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Benevolent dictator Zuck will give Meta staff 30-minute breaks from keylogging privacy assault (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 110 points 5 months ago (10 children)

I hope all these employees are actively looking for other jobs. Stop wasting your talents at Meta.

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  • [–] 61 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    Problem is most are handcuffed to meta due to visa restrictions from what my friends have said that work there. I would say they would be better off leaving at this point but they built lives here and have families here.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    If you ever are stuck at an employer, never let them know this (assuming they don't already know). I'd keep your mouth shut around coworkers too, in case someone likes to run their mouth.

    Buying a house or reproducing can be a quick way to chain yourself down.

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  • [–] 54 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    The employers do know this as they have to sponsor these people to allow them to come here with H1B Visas. All the tech companies do this.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Buying a house I'd argue is freeing. Yes you can't move next year, but in about 5 or so you'll have equity (baring any major market downturns) and can always sell. These days a lot of lenders will even allow you to pause payments and take it out of the sale proceeds.

    Better than dumping cash into nothingness.

    Plus if you absolutely have to due to lack of equity you can rent it out for a time before selling or maybe even moving back.

    Owning a home is less flexible, but still the better move financially

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You're not wrong (generally speaking, specifically speaking I use the NYT rent vs. ownership calculator to see if it's worth buying or investing in the sp500)

    But the problem here is entirely the lack of flexibility. Once an employer knows you are less flexible than the guy in the next cube, you're picking up the slack of the guy that can up and move his ass to the next town over in a week.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Yeah, buying a home is very much a double-edged sword. It can go well but it can also become an anchor.

    One thing people don't seem to properly account for (or at least I don't see it talked about much) on the rent vs buy is costs of commuting and opportunity costs related to one's career. Often the best way to get a raise is to change jobs.

    Of course there's also more to decision than just financial. It's as much a lifestyle choice as anything else.

    Buying may also be less appealing if you are by yourself or just a couple and don't want or need a whole-ass house. The math on buying a condo often isn't all that appealing compared to renting an apartment.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I'll do this 6 more months for the pay, then I'm bailing.

    9 months later...

    The market is rough, I'll hold off another 3.

    5 months later...

    It hasn't been terrible, nothing Ive typed has gotten me in trouble, I'll hold out woth good pay for a not more.

    ...

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    • [–] 24 points 5 months ago

    Itsatrap.gif

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    [–] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    "Benevolent dictator for life" is a common, funny title for an important, founding person in a certain tech company. It is not supposed to be taken literally

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    • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That’s not what benevolent means.

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    • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    pretty sure you can set up a virtual keyboard. just spam the virtual keyboard with garbage and direct the output to null. then you can just keep using your own keyboard.

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    • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Don't believe it.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    Yes. Zuckerberg is at the helm of a company that got caught shipping illegal bonus spyware to track all three people who block their massive amount of tracking through regular somehow legal spyware.

    Anything that fool (Zuckerberg) says about privacy should be treated as a lie until proven otherwise with detailed forensic evidence. And then once proven, we should all go over the forensic evidence again to figure out how he fooled the forensics.

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