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dojan , 2 days ago

If my workplace were to rescind the work from home stuff, I'd refuse to go to office and split my time between doing my actual job and shopping around for a new workplace.

dojan , 2 days ago

I think that's completely fair. I was hired on the basis that it'd be a full remote position, with the occasional travel (like once a year, if that). If they randomly decided to have me go twice a month, I'd probably look around too.

It'd mean that twice a month I'd have to spend 4 hours commuting, hopefully on company time, as well as find someone who could sit my dog for the day. Honestly would like to have the work pay for that too.

dojan , 3 days ago

Yeah, this is nothing new.

dojan , 3 days ago

Given that the alternative for consumers was to not get security updates at all, that's pretty sweet.
I'd either upgrade to Windows 11, or swap to Linux though.

dojan , 2 days ago

Gods, yes!

dojan , 4 days ago

How is that news, what with all the accidents they’ve been involved in?

dojan , 4 days ago

I think people read a serious voice in your joke.

dojan , 4 days ago

Bahamas, hopefully.

dojan , 4 days ago

Nu uh, my man. We love our lesbian sisters!

dojan , 5 days ago

Since that literally already happened years ago with Microsoft Tay. The Japanese version Rinna got depression instead.

dojan , 8 days ago

It’s a list of various apps, games, and categories across platforms. ChatGPT is on there…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/01bb5cdc-6599-4a6e-a05f-aa8863a3aa7c.png

dojan , 8 days ago

Assuming it’s like most modern games, nothing is a day 1 buy since nothing is fucking finished on release. Better wait a few years for patches, expansions, ultimate releases and mod support.

dojan , 8 days ago

Your name is Mark Cocks.

dojan , 9 days ago

I’m able to do my job (and life) better with work from home.

I don’t crave the social interaction as much as others. Social situations wear me out, and the ability to schedule my work fairly freely means that I can work around my debilitating neurological condition. Work from home has given me the opportunity to function mostly like a normal member of society, and I really value that.

Honestly don’t think I’d last long if a return to office was made mandatory. If I don’t burn out I’ll jump off a bridge or something.

dojan , 9 days ago

The AI chatbot can connect to services like Gmail, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, and Slack for additional data.

LMAO. “Give us all your data please.”

dojan , 15 days ago

I’d no idea there’s a browser called Conkeror. That’s prertty funny since WebKit was based off of KHTML used in KDE’s Konqueror browser.

dojan , 16 days ago

The U.S. has such shitty work conditions that I’m only about 90% sure this is a joke, and that’s worrying.

dojan , 16 days ago

Being rich has everything to do with being lucky and evil.

dojan , 18 days ago

Honestly with the speed new BS crops up I don’t think they will.

dojan , 19 days ago

Folding at home.

I dunno. I wouldn’t lend my spare power to put people out of a job.

dojan , 19 days ago

In the past I might’ve been more critical of the parents, but honestly in this day and age?

Large publishers and developers exist to exploit people. They exploit workers by overhiring, overworking, and then firing them gracelessly whenever they’ve managed to push out the next paint-by-numbers turd they have planned. It releases to the public in an unfinished state, yet the consumer is expected to shell out hundreds of dollars not only for the base game, but for season passes, FOMO mechanics, in-game shops, gambling and other anti-consumer bullshit.

They scheme to create more and more insidious systems to keep the player hooked, all the while they’re abusing their workers, playing with their lives, and sometimes literally stealing from them.

The modern AAA gaming industry is worse than it ever has been, and these parents aren’t wrong; the games are designed to be addictive. They’d outright encourage people to mortgage their home and steal their parents’ credit cards if they thought they could get away with it.

dojan , 23 days ago

You will own nothing and you’ll be happy?

dojan , 23 days ago

Yeah. Like obviously no one thinks that what Hamas is doing is in any way right, but at the same time Palestine has been shrinking. Palestinians have been treated poorly for decades, and they have no recourse.

It’s hardly surprising that an organisation like Hamas would crop up. People are being erased and they want desperately to continue living.

I cannot truthfully say that I wouldn’t lash out in violence if my life was threatened.

dojan , 25 days ago

I agree. Just like how all these ride-sharing apps like Über and whatnot ought be treated like taxi services and AirBNB should be treated like a hotel service. The workers deserve fair compensation and security, and the clients deserve the safety and standards of a regulated business.

dojan , 26 days ago

That’s a problem for tomorrow’s me! Me right now wants to cling to whatever little free time he gets.

dojan , 27 days ago

In Sweden. Never paid postage to return anything to a shop. Never paid postage to send a product anywhere, actually, be it for warranty or what have you. Typically the store either gives you a shipping label to print out, or they send you one.

dojan , 27 days ago

The thought of Amazon selling food too creeps me out so bad.

dojan , 27 days ago

Just the idea of a corporation growing to that size gives me the ickies. It’s just one step closer to a corporate town. I’m sure the service is great for now.

