Yeah they claim it's safe because it's through their store, but isn't this a direct path to a supply chain attack? One app using electron has one bad npm dependency and it auto installs and updates on every machine? This seems like a security nightmare scenario.

Bu hey marketing gets to put their shit in front of everyone's eyes so who cares.

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  • [–] 125 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah no shit. This was the plan all along. Big tech wanted to flood the market with too much talent so they could lower pay for engineers. This was always the plan.

    They never gave two shits about women in coding, or inner city coding caml's. They wanted mass cheap labor.

    The cherry on top is right as that labor was coming out they got a double whammy of AI too.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 days ago (8 children)

    They also park in bike lanes and pedestrian areas so I'm not holding my breath.

    That being said, yeah I'm not surprised either. Riding the bus looking at drivers I'll say a solid, very solid 1/4 minimum are doing something with their phones.

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  • Wow, that's very bad, I don't think I've had one that bad. Outright insulting you in the interview is simply uncalled for. Cutting the interview short is fine for both sides, hey it's not a match, any questions? Then goodbye.

    In tech we have some thing like that called the "Bar Raiser" interview. Typically it's the second to last interview, last one being with people/culture/HR. The bar raiser is to "See if the candidate raises the bar". It's a horseshit way to justify "Belittle them and make them question themselves so much to see if they crumple under pressure". Amazon did it to me, after 3 hours of straight interviews the 4th hour was the bar raiser. At that point I hadn't eaten since breakfast, I had shakey hands, and was asked to implement binary search from memory on a white board. The "manager" then berated my implementation for 30 minutes and questioned every detail. I was very close to just passing out because I was so hungry. I remember literally stumbling nextdoor to mcdonalds and eating 3 cheeseburgers in under 5 minutes. No one offered me coffee, water, or a snack.

    I bring this up now because maybe they were trying to do that, but they did it very poorly. The one credit I give that shite manager was that he didn't belittle me, only everything I did. He never raised his voice either, only interrupted me constantly and rudely brushed off my answers. Granted, I hear that's standard at Amazon.

    In both of our cases, they do a great job at showing their place is toxic as fuck, and it was good we moved on. (Fun thing, I was laid off a few years ago and had the opportunity to reapply at Amazon, but luckily got another offer last minute. I ended up turning down Amazon, and man they do not like when people do that. You can tell they have just reports on reports to figure out why someone wouldn't want to work there!)

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  • I assume you were downvoted because someone didn't like hearing the truth.

    As with any online service you are entrusting your safety to the owner of said service. Anything you put into Lemmy you should assume can be used in any way. Any assumption otherwise is simply carelessness.

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  • Sold my car! (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)
     

    My car I bought and paid for, over 10 years ago, is now sold and gone. She ran well, nothing wrong with her, but realized over the last year that I hadn't been using it all thanks to decent bus service and my e-scooter.

    In fact, turns out I haven't even had it registered for years, I had forgotten to! It's been sitting for so long out of nostalgia and fear that I would need it again someday.

    Writing from the bus now, which I paid a few bucks for, I realized how much I was wasting by owning a car. $700 every 6 months, plus when it was registered that was another $600 a year. My total bus bill for the last year was $200.

    We still have one car, but I'm excited! I think I'm going to use the money from the sale to buy an ebike!

    Anyway, I just wanted to say it is possible, in north America no less.

     

    Hi all, my Unifi Doorbell just died after only 4 years of service. I've been pretty disheartened with them lately, other products haven't lived up to the company's promise.

    So I'm not looking to replace my networking stack yet, but I am looking for a doorbell camera. I only have the Unifi machine, but I also have an extensive docker/kubernetes stack, and mostly I want to use it with Home Assistant.

    Any recommendations? Open to software, hardware, you name it. I have a few other Unifi cameras too, if they could be brought into the fold while I slowly migrate, I'd be interested. Thanks!

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