But I am sure as hell not letting anyone adjust my thermostat over the internet, or watch me (WHATEVER) either. -- First law of people: People are generally stupid.
(emphasis on your sig added by me.)
You may not, and I do not, and I suspect many others here won't either....but as your sig so fortuitously put it... well, people are stupid.
I can't wait until this ends up like Maximum Overdrive... only it won't be Comet Magical Bullshit, it'll be script kiddies and worse.
And you believe anything that comes out of the Internet. Do me a favor, just remove your head from your ass. The Internet is a bigger misinformation machine than anything before it.
How? It sucked when Firefox did it, and it sucks now that Chrome is doing it.
And that's why it's hypocritical. What one's most hated browser does will likely be done by all the others because creeping featurism and the desire to appear to be "doing something" over-rides security usability and stability.
SO yeah,. all the Chrome-loving Firefox haters are hypocrites, because their favorite browser is just at-risk of being mismanaged as any other.
On the other hand, I really don't see why all the extension love. I started with an adblock extension and abandoned it in favor of network-level ad busting. I used a plugin to stop autoplay and now that Firefox's advanced settings actually prevent autoplays, I also ditched that.
For every (thing) that people use browsers for, there's likely a fatclient. Had a coworker using some demented FTP plugin. Turns out FileZilla did it beter. And so on.
But to each their own. If they want to turn a browser into a swiss army knife and kitchen sink w disposal, by all means -- do it. Just people, since it's not your code.. when the code owner says fuck you, take it like a good little consumer.
All the hand-wringing about Firefox having an extension apocalypse seems a bit hypocritical now, don't it.. whatever. It brings me amusement.
And FWIW, there is a network layer ad blocker out there already.. AdGuard. Yes it's payware. And it works great. It doesn't care about what browser you use.
On the one hand, clever use of an unused building.
On the other, I am disappointed. A carved wood facade for that glass cage would've done wonders to integrate it visually. And find a way to make pews work to hold gear.
And on one foot, what, no organ?! =o(
My plan was to turn a brit phone box (the red kind) into a rack. Put in four posts and use it as a home server rack. But alas, time went on, and I don't need a rack anymore. Not even for audio. My cinema's half rack currently is half empty now because progress. One receiver, one bluray, one very tiny cable box and apple tv.. I have one shelf holding an unused dvd player because I can't stand to see empty slots in a rack, dammit.
Huh. Maybe I should put the atv there, in that shelf where the unused dvd player is. All alone, a little tiny atv in a shelf meant to take a 50 pound amp. Black on black, nearly invisible. o.O
I ditched TWC app many years ago, when it was obvious each version was worse than the previous. For a while it was all crashola. I moved to Weather Underground's app.
It was never "your music" unless you made it. You never owned it, even on CD. What distinguishes us from communists isn't the ability to buy a Ariana Grande CD.
I disagree. I would LOVE to see Sony / EMI / RCA / AG / DG / Polydor / MCA / Decca come into my house and retrive my LP / CD of
You see, you OWN the CD, but not the music in it. But you own the physical object in which said music came in.
With the "streamers" if they say "Well, no more bad 80's synthpop for YOU" then *poof* there goes your ability to stream that. With no recourse.
But they absolutely can't reach into your house and remove all your horrible 80's synthpop records and CDs.
Yet.
Sounds like some people would love nothing more than to do just that.
While y'all are so busy yelling at each other like a divided bunch of little schoolchildren about blue this and red that, you've all been not noticing the corporations (all of them, really) moving to models that reduce or eliminate ownership.
And what's one of the most tangible ways we had to distinguish ourselves from heathen communists? Ownership. C'mon, boys and girls, all together now: Ow - ner- ship. It's your house, not the State's. It's your car, not the state's.
It's your music, not theirs.
But nooooo, you short-sighted, divided morons continue to fight amongst yourselves and you don't see this.. this thievery happening right under your noses.
If you start in 1973, the same age as your house, you will note the massive success called the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Oh wow, DEA 1973. Hardly a "new" agency. It's almost as old as I am. The others I can think of are nothing to be proud of. DHS? TSA? Please, fetch me my sick sack, I'm about to return my breakfast.
The DEA and the whole war on drugs is a fail.
And where's all this spending for schools? I certainly don't see it. Teachers are paid a pittance, schools are in disrepair.
Be careful what you wish for. If your job can be done from your home, it can also be done from the home of someone in Mumbai.
Without spending more than half of the conversation waiting for the six-second lag between here and there? And when you do hear them you have to go "I'm sorry, can you say again?"
Without having to go over everything Mumbai did with a fine-tooth comb and having to redo 3/4ths of it?
