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111·8 hours agoA lot of that AI will presumably be rented from the companies that persuaded your boss to fire you and use their tools instead. So it’s an odd kind of protest, that starts by paying those companies more money.
I do like the idea of software engineers collectivizing and prioritizing work on projects that don’t have good enough open-source options, particularly where it targets the nastier companies in the SaaS space. But there’s nothing new about that work; what’s new is that we have a lot of people motivated to take software in a new direction, who miss being able to take pride in the quality of their work, and who may be more receptive to acting collectively than these people have traditionally been. I know whenever I’ve proposed any kind of collective stance at my workplaces I’ve been met with blank stares, silence, and developers nervously looking at their feet. Maybe that can change when more people have recent experience of what happens when you don’t act together.
If we want to do something new, how about worker-owned cooperatives which actually offer good-quality software and support with ethical terms of use? Build it and sell it to the companies paying for SaaS, and make your software and support deal more attractive than the one they’re being gouged for. The support is particularly important when anyone can dash off some software using AI. Make your company worker-owned, nonprofit and cheap, market it professionally, offer good support and maintenance, and make a living doing it.
172·8 hours agoDo you address people as “little buddy” in real life? Do you find it motivates them to consider your views with an open mind?
17·4 days agoIn the first round of attacks the password was apparently today’s date. Updated firmware won’t protect them from policies like that.
3·4 days agoI have some heavy DNS filtering and the site still loads fine in Vanadium on GrapheneOS. Many sites refuse to load in the way you describe and it is annoying, but I didn’t know this site was doing that.
The Veto Cheeto.
Yes, the Iranian regime is nasty to its citizens. This doesn’t justify the USA attacking civilian Iranian targets while Iran attacks military American targets.
9·5 days agoDid the audience clap and cheer him? If so, the Metropolitan Police are going to need a bigger bus.
So Iran is targeting the military sites that attacked it, while the USA plans a massive post-election attack on civilian infrastructure in Iran? One of these countries is acting more evil than the other.
He added: “One was under the impression that the Burnham government had slightly more respect for the basic notions of freedom of expression and other democratic rights. I appeal for this decision to be overturned.”
It seems Burnham is just a more convincing liar than Starmer was.
Unsurprisingly, he doesn’t know shit.
It does make you wonder how Canada doesn’t spot thousands of stolen cars being loaded onto boats, or if they do spot them, why they don’t intervene.
Didn’t Jair Bolsonaro also flee to the USA immediately after losing his election in 2022?
14·11 days agoOh, that reminds me: is Haiku still a slop-free OS?
You know they’ll say it’s time to heal and move on and not look backwards.
Yep, and I dropped a couple of Drumpfs in there today too.
I think I’ll rename the water in my toilet bowl the Lake of Trump.
Most countries hand-count paper ballots.
It can be made accurate, with the right checks and balances. And that’s what most countries do. You can’t argue it’s impossible, because it’s done all the time.
The link below lists some of the systems countries use to ensure election integrity and accurate counts. Some of these are only available if you use paper ballots and count by hand.
16·15 days agoAre you talking about used ones? There are no new ones for less than a thousand.
I’ll never understand why the USA takes months and months to build up to an election and weeks to count the results afterwards. Other countries take a few weeks for the campaign and have the whole thing counted within a day of the polls closing.