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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • The company I work for had record earnings recently and there were high spirits, long praising newsletter from the CEO. Praise for maintaining a very stable production and higher output with fewer people than competitors.

    Until our closest competitors reported their earnings. Which were higher, not surprising as they are bigger than us. Then it was doom and gloom

    All of a sudden we had to have substantial budget cuts, and couldn’t rehire to fill a position for someone who had left.

    Crazy huh, earned a boatload of money, but someone else earned a bit more. So then we have to cut expenses and optimize.

    They still had the audacity recently to try to push the company “spirit and mindset” to employees. Something something buzzwords…

    They will still discard you as fast as yesteryears iPhone.









  • I’m stunned with how bad it was and why they hell they didn’t use the same strategy that made Windows popular… The apps.

    My work back then gave me a Windows Phone. Very few of the apps I had on my Android phone was available for my work phone.

    On top of that a lot of things simply didn’t work. One thing I still remember was that Alarm volume and Ring tone volume could not be adjusted individually.

    The whole thing felt like they wanted to reinvent the wheel and started from absolute scratch without learning from the innovation in the past decade of mobile phones.

    It’s sad, a third competitor in the smartphone space wouldn’t have been a bad thing.




  • It seems like they are going out of their way to remove good features. Like they removed the option to right click the taskbar and open task manager. They since added it back, but only because of user demand.

    They have removed quick access to disabling the network, seeing and changing ip settings.

    I can’t remember all the annoying issues, but there’s a lot.

    I hate that it has become a general thing to ruin user experience and possibilities of customization. Google is doing the same with android.





  • One of the techniques is called buffer overflow. Where you target a flaw in some software. Computers are logic, they will do EXACTLY what you tell them. Imagine if an image viewer uses an dll to process jpg. That dll expects a very specific header. If this is not handled correctly and a malicious attacker crafts the header to be slightly larger and the larger part contains executable code. This code spills over in the adjacent memory area. The OS then reads this as code to run… and boom you are in.

    This is oversimplified and proberly not explained correctly, but its something like that; and that kids, is why its important to update your OS and software.

    Sometimes they find bugs like this, that have existed for many years before being discovered.



  • Hell, I would even have accepted a subscription to be able to use Boost; and I hate subscription based services.

    They had opportunity to earn a lot of money and not alienate their users. With profit from 3party apps and companies using reddit for AI data. With realistic pricing.

    But Spez (Fuck u), acted like a spoiled vendictive little brat and burned everything down, because of his fragile ego.

    Just take a look at the mail and phone conversation, and subsequent lies about what was said; between Spez and the Apollo developer. To see I’m not making this up.