Re:Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
by relativ575 on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:03PM
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I find it baffled that a company of that caliber don't have regression tests that can verify region-bound changes wouldn't affect results intended for other regions.
Re:Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship
by true_religion on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:52PM
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It was a mistake not an accident.
When you make an accident, test safety checks can save you.
However although you don’t intentionally make a mistake, you do intentionally carry it out.
In that case, no amount of safety checking will stop a human being from implementing bad logic.
Oh, I don't know. If we can label "accidentally using the wrong scope" as a human error, I could easily see a situation where someone meant to remove something from Chinese search results but accidentally did it worldwide. I don't know what their infrastructure is like, what kind of safeguards they have in place, or even what they do to block a result from the all-seeing algorithm. Which is more likely: that Microsoft would allow China to dictate what the rest of the world can/cannot see or that someone made a mistake and blocked something globally instead of regionally?