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erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

Yes, we've seen so called "experts" telling your personality from your handwriting, or stupid personality tests... HR sure can find convoluted ways to reject random applications.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says

Move to EU and pay taxes there. Or buy European products, they pay taxes and some of it go to the EU.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Nvidia passes Alphabet in market cap and is now the third most valuable U.S. company

This is not about Google, which have a market cap that corresponds to their revenue.

This is about Nvidia that has a crazy inflated market cap.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform

But all my friends are in the shit restaurant!

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images

Maybe it's you who changed, and graduated from sociopath troll to sociable human being?

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million

They lost less than the year before

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”

That's not how relations between employers and employees work.

It's like saying you don't need a democracy if the king cares enough about his subjects.

It might work for a time, but the power balance is such that you can't rely on the goodwill of leaders alone.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird

Who the fuck wears a VR headset walking in the street, let alone crossing a road?

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird

I don't know, I could see the value if it really looked like the mask was semi transparent.

So it's a cool idea, the only problem is that they didn't deliver and the result is creepy instead.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in The man who owes Nintendo $14m: Gary Bowser and gaming’s most infamous piracy case

He only has to pay 20% of his left over after expenses like rent.

And if the GoFundMe reaches the amount he owes, he'll be a free man.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables

I believe that's why they make it impossible to remove without a sim card tool, so they can argue that it's an internal connection that the user is not supposed to remove.

erwan , 5 months ago to Technology in Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast”

Kinda, Plex still changes my homepage with their ads once in a while

erwan , 6 months ago to Technology in GoFundMe Is a Boon for Disaster Survivors. Especially the Wealthy Ones. Campaigns on the crowdfunding site raised more money for wildfire survivors with high incomes than for those who need help most

Even if you're giving to a stranger, you're more likely to give to someone similar to you.

So rich people will have more empathy for other rich people because they have more in common.

erwan , 6 months ago to Technology in IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company

So they have to move to an office, any office?

Meaning they can no longer be remote but don't have to be in the same office as the people they manage?

That makes a lot of sense.

erwan , 6 months ago to Technology in The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block

When needed, they can change it faster than Japan did.