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I think the Substack discourse is good and that we should really be asking "why are Nazis okay but sex isn't" for nearly everything involving our society.

There’s a video posted by a Cloudflare account executive getting laid off that she recorded as she argues with the HR team. It’s painful to watch on both sides, which explains why other big techs just send an email or provide an error when you try to login. As callous as it seems to do it via email or failed account login, getting told by strangers who just treat you as another name on the list feels worse. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcqvbnC/

Tech workers when everyone is hiring: lol, I don’t need to unionize. Look how well I negotiated for myself! Tech workers when there are layoffs everywhere: I don’t have time to unionize! I’m desperate to get a job right now! #unionize #unionStrong

Attached: 1 image The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you. I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it. #jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism

I quit my job https://ellie.wtf/posts/i-quit-my-job-to-work-full-time-on-my-open-source-project I'm now focusing full time on building Atuin, and finding more ways to improve developer productivity

The hidden burden of undiagnosed ADHD is constantly needing to invent excuses in an attempt to explain or justify behavior that you don’t even understand yourself.

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Attached: 1 image My daughters and I are feeding cows 10,000 pounds of macadamia nuts each and that's what makes us so relatable and makes it so clear we don't need to be taxed at 95+ percent of our income.

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it's impossible for me to be a multimillionaire without robbing a bank, therefore i should be allowed to rob banks (headline: "‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says") https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

Attached: 1 image Pillaged from BlueSky: "20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital."

Attached: 1 image Ladies and Gentlemen, the weekday.

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@coriander@elekk.xyz people will literally preorder the torment nexus

i would never use vs code. i can't even figure out how to exit it. ctrl-c doesn't seem to do anything. meanwhile vim tells you how to quit as soon as you run it! it's right there on the screen, only an idiot could miss it

I get #Kagi relying on sources that don't share my values. Nothing in our societal order is uncompromised. But calling gay rights political is a dog whistle that I hear loud and clear. There's no world in which I directly pay money into that kind of leadership. On to the next...

I'm shocked that the "Linking people searching for terms associated with self-harm to crisis centers is bad, actually" search engine would think that Brendan Eich is actually good

"You forgot? Must not be important." Listen bro, I can and have forgotten to eat, pee, sleep, cash cheques. I've lost my car by taking the bus home after driving there. Importance is not a distinguishing factor here. The fact a commodore 64 has more RAM than I do is the issue

Huge yikes. Kagi is now partnering with Brave to power its search results — and they seem to be dismissing their users’ concerns regarding this partnership with a company that’s notorious for being led by a proud anti gay rights supporter. Just as I’ve consistently advised against using Brave’s products, I now advise against using Kagi as long as it contributes to a homophobic business. There can be no neutral politics when it comes to people’s rights and lives. https://kagifeedback.org/d/2808-reconsider-your-partnership-with-brave

harold and kumar seize the means of production

Oh shit! Oh wow! Someone online wrote some documentation about this, it's.. it's.. your own website

The Void is experiencing extremely high call volumes right now. Please hold. Your screaming is very important to us.

Thought of getting a Kagi account but not longer tempted after they announced working together with the Thiel-funded homophobe clowns at Brave. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Why is everyone like that, ugh.

Frustrated by finding a great article that I wanted to share, but then realising that it's on medium so people would need accounts to read it. I'm in support of creators charging for content but the walling-off of intended-public content is a dark pattern.

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No, I will not subscribe to your mailing list. Get an RSS/Atom feed.

I wrote some code. It hurts to look at. https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/minimum-wage-clock/

I love clever uses of incentives and tech: Cities are using traffic lights near schools that start red and turn green if an approaching car isn't speeding. If you're good, you get to keep driving. If you're bad, you have to stop and wait for the light to turn green. The average speed on the road almost immediately dropped to the speed limit as people learned the rules. Instead of punishing people with tickets after the fact, it creates the behavior the city wants. https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/

