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New comment by hansel_der in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 11:43:01 +0000

on the other hand i know countless subcontractors/vendors that have dozens of work email addresses from different companies and are not really employees of any of them.

so yea, emails are not a trusworthy source of anything, but filtering singups based on addresses is very common.

New comment by hansel_der in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 11:38:57 +0000

> Are the numbers that they are showing an average of all reports starting from 2007

tbf it would probably suffice to have that information somewhere

New comment by hansel_der in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 11:32:59 +0000

reputation systems don't just die off because they are found to be inadequate

there is a constant influx of ppl that don't know yet [0]

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by hansel_der in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 11:07:36 +0000

then again, who decides if it is a (very) good reason?

New comment by hansel_der in "Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor – how companies respond"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:59:41 +0000

have recently been in an interview were the scriptedness feeling crept in after the first few up-beat intro questions were done. didn't felt professional at all to see them working a questionaire with me.

New comment by hansel_der in "Whistleblower drops 100 GB of Tesla secrets to German news site"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:41:04 +0000

yea, in oss projects, users tend to feel more like stakeholders than with products of some mega-corp.

we all know that these feedback channels just create a corpus of opinions to be used for arbitrary arguments by management. no one is gonna read or even react to this unless it's necessary.

New comment by hansel_der in "Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:25:37 +0000

> There's a reason Zerodium values iOS zero days less than Android ones too

iirc it was the other way around for some time

New comment by hansel_der in "Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:21:57 +0000

iirc there was a time where spamers would send calender invites to random gmail's

New comment by hansel_der in "Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled"

hansel_der — Sat, 27 May 2023 08:19:23 +0000

even remember a time when my galaxy s4 mini would ask me how it should represent itself when connected via usb; also drivedroid to emulate a cdrom drive with an downloaded .iso in order to boot older computers that don't know how to usb.

maybe i have been spoiled by the real computer in my pocket experience of custom rom's.

New comment by hansel_der in "Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled"

hansel_der — Thu, 25 May 2023 13:10:56 +0000

bought a 1st gen SE in 2017, dropped daily, nothing broke to this day. what a phone!

New comment by hansel_der in "Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box"

hansel_der — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 06:27:58 +0000

true. thou the second part of your comment sounds like you are saying that openwrt and linux have little in common.

New comment by hansel_der in "Coworkers are less ambitious; bosses adjust to the new order"

hansel_der — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:33:24 +0000

> are companies not paying for overtime?

ime for most white collar contracts: no

maybe because time tracking (esp. with remote work) is trust based and hence essentially just a formality where noone expects the employee to report under-time.

New comment by hansel_der in "Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box"

hansel_der — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:26:24 +0000

openwrt indeed uses the linux kernel

New comment by hansel_der in "Self-hosted home network traffic monitoring with ntopng and a Fritz Box"

hansel_der — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:50:11 +0000

iirc fritz-os was very much based on openwrt, same as most homerouters

New comment by hansel_der in "The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)"

hansel_der — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:14:13 +0000

if your wifi-ap runs freebsd you probably have more serious problems

New comment by hansel_der in "The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)"

hansel_der — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:11:52 +0000

how would you limit the interference to others?

New comment by hansel_der in "The 5GHz “Problem” for Wi-Fi Networks: DFS (2018)"

hansel_der — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 10:05:40 +0000

> Would the interruptions from interference of radar be less intrusive than the drops from changing channel?

depends, hence the checking.

> And is that sort of violation the kind of thing your local regulator would be scanning for and send someone out to shut you down?

highly doubtfull

New comment by hansel_der in "Rogue antibody and mystery pathogen behind AstraZeneca blood clots: study"

hansel_der — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 09:58:18 +0000

> surely people in low income countries who only have access to the AZ vaccine can benefit from such tests if affordable test kits can be made available to local healthcare workers administrating the vaccination.

sounds suspiciously like the cost of the additional testing would more than ofset the savings on the vaccine itself

New comment by hansel_der in "The Rise of User-Hostile Software (2021)"

hansel_der — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:57:02 +0000

point beeing that self regulating markets are a lie

New comment by hansel_der in "Why did the flywheel hybrid system never catch on for road cars? (2021)"

hansel_der — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:22:15 +0000

turbochargers are rather popular thou