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An other week without a backend, an other week closer to the deadline... Less than 2 months to go (excl 2 weeks of PTO :D)2
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Fuck my life, it's storming and something in the building is resonating after each gust of wind. Constantly tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
fucking tinnitus simulator5 -
I've enrolled in a language class of a niche language. We had to do our first homework and there is a grandma that wrote her test via Gemini.
What is the purpose of paying for a language class if you don't do the effort to actually learn the language yourself lmao9 -
I hate the current "trend" where developers are adding onClickHandlers on buttons that pretty much only functions as links. The context menu & middle mouse clicking on the "link" does not longer work like expected. So annoying11
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Why does my company think that replacing a €500k/year product is doable in less than half a year with a team 2 and no product specifications except to "make a copy".3
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I wish that my previous company gets investigated. They probably got more violations if they are investigated. Here are a few examples:
The company is in the telecom business and they wanted to create AI summaries of their phone calls. So they used real private calls of their clients as test data without their knowledge & consent.
The CEO also made fun of someone handwritten CV on LinkedIn. Sure, he blurred out the obvious data but shit like certificates, past history & rough location was still present. It was not be hard to find who it was.
The 2FA of some IT services was still on the ex-CTOs private phone (now he is a consultant 1x a week)
One of their engineers moved back to Russia and has access to sensitive data. (aka call recording of insurances, banking, fire departments, ...)
Offering users to write a public review of the company for a discount if the review is positive. The "paid review" is not mentioned.
The reviews of their new feature are done by 'external' people but they all benefit from the companies success. The review is written from their own company but it was written by the external design company (CEOs wife under her own company), marketing consultant (under his own company).
They did fire an employee illegally (as in did not follow the legal procedures, the new COO thought she was a consultant, she was in fact not so she had more protections)
They did fire an employee for untrue reasons and waiting till he was on holiday & abroad (dick move but legal I think)
They did spy through the security cameras and made up a reason to fire someone. Company offered free soda during that time, employee did not like the offered soda and filled it with a diet-variant on their own dime. He then took his own bought diet-soda back home (not all) and got fired for stealing. (or idk, it might have been ice tea or fanta)
They did not report that an employee sold company data but he was let go.
They run cookies on their website but has no clause for cookie-consent.
Their features that they are promoting & selling is not working like expected
They lie about their server uptime or heavily manipulate it.
They sell a feature that is no longer supported and broke a few updates ago.
They are offering a product as a fix that is simply not longer supported by the development team
They have fired consultants and then refuse to pay their last month salary or only pays it partially. Happened as far as i know, 4 times (no proof).
Everyone had access to the full password vault including the login credentials for business routers and the credit card info of the CEO, CFO, CTO. It took me multiple times to report it to the IT admin for mine to be restricted.
Every new dev has access to production data within a few weeks or direct database access
Any person who has access to the admin-portal can spoof phonenumbers in a few clicks.
A colleague is blacklisted at the police portal for past crimes where they have to fulfil police orders. He did them pretending to be a different employee who was approved. Also, they do not keep track of the data needed to fill in the yearly report (idk why the company has to them but the police does not do it).
They forgot to implement a warning (legally needed) before someone hits their data limit. those people cannot be billed. Someone was watching 4k movies in Signapore and costed the company tens of thousands of Euro.
If I think of more, I'll add it comments lol11 -
After 3 months after leaving my previous company, I'm still getting SMS because someone included my telephone number in their automated test flow.8
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It's still so amusing to me the amount of projects that are posted on /r/react, /r/angular or /r/sideprojects that are blatantly AI written and others that have their LLM API key exposed.12
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I got a new job a few months ago and carried over my PTO from previous job. I still have 16 days of PTO to be taken by the end of the year. The projects deadline is also the end of the year. With the current development progress, I don't see it anywhere being close to possible. There is also no agreed expectations what the project should do.
And yet, the deadline cannot be pushed back and there is no one else at this company that can do my job at this point. We have 2 people who can learn how to do it but they have no experience in this programming language.5 -
My previous company that I ranted too much over recently released their AI product. They advertised it on their website with 3 testimonies; The CEO praising the product, The CEOs wife praising the AI suggestion and their freelance marketing guy praising it also.
This new feature/product is also advertised with an outdated screenshot of our product (it was redesigned twice by now) and the other screenshot is of a scrapped feature. At least they had 1 correct screenshot that was used twice in that webpage
Also, they forgot to attach the license billing to this new feature and lost 1.5months of revenue because of this :D7 -
My boss (senior dev) promised that I would have the first iteration of the API on Tuesday at the latest. It's Thursday and it seems it will be for next week again.
Oh yeah, the API for the other project that was promised 2 weeks ago is not yet finished. This project will be a mess :D2 -
Just checked the source code of our backend project with that tight deadline. So far, the backend consists of an in-memory database, 2 records and no API. 🙃
There is also no documentation on how it should look like 🤡14 -
I left my previous company because the projects & expectations were constantly changing. Now this company, nobody has talked to both parties to manage the expectations of our product. I also have no idea what the expectations are even.
