Ansil849

> A blanket "I don't trust third parties" stance

Except this is not a blanket stance, but a very specific stance against the specific third-party in question: dmachoice.org, which states that they may use information they collect about you for digital advertising:

> Information gathered by cookies or similar technologies may be used for our business purposes such as analytics, research, digital advertising, and operational purposes. [1]

[1] https://www.dmachoice.org/static/privacy_policy.php

Sorry, but I'm not paying $2 to replace physical spam with digital spam.

> but I still get a lot of junk from local businesses

> I'm not sure what to do about it.

What I found to be particularly effective when dealing with spam from local businesses is to contact them directly and request that your information is deleted, while also posting that they engage in unscrupulous practices like sending junk mail on public review sites like Yelp and Google Reviews, and then finally filing a BBB complaint directly against the business.

> Does it work for you? Do they stop, and is it worth the time?

Actually, surprisingly yes! After doing the above for several years, I now get virtually zero junk mail (according to my spreadsheet, I've only received three pieces of junk mail so far this year).

And yes, I do it on the 'first offense' to nip it in the bud as soon as it starts.

That's placing an awful lot of faith in this third-party website doing what it is intended to do, as opposed to other possibilities such as it not doing much of anything at all, or worse yet, exposing your data at some point.

Instead, my approach whenever I receive junkmail is:

1) I write to the sender to request that all of my information be removed from their databases and that I did not consent to receiving any information from them.

2) I file a report with the Better Business Bureau: https://www.bbb.org/file-a-complaint

3) If they have a public-facing presence on a site like Google Reviews, Yelp, and so on, I leave a review detailing that this company sends out spam.

4) And most importantly, I keep a spreadsheet of companies that have sent me spam, and try to avoid ever giving them any of my money or labor.

> You can decide what types of mail you do and don’t want from marketers. Register at the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) consumer website DMAchoice.org, and choose what catalogs, magazine offers, and other mail you want to get. You’ll have to pay a $2 processing fee, and your registration will last for 10 years.

Is it just me, or is it insanely fucked up that in order to reduce the amount of junk mail you have to 1) first provide your information to yet another third-party site, and 2) pay money.

This is beyond backwards.

> Things look different in a small high-trust country with multiple political parties.

Which country are you talking about? Surely not Norway, which is a monarchy.

That is just utterly outrageous.

> We will rescind a number of accepted offers.

So if you accept an offer at CB, give notice to your current employer, have CB rescind the offer, and now find yourself unemployed? Is that what's happened here?

I don't use FFmpeg for transcoding, more for stream manipulation and frame/stream/subtitle extraction and related tasks, so unfortunately Handbrake isn't really a viable solution.

The concept of this would be incredibly useful...I use FFmpeg every few weeks, which is not often enough to remember all the commands I need.

But the execution here is a bit lacking. This only lets you input basically 10 parameters.

If this were to be expanded to include all FFmpeg params, it would be INCREDIBLY useful.

> The reality is, if you bring an action, the worst case outcome is basically: You lose. Yup, losing sucks. But... that's it.

What about having to pay the attorney fees?

> You always have the option of connecting to PM over tor [0] if you are concerned about this. You can also use any of the VPN services that are available. Get yourself an anonymous mulvad account, and pay with some laundered btc good luck to anyone that wants to track down your IP.

Yes, you could do all that. But if you're doing all that, you can also just use Gmail.

I don't know, I'm not convinced that the savings achieved by newer laundry machines outweigh the savings of using older machines when the environmental/energy/etc costs of running modern factories to create these new machines are factored into the equation. If you compare old laundry machine A to newer laundry machine B, sure, you'd see the savings. But if you factor in the fact that to make B you also need to have an operational factory, then I'm not sure the costs are in the newer machine's favor.

> Buying a 20+ old washing machine will cost you a lot in electricity and wasted water.

Does the cost of the electricity and water an old machine uses equal or exceed the cost of the electricity and water involved in having to make a brand new appliance instead of using an already-made one?

