Hahahahaha good one.

Pretty sure all of it has been hacked in the past 10 years anyway. At least phone, address, ssn all got taken several times now.

Strange. I’ve been a daily user for 4 years. I’ve still never seen Nazi stuff. It got more political in the past 6 months, but that’s expected.

Yes, people are using it as the least efficient communication protocol ever.

One side asks an LLM to expand a summary into a fluff filled email, and the other side asks an LLM to reduce the long email to a summary.

This is a primary use for me. A couple times per day.

That’s part of what makes LLMs so popular with software engineers, they solve lots of trivial daily computer tasks.

The USA drops approximately 15-20 million sterilized worms on Panama every day. Yes you read that right, it’s The Great American Worm Wall.

9. Get off my lawn.

It’s not the same. Google is a US company.

It makes sense that it would use the GNIS, a system of the USGS, to put names on places.

It hasn’t changed here yet, but I figure when it does, Google will reflect the change.

https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-system-gnis

That’s not near as fun as traveling the world for free!

If it’s time based data, and new cell references refer to hours that have no global data, it could be affected.

Point being, what you say isn’t necessarily correct. We don’t know the inputs the the algorithm.

I’m not sure you’re correct.

The law only mandated that ByteDance remove TikTok from app stores in the U.S. if it failed to meet the sale deadline. Company executives made the decision to shutdown the app entirely.

Apple and Google removed it from their app stores in accordance with the law, and it is still removed from those app stores.

Quite possible that TikTok just went dark to make an infrastructure change to implement new code - while they display a message praising Trump.

He’s an influencer. That’s what he does

To force chaos, and so they can show the “Trump fixed this” message

My #1 rule for the teams I lead is “consistency”. So it may fall back to that. The standard where you work is to use a certain way of doing things so everyone becomes skilled at the same thing.

I have the same rule, but I always let a little bash slide here and there.

Very different. This means default ignore all errors and continue to the next line. You’d have to explicitly catch every line in most(all?) other languages.

This Lemmy thread isn’t representative of the real world. I’ve been a dev for 40 years. You use what works. Bash is a fantastic scripting tool.

I can understand your point until you get to the “there is no other platform like TikTok”. You lose me there.

Hopefully this little outage scare helps you to diversify!

What gave you the impression that this was just for development? Bash is widely used in production environments for scripting all over enterprises. The people you work with just don’t have much experience at lots of shops I would think.

It’s just not wise to write an entire system in bash. Just simple little tasks to do quick things. Yes, in production. The devops world runs on bash scripts.

That would require digital age competence. We don’t elect that, we like old rich dudes.

There’s no process to go through again. The law is in place now. It didn’t Target TikTok specifically by name. It’s based on foreign company ownership and number of US users. I don’t know the specifics though