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Chair, proper mount/shelf for monitor height, keyboard, mouse, plants, fidgety things, lighting, speakers . Just a little list of things that helped for me. Microphone setup is nice too but i didnt get many complaints and ran out of my budget.

I hope they turn this into a more agnostic data residency and privacy bill. I dont see much merit in targeting just tiktok or even just social media companies.

Please do. I have no issues going to a more news specific platform

Same for me with this article. I thought it was me and maybe my hearing was just bad from all those years of concerts. I live in an apartment that does not have super thick walls so my choices are (a) subtitles or (b) be a bad neighbor and blast the volume or this article seems to suggest that adding more channels would help understand while still keeping the volume low?

I am not 100% sure but I believe in the US, only California has an official data compliance law (CCPA). GDPR applies to some degree as well but I suspect that many businesses will only make a best effort until decent fines are handed out.

Additionally, data brokers and data clean rooms now allow you to share data making it easier as well. Snowflake, liveramp, etc all offer super easy (and privacy compliant according to them) ways of implementing this.

Fingerprinting and tracking links are common for unindentified users. Cross domain cookies are harder to fo outside of chrome. For known users, you can sync data to Facebook with email addresses, names, phone numbers etc. This is likely why you see most websites these days trying to collect that info from you as early as possible.

Also note that they allow for server side data as well so companies can send via backends and circumvent any ad blockers. Good companies do respect a users preferences but not all do.

I feel housing is slowly inching towards this hellish future too. More corporations buying homes and general unaffordability will lead to mostly renters.

My 2 cents (although a bit of a salty take): In my last 3 roles, rewards like promotions go to those who create their own personal brand and win the popularity contest. While sometimes that correlates with actual productivity but often does not. So often I see folks do the bare minimum in these work cultures which seem to be getting more prevalent.

if you join via a link, it routes through their website but it seems to work fine via the app.

If this was similar to my similar reaction when using them, they make you switch to an enterprise plan after you exceed 10K monthly users.

Agree with your complexity vs effort graphs but that is exactly where no-code tools have worked well for me. Example: Our CRM has a very complex data model and Salesforce UI is hard to use. With a no code tool, I can wire up a simple UI and use their connector to populate the fields and allow folks to make changes in a much simpler / somewhat automated way. This saves us a few hours per week and it took me 3-5 hours to build. I don't really need VCS, code reviews etc. here. If I ever had a bunch of related use cases like this, I would then want to invest in a yes-code solution to solve the combined set of use cases.

Sorry to hear you are going through a hard time. I had something similar some years. I was lucky that I could take a couple months off work but sounds like you cannot. Just sharing my experience here but definitely if/when you are able, seek professional advice.

This was what I did for a few months and help me get out of the burnout stage. 1. Ruthless priorities and expectation setting in life. I cut down to 1-2 friends that I would hang out once a week with max. I let my family know that I would be MIA for a bit. Even when I went back to work, I asked for super specific goals from my manager. I expected that I would not achieve anything major in this time period. 2. No alcohol for a while 3. I took sleeping aids to ensure I slept at the same time and woke up at the same time 4. I focused on just a small amount of meditation and low intensity exercise like walks 5. I decided on 1 guilty pleasure that I was allowed to do a couple times a week. For me, it was eating super unhealthy delicious food.

Makes sense. Although for me, it means never apply for work there. I would hate to be part of a “if you disagree, leave” culture.

Is it just me or every crypto company about to do a layoff is doing this? Is it just to weed out some folks so the layoff looks smaller?

Free feel to! shaurav.garg at segment

Congrats! Love the idea of pre-built templates and leveraging exists data pipelines via Segment and the onboarding was smooth! I actually work at Segment and would love to share a couple things that might make it easier to understand the reports for Segment customers. Let me know if that will be helpful and can send them over.

I am not suggesting that you cannot act against someone's "wrong" belief. If I was significantly against this message posted by node.js, I have the choice to not use node.js anymore.

Any person or organization can choose to make a political statement. Why not node.js?

In this case, I happen to agree with their statement and you don't. But, even if the opposite were true, I would still support the right for anyone to publicize their political beliefs.

I totally agree. Choosing to focus on a subset of the problem first does not discredit the whole problem. I would have thought tech workers would understand this better than the rest.

I work in the martech space and surprisingly adblocker usage is still not that high from what I can gather (I am pretty new). I dont necessarily think of ads as evil but since it is the way we are paying for this service, its a good way for us to use it as leverage to see desired changes in the platform.

For me personally, its not just about Trump. I have lots of friends who share critical news without a source. I always encourage them to but of course who listens these days. So for me, even a short warning message on such posts could go a long way.

Going to repost this here too: How many of FB users would need to have adblockers and commit to never clicking on an ad in facebook to cause a big enough dip in revenue in Q2 (ends this month)? Especially given already depressed levels of online advertising spend. I don't mean this in a "lets take down FB" way but more of a "how can we force Zuckerberg to have more discussion/thought on this and brush it away?".

I would love to see some type of fact check warning be implemented for FB but not necessarily censorship.

Given that its closer to end of quarter, I would think erasing even a couple percentage points off the top line revenue is "big enough". I don't know enough about FB financials however to know. Hoping some FB employees chime in...

How many of FB users would need to have adblockers and commit to never clicking on an ad in facebook to cause a big enough dip in revenue in Q2 (ends this month)? Especially given already depressed levels of online advertising spend. I don't mean this in a "lets take down FB" way but more of a "how can we force Zuckerberg to have more discussion/thought on this and brush it away?".

My personal opinion is that FB should at least add some sort of fact check warning but definitely not censor content.

Exactly! Why would a company do these adjustments when its easy enough to game? Or will there be other checks to keep people honest?

Or, with the additional state taxes (pay in CA and pay where you actually live) not anyways worth the drop in salary?

I have personally grown disillusioned from current politics and journalism precisely for this. Nearly every article/quote/discussion is around picking flaws of what someone has suggested as a grand solution for a previously unsolved grand problem. I would love to see the thought process behind designing software to get applied to larger problems (crises), something like:

1) Agree upon the top problem(s) we are going to solve 2) Lets discuss solutions 3) Lets pick 1-2 top solutions and agree upon the most massive risks with each 4) Lets find the best balance/path to implement the solution and mitigate risks 5) Iterate

Of course the risks around something huge like nuclear power are not to trifle with but a framework like this, in my opinion, could really help align our society and politics to solve these crises.

I always have the same questions now when I hear this policy: (1) Do they intend to adjust compensation based on where you work from? (2) Do they expect employees (squares) to show up to an office every quarter/year/etc.?

I feel DevOps is similar to Agile. It defines a set of principles from which an organization can derive and implement practices that are most appropriate for them. Once enough organizations implement such practices, it leads to some industry wide best practices and some organization specific practices and that is totally fine in my opinion.