So these Boeing whistleblowers dying brings back the harsh reminder of the realities of whistleblowing.
My husband was just about to wrap up his PhD — a novel method for imaging that would have applications like detecting arthritis early enough…to reverse it. 🧵
He discovers that there’s academic fraud going on when a researcher on a committee claims to have found a novel way to have done something…only she’s describing my husband’s research.
This is a huge no-no. The committee members are supposed to vet viability of ideas, and explicitly instructed not to claim these ideas as their own.
Also, imagine how pissed off his OWN professor was. Like she was ultimately going to get the credit for this because he’s in her lab.
So my husband, pissed off AF (obvs) starts digging in and all of this person’s research unravels because she doesn’t understand the underlying tech of photoshop and/or PowerPoint.
Dude there is XML-based history that shows the supposedly novel imaging files being tampered with. 🤦♀️
When "accessibility testers" start testing on a page, then zoom in, then file bugs because things on the page are in a different place, or they consider focus order to have changed, this really grinds my gears.
Malcolm Coles: 10+ years ago I created an annual list of websites that FORBADE you from linking to them, DEMANDED you write to ask for permission or LIMITED links to only their home page. Royal Mail even promised to post me a paper licence. Now a decade has passed, let’s see who’s still doing it … And yes I’ve linked to your websites to prove this.
Say you realllly want one of these Stoov products (personal heating devices) but they don't ship to the U.S. where I live. https://www.stoov.com/ — Are there like services that order them for you and re-direct them and you pay shipping costs and a markup or something?
@chriscoyier I’ve found friends that I can send money to and they will send me the thing (and vice versa). But it would be neat if there was an app/service that did that.
Also I don't really feel like I have very much time to speak up when I'm doing work. So if I do, it's not really all that much or that often. This is just them making up excuses.
We learned how to consume but not how to be good consumers.
When I think about the purchases I've made over the years, I may have expressed a disappointment in quality and returned some products, but a lot of it I put up with because who has time for that?
Now we have AI and we're not learning how to write prompts that will give us the outcomes we want, we're just complaining that it's terribad.
It's not our fault but it's partially our responsibility.
I haven't used my oculus since they said "you have to login with a Facebook account" bc I left years ago
But we legit had to let the battery die and physically remove it from our premises because it still kept phoning home even with no one logged in (the router traffic logs were inexcusable, unnecessary and frankly INSANE)
@cory I keep wondering if they keep going because they want consumers to either be worn out by it and give in OR insist on regulation
But like, people are in DC holding "support Tiktok" rallies which is so WTAF to me, did no one else read those security breakdowns or what
Most days I just do the best I can for my own family and then just ignore tech news because it's worse and worse and the "wins" don't seem to really be wins.
@cory other days I'm like, "I have so much PTO, I should take some and write some practical guides for non-tech people" BUT IDK when I actually take PTO I kind of want to just...sleep. :lolsob:
