r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 31 points 9 months ago (14 children)

I feel the same about the early (home) internet (years 1994-1999). Adverts if they even existed on a page were just a few lame gifs on a page. IRC and usenet were the "social media" of the time, except no-one called it that. Almost everyone online was as much of a geek as you (except AOL users), because the hoops to get online were significant enough to keep most normal people away. Businesses were convinced it was a fad, so didn't get too involved.

It was basically universities, students and a handful of modem owners that could get a TCP/IP stack to work and write a login script (ppp was quite rare in the beginning).

Rose-tinted glasses? Maybe, but there's a lot not to like about the modern internet.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)

No, you just stop telling everyone else about it.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Technically, no. The last few have been significantly below either measure of inflation. So in real terms, I've had a wage cut!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 44 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 9 months ago

Or, just spam V all the time!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Not taking any chances. https://winworldpc.com/product/ncsa-mosaic/1

Yes, that's right. I'm going to buy a 486, run windows 3.1 with trumpet winsock and be rid of tracking forever!

Until then:

https://kbin.life/media/take_no_chances.png

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 85 points 9 months ago (8 children)

Lucid dream rookie! If the lucid dream happens, and you're in the same place you fell asleep, well actually if that happens the majority of the time it will become a sleep paralysis episode. But, if it isn't, always teleport yourself the fuck away from the location.

Ain't no way you want to risk that you're too close to being awake (or in this case not asleep at all). I'd wager anon fell asleep, woke up but was having a hypnopompic hallucination, and that explains the text on the board.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought it was weird at the time. The contracts had a notice period in, and it's not like many US states where employment is at-will. The employer is definitely required to give notice (albeit they can send you home and just pay you the notice period, which many do). So I suspect they could have gone after her for that, if they wanted to.

Likely they considered it not worth pursuing, though.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 24 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Many years ago, a woman that worked at the same place, just didn't turn up one day. I think they (the closest thing we had to HR at the time) let this slide for a week, then called her. She just said "Oh, I didn't work to work there any more".

I don't think they pursued it any further and let it at that.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they cannot see a verified human gaze they won't let you even load the site!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Yes, the tech exists already on phones. Not sure how they'd enforce it on pc.

"Sorry, YouTube is not available to systems without a functioning camera."? Perhaps with a link to premium :p

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When these tools hit their bottom line enough, they will go the extra mile to block them.

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