Yeah, the other week social media was full of people mentioning how bad it’s for their brand. (I didn’t read one positive thing)

But I guess they are doing what’s necessary. ICEs are on long-term decline, car companies are now officially struggling since last week. (VW, BMW, …) It’s not that electric cars are doing too well either at the moment but especially if such a luxury company wants to make it into the next 10-20 years, they need something. I guess the customers they are targeting are mega hedonists that don’t want to be judged for bad ethical choices (even if there’s some wiggleroom). Probably it hits the Zeitgeist, reminds me a little of the Paris Olympic game show

Granted, this is a concept car and the real car for the market is likely a little less pronounced (probably including a speedometer :D)

A js-free version is nice though

I have blocked lemmygrad

so did I

and other tankie/nazi (same shit) instances (domains) myself.

didn’t see that yet but at least some user with a name in that direction.

Anyway, I found it quite not amusing to see this stuff on my second day of using Lemmy - which was 2 weeks ago or so. Honestly, I’ve seen enough online communities degenerate and having a few power users/enthusiasts who like fine tuning every setting is not enough to get a healthy community going.

I think if Lemmy doesn’t get it’s shit together in that regard, it’ll be like Mastodon where there are alt-right communities powered by it and then another normal (or whatever you want to call it?) part. However I’ve been quite surprised when my first subscriber was some alt-right dude. That was enough for me to delete my account.

At the moment I see chances 50/50 that Lemmy can make it. But this highly depends on:

1. making it convenient for non-technical people (discoverability across instances)
2. have a reasonable filtering system (if it’s fully democratic and it works that would be awesome. but to be realistic, that would be a first…)

Thanks for the comment. Yeah good point, I really miss people with the 8-5 mindset. At the moment there are too many people who just throw things over the wall, giving me nightmares once a month. (And users hate it) Already settled for something smaller but that definitely makes me feel better with my decision.

In Europe it’s actually quite standard to give take home challenges (1-3h) and leetcode tasks are rare but becoming more common. Also many companies only do 1 or 2 rounds of interviews. (HR and technical) One could also argue that to prepare for leetcode style interviews much more time needs to be invested upfront, at least if it’s not easy questions.

I would probably not want to avoid any challenge at all, but 1-2h seems reasonable to me. (live or take home)

This sounds interesting. Actually my job before was also in a large org and while there was a coding part, it was very basic. (String splitting, joining, a design/modelling task and pair programming on the actual code with the team lead) That team was quite large and everybody contributed their part.

Anyway in the current company the actual day-to-day challenges are figuring out things in the Linux ecosystem and also getting things done.

Working culture is rather demanding and things tend to be quite ambigious, so to be honest the challenge reflects reality to some degree. But our team works with niche technology and therefore the pressure doesn’t fully apply to our small’ish team. (Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend the position to a not so experienced engineer or someone who doesn’t know how to limit their working hours.)

Good point, I fully agree with you. Didn’t come up with it myself but it has been used for years already but I think HR also complained about it.

Actually I did the challenge a year ago and it was only circumstantial that I didn’t decline. Yet, we need a good replacement for the challenge (or the whole interview process) because most of the workload is on me at the moment.

Thanks for the detailed answer. Yeah the challenge IS insane. Although I must admit I did it myself because the job was (and still is) very interesting and was a chance to switch from web development to application development. (And yes, during the time I wasn’t full-time employed)

I guess I’ll see if I can make a list of the current and typical challenges and see how to extract some toy task out of it that makes use of the libraries we use.

Verstehe… kein problem ;) Ja aber ganz ehrlich, wenn das nicht behoben wird, sehe ich für Lemmy keine wirkliche Zukunft. Zumindest nicht als Reddit-Ersatz, wer soll das denn benutzen :D

Das mit den unterschiedlichen Instanzen ist riesig

I think this is not how it works. It’s like saying: I’ll connect a physical lock to my laptop and I’m more secure. (Many PC laptops have on the side a standardized connector for physical locks which is often used in electronics stores)

Better to go a step back and to consider your Threat Model. What are you doing? What are things that could likely happen right now? Is <insert security solution> adding to your security/backing up your Threat Model or is it making things worse because it’s adding stuff that you don’t need, making workflows so complicated you’re likely to misconfigure?

To give a more practical example, there have been a lot of conspiracy theories about Antivirus software. In some sense the nay sayers are right and it actually adds possible holes since they tend to run with elevated privileges. On the other hand, does it really matter for your use case? If you download random stuff online, you should probably install one. (Probably also for your fellow humans so your computer doesn’t end up being a botnet host) But if everything on your computer is hand-picked ™, you might be actually right and they decrease security.

Actually I once applied for a job at Reddit, there were like 5 or 6 interviews spread over 2 days basically. And almost everyone I talked to did something related to Ads. (The position I was considered for would have been about some service to deal with problematic posts, hate etc.) So it’s just a huge ad machine.

This reminds me also about this Facebook documentary from 2 years ago, how ML algorithms implicitly shape how we interact. Maybe such efforts were better put into good moderation (oof), and a well-working UI…

That said, I wouldn’t mind paying a little and already even did so to give awards and also for an App. (Can’t be that much they earn with ads anyway?) I hope Lemmy is there to stay though, I’d be happy to donate/contribute every once in a while.

LibreOffice, I came for Linux support and PDF export… and stayed for the only Office that I know how to use 😄

Naja Pegida ist jetzt nicht unbedingt das Maß aller Dinge. (Sind die nicht in der gleichen Zeit wie Hogesa entstanden?)

Klar ist es willkürlich aber die Identifikationsmöglichkeiten liegen definitiv näher als “Deutscher” (Mein Gott, wie sich das schon anhört…) Aber ausgehend von der EU und allem was drum rum entstanden ist, ist die Idee deutlich moderner…

Keine Ahnung, Rammstein sind jetzt nicht die Einzigen, die das Martialische persiflieren. (Mal ganz allgemein gesprochen und auch außerhalb der Musik gesehen.) Aber wer die Musik gut kennt muss sich irgendwann dann doch fragen, ob es da Abgrenzung gibt oder nicht. Andere Kreative kriegen es auch hin. Rammstein offensichtlich nicht, ihnen scheint die Ironie abhanden gekommen zu sein und sie fangen sich an mit ihren Kunstfiguren zu identifizieren. Und ganz ehrlich, hier geht es ja nicht nur um das Martialische sondern auch um Rollenbilder und alles.

Nichts für ungut, als Lindemann unter die Miethaie gegangen ist, waren sie bei mir ohnehin schon unten durch.