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space , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Another classic

But I don't want back to monke

space , 1 month ago to Technology in MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

And also legacy... If something is already written in assembly and you want to add a feature, you're not going to completely rewrite it.

space , 1 month ago to Technology in Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

I also left after they ordered us back to the office.

The company (mid sized, a few thousand employees) was stagnant for many years and losing employees faster than employing them because of the bad management. Then they fired all the people (around 50) from a specific location that we were working with, very senior and really great, that i learned a lot from. From a team of 15, we were left 3. Then one of the colleagues got promoted to management, the other left, and I was the only one working on that product.

For context, the company had two very similar products, and wanted to migrate users of one to the other. Instead of providing a technical solution, I suppose they decided to simply make the support customers were paying for really awful, so customers wouldn't renew.

Other than the lack of manpower to maintain the product, infrastructure and also deal with all the customer escalations, it was fine as a workplace... My direct managers understood the situation and made a lot of effort to shield workers from the shitty upper management. I wasn't stressed at all, and just doing my job.

Then at the end of the pandemic, the company got bought by another. And things turned to shit... They fired a lot of people, especially management where they kept only the bootlickers of the new executives. I ended up working on 2 understaffed projects instead of 1 - both the product being replaced, and its replacement. And they made us come back to the office.

So I left.

space , 1 month ago to Technology in Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

I am the opposite, I thrive when I work from home. But it's important for me to have a dedicated space for it, not in my bedroom, and free from distractions like wife, kids, pets, and neighbors with drills.

My home setup is 10x better than at the office... I have a great desk with lots of space, big awesome monitors, awesome keyboard and mouse with kvms to make switching to my personal PC easier. My coffee is better than any work coffee machine I ever used. My internet is much faster and more reliable.

I shit you not, at the last company I worked they proxied all web traffic through another country thousands of km away. As expected, it worked like shit and was failing constantly. And you couldn't even access repos like maven central, because they used a proxy autoconfig file with hundreds of rules, which is not supported by any software except browsers.

And there's also the benefits of having a private office, away from noisy coworkers and prying eyes.

space , 1 month ago to Technology in Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

I agree, being out of office is the best

space , 1 month ago to Technology in Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds

I agree, being out of office is the best

space , 1 month ago to Technology in EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again

And they already do it on mobile. They are just trying to bring ads to the pc and consoles, just like they do on mobile.

space , 1 month ago to Technology in EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again

I'm pretty sure their goal is to bring ads in the same form as the mobile games, not as part of the in-game world. If they can do it on mobile, why shouldn't they on pc or consoles?

I think this will be an important thing for gamers to unite against, because if there isn't enough push back, every big studio will do the same.

space , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash

But what if there is heavy rain? Are you supposed to put the car in car wash mode then? Why wouldn't those things be sealed all the time?

space , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash

I seriously don't understand how this could be possible. How does the car manage rain water?

space , 2 months ago to Technology in Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps

That's a clever way of getting people to work for them as moderators.

space , 2 months ago to Technology in 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds

I was referring to the website. This article goes in a lot more detail about how it works.

I'm pretty sure they are consulting lawyers to see how much data they can sell to third parties without breaking the law.

space , 2 months ago to Technology in 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds

Typically trackers are implemented client side because it's more convenient. It's closer to the user, it can collect more data, and there is only one programming language it needs to support, Javascript.

But the disadvantage is that it can be blocked by the users. Data collection and user tracking can also be done on the server side. There are many analytics packages that support it, including Google Analytics. This is much easier to hide from the users. Here is an article I found on the topic.

It's not hacking because the website developers integrate it willingly.

space , 2 months ago to Technology in 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds

The bad part is that even if you block everything on the client side with ad/tracker blocking extensions, there's nothing stopping them from collecting data on the server side.

space , 2 months ago to solarpunk memes in seize the means of production

That would destroy the entire grid and a lot of equipment. It's why texas had rolling blackouts a few winters ago, it's a fine balance between supply and demand to maintain stable voltage and frequency. Failure to do so can result in a LOT of damage. If you don't have enough supply, you have to reduce demand.