Thankfully Amazon hasn’t really managed to settle properly where I’m from. They’re great for weird niche products, but they’re not your go-to for most things.

dojan , 27 days ago

That makes sense. Why establish something new when you can just buy it.

dojan , 26 days ago

Aldrig köpt från dessa butiker. Om du har köpt i butik så antar jag att retur sker i butik. Annars skulle jag tro att de står för returen. Kolla med kundtjänst.

dojan , 29 days ago

The C in Clippy stands for clown.

dojan , 29 days ago

Rebranding is a way of indicating that they’ve done something (hopefully worth paying more for) without really doing anything at all. Great way for a new executive to make a non-decision.

dojan , 29 days ago

I’ve subscribed to them once a month each year these past three years, literally only to catch His Dark Materials. Now that that’s over I don’t see what else they have to offer.

dojan , 1 month ago

Awww, I love this!

dojan , 1 month ago

If you just leave the criminals alone and let them do as they please they’ll regulate themselves. A criminal justice system is just unnecessary and expensive administrative overhead. It stifles the free market.

dojan , 1 month ago

So that was the pop noise that woke me!

dojan , 1 month ago

“Through iMessage, business users are only able to send enriched messages to iOS users and must rely on traditional SMS for all the other end users,”

I don’t see how that’s weird at all? I can send “enriched messages” to other Discord users, but I can’t do that from Discord to Matrix. Or from Discord to SMS. I can’t text my friend’s Instagram either. I don’t dare say whether or not I can mail a post onto the fediverse because that definitely sounds like some niche functionality someone has implemented (or thought to implement) somewhere.

Doesn’t Google have that exact same thing anyway?

What a weird thing to take issue with. Like yeah I’d obviously prefer it if there was a widely adopted open standard that everyone could use, but that’s not how capitalism works, is it?

dojan , 1 month ago

Oh I’d love for our governments to get their collective hands out of their arseholes and actually start regulating.

dojan , 29 days ago

I think they’re getting away with it because of the phrasing.

Messages sent through the iMessage service are encrypted, but not all messages you sent through the Messages (note the lack of i) app are iMessage messages. It’s the exact type of fucking sneaky bullshit that should be regulated so hard it stops existing, but I guess our regulators don’t think it’s a big deal right now.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b4a5271b-b6dd-4b01-b762-3547ca402b34.jpeg

@edinbruh mentions in another comment that

A recent … EU law mandates that if your platform is big enough … to gatekeep users from using other platforms, then it must interoperate with competing services.

And I think this is how Apple would “sneak” through this as well. The Messages app doesn’t lock you into a communications protocol. If the recipient has iMessages, it sends via that, if not, it sends via SMS/MMS. No idea if that argument would hold, I hope it wouldn’t. I would honestly prefer it if there was just a single open messaging standard that anyone could hook into, because closed proprietary tech is fucking bullshit on every single level.

dojan , 29 days ago

Apple says iMessage is not that widespread in the EU and should not be included, Google says it is and should be regulated, that’s because this regulation will most likely have effects even outside the EU.

I’m not surprised they’d say that, even though it’s a bald-faced lie. iMessages isn’t an opt-in service, you can’t even opt-out of it; it’s fully automatic. If your text recipient has an iPhone and can use iMessages, it’s sent via that. There seems to be a way to opt-out of this in settings. though I’ve not tried it myself.

dojan , 29 days ago

Ha, what a blooper. What I meant was that you’re never presented with an option to send via text rather than iMessage, but have to dig through the settings app to change it.

dojan , 29 days ago

Ah that’s probably the case here too. I just don’t text people, or use iMessage very much.

dojan , 1 month ago

I’ve been using it daily for two years and I’ve had pretty much nothing but problems. It’ll sit in the background and sleep or something, and then I’ll get five hundred messages dropping in all at once. I put teams on my work phone on the side so I can see if someone messages me.

Sometimes messages don’t come through on the PC client, but they can be sent from it, meaning if I look at a chat on my phone it looks normal, but on my PC it looks like I’m talking to myself.

Video calls make all the shadows in the OS flicker. There’s a lot of shadows now, never gave them a second thought before.

The app has a tendency to spontaneously log me out during things, and then refuse to log back in unless I reboot.

Sometimes it doesn’t detect my camera or microphone.

Sometimes during calls the buttons stop working. If I’m sharing my desktop, I can’t stop sharing. If I’m muted, I can’t unmute myself. If my video is off, I can’t turn it on. If I want to close the rubbish and restart, I’ll need to go through task manager.

Not a big fan.

dojan , 1 month ago

Second generation ThinkPad T14S.

dojan , 1 month ago

I’ve colleagues for whom teams works just fine. I think it has a vendetta specifically towards me.

dojan , 1 month ago

Now imagine if they announced things like no more predatory monetisation. Consumer-friendly licensing. No more crunch. No more sexual harrassment and bullying in the workplace. Fair compensation for workers. Humane working hours and PTO?

Ah, well…

dojan , 1 month ago

That’s terrible. I don’t understand why governments do that.

dojan , 1 month ago

Oh it’s much worse than just the SSNs. Thankfully you can’t do much with SSNs alone, though you totally can with some social engineering, or offical looking documents. There are people that have legally died because death certificates have been filed on them, from non-existing doctors. Legally died as in the person is very much still alive. That kind of thing is a fucking mess to fix.

The thing is, if you knew my name, or my address and age, you’d be able to find out crazy details about me.

• My birth date
• My full name
• My social security number
• Which apartment I live in
• Directions my apartment from the building entrance
• How large my apartment is
• How many rooms it has
• When I moved in
• My criminal record
• Which schools I’ve attended
• Where I’ve worked
• What I’ve studied
• Who my current employer is
• If I have a spouse, if so who they are and all of this info about them
• My yearly income
• The average income of the people in my area
• All of this information about everyone in my building
• If I own any vehicles
• If so what model, make, and lit. everything about it (purchase date, approx value, when it was last serviced, odometer settings)
• Which animals I have registered on my name
• Their name, sex, breed, and age

Like it’s extensive and there are websites that are built to collate all this information under one roof, then have people pay to access parts of it. You can access this info through official means for free but it won’t be neatly presented in a singular packet. I’ve also left out a lot of stuff, like my company ownership/board member status, if I’ve been politically engaged, etc. The list was getting too long.