fellow tech workers, looking at the screenwriters guild striking, do you not feel that we too need a union? how many pointless layoffs have there been so these huge companies run by trust fund goons could do stock buybacks? we need a union.

A great practical website to help you vote tactically in the upcoming local elections.

I am really not a fan of all the managers & leaders posting "Oh, it was so hard today because I had to lay people off." It's 100x harder for the people who got laid off. Yeah you made some decisions and had some conversations. But you aren't the one who suddenly lost their job, who may not be able to make their mortgage or provide for themselves and their family, who is wondering if their career and experience is valid. Stop with the "woe is me" as a leader. It's a bad look.

stop firing people I like and instead abolish your c-suite.

pilnok 🔜 eat prey love (@Pilnok)Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:37 GMT

For those who trust me: Goto your Amazon account, sign out of all your devices, everything, everywhere all your Echos (yes I know it's a pain), reset your password, delete 2FA and any tokens and reset them. Now. That doesn't include Fido / Yubikeys but does include Auth tokens. Do it now. As much a pain as it is to reset Echo and all smart devices, trust me, please do it. I can't tell you more yet, but I am being ethical and you need to actually realise I have a clue. It's been a scary day

So how does Mastodon pay its engineers? Mostly...it doesn't. Eugen and Claire are the only paid devs on Mastodon. Everyone else is making updates *for free*, as a hobby, on the side, after their day job. People are building CalcKey for free. People are building just about every fediverse product for free, as part of the open source community. It was particularly amusing when Elon said he wanted to open source the algorithm-- Jack Dorsey saying he wanted to create an open source protocol-- Nearly all of the Fediverse is open source. The algorithms are already open source. The protocol is a W3C standard (ActivityPub) just like HTML. The future these dopes have been trying to build already exists. There's just no money or power in it for them, so they have no interest and pretend it doesn't exist.

As mentioned in the above toot yesterday, the UK government are going to be scaring the pants off half the country at 3pm today with an emergency alert test. If you have a hidden phone you don't want someone finding out about, turn off emergency alerts in that phone's settings or turn the phone off. Otherwise it's very likely to make a loud noise once the test commences. Edit: Going through the replies suggests it's best to turn the SETTING off and NOT just the phone.

AI isn’t “intelligence”. It’s stolen data and artists’ stolen labour cherry-picked to conform to techbro programmer preferences. The speed of operation is a technological achievement, sure, but in the end it’s just Plagiarism 2.0.

Attached: 1 image Okay now I really need to block Google and Microsoft from anything I touch. It's been clear that this AI stuff is moving like a virus, but it's not like any disclosures are even given for this. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/ai-chatbot-learning/#lookup-table

We really missed an opportunity to call logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability LMAO 😹

Stop adding “AI” to every new product ever challenge [Impossible]