LillyPip
@LillyPip@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness 13 hours ago:
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
Again, I meant for profit companies.
Volunteer led orgs are different.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
I wasn’t justifying it. Perhaps that came across the wrong way.
They’re selling shit they never asked their users does that’s bullshit, and should be illegal. Especially with children’s data.
My point was they’re doing it.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
I’ve been in software design and development for decades. Sorry, but you are wrong.
The reason these companies are so profitable is because they sell your data.
Whales are fine, but that’s not their only revenue stream. People freely give up their data to them and that’s stupidly valuable. If you think these companies aren’t selling it, you’re very naive.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
Yeah, I didn’t think I needed to make clear I meant with for profit companies.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
Yeah, but many players don’t pay, especially the huge player bases of children. They can subsidise that by selling your data.
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 1 week ago:
Nothing is free. All free services are using your data somehow.
If you’re not the customer, you’re the product.
- Comment on i guess lunar eclipse got an update too.. 1 week ago:
Ha. There’s no such thing as.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Oh, if it matters, I also run Memory Clean 2 to monitor RAM usage and do Extreme Clean from time to time.
I forgot about this because it’s basically muscle memory at this point, but maybe this is making a difference?
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m not sure about Tahoe since my machine is too old so it won’t let me upgrade, but at least Sequoia has been fine with 8GB.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Sequoia.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
That’s not true at all.
I constantly have Illustrator, Photoshop, Sibelius, Scrivener, and about 100 browser tabs open on my 10 year old MacBook with 8gb of RAM without issue.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 3 weeks ago:
Oh, then the dipshit is definitely going to try it.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, IIRC when a bunch of large corporations got away with doing this in the 1980s and 90s, a lot of us just assumed it would keep happening. Some people have tried raising the alarm about this, but have been shouted down pretty consistently.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, but this is kinda separate:
we couldn’t possibly pay the market price for it.
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I was like but that’s the job.
This is literally what labour unions are for?
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Well, this shows that the people in charge have no idea what they’re running, and are not adding any value. We’ve been brainwashed (by them being our eyeballs and brains) to think they do.
They do not.
I cannot stress this enough:
THEY DO NOT.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. It sounds like our backgrounds are similar.
Writing JDs for new roles I had to fill I was constantly getting them knocked back by HR.
That’s awful. It feels really bad when you feel you’re standing in the way of people getting jobs. When you would normally feel like you might be a leftist, this sort of point can be easily exploited to make you feel bad, right?
I don’t even want to address the rest of your points until we go over this one because it feels so important.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
No, I ended up hiring under qualified people who had skills on paper but had no talent for the job, because I had to look at candidates who had ‘book’ qualifications in adjacent fields but not passion of qualifications that actually meant anything.
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
15 years ago. Unfortunately not of my own volition (I became I bece unable to work due to disability).
- Comment on he forgor 3 weeks ago:
Fun fact: I had a career in which I was in charge of hiring other people to fill the expanding roles in my department, and was tasked with hiring ‘more of myself’, but I was not allowed to even co wider people with my own qualifications.
I was mostly self-taught, and was only allowed to consider people with at least bachelor’s degrees in a field that didn’t even really exist yet.
You can probably guess how that went.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Thx. Looks like Facebook rage bait.
I left there a few years ago tho so maybe it’s changed?Rage bait on inspirational backgrounds was a think for a while, then i stopped looking forever.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Janky. Tap can be great if not ‘designed’ by and supporting Nazis.
Love me a70s Gremlin.
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy': Bella Shepard Reveals How Genesis' Setback Just Set up Season 2 4 weeks ago:
Really hoping the negativity doesn’t get this show cancelled. It’s actually good, and corporate wants to cancel everything with soul.
Bella is great in her role. The whole cast is fantastic. I’ve been watching since TOS in the late 70s, and this show has the heart of Trek. If it’s cancelled before it gets to find its sea legs (like so many things), that will be tragic.
It’s weird, it’s funky, and it’s Trek. I feel like I’m in the minority, but I like it.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
No sympathy.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Hey man, you’re under no obligation to tell him, nor to defend him.
So stop defending him.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I guess that’s fair, though my 89 year old dad who’s also not terminally online knows this, so I have a hard time with excuses now.
Much as it sucks, if I see your boss driving that crime against fingers, I’m still gonna see him as a Nazi. Maybe someone should tell him.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, true. But we’re like several years past that now. If you could afford one of those sins against the design gods, you could afford to take the L by now.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Rage bait is boring.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Owning a cybertruck is an indication the driver is a Nazi. It was always an indicator of very poor taste, but now it marks you as a Nazi. Don’t bother trying to change my mind. I know it, my cat knows it, the mould in that tupperware I keep putting off opening in the far reaches of my fridge knows it.
No excuses now, and no bumper stickers will dissuade me. It’s been long enough, sell the thing or start sieg heiling.
- Comment on X's Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find 4 weeks ago:
Fascists, Musk fanbois. That Venn diagram has a lot of overlap.
