Funny thing is, I did neither of those things the last time I had need to install; the script handled it for me.

Allow me to expand my point. If you are using a computing device of any type, you are using the fruits of the labor of IBM, Xerox, and AT&t from the 1950s and 1960s. That means, by your argument, you are glorifying racism, homophobia, sexual assault and xenophobia among other things. You should definitely get off the internet.

I might suggest getting off the internet and finding a completely self-sufficient lifestyle then. I guarantee you there are people that you would disagree with in person, in every supply chain.

It’s not technically an arrest. In a high-stakes call, the police will typically detain everybody until they can figure out what’s going on. That means potential victims as well as potential attackers. It’s a safety measure.

Too soon.

Moved to pixel from HTC for the fast software updates. My next phone will likely be a pine phone or something similar; build quality on my last two pixels hasn’t exactly been up to snuff.

My company went remote first in April 2020. Even if I left here, there’s no way in hell I’m going back to an office.

I built a kit car, painted a penguin on the side, and forgot to include the telemetry module. Oops.

I think I’ll travel somewhere else.

Sony lost me many years ago when they decided it was appropriate to include a PC rootkit on an audio CD. This only lends weight to that decision.

Garbage. I’m over 50 and I’m not worried.

I know for a fact I’ll be working till the day I die.

Buck Rogers would be a cool one to reboot; plus it already has the " we’re going to trash the world " backstory.

“duh,X” but hear me out. The signal to noise ratio on Twitter has always hovered around 50%. Ever since the upheaval, anyone with any sense has already left the platform. It’s fully expected that on any topic, the toxic responses will be louder than reason.

Could be worse. They could have picked Orlando.

I agree, see my other reply on this post. Assessments ARE sometimes necessary, however. In my field, we get a lot of self-taught software developers. I’ve had times where I think the candidate can do the job but can’t quite put a pin in it - but the team needs a warm seat. That’s when I pull out something stupid like FizzBuzz or a palindrome detector and ask them to pair program it with me, in the time span of the interview. If I have a choice, nobody will ever see a take-home assessment from me. I hated them when I was a junior, what kind of person would I be if I handed them out?

Speaking as both a software developer and a sometime hiring manager or hiring consultant: Yes absolutely.

As a developer, if you give me something to " take home ", I expect to be paid an hourly rate for it. It doesn’t really matter if the work is going to be used thereafter or if it’s throw away. The employer gets valuable information, and I’ve spent time focused on their project to the exclusion of all else.

As a hiring manager or consultant, if I can’t get a handle on your skill set sufficient to justify the risk of a 90-day trial relationship (pretty common in the state I live in, here in the United States) within a one hour conversation, then I’ve done something wrong. Interviews I’ve led or otherwise been a part of don’t tend to last more than 15 or 20 minutes unless we really hit it off and start talking about 3d printing or something.

Note that everything I’m talking about refers to technical interviews. I don’t do the HR stuff.

Absolutely agreed. However, hiring managers need to deal with the employees on the market today. Should we simply stop hiring until the educational problems are solved? Could be a while.