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Ecstatifyon LastPass: Notice of Security Incident

Same, when I have to change my password for a service I know it's time to leave. Also it's so expensive €2.90/month to basically store text files. Office 365 is €7/month and includes 1TB of storage.

Ecstatifyon Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Beware buying Dell XPS Laptops. Just got a MacBook Pro to replace mine.

- Screen Broken, the screen is distorted and unusable, need to connect an external screen to work

- Random Bluetooth Disconnects, throughout the day the Bluetooth will randomly switch off

- The laptop started to peel, looks like my laptop has dandruff

- Dell bloatware

Ecstatifyon CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953

While making a documentary about the CIA/MI6 coup in Iran in 1953, Iranian director Taghi Amirani and editor Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, The English Patient) discover never seen before archive material hidden for decades. The 16mm footage and documents not only allow the filmmakers to tell the story of the overthrow of the Iranian government in unprecedented detail but also leads to explosive revelations about dark secrets buried for 67 years. Working with Ralph Fiennes (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Schindler’s List, The English Patient) to help bring the lost material to life, what begins as a historical documentary about four days in August 1953 turns into a live investigation, taking the filmmakers into uncharted cinematic waters. The roots of Iran's volatile relationship with America and Britain has never been so forensically and dramatically exposed.

Ecstatifyon Investing in Flow

WeWork 2.0 - Elizabeth Homes Edition.

The disclaimer at the end is nearly half the length of the post.

Ecstatifyon Second-Order Thinking

Their podcast 'The Knowledge Project' is essentially a book tour for authors flogging their new book 'Framework/Mental Models to achieve X'.

Modern day magic beans to make you smarter.

Ecstatifyon Inside the Irish Republican Army (1994)

Bad actors on both sides.

Ecstatifyon Inside the Irish Republican Army (1994)

Vile song mocks the murder of Michaela McAreavey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi3jCBT-Yhs&ab_channel=Newst...

He was alleged by many, including the FBI, to have been a paedophile with a penchant for boys in uniform

https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19731909.lord-darkne...

Ecstatifyon Microsoft Cuts Many Open Job Listings in Weakening Economy

Need an excuse when you miss targets.

Ecstatifyon Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds

Bad quarter incoming

Ecstatifyon How to set junior employees up for success in remote

SEO Spam. Junk article based on a reddit poll and conversations with colleagues.

"junior remote employees are doing almost 2x the upskilling they're doing in the office" based on what?

Ecstatifyon The Complexity Trap

[Alternative link]

https://web.archive.org/web/20220528074047/https://conscious...

Ecstatifyon When we learn more about a stranger, we feel like they know us better too

When I see articles with no mention of sample size and no figures I just assume it's junk science.

Ecstatifyon The Verge is so bad they have me defending Apple [video]

The Verge is honestly terrible, incredibly biased. They're essentially a PR firm targeting certain companies competitors.

You pay $$$, you get positive coverage. They're the Yelp of tech news.

Ecstatifyon Waterbear is a toolkit for making programming more accessible and fun

Seems pretty similar to https://scratch.mit.edu/

Ecstatifyon Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds

Sensationalized title and that's from someone who doesn't even like crypto and thinks it's a scam.

Title: {Sensationalized title}

Intro: {Waffle}

Middle: {Sentence that gives context to sensationalized title}

Ending: {Facts & figures to legitimise article}

Ecstatifyon Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Apparently it was a scheduled post, it looks like corporate bs so I highly doubt she wrote it.

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6918235...

Ecstatifyon Goodreads lost all of my reviews

Goodreads killed their developer api in December 2020. It’s obvious they’ve no intention of improving the platform. Hopefully someone can come along and provide a better experience.

Ecstatifyon Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

Why would Putin talk to some random guy in the middle of the Ukraine war?

Ecstatifyon Mark Zuckerberg on the Lex Fridman Podcast [video]

https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1496906468695724036

I’m not sure if he’s extremely naive or completely delusional.

Ecstatifyon Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here

100% this. Have a dell XPS, laptop has been on a flat desk since the day I got it. Screen randomly starts getting distorted and is unusable now, had to buy an external display. The repair costs would be at least half the cost of what I paid for the laptop.

They’re supposed to be a premium laptop but after 2 years it’s essentially a desktop.

Windows hardware in general is junk. Saving for a MacBook at the moment.

Ecstatifyon Managing People

Very generic advice, nothing that hasn't been said in a thousand other blog posts.

Honestly one of the worst blogs I've ever seen from a readability perspective.

Ecstatifyon [dead]

Guess who is a client of counterpoint research

Counterpoint’s strengths are their clear and far-sighted insights into the developing market for connected devices and ecosystems.

They actively ensure they maintain a detailed understanding of HERE’s capability and strategy.

This combination means their insights offer real value to our business and are widely appreciated across our business.

Ecstatifyon It's a Ponzi Scheme

A nice fee structure they have.

Minimum Investment: $1 Million

Management Fee: 2% Of Committed Capital Annually

Performance Fee: 20% Up To 40% Net IRR, And 30% Thereafter

Ecstatifyon Azure AD password reset page(s) looks like a phishing site

I’ve been using some Microsoft services recently, found some bugs in their APIs,I don’t even bother reporting the issues anymore as it will never be solved.

Ecstatifyon "My employment at Google was terminated abruptly"

Not the best move but at the same time what else is there she can do?

Being young, in your "dream job" and then being told "there’s someone waiting outside to collect your corp devices" without any real explanation. It's 100% HR + Managers fault that this situation has escalated to this.

If a future employer asks for a reference from Google she's screwed.

This whole "don't say anything bad about X, it will reflect badly on you" is how the Epsteins and Weinsteins of the world go undetected for years.

If what she says is true she should probably go to a lawyer and sue.

Ecstatifyon Betting Against Bitcoin

Is betting against crypto a smart move? How much could you earn potentially going with the whole crypto movement instead of betting against it. Some people love being right other people like making money.

Ecstatifyon My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

Allegedly they never actually implemented the model either

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/

Ecstatifyon My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

Conversely we’re Agile™, the company is looking for external solutions to replace everything that has been developed for the last 8 years.

If the company from top to bottom isn’t Agile then I don’t believe you can truly be Agile.

Ecstatifyon My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

Spotified basically means your company decided it was Agile™ and forced the Spotify model on teams so essentially now you’re a cargo cult.

https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScal...

Our problem at the moment is we have no processes/documentation because we’re Agile™

Ecstatifyon My Foreword to “The Art of Agile Development”

I think I’d prefer to do Waterfall correctly than pretending to be Agile.

I love the idea of Agile, hasn’t worked at our company since we got spotified.