Can we get an F in the chat for Twitter not getting sued to hell and back for breaking all kinds of laws by accident?

  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It will be up to engineers to "self-certify compliance[...]"

    You just know the engineers are gonna read this and be like "yeh, alright, how hard could it be? I've done more complicated stuff than that"

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've done compliance type stuff at an engineer heavy company before and my rule is that an engineer's confidence in dealing with regulation is usually inverse to their ability.

      • scraeming [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If I have to choose between a 4.0 honors graduate with a god complex and an exasperated dude from a middling state school who couches every response to an out-of-pocket request with "I need to get your request in writing first", I'm taking the second guy ten times out of ten.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      lol not me, miss me with that shit, i would be out faster than that adorable cartoon roadrunner and if i couldn't quit, i would rev up the CYA email machine full blast.

    • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I'm sure the engineers will actually be like "great, even more shit I have to do"

    • Hoyt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Oh cool all the code monkeys opening themselves up for unlimited liability if they screw up in a way that is world-wide and famously byzantine, im sure this is going to work out great

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      I knew some people who were deep in to start up culture like a decade ago and they had story after story of how bazinga engineers and programmers were completely immune to understanding basic things like "You cannot just copy text/code/images/whatever from other companies that is copyright theft and exposes us to massive liability". It was a stretch to just get them to understand the concept of liability.

      • Farman [any]
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        2 years ago

        Copy rigth is not a real thing anyway so fuck that

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        engineers and programmers were completely immune to understanding basic things like “You cannot just copy text/code/images/whatever from other companies that is copyright theft and exposes us to massive liability”

        accidentally based?

        I knew some people who were deep in to start up culture
        bazinga

        :sadness:

    • the_minority_retort [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Dude they’re not gonna read anything, are you kidding? We don’t even read man pages. Chances are the company will get sued, not us.