#DataPoint

[ltslean]

Streamlining Continuous Improvement: How Data Point Redefines SQDCP Management at PCI Pharma?

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[6v-theblog]

The Rodina

Sweet Datapoint

2014

[allisongreenlee]

Exploring the Significance and Themes of the Dead Sea Scrolls (A Work in Progress)

The content discusses the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which are a collection of Jewish manuscripts discovered in the mid-twentieth century. These scrolls were written in Hebrew and Aramaic, and date back to the time of the Second Temple. They provide significant insight into the religious and cultural practices of Second Temple Judaism, as they include copies of the Hebrew Bible and other…

[geometric-bs]

"Doing your best" (with chronic illness)

My doctor (bless him) straight up went "don't" when I said "I'll do my best"

Because what I think "my best" is, is completely draining myself for this One Thing and going above and beyond

I guess this goes for people w/o chronic illness as well, but "your best" shouldn't mean you end up hurting yourself in the long run. "Your best" is as much as you are willing to devote to something proportional to how much you care about it within the confines of what is healthy for you AND considering all the other stuff you have to do

Please just- holy heck we're already struggling so much please don't devote your precious energy to something that doesn't deserve it

don't do your best, do whats best for you

[dany36]

third time playing through and this hologram projection STILL gave me chills after it was done playing. GOD what a fantastic game 🛐🛐🛐

[where-the-water-flows]

If you know how to do it you can use someone’s phone number to find their full legal name and home address. It’s just a bit of Google and knowing what websites stores this kind of info. Saw your tags asking how a phone number could verify someone’s age

So, I appreciate you dropping into my askbox to pass that info on - genuinely, it's kind of you - and I can see how my tags came across, but what I actually meant wasn't 'how can you find info on someone just with their phone number??' -- I actually do exactly that kind of thing in my day job pretty regularly, and I have to conform to a lot of real strict ethic constraints that uh, bluntly, random discord moderators...do not.

What I was actually getting at is the fact that, assuming the hypothetical server is just using a phone number as age verification (and doing data broker/google search on that), how in the hell is it controlling for someone doing what people under the arbitrary age limit du jour have been doing since we started implementing this sort of check, ie, lying like rugs and supplying info for someone in their family/social circle instead who is older than [whatever age].

like. sure. maybe you get a phone number for age verification. awesome. plug that into your data broker/google/etc of choice, run your searches, and ok, it belongs to jane smith, 38 years old, accountant who lives in ballarat, she's totally fine to join the 18+ server! come on in jane, the smut is plentiful and the doves are extremely dead. Jane smith has a kid. jane smith's kid is 15. jane smith's kid isn't allowed in the server, because it's an 18+ only server.

jane smith's kid almost certainly knows their mum's mobile number.

how the hell can Hypothetical Server Mod control for 15 year old jane smith's kid putting in jane smith's mobile number instead of their own? and also, separately, how the hell is HSM dealing with the many -- many many many -- different privacy laws around the globe?

not just in terms of handling that sort of information on people (and also requesting it in the first place!), but also just. some countries you can get so much fucking info on someone! (the US. I'm talking about the US.)

some you can't. because privacy laws, because the info isn't publicly accessible, because it's not online and is only in hard copy at the local government office, because it's collated but only in a nonenglish language, because it's geolocked-- etc.

also, like. even if the hypothetical phone number brings up someone in the US, and also your hypothetical mod team has decided, y'know, fuck privacy laws, security of information and data ethics can take a long walk off a short pier, we're keeping this server 18+ or dying trying!

data brokers aren't...actually consistently what you would call...super accurate, or like, accurate at all. if you have a unique name, yeah, sure, you're probably kinda fucked! (assuming you're in, again, somewhere the data brokers focus) but like. if you're named something a little more common - say, james smith, or maria sanchez in the US- uh. well. there sure are a lot of people you could be, and some of them - most of them! - are over 18.

and ok, sure, a phone number is (usually) only associated with one person, but. you can get a lot of false positives, false negatives, and straight up 'we don't know 🤪', the latter of which is sometimes hidden by the databrokers going 'our best guess is that this person is: An Age!! somewhere between 0 and 200 years old. 😇'

again, I use this stuff for work, I can tell you exactly how inaccurate it can get as soon as you throw something like 'not based in the US/UK' or 'uses a nickname/multiple name formats' or 'isn't super online' or 'older than 65 and not turbo wealthy' at some of these - I've had more than one confidently tell me that [my wallet name] is an accountant based in darwin who makes horror films in alice springs on the side, and also, is 26, and had 2-3 kids with her husband Lauchlan.

literally none of these facts are true. like. even vaguely.

and that can of worms doesn't even get into if someone has requested to be removed from data broker databases and/or takes online privacy Very Seriously and/or is just fundamentally ungoogleable, which is...more common than you'd think. less common than you'd like, but more common than you think, even before google started enshittifying itself out of existence.

which is why when you're trying to do things like prove your identity to uhhh goverments, banks, etc, they want multiple forms of ID, one of which is usually a photo ID, none of which anyone should be sending to a random on discord, or, frankly, asking for from a random on discord, both bc my god privacy and security risk but also like. handling that information can actually have legal requirements!

anyway. extremely long ramble on the failings of databrokers over, I appreciate you reaching out to help explain and it was very kind of you anon, sorry that I have. uhhhh kind of a lot of professional feelings about data privacy and basic social engineering, by which I mean saying 'no I'm totally 18 pinkie swear' in the grand tradition of teens wanting to get into age locked areas ever, your forebears lied on LJ so you could lie on discord.

[cesium-sheep]

I feel like I must be misreporting something??? but the line keeps going up?????? I'm over 50 for the first time since the end of 2019. I'm consistently trending positive for the first time ever. what the fuck dude.

[theyloy]

Me: there's so many games I would like to play, and I have not very much time, and Baldur's Gate 3 just came out, I should finish this one game I haven't finished and then get to that

Also me:

[ltslean]

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[aroaceacacia]

i have a parasocial relationship with everybody who's ever uploaded an MCC vod to archive.org

[robo-dino-puppy]

machine oil

[centralbunnyunit]

[lady-inkyrius]

Somehow, despite the ubiquity of American media here, I never managed to come across the term drip/filter coffee until after I started working in a cafe and got people asking whether we did filter coffee. Tbf this is probably because I'm not a coffee drinker and don't really care, but it is interesting how nonexistent filter coffee is in UK cafes.

Instant coffee seems to be by far the most common way of making coffee at home, but I'm curious how common or rare filter coffee is compared to other methods (cafetieres, moka pots, nespresso-like systems, actual espresso machines, etc.)

[noel-levine-fan]

shoutout to IZ conducting a poll only a month after mine lmao

(i'm still gonna be doing my survey project, they seem to be analyzing different datapoints than i was but it's still a funny concidence)

[singingkestrel]

I'll give you a hint: It's Ted freakin' Faro.

[willowcrowned]

being given the tools to mess around with hexcodes in ggplot is making me realize my aesthetic sensibilities might be permanently stuck at the level of a five year old’s. there is not a datapoint escaping from the pink and purple storm unscathed