I think everyone is living this. You‘re not fucked because you live this but you have the brains to be aware of it.

Please don’t kill me but does anyone else find this story missing some steps?

Like if vpns are actually legal (which they should be imo) and he has not done anything wrong why dont we get the legal reason for this confiscation?

I can understand that china is brutal but they will definitely veil their anti information countermeasures a bit better than „you used vpn! That is illegal! Pay all your income! Although vpns are legal here!“

It does read weird.

What eludes me is that literally nobody except hp, xerox, canon, brother, dell, epson, kyocera, lenovo, lexmark seems to be making decent printers.

I know that the printer business is rough for sales people for some reason (the guy who I learned sales from 18 yrs ago was a printer salesman before becoming a coach). But what I don’t get is that there does not seem to be good money to make for small companies as they are not gaining on the big ones.

Is everything locked by patents or what is the deal here?

Boring dystopia any% speedrun

In my short time in an actual tech company, I was baffled at the amount of cockiness. It was a startup though.

I was easily the most senior person outside of management, yet others got positions in management from the start. I did have management experience and significant success but I lack the ability to sell it.

When I complained that this isn’t what I signed up for, they pretty much told me to suck it up.

I‘m rather exceptional at what I do, yet my neural configuration makes me unable to play social games so I decided to not go on and play them. Currently helping my wife in her small company.

I agree. Competitive games and code injection don’t mix but for those that are not competitive (i.e. minecraft), code injection is important.

I‘m always the guy on the right. As a gifted, autisic person, I have a special view on things. I usually get the boot after 18 months because the boss or some other person in power doesn’t like me optimizing stuff. „We are not used to change our ways.“ was one sentence I often heard when being let go.

18% reduction (max) for learning a different language than html? Hard pass.

Especially with css you can give most of those small web design studios (and most wordpress plugins) a run for their money.

I think it’s unnecessary to learn some obscure „alt-sub-language“ if the improvement is so little.

I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)

Correct. We would not even be here if corporations could be trusted. Everyone needs to get this somehow. Federation (open source project development is kind of federated as well) is the key. Actually, we‘re having the same oppressive authoritarianism that gave birth to federated states. Looks like a pattern.

You hit the nail on the head. We really need more ethics and less laws in our lives (or the laws must be more ethical).

It is absolutely understandable to me that the article is wary of new regulations and laws but in this case I‘m in hard opposition.

According to the article „companies should be more transparent but a law is not the way to do it.“ (not verbatim)

Also, it claims that people would be rightfully outraged if fox news (or any other major TV station) would have to give up editorial secrets due to oversight, but social media companies should.

All leading media should have government oversight as it is responsible for all major „opinions“ by shaping what they show and what they don’t.

People like the author need to understand that if there is no law in a highly volatile/competitive field, then it becomes the wild west or „survival of the fittest“ which in this case means which company has more money.

Although it is critical that we stay vigilant, focusing on „keeping the government from controlling megacorps“ is not the way.

These megacorporations (which includes buffet media afaik) are essentially states in terms of wealth, ownership, complexity and influence. We can not allow states to exist in countries that are not bound by the same laws as other government entities.

Therefore I think (albeit the formation of new committees that bothers me a bit) that more control over megacorps is inherently good and should be boosted.