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Dran_Arcana

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Dran_Arcana ,

Hey now, lets not exaggerate and hyperbolize. There are types of non-ad data in this message. "Hello!" isn't an ad. Neither are the links for "Pay Rent" or "Request Maintenance". By pixel count that has to be at least 3% of the message!

Also, I'm sure there's a tracking pixel somewhere, probably embedded in the CDNs for those images so that they can know when and where you opened this message, what type of device your on, etc. That's creepy tracking data not advertising! (yet)

Kids these days, never happy with anything.

Dran_Arcana ,

That sounds a lot closer to Canadian employment law, not US law. In most states, at-will employment is indefinitely 2-way. Employers are usually not required to give you any notice/reason/benefit beyond what is in the employment contract you sign. Conversely, employees have the same freedom. I've been at my job over ten years now and I could quit today with 0 notice or penalty. I don't have to tell them why or where I'm going, just return my work equipment and collect a prorated final check. I could do a lot more damage to them than they could do to me and I like it that way.

Dran_Arcana ,

Most people should learn to live below their means. I see people that make as much as I do having multiple children, buying giant houses in really nice areas, and I can't help but wonder what would happen if they lost their jobs with 0 notice. It probably would be catastrophic, but that risk is a choice. Conversely, I live like I make half as much as I do. Max out my retirement contributions every year, rent a much smaller apartment, etc. Maintenance is taken care of for me; I have a small amount of nice things; and if I lost my job I have months or years to find a new one before things would really get dire. Don't get me wrong I'm planning to move in somewhere nicer and have kids soon too, but extended periods of living below your means allows one to save enough money to increase what their means can provide at the same income level. It also allows you to make migrations without the stress of what happens during the overlap in employment, living situation, insurance, etc. Wash, rinse, repeat. E.G, I fixed up a junkyard car by hand in high school and drove it for a decade so I could afford to buy a new car in cash instead of a lease or a payment with interest. Not having interest applied on top of the purchase made it a lot cheaper for me in the long run than the same vehicle would have been for others that stretched to purchase it. I'm not saying it doesn't suck a little to see other people with things that I want, but I prefer the safety net I've built for myself. I think most people could benefit from a shift in perspective about what they can actually afford, and how they should choose to live their lives.

Dran_Arcana ,

It would be very easy to spoof those values in a handshake though, unless you're proposing that in the initial data exchange a remote server gets a dump of every post and computationally verifies compliance.

Federated trust is an unsolved problem in computer science because of how complex of a problem it is.

Dran_Arcana ,

It just has to go unnoticed long enough to spam for a few days, get defederated, delete itself, start over

Dran_Arcana ,

Monitors. It's not there yet but imagine a world where you have like 8, 30-inch, 4k monitors in a giant grid and it costs like $600. That's the endgame here. Get VR tech to the point where it's better than buying physical displays for general productivity.

Dran_Arcana ,

Why not? it's a lot more space efficient; it's a lot more power efficient. The only thing holding it back is cost and comfort. I'm a developer rocking 4 monitors standard for work and I can absolutely imagine a world where I just have a desk, a keyboard, and a headset.

Dran_Arcana ,

The resolution isn't quite there yet, and I think the headset is too heavy to wear for 8hrs a day, 5 days a week (plus leisure if you're a gamer or hobbyist)

Dran_Arcana ,

Yeah I don't want Apple's implementation either, just saying to the other guy where I thought the endgame was headed

Dran_Arcana ,

You wouldn't just move your eyes you'd move your head the same as you'd do at a desk. That's the tracking part of the headsets

Dran_Arcana ,

Context/region blocking is a very quick and inexpensive path to basic security. At work I have sets of iptables rules to block regions by country code and by context (i.e VPN provider, datacenter provider, etc). I've found that some services will go from tens of thousands of brute force attempts per day to 1-2 per month. It really is crazy the amount of routine attacks that come through VPN providers if you host services in the professional world.

Does this mean that legitimate users can't use a VPN to access our services? Yes, but we also don't sell any data to any third parties so I don't feel so bad about it.

Dran_Arcana ,

Car manufacturers also tend to make parts available for decades. They tend to be pretty reasonably priced too.

Workers at companies that tested out a 4-day workweek are happier and more efficient — and firms made more money. One lawmaker says it's 'here to stay.' (news.yahoo.com)

Workers at companies that tested out a 4-day workweek are happier and more efficient — and firms made more money. One lawmaker says it's 'here to stay.'::The latest data shows that workers and companies prosper under a four-day workweek. Rep. Mark Takano wants to make it law.

Dran_Arcana ,

There are some good ones out there. Where I work, they believe me to be irreplaceable. The truth is that I'm sure there are thousands of competent engineers that could replace me, just not for my salary, and certainly not also willing to move to a small town. They don't want to pay full market rate for what I do, but they convince me to stay on by letting me work my own hours, full-remote, great vacation and benefits, etc. Ive been so productive since leaving office work that the entire organization now has remote work policies.

They've figured out that it's cheaper to just make your employees not hate their lives and I'm absolutely here for it.

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