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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Regarding the title thing. Lots of news sites will have multiple titles that get swapped at random. The different wordings increase the click through rate. You might not be interested in title 1,2 or 3, but title 4 gets you to click.

But as for change logs for the actual article, none that I know of. The best you normally see is something like "last edited 5 minutes ago"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Stakeholders that want a payout will demand the data be sold to the highest bidder.

And other companies will probably be interested in said data and willing to buy.

I would like for it to be destroyed as well, but capitalism going to capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yep, companies give "unlimited PTO" because it's a way to actually reduce the amount of PTO employees take.

Give them 20 days PTO/year? They'll take around 20 a year.

Give them unlimited PTO? They need to justify every bit of PTO, so probably only get to take 4 or 5 for important days.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Upside: not fired.

Downside: have to do work.

Upside: make money

Downside: not enough money

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, Gucci and Louis Vuitton on the prowl.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Honestly, this does explain why vendors like HP seem to have every possible combo of device available in their business class laptops as Intel CPU options, but it's sometimes like pulling teeth to get equivalent AMD options.

It's sometimes a PITA if a client specifically wants an AMD machine for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

If a school provides a device to a student to take home there's two possible outcomes.

  1. They provide a managed device, and with any management tool, there's a way to invade privacy, intended or not.

  2. They provide an unmanaged device and get sued by parents for letting their"innocent snowflake" access unwanted content.

In both instances there's something to legitimately complain about, but I still say the first option is the better one. The problem comes with oversight and auditing on the use of those management tools.

Not to mention that even with the second option of unmanaged devices, invasion of privacy can still occur if students are stupid enough to use the school provided accounts (Google, 365,etc)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Yarrrrrr indeed

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Companies see that as a mistake. They want you on a subscription for life that they can arbitrarily change at any time.

Profits not increasing enough for this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.

Profits increased amazingly this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.

Profits down? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads, and start adding extra paywalls to some content

They want you to own nothing. Oh you unsubscribed? Sorry even the content you paid extra to unlock was only available while your subscription continued, you will need to start your subscription again and then pay to unlock the content again.

A show isn't popular enough? Better write it off, pull it from all distribution so you can claim it as a tax write off

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They make a bunch of the other chips that go into computer devices, and from what I understand it's binary blob or nothing for a lot of it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

If you have docker containers and other stuff all on that USB drive I'd really reccomend getting it all off that USB (not just logging) and onto a proper drive of some kind. USB thumb sticks are not reliable long term storage, you will wake up to find the drive failing one day and good chance you lose everything on it with little to no warning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

My guess is log files are being written to it? Might want to install a proper drive internally and redirect log storage. With less activity the USB drive should not heat up anywhere near as much.

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