You only say that because you’re at the bottom.

/s (obviously)

You’re correct. We’re too busy and couldn’t possibly give any less of a shit what you’re up to.

The only time we care, at all, is if someone makes it our job to care. Usually management cracking down on some bullshit, looking for a reason to give someone the boot.

Unless management tells me that I’m supposed to care, I don’t.

Just please, for the love of all things digital, do not do anything illegal on work computers. I still don’t give a shit that you can or do, what I don’t want, is for you to get caught and I have to do a forensic investigation of your system. That’s a whole pain in my ass that I don’t need.

In general, do not do illegal stuff, but if you’re going to do anything illegal, think of your IT guy and do it on your own devices.

I don’t, but the windows SAM is laughable “protection” at best.

Working in IT, I see far too many of your passwords, and you suck at passwords.

With that being said, if you use Windows and your hard drive isn’t encrypted, it is ridiculously easy for me to break into your account, access all of your files and take full control of your computer… Provided I can get physical access to it.

Stop using the same passwords for everything. Do you want to get “hacked” because that’s how you get “hacked”. Disclaimer, this isn’t hacking, it’s social engineering attacks with extra steps. The people trying to exploit you and steal your accounts put little to no effort into getting your stuff specifically. You just happened to get caught in their net… Good luck, you’re fucked.

Probably should have had a backup, and used a password manager huh?

Also it’s ridiculously easy to lock yourself out of your own accounts by enabling 2FA/MFA. Most people have zero idea what is even involved in 2FA/MFA and the vast majority do everything in their power to turn it off. They would rather expose their account to the risk of it being taken over by some scammer, than be bothered to enter a six-digit code sometimes.

The reality is, as an admin, I can, with a fair amount of ease, monitor everything you do, when you do it and for how long you do it. The only reasons I don’t is that 1. I’m pretty sure there are laws about it (but you’d have to prove I did it to have those laws enforced… GL, YF.) 2. Morally it’s “wrong” to do so. And last but not least, I wouldn’t give a single shit about what you do with your computer, whether it’s a work machine, or personal system. Just don’t make it my problem and we’ll get along splendidly.

Also, the number of you people who use company laptops and cellphones for your personal correspondence and/or your only computer/phone is kinda ridiculous. Understand this: any company assets, and all the data held within, are wholly, immediately, irrevocably and perpetually, property of the company. So any texts, including sexts, dick pics, nudes, lude messages, personal banking info, emails sent to you personally,… All the data that is sent to, and stored on, the device that work provided to you, is property of the company.

Given that, and what I’ve seen when these devices are ripped from your hands when you inevitably leave the position, whether voluntarily or not, you all should be more ashamed of yourselves.

Y’all need Jesus or something. IDK, I don’t believe in the guy, but you need something to straighten you out. Holy fuck.

I generally do the same. It doesn’t have to be my work laptop, mind you, just a laptop. Usually my personal laptop.

As long as it’s in a reasonable walking distance from me, I’m good. Eg. If I go out for dinner, I’ll toss my bag in the car and I’ll leave it in the car unless I get a page.

Oh I believe Science when it says stuff like that.

I’m not saying I’ll do what they tell me to, but I believe them.

There’s a difference between engrossing yourself in another culture and being actively hostile to another person or culture.

The kind of people I’m talking about are those that get offended on behalf of a culture they’re not a part of, for someone simply participating in that cultures traditions.

They’re not out there actively mocking, attacking, or otherwise demeaning that culture, it’s traditions, or it’s people.

The difference is malicious intent.

Bullies have malicious intent in spades.

People wearing the garb of a culture they were not born into, do not.

This. The social Justice warriors that are peddling the cultural appropriation line are not representative of the culture or the people of that culture, their opinions, or feelings on the matter.

What we, as a society, need to do, is let cultures be offended when they feel offended, and not assume that they will be offended by something that we think they should be offended by.

Short version is: don’t be offended on behalf of someone else.

You don’t know them. You don’t know their culture. You don’t know what they see as offensive.

Stop assuming you do.

Ooh. Me, me, me… I am.

The government doesn’t work for you. You vote then in, sure, but they work for the lobbyists of large corporate interests.

Any policy you want will only pass if the corporations want it to, or they don’t believe it will make a substantive difference in their ability to exploit your labor for profit, and take from you every dime, nickel, and dollar they can. They’ll only keep you happy enough to not revolt, and beyond that, you’re entirely fucked from all angles.

It’s still a choice.

It’s just not a choice you made.

Yeah, pretty much all of us fit in that range.

I easily fit in more with millennials than my brothers do. My oldest brother acts a lot more like Gen x than the rest of us.

I’ve met some people that are that fucking stupid.

It’s incredible to me that they manage to put on pants and get to work on time each morning.

I’m near the start of the millennial generation, my older brothers are Gen x and more in-between than I am. There’s about 5-6 years between all of us and we represent two generations in varying degrees.

Ehh. They mostly rode the coattails of the boomers. I dunno if I can reasonably get angry at them for taking advantage of the opportunity that the boomers made for them to prosper.

It’s the boomers that own, and frequently still run the companies that are ruining the economy. That’s for fucking sure. Gen x just got a free ride.

Of all the people I know, the Gen x are the most likely to just be coasting through life because they were downright given all the opportunities and never really struggled for much.

They don’t need AI for this.

I recall that at least one website was having a transparent object follow the cursor around with a link to an ad in the invisible window. No matter where you clicked, ad.

Why waste all the electricity on trying to predict it, when you can get the same effect by simply snapping the ad link right to the cursor in a transparent window.

In marketing, this would be considered an awareness campaign. The problem is, that everyone knows.

IMO, this is akin to Google advertising that their search engine exists, it’s pretty good, and you should try it. Alternatively, it would be apple informing people that they make electronics like computers and cellphones… (Not a specific one, just… In general). Or Nike running ads to say that they make shoes.

Thanks, everyone knows that (household name) does (the thing it does), this is not helpful.

It will cancel out the cancer from smoking. /s