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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 115 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Someone saw that Black Mirror episode and said “Let’s make that for real.”

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

And they got the idea from the two prior databases.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you mean that Community episode.

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic sci-fi novel "Don't Create the Torment Nexus"

[–] Keyboard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yeaaa hahahaha you are right 😂😂😂 sounds just like that episode

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 146 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Huh...

Part of these types of things generally seem like a well-intentioned idea, but it's also so creepy, scammy, and gross. This data won't stop here by any means, and will be sold or used in a million different even shittier ways. Pretty fucked.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 144 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 54 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Don't these companies know how to properly configure a database? This seemed like it was completely preventable.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Don't these companies know

No. The answer is always no

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 days ago

Lots of breaches are entirely preventable, but lots of companies don't like to pay for qualified employees that could prevent them.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Starting salary for a cyber security expert is around 70,000€ and that's for someone who's relatively inexperienced so you would probably want to pay more like 90,000€, for these startups that's seven or eight employees worth of salary and they don't want to pay it.

The problem is it leads to things like this happening which kills their entire company.

Or they could do what they're doing now which is work with a consultancy company which doesn't cost anywhere near as much money but still costs quite a bit.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 27 points 2 days ago

They don't care. It's not their information and there are no consequences.

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[–] hunnybubny@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 days ago

This is psychotic.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago (2 children)

“He’s a cheater,” Walker said, reading some of the comments on one post out loud.

"What clubs does he go to?" another person asked on a different post. "He’s cute."

That illustrates the big problem...

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

It's not going to take long for them to get massively sued, there's no way they're vetting the posted info, and it's literally cyber bullying.

The guy (yes it's a guy) who made and owns this is a fucking idiot for not seeing the lawsuits coming.

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Some guys are lying assholes and horrible people, but so are some women.

and some guys anonymously posing as women online to undermine the competition.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lol, reminds me of a different thread about trump pretending to be a woman and writing into newspapers:

“Based on the fact that I work for Donald Trump as his secretary—and therefore know him well—I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article … I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women—all women love Donald Trump.”

Carolin Gallego December 7, 1992. (Not a realperson)

https://mashable.com/article/donald-trump-carolin-gallego-new-york-magazine-letter

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

JFC, as if this guy wasn't already the poster child for cringe.

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[–] apex32@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 32 points 2 days ago

There's no way a libel database could be a bad business model

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[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There is no way this would get abused by threat actors and mentally unstable types!

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

"What clubs does he go to?" another person asked on a different post. "He’s cute."

Clubs? Are we in the 90ies?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

90ies

I can't help but "hear" this as "Ninety eez".

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[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

:(

Some of us

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? What term would be preferable to you?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Young people are being ‘priced out of nightlife’Turns out Gen Z aren’t boring – we’re just poor ❤️

Gen Z Man Reveals What Really 'Killed Club Culture'

etc., you get the hint.

A study recently linked it to

  • affordance (see above)
  • better general consciousness for health vs. alcohol
  • less tolerance for drunken slipups due to social media
[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Oh. So, you're saying you don't go to clubs. I thought you might have been saying it's an outdated expression.

Alright then, carry on.

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[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 46 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don't care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she's horrible. One person's "this person won't shut up about communism" is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that's the dream.

When you sign up, you'd need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

But that's a lot of work

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Same thing should be done with product reviews, and social media comments, etc., etc.

Really if someone makes a robust way to have a trust chain that integrates into the Internet at large, that would prevent a whole universe of problems we have in modern society.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It makes me super uneasy. I can easily see this type of model being expanded and applied to more and more things.

Call for a refund because something you ordered never showed up? Wrong trust chain, you're automatically lying, refund denied.

Report someone for T-boning you? Wrong trust chain, you're now arrested for hitting them.

Etc...

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As with all technology, applying it in the wrong circumstances causes more problems than not.

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[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What a weird place some societies have come to.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Thank God we have the GDPR in Europe.

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[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that Facebook started as FaceMash, an app for men at Harvard to rate the attractiveness of women.

Both are bad. At least these women are nominally using it for safety and not just looks rating.

Finally, I would be really darn cautious of using any app like FaceMash or Tea. Seems like a great way to get sued for defamation. Or to become the target of escalated behavior of one of the bad ones.

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