Perhaps it's my software engineering bubble, but I have to simplify my communication style for people who speak English as a second language. So many speak English as a second language. I would have guessed that would discourage odd phrasing. Additionally, texting on a phone is painful, so one would assume that would encourage simplification across all languages. I write 10x as often as I speak...to coworkers, extended family, etc. Even with my wife, I am texting her as many sentences as we say to each other...mostly because we're often at different locations due to work or us separating for kid activities (one is with the oldest while the other is taking the youngest somewhere or vice versa).

Fishing for Funny in the dark. Pretty sure I didn't get there, but also expressing my disappointment than no one else got there first.

Getting away from funny, but 'modern capitalism' is supposed to be based on a kind of adversarial model. The companies want to sell us as much stuff as possible with the highest profits, while we are supposed to be trying to find the best values to force the companies to offer better products at lower prices. But the powers are not balanced in this 'game'. Individuals are acting alone and mostly in ignorance, while the companies continue to become larger and increasingly powerful. From this perspective, collecting customer information is like ammunition for tomorrow's attacks on the customers' credit cards.

Some stories are worth more discussion than the standard scrolling time allows... I think Slashdot should allow for some stories to move down the front page more slowly than others.

Quoted against the censor trolls. My degree of concurrence is complex. Goes back to Fermi...

Seems obvious enough that the phishing website will ask for the google login information if that is the target of the phishing scam. Possibly disguised as one of those authorization requests to link and login from the google account?

Pretty sure I've seen a bunch of these, but not a significant fraction of the phishing spam I receive each day. I'd estimate that about three to five false negatives slip through on a daily basis, though the false positives have been mostly eliminated. I'm "tracking" about five email systems and it is interesting to see the differences in the volumes and kinds of spam targeted at each email system, but mostly I only use one of them. Microsoft's Outlook had a major spam storm a few days ago...

I still think the best way to address the spam scam problem is to go after the money, but that would call for working with the potential victims and no one (running a major email system) cares that much about the peasants (like you and me). I can't yet decide if the "countermeasure" described in this story is more or less laughable than average. But I'm predicting the spam will continue apace.

Quoted to deal with the censor trolls, and in this case I do agree with your sentiments even though I think the comment is kind of orthogonal to the main topic. But your Subject is still relevant if "this" is taken as referring to the money part of it. Education as a for-profit business is mostly a problem and rarely part of any solution. My mind is boggled by the "valuation" of $2.5 billion.

Some years ago I did spend quite a bit of time taking online classes, mostly on EdX and Coursera. However, they were not worrying about the money at that time and I think that is a large part of why some of the courses were pretty good. They were teaching for love of the game and exploring the new tools, though not too adventurously. I remember a pretty good philosophy course run by Michael Sandel and an excellent Python course from some Rice people. The Rice course was especially innovative in the evaluation system, which leveraged students to test each other's games. I know that course was still running some years later, though they had switched from Asteroids to Pong as the main game.

On the negative side, I felt that most of the courses were too dependent on long video lectures. I thought the solution approach was obvious. but I never saw such a course among the various ones I took from various universities. What I am looking for would involve testing up front to find out what I don't know and then the course would guide me to relatively short videos where the points of my ignorance were addressed. Perhaps in the form of a video of a teacher explaining each teaching point to a student whose ignorance matched mine? The tricky part would actually be in figuring out the depths of my ignorance, so I imagined the distractors would be designed to find out where to "place me" within a network of knowledge at each stage of the course. My goal would obviously be to learn as quickly as possible with minimum time. Anyone seen such a beast? (Been some years since I went back to the books...)

On the financial side, my fantasy was that they would charge for strictly proctored exams. If you can pass the tests, then you deserve appropriate certificates and stuff. However I actually doubt that approach would be financially viable. The prices for the exams would have to find a tricky sweet spot. High enough to pay for the course material but also low enough to get people to pay for them. Even worse, I don't see myself as a paying customer for such a system. Much as I enjoy learning new stuff, I'm too old to get much benefit from any more certificates or diplomas...

