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If we're going to criticize this, can we discuss reasons for why this reductive method might be faulty?

A lot of remote FTE contracts I've come across not only demand your updated address during the duration of your employment, but also for 3 or so years after.

I think this is the wrong time to be judging remote work. It's being used out of necessity during one of the most stressful and anxious times in this generation's history.

Of course people want to get back into the office when they've been stuck at home for months, possibly with their souse and children. Of course people aren't their most productive when they're preoccupied with a deadly virus, or threat thereof, or getting toilet paper.

As a remote worker of 5 years myself I was concerned when this all started that it would leave remote work in general in a bad light as the masses were involuntary thrust into adapting, and this unfortunately seems to be coming true because we're not taking into account the humanity of the entire situation.

The problem with this I found for home use is that IoT devices don't typically support enterprise modes. And without PSK you just flat-out can't use those devices with WiFi

Unfortunately paying doesn't alone incentivize data privacy, when those same companies you're paying realize they can also increase profits my monetizing your data or everyone's data in aggregate.

Re: forgotten context

I use Firefox's tag feature for this, helps you give a one or two or three word context like: linux, firewall, iptables or devops, cicd

"If you don't ship it you can't sell it."

Now tell that to any sales team and they'll tell you to hold their beer. The problem is, now they've sold your vaporware and you _reallly_ need to ship it, now. Like, yesterday.

You don't need to root a phone to install a new operating system. What you do likely need to do is unlock the bootloader, if at all possible.

If it's supported by LineageOS, use that instead. If not - perhaps consider buying a phone that is. If you're really privacy conscious, perhaps look at the CopperheadOS options - they're specifically known for privacy.

Other than that, this is the sad state of big data and advertising. Unless you fight back agasint it, everything about you is going to be poked, proded, and collected for futher processing and aggregation. Hell, a lot of you probably work in that industry here.

You should not assume that any device manufacturer has your interests in mind, as the trends have overwhelmingly shown that anything proprietary always leads to them finding a way to further line their pockets as interest for their product wanes, or their investors get greedier.

These are facts of life; take action but don't be surprised when you're being misled and taken advantage of when you're putting the trust of something so integral in a proprietary party.

Godspeed.

I wonder what it would take to make an app that does this exact thing and listens in order to hook into whatever and prevent malicious apps from beaconing. Also seems useful in order to see if there are any such ads out in the wild yet.

You may have an extension blocking it. Get the addon compatability plugin.

All along there was an extension called "Developer Edition Theme Enabler" that you could have used :)

You don't. The person that wrote that is mistaken. Hardware video decoding on Linux is not implemented.

Hardware video decoding does not work in linux period. It doesn't matter whether you play an mp4 or vp9 video.

There is some truth to the fact that (if you basically already know dd like I do) then reserving it for dangerous operations is a good way to "signal" to yourself "slow down here and pay attention"

I learned Linux this way a decade and a half ago when it was far (and still is imho!) more convenient to quickly search a man page than google something. (with slow internet start times, browser startup times, etc)

Now, sometimes when people watch me work in a shared session they comment on my "peculiar" (to them) usage of flipping between -h --help and man $command, because there's a whole lot of switches I have memorized over time, but even more that I just have good reference points for.

But, bar none, what I've noticed among my peers is that the people that have always bowed to quick google solutions never really have taken the time to learn what they're doing. They almost always seems to be the 'quick fix', 'get it working now, sort it out later' types.

So then its probably a pretty good idea to randomize the number keypad for the lock screen, which I do. Does this defeat that, I can't think of a way it does..

Or you get TVs that last a lot less ;)

Nothing to hide, huh

Trebuchet is really nice

Thankfully we now have a vibrant open source community to take the burden of pioneering, no startups necessary

Yeah sure, they all steal your personal information. One of the reasons I forbid myself from ever signing something there.

I very much want to voice my opinion not to touch my xul addons, but I refuse to subvert my privacy in order to do that.

Or I don't know, at least checking they exist

Can you explain the significance of that

I will check this out, thanks.

I would absolutely love to dedicate the time to doing this the way I think, and know, it should be done (I taught myself html, javascript, early css when I was 11 because I thought it was fun, like everyone else my age probably... but I remember how it felt in comparison with what I'm doing now, and I know that teaching yourself through sheer passion was far more fruitful and entertaining.) Unfortunately, time ends up being the most precious commodity, and I'm not sure I've learned how to juggle that properly and still maintain a roof over my head, yet.

I agree with you, and I would love to actually have the time to dedicate to such a focus. What ends up happening in reality, however, is the tradeoff between having a roof over your head, and learning. I'm not sure I'm well versed enough yet at being a civilian worker, and still having enough time to dedicate to learning what it is I want to know.

In other words, I look at your post and thing "YES, Great! I would love to do all those things!," when I come back down to reality and realize that I'll need to spend the majority of my time making slightly more than minimum wage to support myself, just to have a place to sleep. While some learning can be accomplished in the downtime, we both know it can't be done as fast or as efficiently as a full-time student's dedication.

I initially did start out with Zed Shaw's book when I got out, but I was inevitably channeled into C++ because that's all colleges teach here. I guess they're a bit behind the power-curve, as always.

I thought there was? I mean, I keep reading about the age bias of hiring someone cheap at 18 or fresh out of college at 23, and that seems like a deathly blow to my success probability. I'm 25 now, so if I continued on the same path I'm on today, I would be starting out at 28.

Thank you for your input. I'm not sure how to get into the Operation side of things, I might have to inquire with a career counselor about that path, if it's an avenue that I can take.

I'm aware that my time in is worth something, as I did obtain rank that probably looks decent, but I'm slightly edgy as to how it will be received. (I was an infantry Sgt.) Some have some derogatory views of how we are and I'm reticent to mention too much. (Everyone thinks you have PTSD despite studies)

I like your support because you gave me some very clear goals to work with. I will consider doing all of them.

What I'm struggling with now, since I'm still an lower-division undergrad trying to make my way into a BS program, is do I continue on and persue this - perhaps getting a meaningless part time job in the meantime to supplement my income? Or, do I just go full speed ahead and try and apply for some very entry level IT work. I have no idea what I'm doing in the civilian sector despite my getting out 2 years go - I've only been a full time college student since. Perhaps I'm just rambling because I need answers to these questions, but you seem salty, and wise. Thanks for your help.