A common trope is that Millenials are poorer that previous generations. However, they have many things that earlier generations did not:
High-efficiency homes and appliances Cars with many safety enhancements, lower pollution and better mileage Better insulated, less polluting, better constructed and safer homes "Green" energy supplies of fuel and electricity Much more recycling New drugs and healthcare technology Higher spending on schools Higher safety from crime and terrorism New government departments and agencies to look out for the public's interests.
It should be pointed out that these benefits don't come for free, which may explain why millenials are poorer in cash terms, but richer overall. This is the choice made by society.
None of those are explicitly for millienials. I'm far away from millienial yet I drive a fairly recent car, partake in recycling, live in a safe area, have access to the new drugs and medical techniques. Plenty of new housing around here, only I chose my 1973 home carefully, in a quieter-than-usual corner of my neighborhood.
New government agencies? What.. Space Command or whatever Trump's Space Force is called? What new waste of money has the Feds come up with that you're speaking of?
Higher spending in schools? Now I know you're not USA-ian. In the US schools get the short shrift and have to make do with a miserly budget.
Remote work sounds good in theory. But a grueling 10 minute commute to a real office is better.
I've had it both ways. If I'm going to drive, I want at least 15 minutes door to door to get the car up to temps. otherwise it's not worth it.
I still prefer home. I have an office set up just for work.
But this really wasn't entirely about remote vs. office.. it is about what kind of office, and so far cubicles seems to be the soul-crushing winner.. because the open floorplan is just fail. I don't care how they spin it, everyone being noisy and boisterous and bugging everyone else is not conducive to being productive, no matter how good one's headphones are.
In The Beginning, there were open offices. These were bad. The workers were all lumped in an open space, the managers ensconced away in offices.
Then came the Cubicle, which promised some modicum of privacy and noise isolation. Didn't work all that well.
Now we're back to Open, and once again the workers are finding nothing's worse than Open, so.......back to Cubicles we go. I, for one, will take the Cube over the open office, fashionista, trendsetters and influencers be damned.
Whatever "New, Improved" scam is coming, I hope it meets a skeptical mind.
OK, so my current employer does use kronos fingerprint clocks, and I've had to get eyeball scanned for datacenter access at another, but I hardly think these two are extreme extraordinary examples of employer overreach.
The rest is. Seriously. I want to know who is asking for employee social media accounts. Tell us. Please.
Work demanding to know your cell phone number, you having to wear a step tracker and heart rate monitor to get full insurance benefits, having to give HR your username/password to any social networking sites you use, fingerprint and eye scanners, scanning your network drives and reporting the content when you VPN in...
I don't doubt that this isn't going on right now, but.. can you provide examples of such behavior?
It'd be nice to know so I don't accidentally find myself working in such nasty places.
Right now, none of of my employers, present or past, have done any of these things. (and if you VPN to work with your PRIVATE computers, well... you deserve whatever happens. They issued you one, use that one.)
The true sign/. has jumped the shark when it starts pushing this kind of authoritarian bullshit.
Um, posting it on/. makes it so/. is pushing it? Um... dude, not to point out the obvious, but it's someone in Alphabet pushing it. They've jumped the shark. I could argue they jumped it as soon as they started selling ads.
The guy posting all this political crap with a faint hint of computers is a retard who is ruining this website.
You don't get it, do you. Facebook is a tech company, one of the most influential. Why? Because people are dumb shit, that's why. They trust facebook the same way my parents trusted the printed newspaper.
If you can't see how this is News for Nerd, Stuff that Matters, I posit that you are one of the ones ruining this site.
Tech has become politicized. Deal with it. Don't ignore it.
Still don't get it? OK I'll spell out out, let me know if you need pictures, too: Facebook is just another way to manipulate public opinion, but is much more insidious than print ever was.
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American jackoffs with guns kill over 39,000 Americans per year.
Are you somehow trying to be sarcastic, or something?
'cause the death by firearm yearly rate is about 13,000 in the US, not "over 39,000."
Why the inflation? I pulled 13,000 as a number after comparing multiple sources. How'd you get three times over?!
But let's remember, Uber gave the exact same excuse.
We haven't been hacked. It's our users who have been re-using the same passwords.
Oh, the stupid I was thinking of wasn't the reuse of passwords, it was the mere act of inviting these insecure iot contraptions into the home.
But I am sure as hell not letting anyone adjust my thermostat over the internet, or watch me (WHATEVER) either.
--
First law of people: People are generally stupid.
(emphasis on your sig added by me.)
You may not, and I do not, and I suspect many others here won't either.. ..but as your sig so fortuitously put it... well, people are stupid.
I can't wait until this ends up like Maximum Overdrive... only it won't be Comet Magical Bullshit, it'll be script kiddies and worse.