'Nuff said, but now I feel like I need to clarify that I'm not an expert on garbage. Probably not an expert on anything. Purely a dabbler?

Perhaps a substantive comment to follow, but not here.

And another protection that is failing you. Stuff like this is critical to keep capitalism functioning and it's all being torn down.

It's become painfully obvious that the billionaires don't like capitalism and don't intend to keep it around.

That would be the time to start asking what that means for you personally.

Was so basic and limited that a few posts from me about how Trump fucks kids and me repeating several times in those posts did Trump fucks kids would get this crappy little llm bot to repeat it.

It makes me wonder if we couldn't do another santorum if we put a little bit of effort into it.

Like if everybody just went on to their socials and just started posting the unmitigated fact that Trump fucks kids and reminded people over and over and over and over again how Trump does in fact fuck kids if mnd be we could get the bots to start repeating the basic truth that Trump fucks kids.

Imagine if Trump would be known not as the former president but as the former Kid fucker.

It's only 100% accurate.

As long as they can tell themselves that it was at least a teenager they think it's fine.

A depressingly large number of men in their 20s hit on high school girls because they are vulnerable and easy pickins. Now Trump went after girls as young as 13 with an emphasis on ones that looked Young. I think Trump is an actual full-blown clinical pedophile. And that's just the clinical definition he's certainly a pedophile by any reasonable person's definition.

But as long as there is the slightest amount of wiggle room people are going to give Trump a pass.

The men are going to do it because of what they did when they were young.

What's depressing is the women doing it. There's a thing humans do where if they suffer they want other people to suffer the same way. So women who are taking advantage of when they were young are going to sometimes be okay with other women having the same thing happening to them...

I have a trans friend who was briefly upset that younger trans girls were getting better treatment than she did when she was young. The funny thing was she knew what she was feeling was wrong but she couldn't help herself feeling it. To her credit she knew it was wrong.

It's just a thing humans do. Misery loves company. The sad thing is that thanks to the Republican trans panic my friend can no longer say the younger generation has it better...

That's nonsense. Mathematics is plural because there is more than one type of mathematics. Arithmetic and geometry to name just two of them. If your course is in arithmetic and nothing else than calling it singular makes sense. But if it covers more than one type of mathematics then it is obviously plural.

You can check the Wikipedia article on Trump's sexual assault claims and eight of them involve children.

That's in addition to 20 that at least involved adult women.

Now the first time a woman accuses a man of raping her when she was a child that's bad but he's famous and maybe... The second time you have to start to wonder but again maybe... By the third time we've got a pattern and by the 5th I don't think any reasonable person would not be believing the women. By the 8th he's practically a Catholic priest.

And again this is an addition to the other 20 women who came forward.

I am also not going to buy it that those women are just trying to get money out of him or fame. Trump has well-known mafia ties and lots of fixers that make credible threats. These are the 28 women who came forward despite all that. I think it's safe to say there are plenty more.

The only reason Trump isn't in prison right now is the statute of limitations. He has absolutely been convicted of raping a woman only under New York law it was an adjudicated conviction because of the statute of limitations and it wasn't technically rape because New York law says if you didn't do it with your dick it's just sexual assault. Which is actually kind of fucked up when you think about it.

So yeah Trump's a pedophile. There isn't a single reasonable person who would not come to that conclusion. The fact that he managed to escape consequences isn't going to change that.

They haven't got any other ideas to reverse the falling user numbers, and apparently neither does anyone else. Firefox is a decent browser, with some of the best privacy protection features. The Android version needs some work, but it's better than Chrome. HDR doesn't work, but how many people care?

So why do people abandon it? Some sites don't work, but without simply becoming a Chrome skin they can't do a huge amount about that.

Aggressive marketing by Google? Can't stop that either.

AI isn't actually the worst idea. For a lot of people being able to say "download this video" and it does would be a valuable feature. You can do it with an add on, but most people won't get that far. I bet it won't be able to do that though.

Employers need to accept that they have to train and develop people they take on. Grades should be an indication of ability to learn.