[–] 11 points 1 month ago

Well this is a car crash waiting to happen... Roku's technology HQ is based in my home City of Cambridge UK. This is a very liberal area compared to a lot of the UK, or at least the kind of people who work for tech companies are. I can't imagine too many people are going to stick around for long after this.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    I think currently companies tend to have the same process they always had.

    In my case, that tends to be that you create a PR, someone assumes you knew what you were doing and approves it with no comments.

    I actually expect the fact that we're promoting AI internally might result in this tightening up.

    Probably unlike others, I work in an R&D team of only about 12 people total (all disciplines) so probably not the usual experience.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I don't think there's a hard definition, but the idea is it's people who 'came of age' 'around' the turn of the millennium. So turning 18 in 1998 fits that definition I think.

    It's including people born in the mid-90s that I don't understand from that definition. But I guess it's more about what the world was like when growing up - specifically growing up with the advent of Internet -> Mobile Internet -> Smart Phones.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Not OP, but two big issues for me having actually been a fan of them and an 'Equity Punk' (just one share) back in 2020:

    • CEO accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power.

    • Despite huge popularity and their drinks taking over every supermarket, somehow managed to fall into administration leaving suppliers and original investors out of pocket.

    I think the takeover deal stinks - the worst kind of capitalism - leave all the small guys short changed and hand a massive multinational brand to another company with no obligations to make it right.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59957485

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70dv0eg9yko

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah I am also boycotting Brewdog after the takeover farce. Finding alcoholic alternatives is no problem, but they are very good at the AF stuff.

    And we're also trying to avoid all Coke/Pepsi owned products, which is almost everything sugary in a pub - fine for me as I'm not into sweet drinks, but leaves my wife on lime and soda often.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Non-alcoholic gin and tonic can be pretty good, but is often a rip-off.

    Guiness 0% or the Brewdog AFs are pretty good. My favourite was Nanny State, but it's hard to find.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Has anyone dug into this enough to work out what exactly is the difference in measuring fertility rate vs gender compared to just measuring population percentage per gender? It's got to be a very subtle difference, if anything.

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    Anyone here have experience self-hosting Stoat?

    After a few evenings banging my head against the keyboard I finally have Revolt and Livekit self-hosted!

    It's largely all working through the official stoat-for-web that I'm hosting, but something really simple is preventing me inviting my friends along to try it...

    I've set the backend to invite-only and added an invite code to the database... But I can't for the life of me figure out how the devs intend for invites to actually work beyond the backend?

    • It doesn't seem to be a feature of stoat-for-web at all.
    • The app doesn't support any alternative servers as far as I can tell

    Any good workarounds, besides opening up the floodgates...?

    submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
     

    Hello

    Long time lurker, first time poster etc etc...

    Interested what you guys make of these WhatsApp messages I just received...

    ...I have no such booking...

    Obviously this sort of scam/phishing nonsense is nothing new to me, but a few things stood out...

    • They have my full name and phone number 😕
    • I do use booking.com (but I suppose many do so they could assume...)
    • This WhatsApp message has been marked as "using a secure service from Meta"... So this isn't just a random phone (I have anonymous messages blocked) they have some sort of privilege on the platform... WTF
    • They even have some special reply buttons at the end of the message.
    • I just don't get it... Like, what are the odds they guess the dates and hotel accurately that I would bite...? And having gone to this length, why then fall at the last hurdle by having a weird sender name like "Rus Education"...?
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