Uh-huh. Then perhaps they shouldn't be touting Swiss privacy laws like they're some holy golden shield. And once again:

> Why's a privacy-first service logging IPs in the first place?

It's kind of disingenuous to keep touting "Swiss privacy laws" as some sort of selling point on their homepage, when shit like this happens https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...

Why's a privacy-first service logging IPs in the first place?

> Doubt that this is a real concern.

I mean...it is a very real concern for me because I've found myself in the described situation twice now.

I feel like I'm not articulating my predicament properly. My concern is not a lack of self-confidence, I know that I am good at what at I do and my resume and references reflect that. What I am concerned about is that someone else who is just as good at what they do, but lives in a country with a lower cost of living, then therefore ask for substantially less when asked for their salary expectations, and will therefore likely get the job, which then creates a race to the bottom of sorts, because to stand a chance of being hired I then need to lower my salary expectations to be lower than theirs, and so on, does that make sense?

> 2. Any other case - never share your expectations until the end of interview process and untilyou know what’s the salary band/level they estimated you. Then negotiate up to max of that band (based on your research, again)

What would then be a polite way to respond to the question 'we are hiring globally, what are your salary expectations?'

> [1] In order to have this info, you should either interview semi-regularly or at least have a network of colleagues in similar roles who are sharing market info with you.

I do, in a domestic market. But the issue I'm struggling with is competing in a global remote market. I don't think anyone has a global network of colleagues that knows salary base ranges for every country in the world, and yet that's effectively the market.

> The alternative is to do the kind of work very few else can do.

I feel like that's a ridiculously arrogant worldview. There are nearly 8 billion people in the world. And by definition, half of the population is average/below average. It's supremely arrogant to think that you're vastly above average to the point of being irreplaceable.

Additionally, the issue is that given two equally-qualified candidates, one can do the work for less simply owing to the fact that they live in a region where the cost of living is much less. That's the issue I'm struggling to death with.

Which is why I said, _assuming two equally-qualified candidates_. I think that assuming that others will either be less qualified or have more 'overhead costs' is a bit arrogant and will result in not getting as many job offers.

> and check your email more than once a day when you don't really need to... stop doing that.

I'm genuinely curious, what sort of white-collar jobs exist where you can only check your email once a day?

I don't follow, it seems like unless you luck into finding a job where everyone in your management chain adheres to the same 'disconnect' work ethic, this is a pattern that will instead repeat over and over.

Being fired is the extreme end result. The immediate results I've faced are the other things I've outlined: not having as high a review score, not receiving a promotion, and just generally being treated poorly/less-friendly by managers. Basically 'disconnecting' leads to a hostile work environment. in my experience.

The problem with 'disconnecting' is that you run the very real risk of being fired and replaced by someone who disconnects less than you. Don't want to pickup your phone after hours at 11pm on a Friday? OK, that's your choice, but it can come with consequences such as being reprimanded, being passed over for promotions or bonuses, being treated poorly, or outright being fired. Unless your skillset and value-adds are truly unique and both indispensable and irreplaceable (not true for 99.99% of us), disconnecting is not an option for those of us who can't afford to lose a job.

> 1. If you're off the grid, where are you going to get power to run this?

There are many sources of off-grid power. Solar, wind, hydro being the big three.

> 2. If there's no power grid or internet, you probably have much bigger problems than "how can I browse an offline copy of Wikipedia." Those problems would probably last longer than you want to schlep around and item like this.

s/Wikipedia/GIS

> Some might argue it doesn't need colors at all.

Some might argue it doesn't need letters either.

I don't think it's a bad thing at all to have another similar zine.

For example, I miss the days when it wasn't just 2600, but we also had Blacklisted 411, THUD, etc.

> That may be true for open access publications, but traditional publishing (with Elsevier or others) is typically free of charge.

Yes, and Elsevier has open access journals with APCs (article publishing costs).