I’m in the UK and we recently got the Online Safety Act. We failed, this legislation is very popular with voters and not getting rolled back. Those that dislike it use a VPN and aren’t interested in fighting. I’d say most of the public here is exhausted with cost of living and internet freedom just isn’t relevant to their voting habits.
I grew up around a lot of the hacker ethos, open internet, Information Wants To Be Free etc… feels like a part of my identity is being striped away by my government.
Earlier last year, I wrote a tool which scrapes a ton of web feeds (industry news, news about investments, cooking blogs, etc..) to my email. (shameless plug[0]). Everything gets organised with labels that fit my morning reading workflow well.
Something else I've also been practicing is not letting online reading disrupt me at work. If I ever find my concentration drifting, I use an extension which bookmarks it for later (either Google Keep or Pocket). Usually I have a nice backlog for when I'm in the reading mood.
Okay that's shitty. I've only ever worked Google (outside of retail + occasional side work) so I completely lack perspective on the wider tech industry. Generally I get the feeling I can balance work life pretty well here, though maybe at cost to career since there's always going to be people who don't, but I don't feel immediate pressure beyond that.
> being slotted into the "bottom 10%" during the bi-annual performance review (which means you get fired)
Jeez - that is awful. Since you're anonymous, will you say which FANG this was? I don't always hear great things about FANGs but sacking the bottom 10% of employees every 6 months does raise some eyebrows.
It might surprise you to know (/s) that people in high school talk about sex. A lot. It's not unreasonable to assert that he does know roughly what's going on.
At least in your first paragraph, your experience is similar to my own (19 y/o here). There's a growing population of people who are in totally polarised buckets politically.
Your assumption is that cheap living equals unhappiness/misery/etc whereas most unhappiness is caused by the uncertainty of not knowing where your next meal is coming from.
Presumably he had a good family/friends, which is what matters, no?
Investing in your family's future is an incredibly noble/selfless thing to do, it takes real character.
The thing is, aren't all the efficiency gains wasted if even just a couple students opt out? You've still got to take a register, even if shorter. It can't be worth it for a few extra minutes.
That makes sense. Opt out for even just one individual would be effectively impossible, otherwise how would the system know who's opted out without remembering them in some way.
Good! I was forced to use biometric data (fingerprint) to purchase food
and read books in the library (yep) for seven years at my UK school. That was already too much. Facial recognition has zero place in a school.
It's not when the device is awake or has a wakelock. But since Android's Doze (basically deep sleep battery saving state) GCM is the only service that can wake it up.
Almost like private investment generates return for investors, not customers. Sometimes those align.