Dran @ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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If I were a large shareholder, I'd demand a lot more than half goes to growth or my own dividends.

5x $20 lottery tickets. Most lottery tickets have a 1:3 - 1:5 win rate, so if you're lucky enough he might win literally nothing. Nothing else on this list gives the friend hope. Hope unfulfilled is the definition of cruelty.

It's been a while since I've interacted with google ads, but if memory serves, by default, the dashboards don't (or can't) break down sales per site, it's mostly impressions per category of ad deployment. "Clickthrough rate among banner ads on news websites" etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the same makers of these spam websites also run bots that click the ads and prop up those metrics that 99% of advertisers don't drill down through beyond surface level. Advertisers probably see clickthrough is good on a deployment and just assumes sales come from those.

Those couple of ex-twitter employees that got fired for tweeting how much musk sucked should apply for this, get denied, and then sue X for their legal fees.

This is the correct take. self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-honesty are key components to contentment in any facet of life. I often fantasize about eating cookies and ice cream every morning but I know I would be unhealthy and feel like ass. I'll bet you though that there is a very small subset of people though who genuinely have biology compatible with eating a few tablespoons of ice cream for breakfast.

I can see your argument, but I think it still stands. A ticket still qualifies as a sale. They aren't licensing the rights to a film for an hour, they're selling a physical voucher that grants access to a seat at a specific time during a specific showing. I own that thing and in theory, it's irrevocable without refunding the purchase price. An operating system and a movie ticket are fundamentally different products.

In my view, the application would be that there should not be limits imposed on the resale or transfer of said ticket once purchased. To reverse the argument, should a movie theater be allowed to sell a ticket and then revoke it without compensation if you show up in a blue shirt? Current digital licensing laws allow for the equivalent; I hurt nobody by installing windows home in a VM.

What's extra insane about the google one, Pichai's salary of 225m divided over the 10k workers fired is a staggering 22.5k/yr. If you assume the average tech salary of a remote google employee is somewhere in the 50k-100k range, that's 2.5k-5k / 10k workers that could have been saved by cutting Pichai instead.

Forget societal ethics, how do you justify to shareholders cutting ten thousand salaries worth of jobs and giving half the money to the CEO?

Presumably because currently, activitypub doesn't have a module for secure message exchange that can't be snooped on by a server admin.

Licensing is just a fancy way of saying selling you something that you don't own.

It should be illegal to sell someone something they do not own. In your windows/office example, I'd say it should be illegal to crack/copy the software, but it should also be illegal to sell the software without an offline method of permanent and irrevocable activation (think offline cd keys), and it should be illegal for a company to put any barriers in front of use (vm, laptop, server, cpu cores, memory limits, etc) and illegal to put any barriers in front of resale. Selling a windows update, or a subscription model to updates seems completely reasonable (and probably should do online blacklists for shared keys) but the fundamentals of ownership shouldn't be eroded in law.

In the tesla example, your car should be your car. If you can modify the software to give you more features that's your car. If tesla wants to sell a subscription to incremental upgrades on their self-driving algorithms that's fine, but they should be liable for any faults in older revisions if they paywall updates. That incentivizes them to do the software equivalent of a recall when something is egregiously or dangerously broken, and also incentivizes innovation because they can't sell you an update if it doesn't contain anything valuable.

Thankfully they sold terribly, but one has to wonder how long until they try it again

I have a little 4 core/ 8gb ram VM running my work instance that monitors over a thousand clients on 60s check intervals, you may want to look into your config. I honestly have no idea what could cause 15 machines to cost that much computationally

check_mk is what I use at home and at work, it's a fork of nagios/icinga, works with agents, nagios plugins, or snmp, and if somehow you can't find what you want to monitor, writing custom checks is as easy as writing a bash script

Presumably the three of us are subscribed to this community because we want to hear about and discuss reddit-centric topics. If you aren't, I suggest unsubscribing/filtering this community

A user has to click a lot of buttons to make this work, android security is doing its job. If there's any failing on android security's part, it's consolidating permissions into accessibility services instead of breaking them out into something a user might get scared to click.

Then again, they did click accessibility services on a "secure messaging" app. They need to learn somehow. I just refuse to accept that the appropriate solution is not owning things you buy. There has to be a better way.

There are some good ones out there. Where I work, they believe me to be irreplaceable. The truth is that I'm sure there are thousands of competent engineers that could replace me, just not for my salary, and certainly not also willing to move to a small town. They don't want to pay full market rate for what I do, but they convince me to stay on by letting me work my own hours, full-remote, great vacation and benefits, etc. Ive been so productive since leaving office work that the entire organization now has remote work policies.

They've figured out that it's cheaper to just make your employees not hate their lives and I'm absolutely here for it.

And there are still WebApps today (especially in the business internal network world) that only work with IE6 because Microsoft was just throwing their own standards out and doing whatever they wanted.

When you are the dominant player and you make standards that no one else can follow, you destroy competition. We got lucky that businesses and developers liked blink and WebKit, if businesses had been able to make more money from only supporting trident that's exactly what would have happened. "Use IE without tabs or an adblocker or you can't access Facebook, Steam, Gmail, your bank, etc"

You don't have the choice as an individual when the choice is made for you.

what a chad

I think it's particularly newsworthy in the context of Chromium's web environment integrity push. Adblocking is basic security for a lot of people who support non-savvy users who otherwise may go through these several instances of user input.

Also, id get that take if this were like, a general news community, but this is literally the reddit news community. Reddit news is why we're all subbed here right? We all have nostalgia for what reddit once fostered and I think most of us still have a glimmer of hope that it might be a decent place again