MasterBlaster
@MasterBlaster@lemmy.world
- Comment on CFCs 7 months ago:
Many, unfortunately, are so deep in doublethink the won’t believe that tricky Dick initiated the whole thing with the EPA, clean water or air act, and the endangered species acts. Some came after, i think, but he set it rolling. He was still a bad dude, but he did some good stuff
- Comment on CFCs 8 months ago:
I literally had this exact exchange with someone last year, when they tried to cast doubt on global warming by comparing it to the ozone. Another person did the same , using acid rain, and I pointed out that the northeast sued the shit out of the Midwest until they cut that shit with the coal fire power plants.
- Comment on Dark Age of Camelot introduces new and returning seasonal tasks in its Midwinter Festival 11 months ago:
My thoughts, exactly. I still have the original game in the box . World of WarCrack captured me for a few years. I still remember the beauty of the world as I ran or rode horse between cities. The pine forests with snow falling was amazing.
I lost interest because I’m a solitary gamer and you really need to be a guild member to enjoy it. That leads to mandatory raids at 2 am, etc., which I just can’t handle.
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 11 months ago:
Who hired them? Who gave them direction?
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 11 months ago:
I don’t have to click the link because I know about that already. I’m not justifying the greed, just acknowledging the reality. There are people with these skills who are not self-serving. We likely agree on many things, but I work with reason, not ideology. I also try to avoid insulting people for telling me things I don’t like unless they are insulting, of course.
Here’s something you won’t like - Marxism does not work, for the same reason the 1% collect all the wealth. Greed is a human condition.
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 11 months ago:
Yep, and they were just about to do it when that scumbag stole their thunder, right? They had the entire design all set and came together as a collective to make it happen, and Jobs stepped in and stole all the money and credit!
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 11 months ago:
And yet, he’s the one who got those products to the public, and many love them. I’m not fond of Apple, but I have to acknowledge success. I’m not claiming he’s a good person. Heck I agree with much you said, but being a business leader is a legitimate role and requires real skills.
- Comment on Workplace dictatorship. 11 months ago:
Pulling together all the resources and ideas to make something happen is itself a valid skill. They’re way overpaid for it, but it is real work.
Steve Jobs, in particular, created with help the original Mac and was screwed over by other powerful people in the business. He created the Mach kernel and the NeXT workstation before Apple crawled back to him for help salvaging the business.
He might have been an arrogant prick, but he did have the ability to bring vision into reality, and he helped make a lot of people other than himself wealthy.
We have this thing called specialization in modern society. Do you think an electrician can design and produce a microchip or a math teacher can manage a large corporate entity? We all make choices. Some of us have more options or more help.
- Comment on Solar energy storage breakthrough could make European households self-sufficient 1 year ago:
We are 90% there already. In many states, solar panels and usage have extra taxes. Most solar installations are grid tied and electricity sale prices to the company are fixed at a small fraction of their sale prices from those companies. Worse, if power goes out, you can’t use solar to stay electrified because electricity would leak out and potentially electrocute nearby line men.
- Comment on ACLU Calls Out School Surveillance Programs In Latest Report 1 year ago:
Also, as the children become accustomed to having no freedom or privacy, it becomes easier to force it on them as adults.
This is pernicious totalitarianism. Anything you have ever done can be used against you if the state decides you are a threat.
Constant surveillance leads to more obedience, due to fear.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Reject and return all tax breaks, deductions or rebates - or you are affiliated with them and thus are impossible to trust. Oh, and return the government money you accepted for public secondary education. You government shill!
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
Okay, then every American who gets grants, welfare, or discounted education. Funding is funding. If you think 1% equals communism, or crushes integrity, there is no hope for you.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 1 year ago:
1% revenue support from Government is “state affiliated”? In that case every single media outlet is state affiliated by virtue of their tax breaks.
- Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 1 year ago:
It’s what you can’t see that is problematic. The surveillance is turned up to 11. Ba-dum Tish!
- Comment on Navigating the Complex Landscape of Tech Recruitment: Personal Insights and Open Discussion 1 year ago:
Here in the USA there is apparently a glut of unemployed developers as up to 300k were let go between last November and July.
I’m typically competing with over 200 applicants, so they probably just keep interviewing until they get exactly what they want. Plus, ageism.
