I think the reason is less about "i, an individual, am getting my data harvested" (though certainly still a factor) byt more because China is still very much considered an enemy of the US, and they are not only harvesting americans data in a very invasive way - as in, recording pretty much everything you do on your phone, not just in the app - but an adversarial government now has access to all of that. Additionally, because the chinese "free market" has been effectively neutered in recent years, high chance that the CCP is able to influence TikTok's algorithm to affect what people see and push propaganda. People should be concerned about it in the same way people should be concerned about russian bot farm, but more so, because there isn't an audience of millions feeding russian bot farms their personal information.

Damn, had zero interest before but now I'm gonna go out of my way to actually buy his game

I've only ever grepped log files. 9 years into my career now so not sure which side of the spectrum I'm on (i'm definitely on the spectrum)

I have one up one you: I'm 100% sure nobody will find me because I'm 100% sure nobody will look for me. So take that, I guess.

I (a software engineer) am a high magician who fixes the spells other high magicians put into the magic box ages ago because the king wants them to do something other than whay they were originally designed to do.

MEGAMIND

Saw an article on getpocket while at work by an alleged programmer that was "mourning the art of coding" because ChatGPT was doing such a good job that his non-coder friend was able to setup a webpage.

To be fair I couldn't tollerate reading past the first paragraph, but it definitely felt like the dude didn't know the difference between funtional code and good code. Like, sure ChatGPT may be able to make a website, but good luck getting it to formulate anything non-generic.

Anyone in the market for a printer: Get a Brother (printer, not human)

Elementary school we has televised morning announcements where 2 different kids were randomly selected each week to read the script as the "hosts". I got selected one week and while the camera was turned to the flag for the pledge of allegience, the other kid and i quietly, under the desk, started fighting with hand puppets that were on set. We stopped when the camera got back to us, but the music teacher, who was in charge of the whole schtick, decided afterwards to get angry and take me, specifically, off of morning announcements.

That's not even the part I'm still mad about though. When it was time for music class that day, since it was entirely floor seating, I positioned myself under the lip of the teacher's desk to sulk, like is a normal response for a 6 year old who feels like they were unfairly singled out. The music teacher then proceded to pour a glass of water on my head, in front of the whole class.

I can't even remember his name but I hope he had a shit life afterwards. What kind of teacher does that to a child.

Assuming you're a normal person and therefore have a complicated, toxic relationship with your family such that you don't want your estate split evenly between your next of kin, a will with which to scorn each of them one last time.

Don't skip the paperwork for declaring your executor and/or a living will either - you don't want those presumedly slimy bastards making medical decisions for you while you're in a coma.

ITT people throwing out names of things with 0 mention of what they are or what they're used for.

Like, I appreciate being to look at everyone's recommendations, but man that's a lot of googling

Tumblr? Is going to become more "user friendly"? As in the "We're going to make money by selling you the ability to spam people with crabs and advertise other's people posts for the entire userbase to see" Tumblr? The same Tumblr whose Twitter account, durring the first Twitter Exodus posted "We have to act normal for the refugees to like us!" immediately followed by " bites you bites you bites you "? The same Tumblr who advertises to their user base with a completely contextless photo of a man in a terrifying humanoid pikachu with glasses cosplay?

That Tumblr?