Blah blah blah. Adams is a racist and clearly so are you. And no I'm not to engage with racist dribble other than to call it out.

That could be a reason, or it could be because hiring outside is a painful process. I was offered a remote working job from Ireland for a California based company and they had to wrangle it a weird way to make it work - I was hired by an Irish subsiduary of the parent company of this Californian company, i.e. I wasn't working directly for them, I was on the books of another division and they did whatever they had to do to bill each other for this arrangement. There was another guy in France who had a similar hiring situation with a French subsiduary.

Anyway it kind of worked out for me, because all the Californians were laid off without notice but EU law meant I got 30 days notice where I just sat around all day and played games while being paid AND a decent redundancy and paid unused holidays on top.

Crossover / Trilogy are *constantly* showing jobs as vacant and grossly inflating the salary applicants might expect to receive. There are plenty of horror stories about their application process and what it is like to work for a company that surveils you, and can fire you on the spot without cause and doesn't pay what it promises.

It reminds me of that movie where evil guy tells someone they can have a million dollars if they push a button but someone they don't know will die.

There's your problem right there. Scott Adams is a terrible person with terrible racist opinions.

Maybe releasing source code runs afoul of the law but if it were described then that might qualify as free speech and it's not this guy's fault that someone else implements the same thing, possibly from a jurisdiction that has greater freedoms that the US.

Pushing the burden of age verification onto websites is stupid and fraught with obvious problems - most sites won't bother to implement verification and since they reside outside the jurisdiction so there is no way to enforce the law anyway. And even if a site does implement verification, collecting personally identifiable information, then it is adults who will find themselves at risk of extortion, doxxing, impersonation etc. when those details are stolen. And most kids (and adults) will just circumvent the dumb restrictions with a VPN, Tor or whatever.

If Mississippi or any other state / country wants to implement a law "to protect the children", then place the burden on ISPs to offer households family filtering software for free that can be enabled to the entire account, or to individual devices with software or MAC filtering. The software could even support deep packet inspection like some proxies already do. No solution is perfect but this at least puts responsibility onto the parents / guardians, does not impact on adults who do not avail of the option and allows the state to control and monitor effectiveness.

But hey that's too sensible.

LinkedIn has pivoted to its feed as a source of revenue and by default the feed is dross.

Want a coating that repels rain from your windscreen that some huckster in India is selling? No? Tough you're going to see it anyway. Want to see a machine that only exists in CG that can walk and pick up garbage? No? Lol well it's there. Want to see how spiritual guidance can affect your work life harmony? No? Well some bitch is going to tell you anyway. 1 in every 5 posts will be something like this no matter how many times you say "I'm not interested".

The only way to reduce this garbage is to go into settings and change "Preferred Feed View" to "Most Recent", because "Most Relevant" just means "Spam". And/or just don't visit linked in regularly. I chose both options. It's a trash platform and while it would feel good to tell these scammers to go fuck themselves, or mock their stupid ideas, it would probably feed the algorithm and make it think I like this trash even more.

Big networks have mitigations against bot attacks. At best they suffer some minor disruption or slow down for a bit, at worst they don't work at all. Somebody in possession of all those hacked machines is wasting the potential of their botnet doing something so overt.

That's the best course of action. Ignore linking to anybody you don't have a personal relationship with and your life will be much better. Absolutely never link to recruiters, salesmen or such like unless you like being harassed. If they link it means they don't have to spend inmail points so they spam with impunity.

LinkedIn is just a meat market. You exist on the site so they can sell you as results to job agencies, or sales people. The best course of action is don't join unless you have to and if you have to interact with it in the minimal way possible - turn on the privacy settings, ignore "inmails", use ad blockers. And sort the feed by time, not relevance to hide most of the inane posts by assholes who pay for prominence.

It's more like Candy Crush masquerading as learning. Endless levels with increasing complexity and "lives" that can be lost and time gates and other gamified bullshit that people to pay to overcome.

I'm not doubting investor cluelessness but it doesn't help that Duolingo has lost the ball too.

The app is so laden down with ads and upsell gamification that it sucks. It's no wonder that people are losing interest in Duolingo as a learning platform because Duolingo have lost interest in themselves as a learning platform. They exist to serve ads and upsell. Learning? Not so much.

If someone was hemming and hawing about whether a VW was a good purchase for them, now they know - no it isn't. They're selling "minor performance bump as a subscription" and deliberately crippling the car for everyone else who won't pay. Choose brands that do not do this.

That's the really dumb part to me. YouTube can already scan content for copyright material and it transcribe content and even produce subtitles / translations.

It already has tools to detect scams. And it could train AI on previous scam videos, images, transcripts, urls to detect new ones with a high degree of accuracy. It might still need humans or volunteers to review flagged ads, but the reality is that if they properly policed their platform then scams would be background noise rather than endemic.