cybersandwich

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Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...

cybersandwich ,

Yea, a lot of companies and even govt agencies have policies against recording meetings except for special circumstances. Edit: to clarify they have policies against employees initiating recordings (let alone automatically recording anything by default)

Once you have it, it's a record. Now you have to keep it and treat it like one.

cybersandwich ,

completed an approximately 90-minute holding pattern before safely returning to and landing in Makassar.

Lol wtf!? I get that it was past the point of no return and had to commit to take off but a 90 min wait to land again seems insane.

cybersandwich ,

Carry a gun on your face. Problem solved

cybersandwich ,

This doesn't look like his house, but he defended it so it must be.

He lives up the road from me (I only found out when roe got fucked and a swat team and 3 dozen police were camped out in front of his house).

That said, his excuse could be somewhat valid. People can get dumb with their yard signs up here. The MAGA crowd are a very small minority up here and most people aren't shy about "counter signage" (eg BLM, pride flags, Biden signs).

If his wife was butthurt about signs hurting her feelings, maybe she did this in protest.

Also, and I hate that I'm defending this piece of shit, but flipping a flag upside down isn't a "stop the steal" specific sign of protest. People do it for all sorts of reasons.

I'm not willing to "give" them this symbol/protest.

cybersandwich ,

It is what it is, ya know?

cybersandwich ,

Or raped someone.
.how the fuck is this more prison time than much more serious crimes.

Presumably they can claw back some of the money too

cybersandwich ,

Also, small rivers that need fording.

cybersandwich ,

I know this is preaching to the choir here, but this is so gross across the board.

My wife and I struggled to have our kid. That process is brutal. A lot of women miscarry. A lot of women have unviable pregnancies--like this. An obvious-to-everyone-but-conservatives outcome to banning abortions is that women will lose their ability to have children(like this) or worse they'll die.

My wife has a very high likelihood of miscarriage. Miscarriages can cause all sorts of issues and sometimes doctors need to go in and clear stuff out (this is considered an abortion). If that doesn't happen, my wife could 1. Die 2. Lose her ovaries/uterus/fallopian tube 3. Never have a chance at more kids again.

Abortions mean people have have happy healthy families. Abortions mean women can bring children into this world.

We were lucky we didn't have to go down that path, but it's a serious risk if we try to have another kid.

People act like women go get abortions for shits and giggles. Fuck anyone voting against women.

cybersandwich ,

Baby korn

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And green. All associated with the more popular variants pfsense, opnsense, truenas, and freebsd.

Data truly is beautiful

cybersandwich ,

No way. I just switched to a Mac at work And I love the lack of integration with OneDrive, 365, etc. office on Mac is better because it hasn't been made worse yet like the windows versions.

cybersandwich ,

I can't tell if ops joke is "intentionally confusing buffers with registers" and everyone is playing along or if people aren't making the distinction between the two in this thread.

Which is ironic and humorous...potentially by accident.

cybersandwich ,

So you are telling me your food bill is $2-3k/mo ??

Wtf are you buying?

cybersandwich ,

Ngl, just had a kid and I spend less on food because we don't go out as often. It's more of a hassle. And when we do go out we don't get drinks or at least one of us doesn't because we can't take cabs with a baby.

Even with the multiple kid argument, there are economies of scale. You could almost make an argument that it's more justifiable to eat out when you are single since most recipes seem scoped for a family and you might waste more food if you aren't diligent about leftovers

cybersandwich ,

Unless it's the newest of new Nvidia GTX cards, it's generally a wash.

You tradeoff issues from one to the other.

I had a 3070ti that I "upgraded" to a 6900xt and I kind of regretted it. I fell for the AMD is king on Linux hype.

Nvidia is way better than people let on and AMD isn't nearly as great as people let on.

That's my two cents.

cybersandwich ,

I use vimwiki and wrote a bash script that pulls all of the Todo items from across my wiki and puts them in a single file with TODO and IN PROGRESS sections.

I have a keybind that pulls up the list and runs the script to refresh it.

It's not linked to any calendar though. I keep my to-do list and calendar separate.

I use Gmail and have that calendar for my personal stuff. At work I am forced to use outlook.

cybersandwich ,

That's exactly what they were aiming for. It was their hail Mary because they know they don't have an actual defense

cybersandwich ,

That's the way it works. It's a risk management and mitigation strategy for companies. You hiring contractors and offload the liability.

From what I understand, and IANAL(with the best of em) we'd have to change the laws to go after companies for their contractor's liability/negligence.

