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Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers by hilariously on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:42PM (#48895254)
It's just purposeful blindness - I worked for a company building out tooling that insisted markdown based security was good enough and showed it off for anyone at the company to attack because they were so sure.

It took me less than 5 minutes to completely disable... nobody cared, they just kept going - check the box and move on.

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Re:Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers by Sharlin on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:46PM (#48895322)
Something something salary depending on it.

Software "engineering" in particular has always been more than 50% cargo culting. Good engineering practices never matter when the alternative is just going through the motions of whatever rituals are in vogue.

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