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Either this or the Epstein stuff, so…could still technically be worse?

I was joking, but it was my actual thought process when I responded to Google’s email about this by deleting my Play Games profile altogether.

Also, I haven’t played a new Android game in years.

My Steam history isn’t intimately tied to my bowel movements though. This is more personal.

They’re used pretty interchangeably, given the logo. The article you linked even uses “Levi’s” in the same way at least a couple times.

Nothing here indicating surprise, but it is important to call out plainly what’s happening.

Weekday drinking as a hobby.

What’s wrong with a time tracker?

I’ve worked in once place where I was support (no projects, all work came from and was tracked in tickets). Since everyone had to use the time tracking system anyway, I had to enter 8 hours every day. I was salaried, so no OT or docked pay for time off; I entered the same 5x8 every week, regardless of what or when I worked that week. Pointless.

Another time, I was subcontracting and had to enter time for the same projects for both my employer and the company that hired us. My employer wanted time submitted twice a month, and the hiring company demanded weekly. Tedious.

Two of these three companies were irrationally anal about pre-filling the time sheets, even when the hours were well planned or functionally irrelevant.

This stands today as my favorite demonstration to show people why I’m so grumpy at their meeting invites. Thank you for posting it here, as it was my first thought when seeing the OP.

Google has 182k employees as of 2023 (at least according to Wikipedia). There’s no way to have that many people and not have one slip up once in a while.

Yes. It may deflect some of the legal responsibility, but it’s still more of a “how they got breached” than “they didn’t get breached.”

Which is exactly why it overheats so quickly when they close the lid.

Let’s face it, the place using a laptop on the floor with a paper sign probably doesn’t have the budget for real sysadmins. At the same time, most real sysadmins know to disable the lid-closing behavior and get the laptop off of the carpet because they’ve been foiled in their past by people who refused to read the goddamn paper sign.

Reminds me of the pettiness during the aftermath of the class action because of the Nexus 6P battery problems. Google/Fi suddenly lost all records of my support tickets, my having purchased the phone at all, the warranty replacement they’d done, etc.

Fortunately, I keep meticulous records and still had a phone that powered down at 60% battery, so recorded a video of it as evidence and got my payout. Severely tainted my impression of Google/Fi though. Neither the faulty hardware nor the shady practices are surprising at this point.

I don’t think an article writing for an audience that needs API defined is the place to get the finer details. Also, does it really matter? Keeping secrets out of the repo is pretty basic stuff, so there’s a lack of fundamental information security awareness.

I’d bet all the monies that there’s a bunch of unencrypted spreadsheets with enough data to steal millions of identities on some idiot’s Google Drive or whatever, and a bunch of it’s been shared with commercial LLMs without any of our consent. Our personal data’s being handled less securely than the average corporate SharePoint site’s plans for the next pizza party.

Sailing the high seas solves those problems too. Forego Amazon Prime and just steal your shit from their cargo ships.

We the jury find the defendant: “not guilty.”

At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.

I think it’s all some level of FUD until there’s an example of it being called out as a reason for denial. The fields have been on the application for a while, but I know someone who recently came in with a private ig profile and a vk profile that hadn’t been used for anything but chat. Wasn’t mentioned at all along the process beyond being on the application.

That may change soon, but it also might just be rhetoric from dipshits playing to their dipshit base.

Fair enough, though that’s an ask from the State Dept., not a demand from the embassy, as indicated in the OP. It’s an important distinction because the embassy holds the authority at that point in the process. They can ignore the guidance altogether or demand everyone open their profiles. They’re probably more likely to do the latter now, but they could’ve done this two years ago too.

Demanding the usernames for the past 5 years and being suspect of anyone not on social media isn’t a new, that was my main point. I don’t think many people appreciated how shitfucked our visa processes are, even before the current “administration” helping.

The username requirement isn’t anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.

The “wants people to set their social media profiles to public” isn’t quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.

This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked…but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.

It’s in a technology community but isn’t really about technology. It doesn’t contain much useful information (the post would be a better place to share what TWC is than assuming I’ll be curious enough to join a Zoom session). This is straight up spam.