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embeddedpro··on Ring fired employees for watching customer videos
Upcoming /s-

It would really suck if someone could watch my front door. Like, they might know when my package arrives?

Or what if someone checked my naked footage?

/S

I really don't care. Should I care?

embeddedpro··on BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X
The anti competitive business practices of Apple make it hard to imagine the world could be worse.

Instead of competition, Apple survives off marketing medium quality products at high prices.

I'm not sure how that's good for anyone unless they own Apple stock.

embeddedpro··on Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
I see unions good for established low skill workers.

Grind the years and that will lead to sucesss. No innovation or additional learning needed. Just wait.

embeddedpro··on Major union launches campaign to organize video game and tech workers
Maybe. But every time I've changed jobs my pay increased 20 or 30k.

That means I'm doing higher demand work.

So at least my most recent skills are extremely valuable.

embeddedpro··on Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
I'm doing a hardware selection and after much consideration, I'm picking a 3$ esp8266.

I don't see any purpose of Arduino outside education for kids. Makers should use cheaper products/knockoffs at worse.