I mentioned it in the last meeting and some actions have been taken. They cancelled the meeting between the dev team & users (colleagues). One step back and 0 steps forward (:4 -
I've just received the must-have features for my project that should be delivered till the end of this year. 28 features... :')
I hope they are happy with 10 features lol7 -
I have to rebuild a full application till the end of the year without ever using the original application and without a technical document while keeping the users happy.
2 people team compared to a multinational team over 10 years :')
How are you supposed to do that!?7 -
Started a new job a month ago and my ex-colleague asked yesterday if we are recruiting. I wonder how it is going at my old job 😅7
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I got so many concerns/questions about the EU chat control and the future. Sorry for my long rant lol:
1) What about projects that are on life support and no active development?
2) What about chat application in video games or the chat service on the website of a local shop
3) What about false flags? Like that parent who got into legal trouble for sharing a picture of his kid with a doctor to get a medical opinion on some skin condition. (might misremember the details)
4) What about false flags like instagram banning accounts and forwarding it to the police department and over-exhausting the resources of the police (accidental 'DDOS' of their personel)
5) What if the content shared in country A is legally OK but not in country B. What if you then travel there? Or if your participant is from that country B.
6) What about content that is taboo but should be OK to discussed? Like puberty or hormonal discussions online? Some subreddits like "stopsmoking" is now also regional banned by Reddit in the UK to avoid any unneeded risks. That is bad. YouTube had some problem where adult content existed on their platform but labeled as educational.
7) What if you encrypt messages before sending it. Will you be banned just in case? What if you need support with an app and you send an encrypted application crash log that came from your computer, will you now be banned just in case?
8) What if you like privacy and have those apps for innocent purposes. Is having those apps now illegal
9) What if criminals use apps from Asia or Africa or somewhere where this law is not present/enforced. Or what if they create a simple app with this encryption. It is not difficult to make one.
10) Before 2001, airport security was very lax but then 9/11 happened and the security increased. It never went back to the state before. Since they have or will have this check, what will them stop it from expanding it after the next disaster of an unrelated accident (like terrorist attack).
11) What if those services miss a case? Will the company that allows this to be send now have legal trouble?
12) What if users are using metaphors or practice self-censorship to avoid flagged words? We see it with monetization in social media (like murder or killing is replaced with "unaliving")
13) It will be just an other problem to start a new company with limited budget. So start-ups will just have a bit harder time to break into the market.
14) this might just push users away from mainstream options
15) it's just an other attack vector for hackers to use
16) Do we want to have private companies be able to scan our messages because they are contracted by the government? They can have their own bias to satisfy their shareholders. What if they are invested by the Big Oil so critic towards the Big Oil is altered? How certain can you be this won't happen now or in the future. Reddit Admin did that before so who knows at this point.
17) Anonymity will disappear.
18) Different companies verify users and store this data so this seems like a major cyberrisk and identity theft waiting to happen
19) fragmentation of users. it is now annoying that some family or friends don't use whatsapp but use telegram and the other way around. You might need +5 chat application to keep contact and lose social relationships.
20) Is AI detected messages even legal proof in court?
21) What if you talk about video games and flag the AI system this way? Or use abbreviation from a niche community that also overlaps with flagged words (like checkpoint being abbreviated as CP) or just the language with poor support or use a 'dialect' in your chat that trips up the software.
22) What if your phone is stolen and they send those messages in your name or this is done remotely.
23) What if you are sharing old family pictures and there is 1 and only 1 odd picture that just barely trips up the system.
24) Games like 'Beyond human' also has gameplay that hurts a fictional child which fits the storyline and acts as shock value. Will this be banned
25) The newer population will see this as normal so what will they find acceptable if they can now vote7 -
My phone broke a few months ago and when I went to a local retailer. All their phone specification and the price were locked behind a QR-code. You could not make an educated purchase lol
Who was the idiot that thought this was a good idea.4 -
For the people who work in the office, is there some music in the office or is the majority wearing a headset?5
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What is your recommended hosting platform?
I'm making a website+backend (react, c# + small sql db + discordjs bot) for a friends gaming community and would like to host it "soon".11 -
I started a new job a few weeks ago as a frontend developer. I have to create a new app to replace an old outdated process (no problem). The person who is doing the back-end development seems to be swamped in work & meetings. The new front-end is already blocked by the lack of progress of the back-end API development.
I'm a bit concerned about my tasks lol3 -
My boss published someones resume online to make fun of it because it was handwritten. He at least blurred out that persons name but not the past jobs & other info...
It took me 30 minutes on linkedin to find the person that I believe it is.
Isn't this a GDPR violation lol5 -
We had a teambuilding last Friday. We went indoor karting and it was a lot of fun. My project manager does not have a driving license and it did show.
The karts have a boost button (electric karts) and my project manager used it before a turn and then slammed into wall. Now he got a few bruised ribs haha
Also, it's still funny to me that I was part of the teambuilding during my resignation but i'm not gonna complain about that. :D5