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jormungandrthepython t1_j9ykeie wrote

Reply to comment by freediverx01 in Google asks workers to share desks amid mass layoffs by ravik_reddit_007

Listen to the Costco CEO talk sometimes. He constantly talks about ignoring the board when they tell him to make decisions for short term shareholder gain but long term brand/production damage.

Won’t increase the price of the hotdog or rotisserie chickens (incredible loss leaders), refuses to remove the tuition assistant programs and additional employee benefits, refused to change PTO and holiday pay.

We will see the coming days of brand deterioration. As a SWE it’s already a nightmare looking at company code where companies haven’t prioritized long term value.

My manager and I (I am a tech lead) are currently working on a huge project which will have massive benefits to our company and allow us to respond to management change requests and client needs so much faster. But we can’t tell anyone about it because the second we say we are working on it they will say “don’t focus on that, do these other 10 features because you clearly have time”. When if they give us 3 months to finish this, I could have the 10 features done in a week. Doing them now would take me 6 months…

I’m getting director buy in on some other work as well and seeing him stand up to execs is incredible “we aren’t doing that. Fire me if you want, but that’s a bad move and going to result in a crappy product and half our devs leaving”. Gives me goosebumps, but should be common place. Managers, bosses, CEOs, they are supposed to stand up to the wishy washy desires of the boards and the shareholders for the benefit of the long term success of the company. Not give in to crappy ideas because it looks good on their quarterly bonus.

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JustHanginInThere t1_j9yk8d2 wrote

Reply to Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098

The computer that I put together in 2020 with almost top of the line components somehow didn't meet the requirements for Win 11. At some point, an update was installed and magically it was good to upgrade to Win 11. I still haven't upgraded, and likely won't for a long while, but I found that to be very odd from the start.

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Smith6612 t1_j9yigfe wrote

Reply to comment by Western-Image7125 in Google asks workers to share desks amid mass layoffs by ravik_reddit_007

The issue is with the way the program is handled on the computer side. For example if you have tattleware installed for malicious purposes, a keylogger, or something else of the sort, your SSH session may be secure going over the pipe, but information is being lifted from the computer through screen reading or keylogging, or clipboard reading. Just to give an example. SSH is also capable of a lot more than command line access - it allows networked file system access at a host to host level. Socket tunneling (you can use it as a TCP/IP proxy). It allows for remote execution of GUI programs through techniques like X11 forwarding. It also allows SSH proxying and bastion hopping as part of a connection sequence. All of this can allow for information to be copied and sent off to places it shouldn't be, and provide a hidden conduit to the corporate network. I've also seen malware on home systems used for ad injection which configures a SOCKS proxy on the system, installs a root certificate and other high trust files, and perform man in the middle interception of all traffic, including SSH. Unless the computer has a host fingerprint bundle being seeded and managed (which a corporate MDM could do), most people will blindly accept the malicious connection set by the malware's proxy, and now your SSH session is being intercepted.

What companies do to protect against both is use a program like Citrix, where you can see and use applications running on a remote system from any computer, but the software employs protections like the same DRM used to protect streaming video from screen recording and snooping by software. The software can be configured to prevent copy and paste clipboard data from crossing beyond Citrix. It can be configured to allow or deny access to certain file system resources or to prevent interactions with the program from devices which aren't directly attached. Lots of things, but companies find Citrix to be slow or rather high maintenance compared to issuing a laptop. For example, video meetings through Citrix would be a painful experience, and the video calling system might be guarded as a corporate secured resource, so the laptop ends up being a better solution. Software development, you can probably forget about that on Citrix because of how locked down the environment tends to be.

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paleo_joe t1_j9yida6 wrote

Reply to The Bill C-18 Reality: Everyone Loses When the Government Mandates Payments for Links by The1stCitizenOfTheIn

The arrogance of many e-companies is astounding. Basically, “we write code so we’re above the law.”

We’ve seen financial barons running amuck before, in the industrial revolution. No one wins except the bankers and capitalists, but poor people love to think that maybe they too can be unimaginably wealthy.

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b_a_t_m_4_n t1_j9yi8uo wrote

Reply to comment by Odysseyan in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098

Exactly my point. Windows users don't complain about Windows much because it's basically like it or lump it. Don't Like it? Buy a MAC.

Like they don't complain about the UI that comes with their TV. You get what you get, learn to live with it, buy a different make next time.

The average Windows user has never even heard of Linux and would have no idea how to install any OS, including Windows.

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