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Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
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How did you lose the account? Was there a reason from Google?
I feel no reason short of a mandate from a judge is so good to allow Google ( edit : or any other tech company, really) to completely lock someone out of their personal data. Give them a takeout link and send them on their way, at least.
>I feel no reason short of a mandate from a judge is so good to allow Google (edit: or any other tech company, really) to completely lock someone out of their personal data.
Yes. It's a travesty. And those who work at those tech companies should be ashamed to be associated with such behavior.
That said, if your data isn't hosted (even if just as a backup) on your hardware, it isn't your data.
If someone else is hosting your data then it doesn't belong to you, unless you have a strong copyright claim, and the money to pay lawyers to litigate such a claim.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#193How is the Signal thing related? There seems to be an indication that getting banned on LinkedIn will prevent you from signing up to Signal. I don't think it was intended to be read as such but language is really weird:
> But tried to install Signal couple of days later from App store. And you guess the rest.
No, no I did not guess that getting banned on LinkedIn would prevent you from signing in to Signal.
I can see Microsoft using some system across their sites, which would affect your Github account, if you're blocked or banned on LinkedIn. It would be a pretty excessive, but I can imagine such a system. As to how Signal is involved I have no idea.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#194Earlier quoted context omitted.
> look for a job > it’s really good It definitely is not. It probably has the most job listings for most markets, but the experience of looking for a job on LinkedIn is appalling. They recently killed the resume builder, which makes me think that job searching/hiring is a side feature of LinkedIn.
That probably says more about the market you’re in, or you as a candidate. Every time I’ve looked for a job on LinkedIn I’ve found one almost immediately, and the recruiters I know who most reliably have something for me I all met via LinkedIn.
The only reason LinkedIn works as a job search site is because of the number of users they have. They do almost nothing to be a job search site. It's just another social network with a 'jobs' category for posts.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
That probably says more about the market you’re in, or you as a candidate. Every time I’ve looked for a job on LinkedIn I’ve found one almost immediately, and the recruiters I know who most reliably have something for me I all met via LinkedIn.
The only reason LinkedIn works as a job search site is because of the number of users they have. They do almost nothing to be a job search site. It's just another social network with a 'jobs' category for posts.
The number of users they have is _the_ reason they’re generally better than the competition. It’s a social networking site dedicated to finding jobs/employees for people. It has slightly better features then a lot of other job listing sites, but the main reason it’s better than the other ones (outside of certain niches), is that it has more job seekers and more job posters on it.
Other sites will typically just have less jobs posted, less users, and marginally worse features. If you can’t find a job on LinkedIn, going to a slightly worse version of the same thing probably won’t be the change you’re looking for.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Poverty, illness and starvation are the default state of mankind A most wretched lie. Systems of entrenched inequality and widespread poverty mostly emerged after agriculture and centralized state systems, not during early human history. That lie serves to shift the blame for people's struggles away from oligarchs and owners and onto their victims. Do you own a company perchance? ... What do your down-stream labour…
Look I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly. Maybe we could work less and keep the standard of living the same. Or maybe we could work the same but live in a much better standard.
> I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly.
Most company owners are, especially those that involve manufacturing in countries with low wages. What do they do about that though? Do they pay lip service, or do they pay better wages?
Do they go around blaming the poor for not working, or do they put their focus on the systems designed to extract the value of their work?
You've made your position clear, and it's based on some very false ideas about the 'default' state of humanity. I addressed these ideas but you ignored that.
> Maybe we could work less and keep the standard of living the same.
Yes, we could. No 'maybe' about it.
The reason we don't is the dedicated effort of people who like the status quo as it is, and the people they employ across politics, the military and media to keep the situation as inequitable, extractive, and exploitative as possible.
> maybe we could work the same but live in a much better standard.
We could. But again, we don't, and for the exact same reason as above.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#197LinkedIN is not the platform for DMs really. Thank god there are more suitable platforms.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I won't disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn't the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who "network" for networking's sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you're bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that's entirely networking-focused.
If linkedIn stuck to showing you posts from people you're connected to, it wouldn't be so bad. But when half your feed is engagement bait or "inspirational" posts fed by algorithm under a "Suggested posts" banned, then it gets worse.
uBlock can hide content under a common heading. If this case isn't already in one of the social media annoyance lists that can be enabled in the options, you can try making a filter using has-text:
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...
Doesn't need to be written by hand, right click -> 'Block element' then edit and use the preview button to test.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
Look I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly. Maybe we could work less and keep the standard of living the same. Or maybe we could work the same but live in a much better standard.
> I’m very aware that the spoils of work sometimes get distributed unfairly. Most company owners are, especially those that involve manufacturing in countries with low wages. What do they do about that though? Do they pay lip service, or do they pay better wages? Do they go around blaming the poor for not working, or do they put their focus on the systems designed to extract the value of their work? You've made your…
That ad hominem got under my skin admittedly.
I’m a company owner only in the most technical sense.
I still have to earn money by going to my day job 9-5. And while some parts come from China, I still assemble my epaper displays myself, on the desk where I work from home during the day.
So I know what it means to have to go to work. And I also know that work can be positive sum and make all sides of the transaction better off.
And again, I’ve never said that the world is FAIR or that I think it should stay unfair. I’m angry every day about how unfair it is!
I’ve just said that work is still a necessary part of this world.
Re: LinkedIn blocked due Meshtastic video in private chat
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What else can they do? Check out from life? Or bankrupt themselves on principle? Honestly, fuck on-line platforms and their arbitrary bans. In meatspace, you can't be just banned from a store, or a store chain, not without a criminal record at least. Sure, user accounts are governed by vendors' ToS, and any store can ban you from their loyalty card program for any reason, but off-line, those are all incidentals not r…
I'd get this sentiment if it was some super critical piece of living a fulfilling life, but amazon is a junk store which makes the whole situation absurd to begin with
There are only so many places you can order stuff on-line locally, to save on non-food products more expensive or downright unavailable locally. Interfacing with individual vendor and their bespoke system for each purchase gets cognitively exhausting quickly - a major reason why people prefer those large marketplaces. And then, it's not just Amazon. Adopting such policies is becoming a trend parallel to centralization. Amazon alone may not be "super critical piece of living a fulfilling life", but getting banned by it and a few more large companies (Google, in particular), and you may lose some critical things (at least critical in immediate term).