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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My IP address is apparantly suspicious? What? (Real IP, not a VPN)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw, has anyone here actually got hacked?

  Lots of people have, usually it’s because they downloaded a cracked application that trojan-horsed a virus onto their system, or they installed a bad browser extension. Once on the system, the malware goes nuts spreading to other systems on their network, using keyloggers to grab passwords, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The second half is a little rough, but the first half is fantastic IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it can’t be AI, I just don’t believe it at this level. I don’t know anybody, not a single person whose job even could be replaced by AI, much less has been. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, there are companies that are trying to actually replace their workers with AI, but they’re few and far between and make a lot of headlines when they do it.

  I think the more likely explanation is that spending freezes across the board (due to tarriffs and government cutbacks) have put a lot of companies in serious financial stress, and they’re claiming the resulting layoffs are because of AI optimization because the reality of the situation would send their stock price plummeting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. Not just tarriffs, but all of the government layoffs and funding cuts as well. I know a lot of people who have either been laid off, or their coworkers have been laid off, or they’ve had their funding cut and projects terminated in the last 5 months. It’s scary out there, hiring freezes across the board and layoffs every few months as companies are just riding on their capital while waiting for funding to resume, but there’s no sign of it happening any time soon, if ever. My company does mostly government contracting, we haven’t won a single contract in the last 8 months and supposedly we only have a few months of runway left before the big layoffs start. It’s not because contracts are being awarded and we’re just not getting them, it’s because all government spending has been shut off, which has trickle-down effects on thousands of companies across the country. My wife is in a completely different industry but is facing the exact same problems. And none of it has anything to do with AI.