Leon

I get that it’s fun to mock this man, but I feel like it also defangs the perception of him. People were laughing at how unlikely his victory would’ve been back in 2016 and now we’re here ten years later. This man is evil. He’s impulsive, and temperamental, and incredibly powerful.

He’s caused immense suffering among people, he’s stomping all over their rights, he’s kidnapped a head of state and he’s now started a war. Please, take the danger this man represents seriously.

That’s not how it works here. Sounds like your unions are useless and need to be remade. We generally have large unions covering entire sectors. Some work better than others, naturally, they are human organisations after all. Ultimately, thanks to them we don’t have things like a legally mandated minimum wage and such.

There’s a big push among workers to make a switch over to a 4 day work week. Naturally the work buyers are pushing against that, but given that there’s been way too long since any similar change has been made, and productivity has gone up as much as it has, it’s long since due. Honestly, workers should be rioting in the streets at this point.

I don’t see how those are mutually exclusive. Where I live the guaranteed raises are negotiated by the work seller and the work buyer unions, but we still have individual salary discussions (which can be with or without union support, of course) where you can negotiate further raises. I’ve never heard of unions getting a cut from one’s raise before.

Unions aren’t supposed to be a they, they’re supposed to be an us. They’re workers joining together to be able to negotiate with buyers of work on more equal footing about everything that pertains to the work life. You might be able to get better deals individually for yourself, but you’ll never be able to do things like negotiate down to a 4 day work-week for your entire company, or everyone in your sector by yourself. That’s the work of unions.

Always be in a union.

Feels a bit naïve to think that scrubbing one’s social media will do anything. I just wouldn’t go.

To be fair, the corpo slop games aren’t really worth playing, never mind paying for.

There are often also accessibility issues with PDF files depending on how they were created.

The rich exploiting the working class? Gasp! Say it isn’t so!

So it’s a little more than just sending notifications, then.

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I’m sorry, how many lines of code for that?

Your entire comment echoes my thoughts. Things aren’t exactly improved by the idea of adding LLMs to the review process either. Gods.

I try to push on the maintenance aspect. Developing something new is easy, and my company does do that, but the group I’m in is primarily doing maintenance on existing software. Bug fixes, feature additions, etc. If we generate applications entirely using LLMs, none of us will be experts on the applications we push to the customers.

They push corpo buzzwords like “responsibility”, but who takes responsibility when no one has done the work to begin with? It feels like a liability nightmare, and the idea of sitting there cleaning slopcode just isn’t very appealing to me.

At that point, I wonder why one’d even interact with the person, if they’re just going to be a proxy to an LLM? It’s sad how readily people give up their agency and ability to think for themselves.

Since piracy is argued to be fair-use, we should all have sizable media libraries.

The prick writing it seems quite pro-slop so I guess in his eyes, it does.

What is that? Is it a coyote?

Aye, same. I’m Swedish. Not thrilled about the U.S. threatening to invade Greenland, or kidnapping heads of state. Denmark has been sucking up to the U.S. a lot through the years which goes to show that you can’t trust the U.S., ever.

Never used Pangolin, so I’ve no idea. Sorry.

How? I’m running Tumbleweed on my desktop which is supposedly more stable than Arch, but I’ve had no problems with Arch on my laptop. Granted I’ve only had that for four months or so.

“We are deeply disappointed by this partisan manoeuvre by the SLF,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “Building on ungrounded and misleading claims, [it] hijacks the event for its own benefit and diverts it from its legitimate ambition – namely the celebration of reading, readers and authors.” Amazon said it had decided to withdraw in order to “avoid contributing to this absurd controversy”.

Right so… You want to celebrate reading, readers, and authors by not funding a book festival? It’s almost like it was never about celebrating reading, readers, and authors, in the first place but rather just an opportunity to put your big fat ugly logo everywhere.