otachack (u/otachack)

otachack commented on A 30-hour workweek in America? It nearly became law washingtonpost.com/histor... · Posted by u/howard941

otachack · 2 years ago

I believe the pandemic moved most white collar work to work from home. This has allowed softer work requirements in terms of hours and needs to step away from the desk.

Seeing posts of employers imposing spyware to monitor employee keystrokes / time at the desk should serve as warnings and must be pushed back. Historically, pushing back meant union-driven actions. WFH brings a challenge to how union-seeking employees will organize moving forward.

I believe we should absolutely push for 30 hour workweeks or 4 day weeks.

otachack commented on Google Pixel 9 Pro store.google.com/us/produ... · Posted by u/ksec

nicbou · 2 years ago

My Pixel 5 is an amazing device, but it's slowly falling apart, software-wise. Bugs bugs and more bugs! It's also no longer getting software updates, and its successors have a laundry list of issues.

The alternative is Samsung, the company that doesn't understand privacy nor consent, or Apple, whose phones lack uBlock support.

otachack · 2 years ago

Hold strong! I replaced my 5's battery about a year ago after it started bloating. I usually draw the line though when security updates cease. Staying with the Pixel line is easier but I'm trying to divest from Google in general and moving to a different phone would be a big step.

otachack commented on Porting my JavaScript game engine to C for no reason phoboslab.org/log/2024/08... · Posted by u/zichy

senkora · 2 years ago

> Many Web games were created with Impact [the game engine from the article] and it even served as the basis for some commercial cross-platform titles like Cross Code, Eliot Quest and my own Nintendo Wii-U game XType Plus.

Cross Code is an excellent game. I knew that it used web tech and I was constantly amazed by how performant it was on the Nintendo Switch hardware. I would guess that this engine deserves some credit there!

otachack · 2 years ago

Agreed! While I loath JavaScript it was immensely impressive that a masterpiece like Cross Code came from it.

otachack commented on Intel's Day of Reckoning Arrives: 15,000 Jobs Will Be Eliminated extremetech.com/computing... · Posted by u/cheptsov

adrr · 2 years ago

Intel received almost $20 billion from the CHIPS act and cuts their employees. So glad we gave them money.

otachack · 2 years ago

How else will the poor shareholders and top execs get their fair share??

otachack commented on For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default heise.de/en/news/For-adve... · Posted by u/firebaze

jellykid · 2 years ago

When it comes to the internet... I'd prefer it to stay like the wild west. Least amount of regulation beyond something like net neutrality. People forget that the reason we have all of these "free" services is because of ads and that's coming from someone who hates ads. Every streaming subscription I have, I pay for the ad-free service. Let the people who don't know how to install a browser extension or change a few settings pay for these things for the rest of us.

otachack · 2 years ago

I have a feeling that is most people out there.

I observed a friend of mine click on a malicious ad link recently in front of me when driving a presentation for a community meeting. It was shown as an overlay for a seemingly harmless site I found. In my home with a pihole I didn't see any of the ads.

I felt terrible that I was partially responsible for her clicking it. This knowledge and habit of ad-blocking and secure computer usage takes factors of time, effort, and money to learn, and not everyone is going to, or is capable of, devoting what's needed.

otachack commented on Spot the Drowning Child (2015) spotthedrowningchild.com/... · Posted by u/EndXA

SpaceFarmer · 2 years ago

I have 4 young kids and really appreciate this video. My wife and I have tried to teach each of them to swim at an early age because drowning is SO SILENT! Once we were at a local park lake with my daughter who really young. She was in like 1-2 feet of water, and we were both within 5 feet of her watching as intently as possible. Suddenly a little girl playing next to her said something like "are you ok?" which made us look and see our daughter's face was underwater and she was drowning. The whole thing lasted like 10 seconds, but it was still really scary. I think we would have seen in time regardless, but the fact that we were trying to watch so closely and almost missed it was crazy.

You also have to be very careful when multiple kids are in the pool. Sometimes a kid who is a great swimmer can drown when another kid starts panicking and climbs on top of them to stay afloat.

otachack · 2 years ago

Second on the "good swimmer drowning" part. I once swam in a pool with a few cousins of mine. I was around 18 and just finished a life guarding course at school. One cousin was around 11 years old.

She was panicking next to me in the pool all of a sudden and climbed on top of me. She wasn't heavy but her human effort to grab and exert pressure to use me as a float to stay above water forced me under. It was hard to get back up for air, and very sudden to which I didn't have a ton of air to begin with.

I remembered training, which was to pull the victim down with you to short circuit their brain into letting go, and it worked. I was able to swim out from her area, surface, catch a breath, and go help her to the shallow end.

otachack commented on Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers securityweek.com/twilio-c... · Posted by u/mindracer

otachack · 2 years ago

As alternatives: I use Authenticator Pro on my phone and keep encrypted backups whenever I modify it. I know others have pointed out Aegis.

The issue is starting the migration out of Authy. Assuming Authy has no easy export, I suggest you migrate over a few entries at a time (maybe from top down) while keeping account of transfers somehow. You can have authenticators live side by side in the meantime!

otachack commented on People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/onemoresoop

DaSHacka · 2 years ago

Just wait until they find a way to do this and promptly bake ads right into it

otachack · 2 years ago

Check out the YA book "Feed", it tackles that issue.

otachack commented on OpenProject – open-source project management software openproject.org/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

otachack · 2 years ago

Enticing, I'm always open to trying new management tooling.

otachack commented on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later pewresearch.org/data-labs... · Posted by u/Kye

lagniappe · 2 years ago

I hope not all things last forever. A while back I stumbled upon my first .com, from the 90s, which was hosted on Angelfire and dutifully rehosted by archive.org and it went about how you'd imagine.

Despite being in 4th grade when my little friend and I made the webpage, things on there (while fine for the era) are just not okay by today's standards even if I understand the context for what led to it being there. It was nothing terrible, but just distasteful in a blissfully unaware way a 4th grader in the 90's would be. I realize that stuff will probably never be off my conscience and I just have to deal with it and hope nobody sees it.

otachack · 2 years ago

I have similar material. If it's reassuring, we all were just kids/teens and learning of the world. I feel a lot for the youth after us that made the Internet more accessible and, at times, more permanent.