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mowthieon I brought down a scamming operation with 15 bytes of PHP

Well, I am no member of law enforcement organisation, but I was really hoping to read that. Does anyone have a copy, by chance?

mowthieon Ask Microsoft: Are you using our personal data to train AI?

> If you don't use any MS products or services, and no products/services you do use are backed by MS's services, then you don't need to care personally.

I beg to differ, wouldn't they be more inclined to care in case their data was being used in a product they do not interact with, rather than the one they do use - and in some way benefit from it?

mowthieon Elixir saves Pinterest $2M a year in server costs

To non-developers reading this, I have no way of knowing whether such statements are ever true, but I am willing to believe they are not!