r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 44 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 3 months ago

Or, just spam V all the time!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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 84 points 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 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 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 25 points 3 months ago (6 children)

The only thing stopping them doing this right now, is that they know it would get regulatory pushback. It has a real chance of causing laws to be made about when and how advertising is appropriate, and those laws might stop some of the things they're doing now. So they sit as close to that line as they can without crossing it so they can keep self-regulation.

The moment they believe world governments wouldn't stop them doing it, is the moment they'll do it.

And in terms of benefit for the advertisers and service providers, it's a no-brainer. Advertisers know that a large percentage of people tune out, or even leave the room when an advert is on. I think it's part of the reason they kept them so short on youtube, because if they showed you that there's 1:30 ad break you might go to the toilet, get a drink, or anything else that takes you away from the ad. If they show you 15seconds, well you'll probably just sit that one out.

An advert they know people are actually watching is worth a LOT more to advertisers.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 3 months ago

HR has been rebranded "having relations" in Russia.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 35 points 3 months ago

Instructions unclear, VPN'd into my own home network.

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