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DeltaTangoLima

@ DeltaTangoLima @reddrefuge.com

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Just an Aussie tech guy - home automation, ESP gadgets, networking. Also love my camping and 4WDing.

Be a good motherfucker. Peace.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • Are you sure? I went looking after I upgraded and I still only have Assist; Scripts; Actions; and Open Page.

  • Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register

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  • Well, that’s probably because he’s hit the cap on base salary. After a certain point in Amazon, the majority of your income at Amazon is derived from shares.

    That said, after the signing shares are yours after the first 4-5 years, you’re down to the yearly grants they hand out, which come the year after they were granted, in quarterly amounts.

    Also, if your brother is high up, he probably got more shares this year than usual, as Amazon announced that only certain levels and below were getting salary increases. Higher up only got shares.

  • Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register

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  • God, that's bleak

  • Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register

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  • How are they retaining staff?

    They retain them for the 4-5 years it takes for signing cash and signing stock units to all run out, at which point many people start to get itchy feet.

  • Amazon CEO wants his staff back in the office full time • The Register

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  • Yeah - they call it URA, for "unregretted attrition". Tell me that doesn't sound like a shitty way to manage your people.

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  • You know, at some point, you gotta assume they'll eventually hire and fire/lose all the usable talent they have access to, and shit like this will prevent them finding new talent. Until some exec "invents" WFH as a perk...

  • People who pirated in the late 90s and early 00s what is the most dramatic change from then till now? And if you had the power what would you bring back?

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  • A lot less VCDs and MP3s downloaded from FTP servers and BBSes.

    Not sure if I’d bring it back, but I sure do miss the fun of playing Quake against my mates on public servers.

  • An artist says Nerf’s Destiny 2 hand cannon is a ripoff of their work

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  • Hoping someone more in the know can explain this to me. Could commissioning an art piece feasibly mean you've paid for that art to be yours? Are there types of contracts available when commissioning art pieces where, conceivably, the person commissioning the piece gets the rights to use it for other things?

    I'm not across the legal and ethical aspects of commissioning art pieces, and neither the article or the DA post gives any additional detail. Just wondering if the "Josh" who the artist named in their DeviantArt post be someone who was involved in the Nerf gun somehow...

  • What is the proudest you have ever been towards your significant other?

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  • No judgement here, and my wife has always said she never judges how anyone gives birth.

    Question was asked. I answered. That is all.

  • What is the proudest you have ever been towards your significant other?

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  • Watching her give birth to our daughter. No drugs. Just natural child birth (in a hospital).

    Years later, discussing childbirth with her (now) 20yo daughter (my step daughter), when asked why she did it that way for all three of her kids, she simply said it was something she wanted go go through, to feel connected to the experience of having her kids.

    Awe and pride don't even begin to explain what I felt (and still feel) for my wife.

  • Is there a place I can give review/rating to any random object or service?

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  • FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist

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  • Oh, sure. I get that. Sending yourself reminders is absolutely understandable. Sending yourself documented evidence of your plans to defraud someone is entirely different.

  • Entity control from iOS widget

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  • I use Shortcuts with NFC tags to automate some stuff with HA, and could probably achieve something on an entity by entity basis.

    My point is that we used to have the ability to put a widget on the screen with about 6 or 8 entities on it, for simple, single-click access. And now we don't. Seems silly to have taken it away from us.

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  • In a 2017 email to himself, Smith calculated that he could stream his songs 661,440 times daily, potentially earning $3,307.20 per day and up to $1.2 million annually.

    Great idea, but why would you email yourself about it?

  • TGx down?

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  • Isn't the picture from Logan?

    Edit: oh, it's called johntucker.jpg.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Later in the same comment I mention how I think social media only benefits the corporations that run it.

    It’s pretty clear what I meant.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • My own belief is that all social media is a cancer, and to be avoided entirely. I'm able to do that for myself, but I'm also realistic about the chances of keeping my kids away from it. So, I focus my energy on trying to equip them with the mental skills to neutralise the toxic aspects of social media.

    For my 9yo, that means teaching her to employ natural skepticism and critical thinking. I'm also trying to drum into her the understanding that social media is inherently untrustworthy and unreliable, and exists solely for the benefit of the corporations that run it.

    That said, I've blocked Tik Tok on my home network, much to the older kids' chagrin. They have to use mobile data if they want to access that shit on their phones.

  • Chromecast / Firestick Self Host Replacement

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  • The casting bit is the missing piece for me.

    I've built a RasPi with Kodi for our caravan, to use Plex and stream our free-to-air TV here in Australia (using Musk's space innernets). I just miss being able to cast from my phone, for the occasional thing I can't do with a Kodi add-on.

  • TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

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  • Shit like this is why I intend to keep my (currently) 9yo as far away from social media as I can, for as long as I can. This fucking terrifies me, as it should any parent.