stoly
@stoly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 23 hours ago:
No humans are involved in reviewing these. They go into the memory hole and that’s that.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 1 day ago:
This is silly. Google doesn’t give a single fuck. This decision will make money for key players and that’s the end of the conversation.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 1 day ago:
Everything I could find that was of higher quality, I downloaded over time. I have some bootlegs though along with some music I’ve found from no other sources. I’ll never replace some of it, but that’s fine.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 2 days ago:
I can’t possibly calculate how many hours I spent curating my music library. I don’t use it anymore but you better bet that I still have it saved to the cloud and locally and it’s there in case I need it.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 days ago:
I felt this way back in the late 90s when states started requiring sales tax for online transactions. It felt stupid to me that a transaction that occurs in some other state should have to include taxes for the place where you live.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 days ago:
I hadn’t realized that that was a thing, amazing!
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 days ago:
What’s changing and that has conservatives in fear is that the US is losing control of the internet as other countries begin to enforce their own vision for it. It’s why there is so much anger recently from the Trump admin about taxes and controls on social media.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 days ago:
That’s exactly how the EU keeps levying fines on Meta and Xitter. If you make your service available in a country, you have to follow their laws. If you don’t want to do that, then you can’t allow people from that country to use your site. This really isn’t controversial.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 3 days ago:
No, you can definitely block entire countries.
- Comment on Polymer P0rn 4 days ago:
I think the joke for the top two might be mixed up.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 4 days ago:
If you offer a service in a country you are subject to their laws.
- Comment on 'Where's your America First?': US teenager stuck in Israeli jail for six months 4 days ago:
That’s because Israel is the spoiled younger sibling of the US and the US is willing to beat up the people that Israel bullies. This won’t go on forever, we’re experiencing empire collapse. Eventually their shield will disappear and both countries will be forced to answer for their actions.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
Industry surely has an impact.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
That was a fantastic impression of reality. Well done.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
In fairness they are very social and make great spreadsheets.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
Settled on a business degree (their the easiest of anything I was interested in
I specifically avoid hiring students from business majors because they are only into the networking and not doing work lol.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 6 days ago:
I’ve been saying that the market is oversaturated for YEARS now but this just enrages tech bros into insulting me personally. It’s very strange.
I always tell me CS/CE/Info students that they should focus on non profits, government agencies, etc. where at least employment will be stable.
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 1 week ago:
This person has no sense of security.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 week ago:
For delivery, I don’t know that I have seen it. Perhaps for Uber/Lyft, though.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 week ago:
This is like content matching on YouTube or Twitch. It can be wrong but what are you going to do about it?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 week ago:
They are referring to the fact that the app might show a photo and the person showing up is not the same as in the photo of the driver.
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 1 week ago:
Because someone with the proper papers is signing up but their family member is doing the actual work. It’s basically working the system. People actually get jobs this way too.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 week ago:
Every year I tell my CS/CE/Info students that the market is saturated and that jobs are hard to find. I then tell them that they have to figure what motivates them: a paycheck or service. I then suggest that public service is generally stable while private enterprise can be volatile. I finish by telling them that they have to decide what among this fits them best.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 week ago:
No, not really. Where I work now is fantastic and we have great leadership. The moment your original visionary leader leaves and someone with an MBA gets in their place, it all goes to shit. This is LITERALLY what happened to Google and to Apple. Both super dynamic companies with great culture who were then gutted to generate shareholder value.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 week ago:
I worked for one of those 20 year startups. It was awful. Basically there was no drive, no vision. The entire place was a lot of faff and only existed to give bonuses to leadership. All of the interesting and motivated employees moved on long ago leaving only the mediocre types who play political games and favorites. I needed A job and took it when offered, but took the next job as soon as I could get out. I watched many others cycle through, some a lot faster than I did (I was waiting for a specific position to open).
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 week ago:
This is where I got the hell out of the industry. I now manage IT for a major university and love it. It doesn’t pay as well but it has great benefits, is pandemic-proof, and allows me to work with a lot of excited and motivated students. When I help them get through their studies with confidence, it means the world to me.
- Comment on So Long to Tech's Dream Job: It’s the shut up and grind era, tech workers said, as Apple, Google, Meta and other giants age into large bureaucracies. 1 week ago:
I posted a similar comment in another post of this article.
The elite 1% students who spent their lives pursuing this are getting exactly what they asked for. They sold their souls for a big paycheck and assumed that it was everyone else’s careers that were volatile. They’d have done better to work for a non-profit where at least they could say that they are making the world a better place.
- Comment on Work, work 1 week ago:
I had some idiot ask me that question when the answer was fairly obviously that I was in school. Didn’t even take the time to understand my resume.
- Comment on China announces 75.8% tariffs on Canadian canola in response to Canada’s tax on Chinese electric vehicles. 2 weeks ago:
I suppose that once someone acts a buffoon everyone else is allowed to.
- Comment on Could I just create my own drive format? 2 weeks ago:
People have and do, but the effort is ridiculous and requires some very high-level computer science or computer engineering skills.