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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • The one I was at just gathered everyone together to let them know layoffs were coming. I was also part of the tech support for the office so I stayed a bit longer to help them wind down systems, wipe hard drives, that sort of thing. The owners were pretty nice/upfront about the whole thing, basically gave everyone something like 2-3 month’s pay upfront & told everyone the business is winding down.

    The owners did try to find a buyer for the tech & maybe break even or recoup some losses but that didn’t pan out. AFAIK the investors just took it as a loss, it’s a startup and sometimes startups fail.

    We weren’t in fancy offices or anything like you see in movies & whatnot, it was more like working in an industrial warehouse converted for office use. Like the kind of building that doesn’t provide hot water unless you install water heaters yourself, no central AC, that sort of thing. We had one final party & trashed the space on the way out LOL. I think they just walked away from the lease, it’s not like there was any $$ coming in to pay it anymore.

    In the last few months after moving out a few remaining people (the owners, tech support, etc.) worked from within the investment group’s own offices (they gave us a spare room to work in). Mostly to deal with the old systems/hard drives & prep the existing data in case the owners found a buyer.



  • Could you bear to wait eight more years for the 100%? You’ve already waited 62 years! What’s 8 more?

    It’s easy to think that way in your younger years. That’s a much more difficult request for people actually in their 60’s, lots of people make it to that age with broken down bodies, various illnesses/prescriptions/whatnot & probably can’t see themselves continuing to do the work thing throughout their 60’s let alone 70.

    There’s also the problem of holding down a job at that age, ageism exists in a lot of industries so a lot of these people are first in line for layoffs / taking a massive pay cut from their earlier jobs vs being a Walmart greeter or just being unemployed.

    But sure… in theory if you manage to stay fit & healthy well into your old age & are able to hold onto your normal job then sure working into your 70’s or more could be plausible. People probably worry less about that stuff once they’re higher up on the corporate ladder - though at that point they should already have fat 401K plans & other investments so the social security aspect becomes less relevant.


  • Since you don’t want to use cryptocurrencies no one else should /s

    I’ve donated plenty via crypto so haven’t seen it as an issue, if the receiver is cool with it then why not? Also for me it’s better than anything PayPal related, I’ve been banned on their platform so whenever I see any PayPal/Venmo links I just don’t donate since it’s impossible for me.

    And of course if the receiver doesn’t want crypto that’s fine too, but hopefully they are accepting donations via some method I can donate with. The whole point is to be able to accept donations via some method both sender & receiver can work with.






  • Admins yes. But maybe regular users should avoid Lemmy’s 2FA implementation for now (unless they have lots of experience with this).

    With the current implementation it’s way too easy for an average user to attempt to get this set up & get themselves locked out of their own Lemmy account.

    • Lemmy doesn’t display a QR code like every other website/app using 2FA
    • Lemmy doesn’t force the user to successfully test that the 2FA is working before saving the changes
    • Lemmy doesn’t give the user any backup codes, unclear what the procedure is if you don’t have a backup code, lose your 2FA device and need to reset
    • Lemmy’s 2FA implementation is SHA256, not all 2FA apps support that (e.g. I tried adding this to both Google Authenticator and andOTP and came out with 2 different 2FA codes, maybe because Google’s app doesn’t support SHA256)

    In the end I got nervous & was unsure which if any of my apps were working with Lemmy’s 2FA so disabled it for now. It’ll get better in a future update, just saying be careful going through the current setup.