vrek
@vrek@programming.dev
- Comment on Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets 2 weeks ago:
What’s even worse is when you have to go through a third party to buy from grainger.
A previous company wanted to increase their “diversity” which I agree with but rather than actually hiring diverse people or anything actually helpful they decided we could only purchase easily through this company. It was made very difficult to purchase from anyone else.
We needed 5 gallon buckets periodically. We used to buy them for 2.68 per bucket and 1.57 for lid. We used about 10 per year. Through this new company it was 87.10 for a 10 pack.
Worse what you had to do is go onto grainger.com find the item you wanted, go to their website, put in the grainger part number, some point typically within 72 hours you would get an email with a quote, go back to their website enter the quote number, purchase the item, and the item would arrive in a grainger box. But since you didn’t buy it from grainger the “to” entry on address label was for who ever made the quote. So you had to go to the warehouse and ask if there was any packages. They would ask for the po number and then have to manually check all the packages for that number in the attn field of address labels. There was about 1000 employees in the building.
- Comment on [PDF] HP to lay off up to 6,000 workers as it goes all-in on AI and automation 3 weeks ago:
No, it says (or tries to say) the 1% pay the other 99% $9.4T and that just isn’t fair.
- Comment on Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key. 3 weeks ago:
My favorite story similar to this was Estonia was the first country to use the internet to allow people to vote. To ensure people of the “security” they set up a Webcam pointed at the server accessible 24/7 on their web server.
This wouldn’t do anything as any one trying to modify the results would like be doing it remotely over the internet but that’s fine security theater is everywhere and atleast somewhat effective.
If you logged on and looked at the Webcam behind the server a whiteboard on the wall. Someone wrote the wifi password on the whiteboard…
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 month ago:
It’s also about several us states. Plus why make it harder to access porn? It doesn’t harm anybody. It may make children ask some questions you don’t want to answer but overall… So??
I’m for regulating porn, actors and actresses should be paid, should be protected from sti, should not be forced or coerced. But access? Who cares?