You cared enough to write back. I stick by what I said. Fake job. Are you a struggling youtuber? Is that your butthurt?
And you believe anything that comes out of the Internet. Do me a favor, just remove your head from your ass. The Internet is a bigger misinformation machine than anything before it.
On the one hand, it sucks that people are being extorted, and that scum of the earth have found yet another way to scalp people out of a buck or two.
On the other... cry me a river, Youtuber isn't a real job. It has, to me, that same air of illegitimacy that instagram 'infulencers' have.
How? It sucked when Firefox did it, and it sucks now that Chrome is doing it.
And that's why it's hypocritical. What one's most hated browser does will likely be done by all the others because creeping featurism and the desire to appear to be "doing something" over-rides security usability and stability.
SO yeah,. all the Chrome-loving Firefox haters are hypocrites, because their favorite browser is just at-risk of being mismanaged as any other.
On the other hand, I really don't see why all the extension love. I started with an adblock extension and abandoned it in favor of network-level ad busting. I used a plugin to stop autoplay and now that Firefox's advanced settings actually prevent autoplays, I also ditched that.
For every (thing) that people use browsers for, there's likely a fatclient. Had a coworker using some demented FTP plugin. Turns out FileZilla did it beter. And so on.
But to each their own. If they want to turn a browser into a swiss army knife and kitchen sink w disposal, by all means -- do it. Just people, since it's not your code.. when the code owner says fuck you, take it like a good little consumer.
All the hand-wringing about Firefox having an extension apocalypse seems a bit hypocritical now, don't it.. whatever. It brings me amusement.
And FWIW, there is a network layer ad blocker out there already.. AdGuard. Yes it's payware. And it works great. It doesn't care about what browser you use.
On the one hand, clever use of an unused building.
On the other, I am disappointed. A carved wood facade for that glass cage would've done wonders to integrate it visually. And find a way to make pews work to hold gear.
And on one foot, what, no organ?! =o(
My plan was to turn a brit phone box (the red kind) into a rack. Put in four posts and use it as a home server rack. But alas, time went on, and I don't need a rack anymore. Not even for audio. My cinema's half rack currently is half empty now because progress. One receiver, one bluray, one very tiny cable box and apple tv.. I have one shelf holding an unused dvd player because I can't stand to see empty slots in a rack, dammit.
Huh. Maybe I should put the atv there, in that shelf where the unused dvd player is. All alone, a little tiny atv in a shelf meant to take a 50 pound amp. Black on black, nearly invisible. o.O
I ditched TWC app many years ago, when it was obvious each version was worse than the previous. For a while it was all crashola. I moved to Weather Underground's app.
It was never "your music" unless you made it. You never owned it, even on CD. What distinguishes us from communists isn't the ability to buy a Ariana Grande CD.
I disagree. I would LOVE to see Sony / EMI / RCA / AG / DG / Polydor / MCA / Decca come into my house and retrive my LP / CD of
You see, you OWN the CD, but not the music in it. But you own the physical object in which said music came in.
With the "streamers" if they say "Well, no more bad 80's synthpop for YOU" then *poof* there goes your ability to stream that. With no recourse.
But they absolutely can't reach into your house and remove all your horrible 80's synthpop records and CDs.
Yet.
Sounds like some people would love nothing more than to do just that.
Why is that so hard to see?
While y'all are so busy yelling at each other like a divided bunch of little schoolchildren about blue this and red that, you've all been not noticing the corporations (all of them, really) moving to models that reduce or eliminate ownership.
And what's one of the most tangible ways we had to distinguish ourselves from heathen communists? Ownership. C'mon, boys and girls, all together now: Ow - ner- ship. It's your house, not the State's. It's your car, not the state's.
It's your music, not theirs.
But nooooo, you short-sighted, divided morons continue to fight amongst yourselves and you don't see this .. this thievery happening right under your noses.
The thing to use is a vacuum-insulated steel bottle. Lasts years, and will keep cold cold and hot hot.
No one needs to know what's in my bottle. Could be tap, could be s. pellegrino, could be brandy, could be single-malt.
If you start in 1973, the same age as your house, you will note the massive success called the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Oh wow, DEA 1973. Hardly a "new" agency. It's almost as old as I am. The others I can think of are nothing to be proud of. DHS? TSA? Please, fetch me my sick sack, I'm about to return my breakfast.
The DEA and the whole war on drugs is a fail.
And where's all this spending for schools? I certainly don't see it. Teachers are paid a pittance, schools are in disrepair.
Be careful what you wish for. If your job can be done from your home, it can also be done from the home of someone in Mumbai.
Without spending more than half of the conversation waiting for the six-second lag between here and there? And when you do hear them you have to go "I'm sorry, can you say again?"
