ITeeTechMonkey

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How convenient this decision was supposedly made prior to the decision to unionize and is related to only financial issues.

  I bet they are always discussing what studios to cut or downsize in case of “economic downturns” or “failing to meet quarterly projections” so they can’t be accused of union-busting or retaliation.

  I think we need to learn more about the union movement in Canada and US. People fought and died over these rights. Companies and governments forgot unions were the agreement we made to not drag their asses out in the streets and beat their asses.

  It would do those in power to remember this compromise because we are getting ripe for another wave of work reform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea sounds like GameSpy back in the day for multiplayer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL they are decentralized and that does make keeping them offline harder, but does make issues like honeypots and malicious mirrors more likely as sites come and go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya this is sure the beginning of the end for them. They aren’t an “AI” company so the full force of the government will come after them now that they have been named in a mainstream publication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I want to make a joke about Teams sucking this will be the foothold that Microsoft uses to work their way back in.

  Its what people know and are familiar with and it might cause enough friction to undo the migration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s used by some Discord communities to prevent spam/bots. This would be inconjunction with other measures like how some communities require a verified email or to have a phone number associated with your account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But wait there’s more! Like Hamlets which are smaller than a village.

  And we haven’t even started getting into the different types of cities: Metropolitis, Twin, Satellite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Motorola Atrix 4G had a Desktop Mode (Webtop was its name and it was Ubuntu based) in 2011 before Samsung. They even released a cradle dock, that you could connect to a tv or monitor, and a laptop dock for it and the source code on Sourceforge (my guess is to be GPL compliant).

  I got that phone specifically for the desktop mode. It had a full blown Firefox browser installed and you could run your apps along side it.

  I was blown away and thought, “This is the future for computers” but I was incredibly wrong. After the short honeymoon period i found it to be sluggish and clunky when using an android app. The hardware although phenomenal for a phone couldn’t provide an optimal experience for a desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar experience where we had an entire class for Novell Directory Services. The reason our teacher gave for keeping the class in the curriculum? We MAY run into it in the workforce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately they are already in the market and making a mess: theregister.com/…/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_resto…