I think you'd be able to go after Perdue or seaboard if you could prove they were grossly negligence or derelict or knowingly hired this contractorbecause they used kids.

But they can play that legal "plausible deniability" card otherwise.

cybersandwich ,

lmfao got em

After Raids, NYPD Denied Student Protesters Water and Food in Jail ( theintercept.com )

Students arrested during the police crackdown on protests at universities in New York City last week were denied water and food for 16 hours, according to two faculty members at Columbia University’s Barnard College who collected reports from students who were inside....

cybersandwich ,

Yea and even the holding cells have those. Usually behind a half wall where it's not really private but its sorta blocking your business.

Those sink/toilet combos are what had Dems claiming migrants were "drinking out of toilets".

cybersandwich ,

What?

I see this thread got brigaded by down voters.

cybersandwich ,

If it makes you feel any better I am very much a Democrat. So it was a little bit of criticizing "my own team" so to speak.

But I can see how it reads in hindsight. Haha I sound like my grandpa at Thanksgiving.

cybersandwich ,

Kagi

Paying for search aligns incentives better than free search.

It's also the best results from a search engine I've had in a decade.

cybersandwich ,

Now now now. We can do both thank you very much.

cybersandwich ,

This feels like a troll account for some reason. Stirring the pot pretty disingenuously across the board.

The railroad workers got what they wanted because the admin followed up. So he averted a rail strike and got them their concessions.

The east Palestine disaster isn't this admins fault. It's anl negligent rail companies fault combined with deregulation from previous Congresses and the previous administration. Not to mention both previous Congress and admin sat on an infrastructure spending packages that could have addressed antiquated rail infrastructure. Ironically, Biden managed to pass the biggest infrastructure package in American history (with a divided Congress). With clean energy and resiliency built it. And if I recall correctly FEMA and Co are still monitoring and supporting the clean up.

Your fossil fuel is thing is BS because of course its growing--we've done nothing, our CONGRESS has done nothing to curtail it. The previous admin opened the flood gates on regulations as well. Don't lay that at the feet of this admin. That's absolute horse shit. The aforementioned infrastructure bill included the most investment in green energy ever.

And the anti trans shit is Bidens fault how? He signed the respect marriage act, he reversed the ban for trans service members, and strengthen some of the protections against discrimination re housing and healthcare.

You want lord emperor Biden to go send mobs after statehouses and local governments?? That's not how Any of this works and you know it.

cybersandwich ,

That's why my windows partition is still in regular use. I play apex legends. It used to play flawlessly on pop is but over a year ago at this point it started screwing up.

I'd usually be able to get it working after a while, but when I have 30-45 minutes or maybe an hour at most to game, I don't want to spend all of it "fixing". I'd rather restart into windows and be playing in a minute.

cybersandwich ,

The second Trump starts losing favor with his voters or ability to fundraise the party will drop him super hard and fast.

If he loses again, AND the Republicans get mopped down the ballot, you'll start seeing people drop him or hang him out to dry like rats fleeing a sinking ship

cybersandwich ,

The implication, well one of many, is that the President is the one charging Trump with these crimes. He's being charged for state crimes, by the various states AGs, in accordance to their laws. He's also being sued civilly by people he's defrauded, sexually assaulted, or defamed.

The current president and current administration has had no input in any of this.

The federal cases he has stem from his "mishandling" of classified documents after he was out of office. This case is being handled by a special prosecutor who is insulated from the executive and bound by laws, procedure, legal ethics, etc to act independently from the administration.

So, at the end of the day it's just more absolute horse shit from Trump and more evidence he should never be on the ballot.

cybersandwich ,

That last part isn't a fact. We don't have a ruling and we don't know how they will vote.

(God knows how this court will vote but don't spread misinformation)

cybersandwich ,

4/20 joke

cybersandwich ,

Probably have a porn and PC game filter to thank for my career in IT

cybersandwich ,

Wait so people got butthurt that a company made a deal with nix. That company also does business with ICE. And people are mad at Nix?

What am I missing?

Also companies and open source entities do business with all manner of government(s) all the time.

cybersandwich ,

"rocinante" for my proxmox host.

"awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities." From don Quixote's wiki page.

It seemed fitting considering it is a server built from old PC parts..engaged in tasks beyond its abilities.

