Very true, there's no standards beyond each tech's personal ethics.
VegaLyrae
joined 2 years ago
Former tech at an indie shop (in the USA):
I didn't want to dig into people's personal shit, especially not their niche porn collections.
Browsing history was one thing we actually would look at in order to determine infection vector (when doing virus removal). We would usually counsel the customer on how to avoid it in the future. Obviously didn't do that on non-virus issues because that would be wrong and a total waste of my limited time.
The only time we would look at any images, erotic or not, is if they looked suspicious on a scan or by filename.
Because of prior incidents, we also would check files that might be CSAM and report those to the cops. Usually a thumbnail in a scanner/explorer/etc program would bring that suspicion.
I personally wouldn't want any files from a customer PC, and the only USB I'd be using is the shop one with all the antivirus on it.
Phone-as-EPIRB is truly one of the biggest benefits.
I would suggest only having instantaneous location history or very short like 10min to avoid the temptation to pry.
Just softening them up for 2027
Everyone does it eventually
Only superpower left who hasn't tried to invade them at some point in time.
Oh and I forgot, a big one, I engage the cats if they show interest in my task.
When cooking they can smell safe things, if I'm working on tech i have a very large screw and bolt for them to play with/try out instead of my small ones.
Cats are social and want to be included, if you give them the option to do "parallel play" I think it will improve what people see as problem behaviors that are really just begging to be included.
Fetch: grab the toy if they play with it and it ends up close by, use verbal reinforcement
Names: the cats recognize everyone's name in the hous thanks to reinforcement learning
Locations: the cats know where I'm going and can beat me there because I tell them where I'm going, sounds like reinforcement learning again?
Activities: set phrases like "let's go", "come on", "let's get some food", "jump up", etc, all by reinforcement training.
Paw-touching: slowly touch more and more often, for longer, until nail clipping is a breeze. Hmm... Might be reinforcement training again.
To end bad behaviors, hiss, it's a built-in "no" for cats.
It sucks and I canceled it and subscribed to it through YouTube which means paramount gets 30% less money.
I am floored no one mentioned the original Ratchet and Clank
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxLlSv5mvIa1WGSK3wH3o2Y9I4D-rqFi
David Bergeaud did such a standout job with it, it's so varied but cohesive, it's engaging and synthy but real and groovy.
It MAKES the environment just as much as graphics.
It seems like we've actually grown further from treating it as such.
For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.
I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.
Honestly I wouldn't mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.
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