Without having to go over everything Mumbai did with a fine-tooth comb and having to redo 3/4ths of it?
Some things are best kept local.
Are you USA-ian?
A common trope is that Millenials are poorer that previous generations. However, they have many things that earlier generations did not:
High-efficiency homes and appliances
Cars with many safety enhancements, lower pollution and better mileage
Better insulated, less polluting, better constructed and safer homes
"Green" energy supplies of fuel and electricity
Much more recycling
New drugs and healthcare technology
Higher spending on schools
Higher safety from crime and terrorism
New government departments and agencies to look out for the public's interests.
It should be pointed out that these benefits don't come for free, which may explain why millenials are poorer in cash terms, but richer overall. This is the choice made by society.
None of those are explicitly for millienials. I'm far away from millienial yet I drive a fairly recent car, partake in recycling, live in a safe area, have access to the new drugs and medical techniques. Plenty of new housing around here, only I chose my 1973 home carefully, in a quieter-than-usual corner of my neighborhood.
New government agencies? What.. Space Command or whatever Trump's Space Force is called? What new waste of money has the Feds come up with that you're speaking of?
Higher spending in schools? Now I know you're not USA-ian. In the US schools get the short shrift and have to make do with a miserly budget.
Remote work sounds good in theory. But a grueling 10 minute commute to a real office is better.
I've had it both ways. If I'm going to drive, I want at least 15 minutes door to door to get the car up to temps. otherwise it's not worth it.
I still prefer home. I have an office set up just for work.
But this really wasn't entirely about remote vs. office.. it is about what kind of office, and so far cubicles seems to be the soul-crushing winner.. because the open floorplan is just fail. I don't care how they spin it, everyone being noisy and boisterous and bugging everyone else is not conducive to being productive, no matter how good one's headphones are.
Let's see...
In The Beginning, there were open offices. These were bad. The workers were all lumped in an open space, the managers ensconced away in offices.
Then came the Cubicle, which promised some modicum of privacy and noise isolation. Didn't work all that well.
Now we're back to Open, and once again the workers are finding nothing's worse than Open, so... ....back to Cubicles we go. I, for one, will take the Cube over the open office, fashionista, trendsetters and influencers be damned.
Whatever "New, Improved" scam is coming, I hope it meets a skeptical mind.
Tell ya what. Just let me work from home. Please.
Because this is how you get a bullet through the screen.
It's like they don't want people watching their content.
Rope and pulley, carburated, manual choke, direct connection from toe to brakes (with hydraulics in the middle)
No GPS, no wifi, no CAN, no CPUs, no ECUs, No data. NO CARRIER
Just a light nimble little tincan with 4 wheels and 2 seats. I don't need anything more.
Fuck this modern data-sucking privacy-invading life. Fuck it hard and long, with a splintered phone pole.
From the parent post..
fingerprint and eye scanners
OK, so my current employer does use kronos fingerprint clocks, and I've had to get eyeball scanned for datacenter access at another, but I hardly think these two are extreme extraordinary examples of employer overreach.
The rest is. Seriously. I want to know who is asking for employee social media accounts. Tell us. Please.
Work demanding to know your cell phone number, you having to wear a step tracker and heart rate monitor to get full insurance benefits, having to give HR your username/password to any social networking sites you use, fingerprint and eye scanners, scanning your network drives and reporting the content when you VPN in...
I don't doubt that this isn't going on right now, but .. can you provide examples of such behavior?
It'd be nice to know so I don't accidentally find myself working in such nasty places.
Right now, none of of my employers, present or past, have done any of these things. (and if you VPN to work with your PRIVATE computers, well... you deserve whatever happens. They issued you one, use that one.)
what exactly does jump the shark mean?
Are you serious? You don't know that expression, but you know sharks with frickin' leaser beams on their heads?
smh
Too damn lazy to give you the link. Just google "jump the shark" and ye shall be educated on where the expression came from, and what it means.
The true sign /. has jumped the shark when it starts pushing this kind of authoritarian bullshit.
Um, posting it on /. makes it so /. is pushing it? Um... dude, not to point out the obvious, but it's someone in Alphabet pushing it. They've jumped the shark. I could argue they jumped it as soon as they started selling ads.
The guy posting all this political crap with a faint hint of computers is a retard who is ruining this website.
You don't get it, do you. Facebook is a tech company, one of the most influential. Why? Because people are dumb shit, that's why. They trust facebook the same way my parents trusted the printed newspaper.
If you can't see how this is News for Nerd, Stuff that Matters, I posit that you are one of the ones ruining this site.
Tech has become politicized. Deal with it. Don't ignore it.
Still don't get it? OK I'll spell out out, let me know if you need pictures, too: Facebook is just another way to manipulate public opinion, but is much more insidious than print ever was.