The rest of my servers (VMs moslty) are named for what they actually do/which vlan they are on (eg vm15) and aren't fun or excitin names. But at least I know if I am on that VM it has access to that vlan(or that it's segregated from my other networks).

cybersandwich ,

I have 2fa for my luggage.

cybersandwich ,

This is such horseshit. The drama of the Linux community never ceases to amaze me.

cybersandwich ,

Counter point: I just got a new MacBook at work. It's an all windows enterprise. There are like 10 of us that got macs. The setup for them is kludgy because all of the tooling is for windows.

That said, Microsoft office and one drive is so much better to use because the "integration" isn't there...and it works like I want it to work.

It's hilarious to me that they've made their offering worse with all of their efforts to integrate 365 and onedrive into everything.

I think if apple just did a little towards the enterprise they'd take chunks of market share. Like having a macpro with a pic/cac card reader would be a good start.

cybersandwich ,

The m series Mac s with unified memory and ML cores are insanely powerful and much more flexible because your 32gb of system memory is now GPU vram etc

cybersandwich ,

Apex started acting up on pop a year and half ago which drove me back to my windows partition (that I hadn't seen in almost 18 months).

I don't know if my issue is: pop, proton, steam, apex, my hardware(bad ram?), flatpaks, the deb, or something else. In my opinion it's one of the toughest part about Linux gaming--when something goes wrong you arent going to find a ton of help since there is so much fragmentation.

But anyway, I echo your sentiment. Windows is still a necessary evil for a lot of us if you are big into PC gaming.

cybersandwich ,

If by people you mean botnets, then yes.

cybersandwich ,

One of my favorite cartoons is the dinosaurs, with a giant meteor coming in hot in the background, and the dino says "oh no the economy!"

cybersandwich ,

Hear hear.

Most underrated President of all time. My expectations weren't high, but I have to admit, he's absolutely blown me away with how effective he's been.

Given the shit he was handed from the previous admin, with a divided Congress, etc. he's absolutely crushing it. Imagine what he could do with a Congress behind him and a supreme Court that wasn't broken.

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised by how much laying off 1,500 employees negatively affected the streaming giant’s operations ( fortune.com )

When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age of efficiency at the streaming giant. But four months on, it seems he and his executives weren’t prepared for how tough filling in for 1,500 axed workers would be....

cybersandwich ,

If you as a CEO who has been running a company, need to fire 1500 people, your resignation should follow that decision or at the very least a few of your c suite and management team need to be removed with them.

Talk about gross mismanagement.

I’d give a new CEO a pass on this tbh. But if you’ve been running the company so poorly that a sizeable chunk of your employees need to be fired youve failed at your job. You should go.

cybersandwich ,

Truth social

Senate Approves Aid for Ukraine and Israel, Sending It to Biden’s Desk ( www.nytimes.com )

The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday night to give final approval to a $95.3 billion package of aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending it to President Biden and ending months of uncertainty about whether the United States would continue to back Kyiv in its fight against Russian aggression....

cybersandwich ,

But didn’t they have three separate votes, one on each?

cybersandwich ,

Biden is still president until the day the new president is sworn in. If he has immunity he should deport Trump.

cybersandwich ,

Any country not in NATO is at risk. Russia wouldn’t invade a NATO country. They’d get shit stomped and honestly probably have to resort to a nuclear weapon.

I think the West would cut the head off the snake pretty quickly if Russia invaded a NATO country though.

cybersandwich ,

I was about to pay for it when they doubled the cost. No joke I told my wife I was going to start paying since we watch it all the time. The next week they doubled the cost. It irritated me. Not because I couldn’t afford it but because they added no value with the increase. Nothing changed.

cybersandwich ,

I got audited a few years back. I claimed something that set off a red flag–deducted tuition for a grad program as a business expense.

I freaked out at first because I thought I must have messed something up or that they knew I messed something up.

What I discovered is that: at the end of the day these folks are probably just as annoyed as you that they got another “audit” in their pile. And being flagged doesn’t mean you are wrong. It means they need more information before they can decide.

I wrote a detailed response with the actual flow chart from their own guidance, I circled the decisions on the chart, and then provided proof of each decision in my letter. Basically I held their hand and showed them I could legit deduct it.

They were like “oh, cool thanks! You’re good. Actually, you could have itemized x if you have receipts for it and you’d get a bigg r deduction if you wanted to amend”

That’s when I realized they don’t really check everyone’s taxes at all. They have a system that flags certain situations for further review. I guess, in my case, people lie or mess up this tuition deduction a lot so they double check.

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