Which parts of their actions should be protected by law? They stopped doing their job, interrupted the work of others, and were in parts of the building that they did not leave when asked. These would normally be completely normal to treat with disciplinary actions and in the last case, they are trespassing.
Just adding in the 'but they were protesting something' doesn't change this by default. And even in Europe (where I'm from and still live) their actions would not be protected. They wouldn't get fired, but they would face some repercussions until they protest in a manner compatible with the law.
I cannot simply say "I'm not going to do any work, because I don't like that my company makes software used by the Metropolitan Police" and expect my company to say "fine by us, we'll keep paying you".
Sounds like a meta Turing test... after conversing with an AI, how would you describe their personality and mental state?
Presumably we want to tune somewhere between "unimpeded ADHD monologue" and "crazy guy on the tube", leaning closer to "trusted family Doctor you've known for 20 years" over "sleazy politician".
But I suspect it's more likely that you're pattern-seeking than we've uncovered some deep truth about the human condition. GPTs are, after all, simply automata good at sounding good. They are NOT actual simulacra of human brains.
(or language translators: maybe 5 years ago I noticed that translation services, instead of becoming observably poor where they were unsure, as they had been 10 years ago, were providing very fluent "translations" that in some cases asserted the negation of the original text)
I work on a project at a large (although not Google-scale) company building a collaborative RTE.
The short is answer is no, there are very few universal truths about how text editing works. You'll experience differences between combinations of operating systems, input modes (Japanese IME for example), software keyboards on Android, languages (RTL languages) and that's just for text itself.
Then when you are thinking about more complex features simple things like "what happens when I double or triple click on this" are a complete crapshoot.
Keeping the metaphor, it's responding to the question of "Do you know Joe?" with "Yes, and that guy Bob over there says Joe is a pedophile" whenever asked.
This is a completely circular argument which also happens to completely miss the point.
1. They want to show personalized adverts
2. So they collect and process the data to do so
3. And therefore because they've collected the data, they must be allowed to show personalized adverts.
Aside from it being complete nonsense, the contention is around the 2nd point. They should NOT be allowed to collect and process the data for that purpose without permission, which EU courts have repeatedly stated.
I don't think it is illegal on the part of the buyer, who would be a victim in this situation.
But just like buying counterfeit goods, it is not clear to me, I mean if you buy your key from AliExpress, isn't it like importing counterfeits from China? That's something one should ask a lawyer. Anyways, these keys can be revoked any moment (and it has happened to me, with an Office key). If I had a business, I would avoid them for that reason alone.
Well now that you have read this forum thread and responded to it that’s proof that you knew that was a possibility at least. You can’t claim “lack of knowledge” if you do it and Microsoft comes for you.
But I am not a lawyer, perhaps on this case that doesn’t matter.
Chrome does give access to localStorage/sessionStorage in Incognito and this can be used to communicate between tabs on the same domain, but just like cookies and cache this data is wiped if you close the Incognito instance.
It's certainly a mystery, because you'd expect any capability fingerprinting (some combo of UA, extensions, CPU/GPU specs, IP etc) to give an identical result between profiles, so it does seem there's some per-profile difference. But I can't think of any browser API that exposes something like an ID...
Then, could not we a get a trace of the properties it uploads to the server by analyzing what is executed in the javascript? Sure it has some sort of submit endpoint where it throws the individual values to.
I see things hat look like font fingerprinting, CSS, Apple pay detection, ... , msPointerEnabled, ..., webkitResolveLocalFileSystemURL, ... cookie settings...
... used mathematical library (sinus, cosinus, ...)
serviceworkers, ...RTCPeerConnection, hardwareConcurrency,
Maybe we could dissect it and analyze the full list?
At some other place, they documented e.g. you can get the light/dark theme information out of the CSS. Doesn't even need JS to do it.
The CSS for HN is very terse, and aside from a mobile-specific set of rules it doesn't really do any variation.
Is it possible you had set the zoom level previously, which the browser remembers between sessions, and turning off the tracking reset the zoom to 100%? Do you have any extensions like Greasemonkey or Stylus for per-site customisation?
I can imagine that works fine for fresh-out-of-university candidates but I can't imagine a time in my career where I could (and would want to) take 5 days PTO for a job interview.
FAANG-like hiring has the question "What info do you get from the 5th interview that you didn't already have after the 2nd?" - for the paid trial, what info do you get by Friday that you didn't have by the end of Monday?
I agree it's much harder with someone further in their career (and we worked with candidates to figure out what made sense, either shortening the trial, allowing other time to be included, etc.)
To answer your last question.
On Monday, it was had to fully tell how someone interacted with the team (there was a particular incident where a candidate ended pushing some extremely strong politics on the rest of the team on Wednesday). I was okay with it (I think people should be okay to express opinions), but the rest of the team was not -- and I value the rest of my team (ended up making the decision not to go forward as they weren't comfortable with the hire).
Similarly, when they gave an estimate on Monday for the work they could accomplish on Friday (but failed to do it), depending on their reasoning (did they just grossly miss-estimate, or were there legitimate reasons, are they learning from errors). They had time to keep us updated throughout the week, to readjust, etc. All things that you typically learn with time.
I was being a bit hyperbolic, but this is the real reason. However, the VPs in question often have the authority to approve changes that don't have rollback scenarios (for example), they just don't until the shit hits the fan.
Just adding in the 'but they were protesting something' doesn't change this by default. And even in Europe (where I'm from and still live) their actions would not be protected. They wouldn't get fired, but they would face some repercussions until they protest in a manner compatible with the law.
I cannot simply say "I'm not going to do any work, because I don't like that my company makes software used by the Metropolitan Police" and expect my company to say "fine by us, we'll keep paying you".