I'd personally argue (and do argue, in fact!) that you should take the evidence of such agreements and facts to mean that you actually have nothing to lose by becoming... labor aware, let's say. Don't make my mistakes: reject ERGs, which are a way of tracking groups likely to unionize (hot tip: ERGs are for underrepresented groups, which are typically the groups most impacted by layoffs, so guess which groups are _probably_ a little more... labor aware?). Don't be quite so obviously pro-labor; they have enough lawyers and enough capital on hand to not give a single shit about whatever action you could potentially bring against them. But do form a union. Or a guild; there are too many companies owned by too few stockholders to _not_ also form agreements across company boundaries. And not one of those unions that's already waved the white flag to get their foot in the door, either. It's our best bet against the technological abuse we're seeing. RE: For anyone curious about this: if you formally disagree with the reason behind your layoff, congratulations! You're blacklisted. And if you follow up with compelling evidence of mistreatment, congratulations! You're DEFINITELY blacklisted and should probably follow that thread to whatever end it has for you. If you sign the settlement offer, which is probably what you're going to do because justice is about who has the most capital and they've cut off your funding, congrats, you're now _legally_ barred from working for any company they own ever again. It's standard language and they won't remove it. What's interesting, however, is much like a warlock pact, the only thing I'm _not_ barred from talking about is the specific agreement about what was considered a settlement. I can talk about literally everything else. I low-key suspect they do this so that particularly mouthy people (me) will discuss what happens when you try and face off against corporate and how even if you win, you lose. Why else let me freely talk about everything? RE: ...

"I taught my kids about democracy last night. I had them vote on which movie to watch and what pizza to order. I then picked the pizza and which movie to watch because I'm the one with the money." #democracy #capitalism #fascism #goodgovernment #dadjokes

If I installed new server software that served websites 500% faster but also crashed sometimes, your first question would be "how frequent are the crashes?" and if I shrugged you'd back away slowly and start looking for my replacement. But with LLMs & hallucinations that's just normal operating conditions and you're a luddite if you ask too much about it.

I just learned the phrase "circus factor" ("If you or someone on your team ran away to join the circus, how stressful would it be for the rest of the team?") and I like it much better than the widely-used phrase "bus factor". https://mercedesbernard.com/speaking/minimize-circus-factor/

git blame, but it tells you who reviewed the code instead

new rule: if your company puts a LLM bot on the front lines of your customer support effort, your company should be legally bound to adhere to whatever the LLM bot states on your behalf. oh, you put a lying machine at the front door and it's telling people your product does things it doesn't actually do? and now you're stuck making your product do these things? maybe you'll think twice about deploying lying machines...

@jwz@mastodon.social @anildash@me.dm http is stored in the balls

If someone tells you the last day of the year is 123123 just unfollow them, you don’t need that unsortable non-ISO8601 negativity in your life.

Think we are more in need of a New Years Revolution am I right

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Attached: 1 image My plans for tonight? I'm glad you asked. #NYE #HappyNewYear

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#Firefox is by far the best browser on desktop. Let me be clear, I am not saying that because I am ideologically opposed to using Google products. I use YouTube and Google Workspaces. Chrome genuinely has nothing to offer over Firefox. If your website doesn't work in Firefox then I'm not using your website.

There's not a CEO in the world doing $7 million worth of work. Saying this is in line with exec compensation elsewhere is not a defense, it's an indictment. Nor is gender equity in pay an argument when ALL execs are overpaid and where pay equity is worst is at the entry level and among the precariat. Seriously, stop trying to justify a $7 million salary. Executive compensation is a PROBLEM, and while it's nothing specific to Mozilla, you can say this without pretending it's healthy. 2/2

I'd be happy that fireworks are going off at 7:30pm if I thought that would be it for the whole night. But you know it's just going to be nonstop and we can forget being able to take the dog outside without him running back inside terrified now

@james@strangeobject.space THIS is why I resent any type of "productivity measurement". If I as the person responsible for their (professional and sometimes very rarely personal) situation don't know how and what they feel and are working on, I should quit my job. I sometimes hear "but we need abstract measurements to hand up to executive management". No, you don't. Have a talk with them and tell them about the people you are working with. If they don't like this, this is not a good place to be. And regarding 'productivity': some people have a constant outfit of achievements or in software development tickets. That's productivity. But some people 'produce' less individual results, but removing them from the team would lower everyone's productivity. That's generativity. I don't know many colleagues taking this into account or even noticing it exists.

You'll be seeing lots of posts from people saying/boasting what they achieved in 2023. In case anyone needs to hear it... it's ok if all you did this year was get through it... You made it, good job.

DM: "The dragon rests on a hoard of gold." PC: "We gather the town's wealth and add it in. The dragon will surely create jobs now." -N. Ehlers