Tera Computer Company Puns

The title says all, I know that I can run them (already done it), but what I wanted to know is if it affects their performances. If it does, I would have used the non boot ssd only to store data.

Thank you in advance !

As the title says, there was a post recently in the gaming subreddit that was claiming that NFTs will ruin computer gaming further just like microtransactions did.

However, I disagree with that statement. If NFTs were in DnD they would be a lawful neutral force, they are not good or evil they are just a tool and being a transparent and open tool it makes them more easy to keep track of.

If anything NFTs should provide more consumer protection for digital game downloads than the present model of Microsoft being all like "trust me bra, we got this" until one day they just remove the game from the store and leave no public evidence that you ever owned it.

However, I also 100% guarantee that game companies are going to use this to further monetise the market for pointless crap cosmetics and strip even more out of a game to sell back to the player later.

But people shouldn't hate the technology, that's like hating the internet because game companies use the internet to download microtransactions, it really makes no sense. Hate the companies and hate the people buying their garbage.

I work for a medium to large size SaaS company and I work on a Macbook Air that they gave me. Currently have it set up on a stand connected to a second monitor + wireless keyboard and mouse.

I for one find the Macbook Air grossly under powered. Working through Salesforce can be a real pain when I have just a few things open (slack, email, outreach).

What does your work supply you with, and is it enough for your day to day?

—and no, they have no plans of providing us with a work computer at the company’s expense. Yes, I know this would be a huge violation of privacy. I’ve expressed those thoughts (and more) when they conducted a survey on what employees thought about this new development but fuck all if they actually bothered to read the very good points I brought up. The only other option for those who don’t agree to this is to start working at the office...which has a limited number of units available since they’ve hired more writers, and trainees work onsite for the first two weeks.

The tracker they want to use is called Time Doctor, which can (1) take screenshots of your screen every few minutes to check production and activity, (2) track which apps and websites you’re accessing during working hours, and (3) detect inactivity depending on keystrokes and mouse movement. You were idle for a couple of minutes even though you’ve reached your daily quota? Guess what: that’s a deduction on payroll’s hours worked.

Other than becoming a serious privacy concern (since they won’t provide us with work computers), this is a really stupid and unnecessary idea because we have a daily quota that has to be reached. Right now, it’s about 5,000 words a day. That was the agreement in the interview. During training, our manager said that as long as we hit that quota, we can do whatever the hell we wanted with our time. Some employees finish in less than 4 hours, which makes this job a great opportunity for college students looking to earn extra money on the side. Even our manager agrees with how stupid this tracker is (since we’re writers, productivity should be measured via quota/daily word count); it’s HR and Accounting who’s really pushing for this because we used to just do Time Ins and Time Outs via an MS Teams group chat.

So, I’ve been here for about 7 months now while taking full load classes at the university. It’s so convenient because I can just whip out content for Monday on Sunday night (and so on) then focus on university the next day. I also moved here after a very toxic freelancing experience. The work environment in this current company is amazing; everyone on my shift is really friendly; my manager is literally the most hardworking member of the team and understands when I can’t produce content on time because of university; it’s good money for easy work...

But I am NOT installing time tracking software on my personal computer nor can I just go to and from the office o

I have a company (two offices in different physical locations) that wants to use me for I.T. and they are dead set on some centrally managed endpoint protection, something like ESET I'm guessing.

Their current setup has their server being used as a quickbooks server, and file storage. 75% of the computers aren't even connected to the domain, the server doesn't have DNS or DHCP set up, it really is just a glorified regular desktop.

They store quickbooks database and some client and employee info. Is it really necessary for them to pay $1000-$1500 per year for ESET?

They already have office365, I want to move all their data to onedrive, ditch local storage, and tell them they don't need ESET, just to rock windows defender. OneDrive will protect against ransomware, field employees can do everything through the cloud (chromebook, etc) and quickbooks backups will also be backed up to onedrive also.

Am I being to lackadaisical? This isn't some company that needs ultra high security and has proprietary stuff they develop, its a service company, like construction or house cleaning. Am I wrong?

I am curious about computers. I noticed technology moves exceptionally fast. Faster than I can keep up. How do companies organize and project the production of new chips, LCD screens, AR, etc. How far can you realistically plan and develop newer tech?

Like, why haven't we had a flying car, but we have electrical cars? How is tech advancement determined?

