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Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min

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Post by ryandrake »

siren2026 wrote: post #376
ryandrake wrote: post #322

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Yep, I could probably retire already if it wasn't for the crippling cost of health insurance and healthcare in general (Thanks, USA).

Did you think about doing procedure abroad where they routinely cost 5% of the US cost?

The concern isn't really about the cost of one-off procedures (which ARE ridiculous and potentially financially bankrupting in the USA), but the low burn of everyday office visits and specialists. $50 office visit here, $250 specialist visit there, $1000 in blood tests there... Without any chronic health problems, my family's out of pocket $5-10K a year or so with insurance. Without insurance (or on a crappier plan), it'd be even worse.

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lukan wrote: post #303

No one mentioned Orwell so far? Well, in 1984 the protagonist learns after a while, that inner party members had the amazing perk of being able to turn off the mandatory surveillance screen for up to 30 minutes. But I guess in this case the workers still will be tracked by the usual Meta tracking that applies to everyone surfing the internet.

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Post by hawaiianbrah »

drdec wrote: post #374
patmcc wrote: post #354

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Why would you ever login to a sensitive account on a device you don't own and have root on? Like I trust my employer not to do anything shifty with my banking info, if I were to use it, but I'm not going to take that chance for a dozen reasons.

You probably use direct deposit in which case your employer already has your banking info

People often have accounts at multiple banks…

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Post by ryandrake »

shimman wrote: post #396
ryandrake wrote: post #305

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> I don't have to schedule my life around EMEA and APAC meetings outside of my normal hours. Oof, this one is a knife to the heart. One of the biggest drawbacks of BigTech (and many other industries) is the goddamn time zones and early / late meetings. It's subtle and creeps up on you. It starts out having to take an occasional late meeting to sync up with someone in India who isn't answering your E-mails... then it…

You realize as a worker you're allowed to demand better working conditions right?

Sure, I'll get right on that.

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Post by hawaiianbrah »

mns wrote: post #420
ryandrake wrote: post #292

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I've always, throughout a 25+ year career, kept personal business on personal devices and work business on work devices, and never cross the streams. Oddly, this is really controversial on HN, though! I've gotten so many weirdly angry responses when suggesting people try it, like it's a huge inconvenience to just bring a personal phone to work in order to do your banking and fuck around posting on HN. It's so much ea…

I also find this weird. Even though the companies I worked for didn’t have any crazy rules or restrictions (never had phone from work), but I never used my work laptop or computer for anything personal. I have friends doing their own side projects on theirs. Even though in the countries where I worked/work they have to let you know what they track if they track, I still remember one of my contracts that stated that a…

My last employer had a very generous moonlighting policy. You could absolutely use their hardware.

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Post by throwawa1 »

kennywinker wrote: post #306
throwawa1 wrote: post #98

If you are being tracked all day long, just create a lot of discovery for lawyers in the future: "Mark asked me to x", "Mark asked me to do y".

Requires a functional legal system, so it seems unlikely to come into play.

Fact.

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Post by BigTTYGothGF »

Part of me says that they have no grounds to be upset considering how much large scale surveillance and tracking they impose on their users and so many other people online. (The rest of me understands that this is bogus and that it's important to nip this in the bud now)

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Post by Tade0 »

dguest wrote: post #401
egorfine wrote: post #370

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> I've always, throughout a 25+ year career, kept personal business on personal devices and work business on work devices, and never cross the streams. Interestingly, I have a similar career and I have never ever split personal and work businesses on different notebooks/phones. On the other hand I would never even consider working with a company that monitors my screen or has insight into the computer I'm working on.

I'm the same. When people who maintain this separation travel for work, do they just bring both along? My laptop is often the heaviest thing in my bag, I'd hate to bring two. [late edit: I meant work travel]

Last time I travelled for work I brought only my work laptop.

But I do commute on bicycle with both in a bag clipped to a child seat. Combined weight of the devices is 4kg.

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Post by jessetemp »

staplung wrote: post #412

Reminds me of one of the more brilliant passages in Snow Crash , describing work in "Fed Land"... ''' Y.T's mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this m…

Makes me wonder what it’s like to identify with the villains in media. Zuck looking at the metaverse and thinking hey that’s a good idea! Or Thanos wasn’t so bad. Those rebel scum had it coming. Homelander is the good guy!
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