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No Microslop for me (media.piefed.social)
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[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

That's the part I get, but what does having the corporate spyware running 24/7 accomplish? What kind of telemetry would they even get out of that other than ip/location, which isn't all that interesting.

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I have no idea. I didn't even trust it on my main home network. Connected it to my guest network so it couldn't scan my home network. Which it tried to do, if course.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It can check if people are typing or using the mouse.

It's also possible to use the camera of a notebook to track if a person is present and looking at the screen or not.

Any company using that shit is the kind that uses "bums of seats" rather than actual deliverables as a measure of performance, which means they're also the kind of place were unpaid overtime is the norm and, if in dev, things like projects often ending up in a death march stage - such places are stupidly inneficient and badly managed with a disfunctional work culture.

Avoid such companies like the plague - you'll be luck if the worst that happens is insane work hours.

this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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