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No Microslop for me (thelemmy.club)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Can you explain this disabling sleep mode thing? What does having the thing awake while it's closed even accomplish?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Clamshell mode. External monitor, lid closed. My issue was that I could not tell it to sleep when not in use, because their IT disabled sleep to ensure their corporate spyware was always running.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    That's the part I get, but what does having the corporate spyware running 24/7 accomplish? What kind of telemetry would they even get out of that other than ip/location, which isn't all that interesting.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago*

    It can check if people are typing or using the mouse.

    It's also possible to use the camera of a notebook to track if a person is present and looking at the screen or not.

    Any company using that shit is the kind that uses "bums of seats" rather than actual deliverables as a measure of performance, which means they're also the kind of place were unpaid overtime is the norm and, if in dev, things like projects often ending up in a death march stage - such places are stupidly inneficient and badly managed with a disfunctional work culture.

    Avoid such companies like the plague - you'll be luck if the worst that happens is insane work hours.

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