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Comment Re:Employers can share facts (Score 2) 193

Horseshit. You have no idea how much you might be inconviencing your supervisor and/or an HR person who helped in the hiring decision. You have no idea whether or not the supervisor pushed away three days or two weeks worth of their usual work to train you/orient you, whatever. They might've written up documentation to aid in your learning. Catfishing like this is just another excuse to act like an asshole because you didn't like the way you were treated in the past. It's basically like a child saying "people treated me badly, so it's ok to do the same to others". It's total hypocrisy.

Comment Re:TP-Link used to be the king of open source (Score 3, Informative) 148

TP-Link wasn't exactly the only one to do that. In 2015, The US FCC (Federal Communications Commission) passed legislation designed to block people from changing certain WiFi settings, to avoid radio interference with other devices. WiFi radio power had to be implemented in hardware so that end users couldn't modify it. For example, the FCC wanted to make sure end users didn't override country settings or power limits which might affect radio power. Some hardware vendors reacted to the legislation in an extreme way, blocking third-party firmware from being flashed at all. (The FCC did not actually require anything like this). As a result, some companies' hardware could not be flashed with third-party firmware from within the factory firmware interface. If you tried to do so, you'd simply receive an error stating it wasn't possible. This resulted in a lot of controversy. ArsTechnica.com: FCC: Open source router software is still legal under certain conditions: https://arstechnica.com/inform... SLATE: FCC Support for hackable routers is a win for all of us: https://slate.com/technology/2...

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