we had following agreement at my last employer (small team of system engineers, agreement was implemented while I was already working there): 600.- per week you where on call. if you got a call, it was just like working overtime. if you needed to call a coworker, who was not on call, he would get a financal compensation. those who didn’t want to be on call, didn’t need to be. but it was quite chill. I don’t think I ever had a call :P

but you needed to be prepared. if I left home, I did so always with my notebook with me. I couldn’t to what I want during that week, just in case …

not compensating your employees at all for their loss in personal free time is just a real duche CTO move.

what concerns me the most: when will such behavior have consequences? seems like any kind of dark pattern or anticompetitive behavior of that kind is just ignored by any authority that could intervene.

Some of my favorites (that I have not seen listed here yet)

• Snazzy Labs
• TechAltar
• The Friday Checkout (alternative to Techlinked)

„how much does he weight? ah, I see“ checking notes „yeah, that aint enough for my recipe. thanks anyway“

nächster Geniestreich: lasmich zu Y rebranden

läuft bei mir aktuell oft: Linkin Park - Lost

edit: Link - https://music.apple.com/ch/album/lost/1668484895?i=1668488811&l=en-GB

zum einen ja, zum anderen schürt er den Hate absichtlich um seine Reichweite, Clicks, Streams, … zu erhöhen. er hätte jederzeit die Möglichkeit sich zurückzuziehen und innerhalb von wenigen Monaten wäre der ganze Spuk vorbei. will er aber nicht. deswegen (und auch wie er mit Frauen / Mitmenschen allgemein umgeht) hält sich mein Mitleid in Grenzen.

Storage: Synology NAS DS418play 16TB

Server: Ubuntu Server running on an old MacBook Pro (Intel Core i5-8259U) with removed display (because broken). Plex, Tautulli and lot of other stuff running as Docker containers. not the most stable, but it was basically free and capable even for transcoding.

Clients: 1 Apple TV, 2 iPhones, 2 iPads

Library Size: probably small-medium | 613 Movies | 84 Shows (4107 Episodes)

to connect all moon based equipment, we could build a network transmitted by satalites orbiting the moon!

for better aiming: hold nail in mouth. (please dont!)

I like how these lights are so bad, they need lights to light them up.

Toad! fast > strong