I recently had an evaluation at work with my supervisor who basically told me I was doing great and gave me a [small] raise. At the end of the evaluation, just as I was about to leave, he says "Actually there is one thing though. Can you start clocking in early? Shoot for 5 mimutes before the start of your shift. You're a few minutes late sometimes and I always cover for you, but eventually it's going to get flagged by someone higher than me and they're going to start asking why I keep letting you off the hook for it."

This really bothered me the more I though about it. When I'm "late" clocking in, it's 1 minute, 2 minutes, maybe 3 minutes max. I show up to work every single day and I actually come in voluntarily 1 hour before I need to, but because I'm occasionally clocking in at 5:02am instead of 5:00am it's a big enough deal that my supervisor is warning me that someone above him might show up demanding to know why I haven't been punished for this? Meanwhile the salaried guys just come in whenever they feel like it because... why?

I know this is probably such a small thing to complain about but the bigger picture here is... what is with the arbitrary rules and why do companies just blindly enforce their rules without looking at the whole, individual, picture?

Everyday something is down or slow or we’re in store mode. We’re given the worst tools to handle this already incredibly demanding job.

Some robot jobs that I've seen are the ones that automate packaging and warehouse distribution. Amazon bought one or more of those companies. Other robot companies flip burgers, make fries, and coffee. One of the restaurant robotics companies is called misorobotics.com. Their about page states:

"Miso was founded on the idea of creating robots that eliminate dull, dirty and dangerous tasks in restaurant kitchens."

The cynic in me thinks it sounds like they are pandering, but the engineer side of me thinks technology is pretty cool and useful.

I was an IT intern at a small sales company in my town. It was a very problematic company to the point where I didn't know where to start explaining. They used to"hire" people to take a 7-day "test" working at the company, without payment of course. The catch of this "test" is that nobody is approved for work and every 7 days there was a new person working for free for the company. Anyway, it disgusted me and coupled with the fact that they always delayed my payment, burdened me with unpaid overtime and the harassment I saw happening to some woman employees, I stole all the computer cpus when I heard I would be fired because the company is cutting costs. And no, I won't get caught, because these computers were in a stock room where they didn't have cameras. No one there but me knew a lot about technology, so I feel much better wondering when they'll figure out why computers don't turn on.

Title says it all, we have a decent amount of cash for some rigs for myself and two editors. I just want to see what else is out there, if anyone has had any direct experience with any other building companies.

Thanks!!!

Hello everyone,

I'm migrating to another company in a full remote position. This new company doesn't provide a dedicated machine just for work, and I'll have to use my personal computer. All tools are internet-based and I won't need to install anything as far as I know. I'm going to use a Logitech USB webcam which will only be plugged in when necessary. My old job provided me everything so this is kinda new to me.

Is there anything that I need to do in this case, where I don't need to install anything to work? Can I use my computer as I've always used, maybe just creating separate accounts for the tools I'll use?

Thanks a lot in advance and please ping me if you need any additional info from my side!

What if I choose a information technology degree? or other with 2-3 years of duration but related to tech? Is there difference in the end for recruiters? or having a computer science degree is better?

I'm asking this because everyone only talks about CS when it comes to tech degrees so I got curious.

If I'm a self taught and already work in the field, do i have to take a 4y degree? or can I just go with the 2y duration one?

Yanno, I once remember listening to a Jordan Peterson podcast and he was talking about Capitalism and the free market and how functioning Capitalism is built on a hierarchy of competence or better yet, a merit based system (meritocracy). I, a 28 year old millennial, have a LOT of issues with Capitalism but really, i'm not entirely sure the issues are fundamentally with Capitalism itself-every system is going to be flawed and maybe MAYBE it is the best we have right now.

The realization I had is this, relating back to Jordan Petersons comments, is the following: what we are existing in (if we go by Petersons definition) is NOT a free market merit based system. We could go down the INFINITE rabbit holes of just how CORRUPT this modern America is (tax evasion, bailouts, insider trading, lobbying, politicians being bought out, exploitation of the less fortunate in society, slave labor, so on and so forth) but pertaining to your post and one that I also feel strongly about, is that like you said, no matter how hard you work, no matter how much energy you put in, how many sacrifices you make you will always get the LEAST possible reward that a company can manage to give you and the LEAST possible recognition.

It's almost the nature of big business. There are too many employees, too many people, and they own the market(s). To be cliche but very truthful, you very much are just a cog in an uncaring machine that is solely interested in making a profit off of your back, i.e. you work, your lack of family time, your health, your precious time, etc etc.