- Comment on Navigating the Complex Landscape of Tech Recruitment: Personal Insights and Open Discussion 1 year ago:
You are spot on. I’ve had Decades of experience and success in this industry. However this year I was laid off in one of those 6 to 10% staff lay off things. Since then I’ve applied to over 100 jobs I’ve had at least eight interview processes.
I go through two to four interviews some of them two to three hours long. And I get to the very end, and then I never hear from them again.
Some have me go through leak code Type algorithm questions online with 20 minutes to solve the problem. For me, that’s pretty much impossible. Others have me spend several days creating a project from scratch, they review it and maybe they talk to me about it afterwards.
Others don’t do a very good job of hiding the ageism, e.g. insisting I tell them what year I got my CS degree.
Given the level of experience I have with new technologies as well as old, I find it hard to believe that I’m not fit to be employed all of a sudden.
First piece of advice, do not be over the age of 50. It won’t matter how good you are.
Second, even if you think you’re really good at interviewing and going through the application process take seminars and classes on the topic and keep tweaking.
Third, it doesn’t matter if you completed successfully one or more multimonth projects in a particular technology. If you don’t know every little detail when they interview you, you are immediately written off.
I had one not even bother to interview me because I did not have enough years writing React code.
Another wrote me off because it has been a few years since I tech lead an Angular project. My most recent company used React.
The one before used Angular. Apparently we must spend all our personal time continuing development on technologies not in use for our jobs at the expense of our families or we aren’t worth the trouble.
- Comment on Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels 1 year ago:
Think of it this way: freedom is a threat to his business model.
- Comment on Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels 1 year ago:
I heard about it. I am a fan of Marketplace. It’s just insane that he tried to silence it after all that free speech bullshit he sprouted, while he removed the notice on media literally owned by authoritarian states. He’s a wingnut. Up is down, good is bad, etc…
- Comment on Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels 1 year ago:
NPR. I shit you not.
- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
In the digital age, absolutely.
- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
All those bits of information are caller personally identifiable information (PII) and are protected by law forvqnything involving health and financial data.
In it’s old form, the license isn’t a huge problem because people can’t use it to clear your accounts, fraudulently open credit cards, take out loans.
All of those are trivial with the SSN, combined with a few of the above data points.
Now, however, in America the drivers license is becoming required to be a full homeland security certified ID equal to or more important than the passport.
It is encoded with all your vitals and readable by a quick scan. With your full name, age, birthdate, address, height, weight, and eye color combined with the SSN, you are screwed if shady players have that.
- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
I found this amusing, personally, but apparently about 50% of readers hated it… I wonder why? (And as important, why so many?)
- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
Over the years this has become more invasive. We didn’t have to hand over our I’d for scanning potentially into a permanent record to do things. A quick proof of age was all people cared about for those things inappropriate for minors.
It’s illegal to ask for your SSN, yet it happens all the time and we have no recourse if we refuse.
We’re being desensitized to the invasion of privacy to the point we don’t care any more. I think that is the goal. Death by 1000 pricks.
- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
Wait! The darling of the conspiracy theory wingnut flat earther, pizzagate crowd is pushing government certified identification requirements???
We have found the number of the beast, and it is X (and the neurochip he’s pushing)
- Comment on Coming to you soon... 1 year ago:
Noaw I understand why so many people hate shorts! I never use the official app or browser to watch, so I don’t see the advertisements.
- Comment on KDE Connect - share files, and remote control between phone and computer 1 year ago:
Because of the encryption algorithms, mostly.
- Comment on AI System Detects Social Norm Violations 1 year ago:
As long as this doesn’t get repurposed to regulate “social credit”, this is fine.
- Comment on KDE Connect - share files, and remote control between phone and computer 1 year ago:
KDE Connect utilizes SSHFS in order to securely and wirelessly mount your Android device’s file system to your computers. You will be able to browse all of the files on your device via your preferred file manager whether that be Dolphin, Nemo, Nautilus, Thunar, etc.
- Comment on KDE Connect - share files, and remote control between phone and computer 1 year ago:
It’s gimped for me because it insists on using an insecure sftp algorithm, so I cannot use the file system browser to transfer files to/from my Android 13 devices. It probably can’t access the root anyway. I want to use it for backing up my device files, especially the Android folder.
Everything else seems to work though.