions across browsers and automatically signs you in on Chrome when you log onto Gmail. Or did, anyway, it’s been a while since I used it. Either way, infuriating default behaviour.

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Post by legitster »

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…

I just can't get over the idea that someone who (ostensibly) works as a professional writer or editor would have that plugin installed.

Although the irony is not lost on me - a millennial, wanting to make fun of overwrought millennial tropes, ends up committing one.

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Post by syspec »

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 there's a butt plugin?

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

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Post by BTCOG »

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.

I just assumed that people are installing said plugin on their machines as a prank when they walk away from the machine and leave it unlocked.

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Post by skissane »

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.

Six or seven years ago, I was getting sick of Windows and wanted to switch to Mac – but the corporate standard was a Dell laptop, you had to go through a special exception process to get a Mac, and my manager told me he'd been trying for a bunch of his reports and had been struggling to get the exceptions approved – so I just bit the bullet, bought one out of my own pocket and used it as my main work machine.

And this wasn't some little three people shop. This was Oracle.

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