I think this can go back to how humans evolved, and the idea of Darwins Number, the theory that humans can only really have somewhat close connections of no more than 150 people, basically that we evolved in tight knit tribes where everyone was interdependent and interconnected-companies have thousands upon thousands of employees with very surface level HR managed shallow relationships. It's brutal and cut throat and everyone is scratching and clawing for a better position thus fostering dog eat dog relationships i.e the RAT RACE.

This is a major problem.

This IS corporate America.

It's only getting worse and I think young people take some time usually to figure this out because as they go through their lives they realize with experience that you are just a cog and you can give your ALL to a company and that company will replace you in a heart beat with a bag of chips and a thank you letter.

People deeply crave

So my company gave me a laptop which is connected to my companys domain as well. Now the question is can IT see files or screen of my computer or they just can change and see the settings? Also, i am interested about advantages of being in companys domain, what are the advantages?
Thanks!

I’m a senior in college majoring in biochem and minoring in both biology and computer science. I’m wondering what kind of jobs could I qualify for and what a starting salary could look like. What would my job outlook look like without an MS? I’m located in TX.

Ya, just like the title says, they were taken out of service for various reasons. Some of them just need some new RAM, which I have around here somewhere. Others only work with Linux (not Windows). I'll probably fix them and load Ubuntu Linux as that seems to work on them the best. Does anyone have suggestions on where I can do this?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

So for months the clock in terminal would intermittently show a black screen. So when one would clock in/out, the beep would go off but there was a small chance it wouldn't count it. Because of this, every worker also signs a paper at the end of the shift to verify hours worked.

Yesterday, my wife went to work like she does every shift and starts working. A couple hours in sheer gets called to the labor office. The dude proceeds to accuse her of a no call no show on friday. She says she was there and they can ask her sup. The dude proceeds to say she didn't clock in followed by a couple minutes of berating her and calling her a liar for saying she did indeed clock in. She storms out and calls me nearly crying (she cries when frustrated, not like scared or sad) and while doing so her sup comes out. She explains what happened and he says "but I saw you here! Well, they are calling you in again".

This time, is the boss one step higher. She then says the yelling was akin to a parent who caught their child doing drugs. Telling her he doesnt like liars and they'll "be checking the cameras" (I hope they fucking do) and cutting her off when she tries to explain the machine doesnt work, hence the sign out paper. Eventually small dick dude tries her badge and lo and behold, it beeped. Therefore, "it worked the first time for [him]" so it's a "cOiNcIdEnCe" she missed one.

Needless to say, we finally undees tr ant why we were told the place has an unnaturally high turnover rate. Keep in mind too, shes been there almost a month and this is the second time shes gotten in trouble. (The first being when they called her into the office 2 days in a row for a no call no show that she did,in fed act, call and get excused).

Had to vent. Part of the reason companies have which turnover rates or terrible reviews, is because they put people in power who have dont have the first clue what a leader is, but stroke their dicks to be called a boss.

Edit: I forgot to mention, the big boss's main gripe was that he now has paperwork to fill out because of the missed punch. Like he was livid he had to do something besides jerk off to his reflection and tell himself how great he is

The cyber security industry has a significant problem right now that executives are starting to wake up to: Attacks against the drivers / firmware.

Instrumentation to perform analysis at the firmware level is actually extremely imperfect right now. Emulation is the only really viable option when you're testing exploits that might brick the hardware. Tools like Qemu have been leveraged to build instrumentation more easily used by analysts and tool developers: Qiling, being the foremost. It was only recently that Nguyen (creator of Capstone, Keystone, Unicorn) developed an extension (Demigod) to allow Qiling to emulate at the kernel / driver level.

The problem, and this is where computer engineering comes into play, is that these emulators are not extremely accurate and are difficult to maintain. The kernel and drivers stack is extremely complex and it changes constantly. That means the developers have to update their emulated versions to keep up, and they're currently sitting at around 70% feature support.

Meanwhile, attackers can leverage any small discrepancies between the emulation and bare metal execution to notice they're operating within an emulation and deviate their code's behavior. Reverse engineers can manually force the desired conditions but it can be very time consuming and prevents automated tools from succeeding in analysis.

My thought was, what if we instead emulated the hardware itself 1:1, rather than the software stack? The hardware doesn't change. We could load whatever software stack an attacker is targeting onto a compatible hardware emulation.

The question is, do computer engineers have some standard map of their circuits for most hardware so we could automate the conversion of that map to an emulation? And is this info kept secret? Is it sensitive, would companies be averse to releasing it?