Clevermistakes

@Clevermistakes@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally. If we’re going make real change with this we need hard enforcement that says “you must provide a default setting that can be set per browser” or something that avoids the entire need for sifting through their cookie menu to find out I left one turned on. But this is peak example of ineffective laws to govern the internet made by people who don’t have any experience in computer science. I’m sure we will continue to see “do not track is just a suggestion” messages continuously. Or the requirement for each individual website to specify what type of tracking in absurd detail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So to phrase this appropriately: you could say the apartheid blood emerald trust fund baby is experimenting with dangerous technology on disabled people because he views them as less than human. I don’t think it can be viewed any other way than sleazy. Besides it’s not like people with disabilities are so desperate they don’t care about their quality of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree here. Hope my comment didn’t downplay the severity of this. It is horrible and the investigation needs to continue. But I stand by saying the headline makes it sound like a Saw movie.

  That being said, I hope the whole thing gets shut down at this point. It sounds like vapourware. Like full self driving I’m sure it all just works. Just wait 2 more months and they’ll release it. Yeah. Right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrible Things Happened to Monkeys After Getting Neuralink Implants, According to Veterinary Records⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True. The headline is sensationalist. It’s not unusual to have these types of effects from medical device testing, animals scratching at scars etc. but that doesn’t excuse the outright lying from Musk. These people signing up for the trial are insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waitrose hit by middle-class vegetable shortage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What the hell is a middle class vegetable? Is this some slight at the Irish and potatoes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My open letter to the tech industry on sexism, HR, and Linus Tech Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think some of the points you have to look at demographically and use privilege to correct it. I’m not a woman, but I’ve seen women I work with have their ideas “shot down” simply because it was from them even if it was paraphrased a minute later by a man then magically it’s perfect!

  I often make a point of correcting that in my org by saying “This was a good idea the first time from (woman), why did we move on from it last time?” So then people who shot this down have to awkwardly explain why they “didn’t understand” or make up some excuse. It works to highlight that maybe you just weren’t listening. Because it was a woman speaking. It’s unfortunate but it’s common in FAANG. I’m just tired of seeing it as someone who’s worked with some really incredible women who left the industry because of the toxicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My open letter to the tech industry on sexism, HR, and Linus Tech Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? And it says she’s in Vancouver. That’s how you know she’s desperate because her wait time at VGH would have her bled out in the waiting room!

  In all seriousness though; this screams wildly of startup bro culture. Especially the part where she said they had this “verbal agreement” yeah, they didn’t want anything written down because they know how screwed they’d be.

  I hope she lawyers up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My open letter to the tech industry on sexism, HR, and Linus Tech Tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with way too many years in the tech industry having suffered these toxic brogrammer cultures I can confidently say the reason unions won’t take off is people assume if “I am in a union then as an engineer I’ll only make as much as the project manager, and I want my 300k TC!” Which is completely incorrect but good luck convincing these younger engineers that, I’ve been trying for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what they thought that Prius’s battery was made out of. Must have been gas cells or something. Couldn’t be one of those pesky rare earth batteries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Instacart customer said she discovered the app's higher prices cost her nearly $100 after accidentally seeing the store's paper receipt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Help your fellow canucks out and tell us who’s doing this! I’m happy to save myself some sanity and not attend the weekly superstore circus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA’s incredible new solid-state battery pushes the boundaries of energy storage: ‘This could revolutionize air travel’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to guess “all the precious metals in manufacturing of the EV are so much worse than my gas cars!” Nonsense that the oil industry has been shilling online with bots for years to slow adoption of EVs among specific demographics.

  Even though this myth has been debunked a hundred times, by folks like MIT, and in Reuters they showed if you live in an area that’s exclusively renewable power like I do, then I actually broke even 4ish years ago; within 3 months of owning my EV. Source: Reuters article, norway vs us ev break even point