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  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the "dark side" of the industry you work in?English
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    1 day ago

    I work in the automotive sector. Most OEMs are only getting more aggressive and invasive with respect to your privacy, and there are regular discussions about how to monetize your data. I’ve been in discussions where people proposed to analyze your driving style to track you better, and integrate that with targeted ads in your vehicle.

    Also, full-autonomous (level 5) is still a long way off from general use on (non-modified) public roads. Most of what you see on the road today that advertises being “fully autonomous driving” is monitored and controlled by underpaid workers.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Terms for intentional anti-extensibilityEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Unfortunately, I don’t think anything like this really exists, because it violates good programming principles. Not to say you’re bad for considering it, but there probably aren’t a lot of people working toward the same end. You’ll probably have to resort to personal discipline and/or scathing code comments to remind yourself to refactor things before using them. I may or may not have left comments in my own code calling myself an idiot for not refactoring, or apologizing to my future self. Welcome to the club.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Terms for intentional anti-extensibilityEnglish
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    12 days ago

    In my experience, the typical solution to this problem is the opposite of what you suggest–making your short-term projects of a sufficient quality to be extensible if needed. So I’d be surprised if you find much on this (intentionally, at least).

    That being said, if you’re set on locking down a project, I would run the source through some sort of obfuscator and delete the original. This could be converting it to an intermediate format, or just converting all the entity names to random strings.

  • owenfromcanada@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is the point of Windows recall?English
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    13 days ago

    I’ve worked in corporate America for a while now, and if there’s one lesson I’ve learned…

    When the decisions from execs don’t make any sense to you, it probably means they’re trying to increase short-term shareholder value. Those decisions start making sense when you look through the lens of an MBA, but no sense to anyone who thinks beyond next quarter’s numbers.