That’s not how systemic problems work.

This is probably one of the most security ignorant takes on here.

People will ALWAYS fuck up. The world we craft for ourselves must take the “human factor” into account, otherwise we amplify the consequences of what are predictable outcomes. And ignoring predictable outcomes to take some high ground doesn’t cary far.

The majority of industries that actually have immediate and potentially fatal consequences do exactly this, and have been for more than a generation now.

Damn near everything you interact with on a regular basis has been designed at some point in time with human psychology in mind. Built on the shoulders of decades of research and study results, that have matured to the point of becoming “standard practices”.

Typical security negligence of startups.

Your data is essentially never secure if it’s sitting with a startup. It’s an atrocious world for security out there.

Literally the first thing you do on NoStupidQuestions is attack the person asking the question.

And then go on a rant that doesn’t actually address the question. I honestly don’t even know if you read the same OP that I did here…

Cmon, that’s not acceptable behavior here.

Nowhere in my post did I even say anything positive about Amazon, I literally explained this as an industry phenomena… I work in this industry and exposed to this sort of stuff daily.

I do software engineering and data science for contact center software, I’m literally the expert on this topic in this comments section, talking about this. 🤦

Google, AirBnb, Amazon, Verizon, Blue Apron, Red Bubble, T-Mobile, GameStop…etc all contract out their contact center needs, almost every single company you interact with on a regular basis contracts out their support staff to a small handful of contact center companies. And all of these companies tend to operate effectively the same, and this is bog standard stuff.

This means that the call center practices being complained about is an industry problem not a problem with a particular company, Amazon in this case.

Accusing me of astroturfing as a way to dismiss my credibility and then claiming some sort of moral high ground is extremely toxic. I even explained that this isn’t a good thing, yet somehow you completely missed that.

I explained in my post, fairly clearly. I suggest you reread it instead of stopping at the first sentence. It’s clear that media literacy really has went downhill.

But unsurprisingly commenters like you like to jump to conclusions without actually understanding the words written in front of them. And instead of actually arguing the point resort to personal attack instead.

Don’t be a dick.

It’s not as easy to defeat as just changing the pixel…

CSAM detection often uses existing features for image matching such as PhotoDNA by Microsoft. Similarly both Facebook and Google also have image matching algorithms and software that is used for CSAM detection which.

These are all hash based image matching tools used for broad feature sets such as reverse image search in bing, and are not defeated by simply changing a pixel. Or even redrawing parts of the whole image itself.

You’re not just throwing an md5 or an sha at an images binary. It’s much more nuanced and complex than that, otherwise hash based image matching would be essentially useless for anything of consequence.

I love how “easy” solutions are just the ignorant ones…

If it was so easy then everyone would abandon Amazon one might retort.

Researcher questionnaires are bog standard contact center kpis. You’re going to find it at Amazon, damn near every other app that you use that provides customer support, and just about every service and utility you also use that provides customer support.

Is this a good thing? No, of course not, but this has very little to do with Amazon and rather the industry as a whole. Literally any other big box retailer that you would go to instead of Amazon is doing the same thing, even small businesses that are outsourcing their support to in country contact centers are doing the same thing.

Your biggest mistake was automatically assuming anything in corporation says is a lie, and projecting that into me.

All that matters is the track record.

This comment aged like milk given they had already lifted the ban.

This is what LGPL is for.

You can still use a library like a library freely, without restriction, but you are keeping your IP protected from being copied cloned and modified elsewhere.

I’m going to guess because of the tools that don’t use LGPL.

Which makes them quite limiting and kind of controversial since you have to adopt their license from my understanding, even if used as a library.

I try and use LGPL on all my projects since it allows others to use the Library as a library, and anyone that wants to modify or use the source has to copy left.

How to lose another election against an actual anti-democracy fascist who couldn’t pass a turning test 101.

It really is, holy crap. It’s like 1 paragraph per ad.

Did you read the article? No? Cmon. You should start doing that before drawing conclusions.

This is noted as a temporary block on the specific extensions ONLY within the country with regulatory power to ban Firefox. Russia.

Mozilla has stated this is temporary so they can have the breathing room to figure out how to navigate this. Since this goes against their principles.

It’s either Firefox is banned in Russia, or they do this. Which causes more harm? That’s a rough choice for them to need to make.

Welcome to the lowest common denominator.

It’s an infuriating world.

Firefox?

This is only in the country that has regulatory authority, Russian, and is stated as temporary so Mozilla can figure out what to do about it.

Imagine being to wishy washy that you can’t even read the article before doing a 180 on your principles.

When you say a locally owned pharmacy, can you elaborate?

The ones I’m familiar with are just at big stores here.

• Yes, U.S.
• I would pick up the dilute serum from the allergist and transport it myself. It’s specifically created for just me (The exact serum), so it’s not something attainable from the pharmacy.

Thank you so much for the knowledge! I’m going to take this and see what I can do. Thank you 🙏

Yeah, I thought it sounded unhinged. But I’m desperate, and don’t want to put myself at risk of a preventable death.

I’ve spent the greater part of my life as a shut in largely because I’m a sniffling, coughing, sneezing mess all day and night every day for 6-8 months of the year. And simply a sniffly mess for the rest.

I had one good summer last year and I can’t believe what I’m missing. Being able to do activities like hiking, or biking, going to the grocery store without being treated like I have the plague. Actually being able to go out to a restaurant or public places. Making friends, and actually being able to join them. Going to the movies…etc Not having to carry a whole-ass box a Kleenex with me everywhere I go.

It made me into a desperate man, realizing how much life I’m missing.

The comments here are fantastic, and incredibly helpful.

My allergist mentioned these, and noted that this is likely to be ineffective for me. Insurance also didn’t want to pay for it, though they shoveled out $4k for the serum for shots.

If I can’t get shots here though, I’ll try anything.