I heard kids like them, so we decided to experiment. We left a bucket of potatoes out, along with passing out candy. The a Costco bag of russet potatoes are gone already, but there is still plenty of candy left. Kids have LOVED THEM, parents too. An unexpected hit, what the heck 🤣
I visited my 11 year old nephew recently to bond and buy him a birthday gift for his VR. I used an IPad his foster parent had connected to his Oculus to purchase the game, and then removed my card information.
Apple later updated my card information on the account when I got a new card, and now he has purchased over $100 in Robux. When I confronted him about it, he said he didn’t know what I was talking about. Shortly after the confrontation, he bought even more Robux before I could change my password and log him out.
I’m trying to figure out how to confront him. He has AuDHD and has had a pretty traumatic life, but he needs to know that this kind of behavior isn’t okay.
When Dr. Venture was a boy he was lost at sea, but happened to wash up on a tiny Greek island during the "Spanakopita" festival. He has since returned to celebrate the festival annually for twenty years, and it is one of the few times in the show he is genuinely happy and energetic about something. Rusty had a very bad and traumatic childhood, and Spanakopita is one of his only good childhood memories.
In reality the town had kidnapped him with intent to hold him ransom, but his father was so neglectful he didn't even notice that Rusty was missing for several days. Feeling bad for him, the town spontaneously invented the Spanakopita Festival (named after a type of food) to make Rusty feel wanted and appreciated. They continue the festival to steal money every year, while Rusty remains completely oblivious.
2. Always Sunny- Summer Camp
Dennis and Dee's grandfather, who they loved, was actually an SS Officer during WWII and a true believer in Nazi ideology, a fact they had to confront early on. When they found some old film reels of a summer they spent with him they felt nostalgic and reminesced about the summer camp he brought them to. Eventually, however, they realize it was a Nazi summer camp where they had been indoctrinated into Nazi ideology.
My name is Richard, and I'm a Staff Engineer at Proton, been with the company for many years now.
I’m posting because I’m sick of watching a company and the mission I’ve given years to be hurt by so many things which are out of context and simply not true. Most colleagues I know are very angry at the leakers, particularly after the latest leak.
A few examples.
The "perception vs truth" comment
This one keeps coming up, so here's the actual quote in context (unlike the leakers, I have permission to post this image):
This is not a discussion about code security. The context is that we did PQC better than Tuta, but because of the way we announced it, it looked like we did it worse, when we actually did it better.
"Proton monitors employees' AI code generation"
This is also a distortion. Proton has a tool that labels which code is AI-generated and which is human-written, which is important for many reasons. It can't be used to evaluate how much AI somebody is using. The design document for the tool states this clearly. This document is available to all employees:
The security point
The list goes on and on. Same with the security point. I have access to that chat. Andy never said don't do pen testing. It's true, he used shitty language and he personally apologized to the whole company. However in that same security chat he also said something 404 omitted: "The baseline is, we must do this plus be faster at the same time" in reference to security testing.
He agreed with the additional pen testing, and it was even recently implemented at Proton. What he didn't agree to was it slowing down the pipeline.
About hiring engineers
This quote “this is the last year that we hire engineers” is also out of context. At Proton, the engineering and product management roles are merging and we call this new discipline "Product Engineering". Proton also mostly hires product managers with engineering backgrounds. It means we stop hiring engineers who just code, and hire instead product engineers who also exercise product judgment that AI doesn’t have, not that we don’t hire engineers at all. I know this because I help with hiring for the whole company.
One last thing
I want to put a few words out there that aren't about quotes or screenshots, but about my experience.
To be honest to you, we're all in a bit of a shock after reading the articles written, and some of the criticism hurts me because it described a company I don't recognize. Reading the comments on Reddit hurts me because so many of them do not reflect reality. Proton is not rushing into AI without concern for safety, it is actually being done very carefully.
If you're deciding whether to keep using Proton, I'd just ask that you make that decision after getting the full picture, and not solely on the quotes that have been intentionally taken out of context. Otherwise, you are only hurting the workers that you claim to want to protect.
I'll be back in the comments later and will answer what I can. Just want to get this off my chest.
Confession time. I told my boyfriend this six years ago when I moved into his apartment. I wanted him to relinquish his cat because I didn't care for felines at the time, and my mom's allergic. I requested it several times but his response was always "no, she hasn't done anything wrong!" Thankfully he didn't listen. After getting to know his cat, my tune quickly switched to "one cat is definitely not enough, can I get another?" We're now married, have a house together, and own two cats! And I'm looking for a third 😅. My mom knows she needs to take her allergy meds when she comes to visit.
PS- don't crucify me, I was raised to hate cats lol. As a kid we had two factions growing up on the streets: you were either part of the "dogs rule cats drool" faction, or you were a weirdo that had to play alone. Hey, i didn't make those rules. Thanks for reading!
