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> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.
Singular they predates singular you in the English language by about three hundred years.
I had always assumed that the “no fly” list was a phrase and that it didn’t refer to an actual list, but rather a database with more detailed information than a “can they fly?” Column with a Y/N entry. In pharmacy we have a database we have to access when we suspect there is abuse, fraud, or diversion of controlled substances. The database is regularly updated with current information about prescriptions that were di…
yeah, surprised as well. In finance, there is ofac for people forbidden from moving money, but it's also typically used as a service/db instead of passing around csv files to everyone. Very bizarre.
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> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle. Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.
A very modern convention is now using “they/their” when a person may not be aware of someone’s preferred pronoun. And even still, I have also seen people abandon gendered pronouns entirely.
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it isn't a guy and it uses it/its pronouns.
This is downvoted, but the homepage really does say "hello i am maia arson crimew (it/she)". I'd feel uncomfortable referring to anyone as "it" though, as there are some connotations with that :-/
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I just had one today that had the last char of a field as '\', which escaped the closing quote and then munged the column count from there.
Isn't that your parser's problem? I don't think true CSV has any special characters other than comma, quote, and CRLF.
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I wish we just used “they” always. I am fine with people not wanting certain pronouns but I find it very tedious to track different pronouns in my head. Especially in a professional setting gender shouldn’t matter at all.
My pet peeve about using "they" is it seems to imply an undue politeness or superiority. Plurality is an ancient metaphor for power, and many languages today have the same form for a plural "you" and a polite "you". Another example is the royal "we".
I suppose it could be considered similar to Spanish and French where you have "you" (peers) and then formal "you" (authorities).
After seeing the title but before clicking on the article, I thought this would be about a legal hack rather than a security hole. More specifically, creating the minimum possible corporation that qualifies as an airline (so that you literally own an airline), and then saying to the government, "hey, we need the nofly list, we're an airline, see?". The actual hack sounds way easier, to be sure, but I still like my ve…
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> down to other more selfish reasons, e.g. Edward Snowden's mass theft and leaking of NSA secrets. What was Snowden's selfish reasons?
In an attempt to sound like he had noble reasons for leaking hundreds of thousands of unrelated secret documents to journalists, Snowden claimed it was watching James Clapper's congressional testimony in March 2013 that triggered him to start downloading and exfiltrating classified material. This was a lie. He'd actually started collecting his trove of stolen documents many months prior, in mid-2012, coinciding with…
I also think this was likely good for the NSA. Their internal opsec and controls seem like they were terrible if they existed at all. Snowden was a wake-up call to do better, and hopefully that makes the US even more secure than it was before.
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I get the impression that she's/it's doing this from a place of pain and desire to lash out, and "the system" is an easy target for her to fix onto. Not out of any sense of morality.
That's an odd take but I'm getting old. Once you cross 30 its incredibly to spot when someone is an NPC laundering hate in the guise of reading minds. They're clearly young or angry, so you let it go.
She appears to have talent in connecting these data sources, but she's also in way over her head when it comes to motivation. On the world chessboard, she's a pawn. I can easily imagine that she's being egged on to do harm to the quasi-neutral but not isolated society that is now her life raft.