Gen Z, woooooo. Woo.
I'm doomed.
Anyways, what can be done probabably will be done, for whichever reason because it's getting cheaper and cheaper.
And then the next leak happens.
And somewhere on some site like Have I been owned?, or in a torrent there is a comma separated list with many, or even all of your former pseudonyms connected with your current address, social security, drivers license, younameit.
Gotcha!
This is a fantasy spurred on by too many dark mirror episodes, nobody does stuff like that for the hell of it. Storing the amount of data we're talking about is expensive. Collecting it is expensive. Processing it is expensive. There's little money to be made with it, but it sounds really good if you don't think too hard about it. It's illuminati conspiracy mumbo jumbo for nerds.
Stylometry is a thing, sure. But it's rarely accurate enough to use on bulk archives in an automated way, especially when archives come from different domains (eg, technical vs social writing).
It's useful for identifying possible alternate authors plays attributed to Shakespeare[1], but a lot less useful for trying to tie a reddit identity to a github profile.
Anyways, what can be done probabably will be done, for whichever reason because it's getting cheaper and cheaper.
Crawling and storing is cheap, but analysis is harder. Automated spell checking ("probabably" above not withstanding!) and auto-complete means stylometry is even less useful now.
Source: myself - I work in natural language processing, and have talked to people applying these techniques.
[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0028...
Point being a lot of us I think are really respective of privacy and the fact that people (even teachers and nurses!) have lives that don't revolve around work.
Even worse, there's a large chunk of millenials who don't even believe that Gen-X exists, and think that the generation above them are all boomers.
1; I’m a 34yo millennial, 2; my siblings are ~40ish yo gen-xers, 3; my parents are 65yo boomers.
My genx siblings all bought massive houses around 2008 when I was starting my career which in 2008 meant being lucky to make $40k as a sysadmin. Obama subsidies all over the place if you had 5-10 years to put together a downpayment, though. I don’t think my paycheck became NOT hand-to-face until I was in my mid-late 20s and making well into 6 figures. And I’m not eating avocado toast or buying starbucks.
This is my 2nd recession since I started my career. In the first I was a “JR” and couldn’t get a job. Now I’m a SR and overqualified at most places. I barely know any millenial colleagues of mine that are home owners. And once again, I’m in my mid 30s.
And no, I don’t have children along with half of my mid-30s friends because we can’t afford them along with the 70k+ Of college debt and $600k starter houses.
The truly sad part though, millennials actually remember and know what life was like starting out around ~2008. We’re very open to mentoring and hiring gen-z. Social media wasn’t what it was back in 2008, of course, but I don’t remember any genxers going out of their way to get us millennials hired, go over our resumes, refer us, etc. I luckily landed my first engineering job from another millennial over IRC. This goes into the culture of the company, interviewing, everything. The people bitching about having to describe how to throw a rock or explain why manholes are round? They’re millennials who got those stupid questions when we were JRs because of a horrible job market that Boomers/Genx allowed to continue as the status quo. Not all, of course, but there’s a lot.
Instead of working to make things better for those coming up behind you, you’re acting like the victim. We can all come up with reasons that things suck. Let’s try to improve things.
Yeah, it does suck. Has for a long run now. You are not wrong.
I was mentored by boomers who passed the power and importance of it on to me. GenX'er here
That may be rare. I don't know.
What I do know is when we all help the new, up and coming people, it pays off nicely.
I’m a GenX and I got those stupid interview questions. I don’t think that is related to generation.
So I don't ask those questions to people that I interview, because I remember how stupid they made me feel and how unrelated to the job they are.
It's the genx'ers that were asking me that, probably asked by boomers. I don't know why you'd continue to repeat those biased systems.
Genx isn't exactly well known for standing up for itself as opposed to continuing to normalize trash systems, that's the entire problem.
Be better than those before you, that's it. Make things better for those coming up or going out. There's no reason work should suck.
Now you’re the victim... of bad interview questions that have nothing to do with generations. There are assholes of all ages. Just because YOU don’t ask interview questions about manhole covers does not make it a generational trend. I still get these questions and you can delude yourself that all the people asking them are GenX or Boomers if you want.
Stick to your namesake, the “doesn’t talk” part. We don’t want or need your input, bud.
At least with my old embarrassing forum posts and such it was me actively sharing it :)
But yeah if youtube existed when I was young I would probably be internet famous in a bad way.