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TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arson_crimew > In March 2021, crimew was indicted by a grand jury in the United States on criminal charges related to her alleged hacking activity between 2019 and 2021. The charges were unrelated to the hack of Verkada. Her home and her parents' home were raided by the Swiss police at the request of United States authorities, and her electronic devices were seized. People used…
This is clearly on the darker side of gray-hat. Hate to be preachy but anyone seeking to emulate this sort of attack-finding should consider their ethical obligations as a computer scientist and follow best practices for responsible disclosure. It appears this was completely ignored here, including sharing stolen sensitive data of normal people with whoever can plead a case.
Breaking into private S3 buckets because you are bored is not considered an appropriate “Step 1” by the _professional community_ (people who get paid to do this for a living) at large.
Among people who plan to be financially rewarded for their work and also not be in handcuffs, Step 1 is usually to “Get written permission”.
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If you use binary genders you use male or female ones and people tend to use the same pronouns once they start with them. If someone uses gendered pronouns you shouldn't take that to mean that's the one the subject prefers but rather that's the gender the person who wrote it perceived. If they truly don't care to perceive a gender then a 50 / 50 pick. When I look at it's picture I honestly couldn't tell you if I perc…
We don’t have to guess. They’re just openly transphobic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34450709
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Competing access needs: autists need regularity, ??s ("the category of people who go by it/its") need ... creativity? chaos? uniqueness? Those goals are at direct odds. (I'm going to presume here that crimew doesn't actually want to be considered an object, because we don't generally respect objects' pronoun choices. So calling them an "it" in the grammatical way would be paradoxically self-defeating; we call objects…
Yes, it's likely that I am more challenged by the grammatically incorrect pronouns than most neurotypicals in this thread, thanks for pointing that out. A lot of people who like to cry 'transphobic!' may wish to understand that there are people who need accommodation in our society other than trans people, and that heralding chosen pronouns as truly inviolable will sometimes make other people less comfortable. That s…
As for competing needs and such, in this case it’s as easy as using she/her (as maia lists that as one of its pronouns), in other cases it’s usually acceptable to use they/them or no pronouns at all. The only thing that is generally absolutely unacceptable is (knowingly) using the wrong gendered pronouns or using gendered pronouns when the person only uses non-gendered pronouns.
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Guys doesn't refer to men anymore, it's now a neutral word that can refer to both genders.
A lot of people say this, and I WANT this to be true because I don't know of a similar term that really works. I don't think most women agree. When my best friend came out as trans, I struggled to come up with a good way to refer to everyone as a group in a "hey everyone" kind of way. I eventually realized it's a stupid concept all together and walked into the room of my now mixed gendered friends while shouting "SUP…
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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 :-/
I thought it was the right that accused the left of being precious snowflakes who aren't able to handle being uncomfortable ever? Why should you being uncomfortable be a blocker to referring to someone as they prefer, right? Being uncomfortable is part of life.
From the accompanying (and linked) Daily Dot article[1]: > On the list were several notable figures, including the recently freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, alongside over 16 potential aliases for him. > [...] > Numerous names included aliases that were common misspellings or slightly altered versions of their names. For non-natively-Latin names, the US government is thorough to the point of hilarity in includi…
It’s bad in Canada too, where they don’t even use dates of birth, so small children end up caught on a no-fly-list: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/no-fly-child-redress-1...
Soon they'll give everyone a number so they can travel. And print it out in physical form too. And call it a passport.
That "solution" seems a bit backwards.
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What? "It" identifies as an inanimate object? This neopronoun thing really is getting absurd.
I agree with you on this, but I feel a need to note that "it" refers to non-persons, not just inanimate objects. It's perfectly normal to refer to animals as "it", and it is also quite common to use it for babies (and even more common for fetuses). Not that this makes it any less weird to ask to be referred as "it", mind you.
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Yeah cause we should totally have a top secret no fly list
Maybe we should or shouldn't, but the potential victims of this aren't just some greedy corporation. Leaking the no fly list could cause irreparable harm to individuals whose names are on it or even similar, causing discrimination by employers and other organizations.