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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • I once talked with a colleague from the data-analysis field. Apparently the company they work at is somewhat in the legally grey area.

    They advised other companies on hiring candidates, by scraping all possible data about them online (which included buying anonymized advertising data and correlating it to all their publically available data and the data from the application). Using that, they claim to predict worker motivation, loyalty, how often they are sick, their political alignment, what their acceptable rate is, if they are going to ask for a raise, how well they work under pressure and much much more.

    Since hearing it this has basically become my thread model.

    As I am writing this, I realize that it is probably time to delete my Lemmy account and never post here again lol








  • Well, as far as I know, the open source seeds are not that great. It is not commercially viaible to switch your agriculture business to them. Maybe only a tiny plot for marketing campaigns like the “open source bread” some bakeries want to sell.

    I’d love to see some billionaire hire a bunch of plant biologist to develop modern, high performing, commercially viable seeds and open source them instead of milking the cashcow.

    The opensource seeds project does not reject gen tech per se. but since they don’t have that kind of money, all the seeds they develop are made through old school breeding of outdated seeds that are not commercially licensed.

    But I think the idea is not only very important but also really interesting.







  • Deckweiss@lemmy.worldtoPrivacyWhy don’t you like Apple?
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    • price
    • closed ecosystem that funnels you into buying more overpriced hardware
    • general feeling of superiority apple customers often seem to aquire

    (e.g. my former project lead refused to touch other peoples devices because using them “doesn’t feel like apple, eww”)