This article says it did it by disguising itself as a web crawler. So can I just set my user agent to googlebot and paywalls will disappear?
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Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’English131·16 days agoI live in New Zealand and there are many 24/7 McDonalds in busy areas. Clicking randomly on their NZ map it’s pretty easy to find them: https://mcdonalds.co.nz/find-us/restaurants
It’s the same with Australia: https://mcdonalds.com.au/find-us/restaurants
Actually, the same for the US. It’s not hard to find 24/7 ones (you need to search for a city before they show on the map): https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/restaurant-locator.html
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’English8·17 days agoAre you saying that there are not many McDonalds that advertise 24/7 service, or that they advertise this but don’t actually provide it?
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’English101·17 days agoThey have over 40k locations. Many are 24/7. They also surely churn through employees, have many part time employees, and probably get many more applicants than they hire.
The employees will be hired by the franchisees but they still use the McDonalds software.
Millions is not a surprise to me at all. Perhaps that it’s tens of millions is a little surprising, but it still seems within the realm of possibility.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts publicEnglish4·29 days agoI’ve heard social media where you interact with strangers instead of “friends” referred to as “antisocial media”.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of communityEnglish1·1 month agoIt may be both a factor of who you live with (the ones itching to get back to the office either lived alone or with people they didn’t really gel with), and could have also been the length of time we were in lockdown (we had one of the strongest in the world - for the first 6 weeks or so even McDonald’s wasn’t allowed to open). After a couple of months of not being allowed to leave the house and having no face to face contact with friends or family, I can understand the desire to get back to the office. The people I have in mind mostly lived close to the office, too.
One other factor may have been that our remote working infrastructure was in no way ready for the entire organisation to work from home with a couple of day’s notice. Video calls were just not possible for the first stretch as the work computers were all VPNed through a potato.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of communityEnglish301·1 month agoThis was also my experience during the main sweep of the pandemic. It was so great getting to cut the commute and be home. Something I have luckily managed to largely continue. Prior to the pandemic my kid was in daycare pretty much 7:30-5:30 so it was really nice to not have to do that, plus during our lockdown we used to go for a family walk at lunchtime.
While some of the single guys I worked with hated staying home and were straight back in the office the moment they were allowed.
The question reminds me of this:
Ross: Why are you mad at me?
Phoebe: You said I was boring
Ross: When did I say you were boring?!
Phoebe: Oh my God, I remember now! We were playing chess!
Ross: Phoebe! You and I have never played chess!
Phoebe: Oh, come on! Yes, remember that time on the frozen lake? We were playing chess, you said I was boring, and then you took off your energy mask and you were Cameron Diaz! Okay, there’s a chance this may have been a dream.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the originalEnglish111·2 months agoHaha when they did that blog post to change the switch from 8/10 to 4/10 saying they don’t normally do that but wanted to make sure you could compare the 2 properly against the original, I thought they were making space for the 2 to be above the original, not that they were going to mark it as worse 😅
Dave@lemmy.nzto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Am I a dick if I don't want to meet an old friend for coffee if she brings her babies along?151·2 months agoI think it’s reasonable to respond with something like “I’m really not a kid person, I don’t much enjoy talking about kids or being around kids. I’m still happy to meet for coffee, but maybe we plan to keep it a short chat and see how it goes?”
They’re mostly just going to be the focus of the occasion because they need constant attention, and I don’t really like kids in general. And, if they cry or act up and attract attention I will hate that.
Many places will have toy areas for kids, maybe you can find one (or ask if they can suggest one since they are more likely to know which ones nearby have that). A 2 year old can probably keep themselves mostly entertained off and on for 30 mins or an hour, depending on the specific kid and if there are a good selection of toys. The 6 month old will need more attention but may well spend a lot of the time sleeping.
An old friend/aquaintance I’ve not spoken to in a few years popped up recently and we got chatting a little over text.
I don’t want to put you off, but I’d probably have a plan for what you’re going to do if they start a MLM pitch.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to itEnglish7·2 months agoI agree. I keep loads of shot that I’m hoping one day will just be processed by an AI to pick out the stuff people might want to actually see.
“People” includes me. I don’t delete anything (when it comes to photos, videos, etc) and just assume at some point technology will make it easy to find whatever.
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English1·2 months agoOh I was comparing Disney+ Standard to Netflix Standard. Turns out there’s also Netflix Basic which is a similar price to Disney+ Standard, but with many more restrictions.
I think Disney+ Standard and Netflix Standard seem to be comparable. In NZD Disney+ is $16.99 (approx $10USD)and Netflix is $25.99 (approx $15USD) per month. Disney+ gives annual discounts as well.
None of the plans in NZ seem to have ads (yet…).
Though I don’t think they- charge extra for 4k so there is that.
Out of the two plans I see, the Standard only includes up to 1080p and 4k requires Premium, $21.99NZD (approx $13USD).
Dave@lemmy.nzto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026English6·2 months agoHalf of new Netflix subscribers opt for the $8 per month option rather than ad-free subscriptions, which start at $18 per month, the company says.
Damn, when did it get so expensive? Assuming that’s USD. That’s a decent amount more than Disney+, right?
Is it the same muscle as when you do the rumbly ear thing?
Some third parties may have a legitimate interest.
Some.
Around two years ago reddit effectively banned most third party apps. That was when Lemmy went from a handful of instances with 1000 or less active users (mostly those banned from reddit), to tens of thousands of users and hundreds of instances in a short space of time.
People here are saying there are dozens of people here who came from reddit, but I’d guess it’s dozens of thousands, a pretty decent proportion of active users.