Knossos

Always have back ups. Google (or whomever) can always ban your account on a whim for whatever reason. There are plenty of instances of people losing everything. Even high profile people.

I run a local paperless server for documents:

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

Honestly, the time for migrating local first had come, if you are technically minded.

That side eye 👀

There are extremes.

There are a lot of posts in this thread already detailing positive cases for euthanasia.

My wife worked as a vet tech assistant and she told me once of a case where someone brought their dog in. Diagnosis was terminal, but that the dog was in good condition right now, and would likely not have any discomfort for months. They chose to euthanise immediately. I guess the owner didn’t want to deal with the reminder every day? But that feels wrong to me.

A few things I remember.

Nobody sanitised their inputs.

You could get through logins by making a database query check whether 1 = 1 instead of a password. You could put JavaScript into guest book fields to redirect people to whatever crazy site you wanted.

My university lecturer told me about a well known supermarket that built a shop front. They made it in such a way that you could change the numbers before they were submitted and it wasn’t validated on the back end. So free food.

I use em all the time, for no particular reason either. I just like how they look. I didn’t realise this was a AI detection metric until recently.

LOOK AT THE BONES!

So a medieval charge would have been even more insane for them.

What?!

Something doesn’t work in a particular piece of software. “Don’t they test their program?”. “All they need to do is X, obviously they don’t know how to code!”.

Sometimes it isn’t as easy as you think.

The one German Astronaut: Stoßlüften!!!