This guy is bad for the internet. He’ll expand his business. Competitors will follow him. Already a dozen businesses offering this, I think the article cited, and that’s just who they could find.
We’re on the open web right now. Take the story as a harbinger. Of poop.
I wonder if there’s ever been a murder where they found the victim had been forewarned of an attack, but had the killer’s number blocked and never saw it.
Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...
"The muck pooling in the tunnel at the north end of the Las Vegas Strip had the consistency of a milkshake and, in some places, sat at least two feet deep. ... At first, it merely felt damp. But in addition to the water, sand and silt—the natural byproducts of any dig—the workers understood that it was full of chemicals known as accelerants.
"The accelerants cure the grout that seals the tunnel’s concrete supports, helping the grout set properly and protecting the work against cracks and other deterioration. They also seriously burn exposed human skin. At the Encore dig site, such burns became almost routine, workers there told Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. An investigation by the state OSHA, which Bloomberg Businessweek has obtained via a freedom of information request, describes workers being scarred permanently on their arms and legs. According to the investigation, at least one employee took a direct hit to the face. In an interview with Businessweek, one of the tunnel workers recalls the feeling of exposure to the chemicals: “You’d be like, ‘Why am I on fire?’”"
“I would estimate that the entire fediverse is developed off of the backs of maybe, at best, 100 engineers,” she said. “All of whom are either low paid, underpaid, or unpaid, who are trying to build software, and at the same time, are supporting the userbase of monthly active users in the range of 1.1 million to 7.4 million.”
Helpful diagrams (mander.xyz)
The Onion boutta do whatever tf it wants (lemmy.world)
via Bluesky
How can water be so self-absorbed? (lemmy.world)
Fuck Alexander Belogubov rule (lemmy.world)
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With ‘Parasite SEO’...
Brb I'm just moving to my new address (startrek.website)
me_irl (lemmy.world)
Conveniently enter your phone number with a single input (lemmy.world)
Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks (techcrunch.com)
Let's hear some fun ideas for confusing connector sleeves! (i.imgur.com)
Teams apparently can't call when using Firefox (lemmy.world)
Teams also doesn’t support multiple “work” accounts, so I had to boot up a laptop to accept the call. 🤷