Shared Links (weekly) May 21, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) May 21, 2023

Online age verification is coming, and privacy is on the chopping block How to Talk to Your Team About Their Career Development Anyone Can Code! – Light Your Fire for Coding – Online workshop on getting started with app development for women and genderqueer people. What Do Hackers Actually Do With Your Data? Mental Health…

Linked – For Your Mental Health, Vacation is Not Always the Right Answer

Linked – For Your Mental Health, Vacation is Not Always the Right Answer

If you feel burned out a break can help. If you’re feeling stressed some exercise or yoga can help too. But if that’s all the workplace can offer, it’s not going to solve the problem. Taking a long weekend only to return to a job that will now require you to do your normal 45-50 hours of work in 3 days instead of 5 is not a fix. Working all weekend so you can take a three-day weekend next week, is not a sustainable solution.

It’s About Being Intentional

It’s About Being Intentional

As I said, it’s not that being a remote worker means we won’t have any friends. We just have to be more intentional about it. We have to find ways to interact socially with our current friends and be in spaces, physical and virtual, where we can meet new people.

You’ll read plenty of hot takes about remote work. Whether it be how difficult it is to build any culture or connect with your team, you’ll get lonely, you won’t get promoted, or mentored, etc. It’s not that the authors of these posts are lying to you, but they are also unlikely to point out that none of these things have to be the way they are. They can all be overcome when someone decides to act with intention.

Police Auctioned Mobile Devices – Complete with Illegal Data!

Police Auctioned Mobile Devices – Complete with Illegal Data!

Imagine, if you will an identity thief caught in the act by law enforcement. As part of the evidence collection, they find a mobile device with a whole bunch of stolen credit cards, driver’s licenses, and other data that was in the process of being used by said thief, to steal the identities of dozens of people.

That evidence sits in the property room until such a time as the law says it’s safe for the law enforcement agency to get rid of it, at which time the device is put up for auction.

You would think that before auctioning off these devices with illegally-gotten and dangerous information on them, the various agencies would have wiped them clean, no?

According to the University of Maryland, you’d be completely wrong.