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Comment on Webcomic of the author's experience in an abusive school that was a part of the Troubled Teens Industry in ~life
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Comment on McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me in ~tech
tauon Link ParentLucky for you, they have to fulfill that request within about 30 days. :-)I expect for that to not happen.
Lucky for you, they have to fulfill that request within about 30 days. :-)
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Comment on McDonald’s built a 515-page dossier on me in ~tech
tauon (edited )Link ParentTake a guess as to what happened after the app was introduced and enough data was collected? They could hike prices because they knew the aggregated “pain point” prices that were juuuust still in...As long as they aren’t charging me extra
Take a guess as to what happened after the app was introduced and enough data was collected?
They could hike prices because they knew the aggregated “pain point” prices that were juuuust still in reach of customers’ wallets without driving them away completely.
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Comment on Seedless blackberries and cherries that grow on bushes vie to be the future of food in ~food
tauon Link ParentWell, seedless fruit by definition can’t really spread in the wild (like it was the fear about golden rice back then), so the only effects left could be on a) other wildlife b) human consumers,...any unforeseen consequences
Well, seedless fruit by definition can’t really spread in the wild (like it was the fear about golden rice back then), so the only effects left could be on a) other wildlife b) human consumers, which ought to be rather easy or at least doable to check for ahead of time. Oh, and c) on the farmers who will eventually be rug-pulled into extortionate prices, of course.
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Comment on Ukrainian aircraft in Leipzig near which drone was found was loaded with ammunition in ~society
tauon (edited )Link ParentNot if nothing comes of it. The German leadership has lost the plot, and Russia is practically encouraged to go even further and further, because it’s been demonstrated time and time again that...Intending to blow up planes on German territory is a new level of stupid.
Not if nothing comes of it.
The German leadership has lost the plot, and Russia is practically encouraged to go even further and further, because it’s been demonstrated time and time again that the federal government won’t do much of anything in response – not after the 2014 annexation, not after a state-ordered assassination right in the capital in 2019, not after the 2022 invasion, not now.
Another thought I read online: This might be a strategic move to provoke feelings of “we can’t afford to supply Ukraine, we need all the resources here to defend ourselves already” among the German population.
Together with their propaganda arm being represented in not just one, but now almost two political parties as well, they have all the prerequisites for FUD in every direction: Some will continue to think Russia isn’t the enemy, some will become frightened, some will lose focus in the constant news cycle. In every case, Germany is weaker.
You might even argue it was actually beneficial that the plane didn’t blow up, better than if it had, for strategic FUD-spreading reasons, a battle which Russia is currently winning against a good portion of the EU: An active war would be lost, but this, together with digital and infrastructure sabotage, improves their odds of coming out on top.
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And it’s a reminder that we’re completely defenseless against drone warfare. See just today’s events for another example of demonstrating just that power… Reporting seems to be exclusive to the SZ newspaper’s article at the moment yet, I’ll try to update with a better link (in English and freely accessible) when it’s out.Update: the promised non-German article
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Comment on Four top Google AI researchers form new startup in ~tech
tauon Link ParentI feel like this might still be underselling it a little. Cf. also this joke (tweet, but Xcancel link) I saw posted earlier today: It’s obviously exaggerating the corporate politics inside Google...a move that exposes the changing power structure inside Google
I feel like this might still be underselling it a little.
Over the past year, Google lost several top researchers, including Peter Norvig, who spent 25 years as Google’s head of research, to A.I. start-ups such as Recursive Superintelligence, one of the many other companies focused on recursive self-improvement.
Cf. also this joke (tweet, but Xcancel link) I saw posted earlier today: It’s obviously exaggerating the corporate politics inside Google (… at least I hope), but it’s not hard to imagine why all this talent would become fed up with it and leave for elsewhere, especially when there’s plenty of other places to bring and apply it to without the BS.
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Comment on Four top Google AI researchers form new startup in ~tech
tauon (edited )Link ParentOh man, for the first time in a really long while, these reminded me of the equivalent Chuck Norris-style jokes for security analyst/essayist/person Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneierfacts.com/Oh man, for the first time in a really long while, these reminded me of the equivalent Chuck Norris-style jokes for security analyst/essayist/person Bruce Schneier:
https://www.schneierfacts.com/
- Hashes collide because they're swerving to avoid Bruce Schneier.
- When Bruce Schneier divides the circumference of a circle by the radius, the answer is rational.
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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
tauon Link ParentWhile I agree that it’s pretty ironic, it might be useful for some handwritten sites, too? Impeccable apparently has a slop detector tool you can just point at any site you develop on, and the...While I agree that it’s pretty ironic, it might be useful for some handwritten sites, too?
Impeccable apparently has a slop detector tool you can just point at any site you develop on, and the ruleset looking for “overused”/cliché styling would be applied just the same.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
tauon Link ParentHave you tried one of the currently-hot “de-slopify” skills yet to see what they have to say (or change) about your design? Maybe it’s not as bad as you thought (I’ve found after spending some...Have you tried one of the currently-hot “de-slopify” skills yet to see what they have to say (or change) about your design? Maybe it’s not as bad as you thought (I’ve found after spending some time with a design or other thing like that, familiarity can have an effect on your own internal impression, both positive and negative, and then when you show it to others, all those details aren’t ever even noticed). And if it is, they ought to be able to tell what to change in order to make it less generic, too.
Some currently popular tools for this seem to be the taste skill and impeccable.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
tauon Link ParentThis is the very first I hear of this concept (or anarchy used outside of the political system meaning, to be honest), so forgive me if this is silly, but does that mean in a heated argument, two...The non-profit I’m involved with allows anyone to kick anyone else out of the building for any reason - but only as a temporary measure. A permanent ban is decided through consensus.
This is the very first I hear of this concept (or anarchy used outside of the political system meaning, to be honest), so forgive me if this is silly, but does that mean in a heated argument, two people could just (temporarily) cause each other to be kicked out? Like if it were not clear at first who’s the troublemaker, no one gets to prevail?
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
tauon Link ParentFor those who don’t want to give up their habits but really need or want to use this: I haven’t tested it myself, but I’m like 80% certain Orion for iOS has okay support for one of the userscripts...iPhone users are SoL
For those who don’t want to give up their habits but really need or want to use this:
I haven’t tested it myself, but I’m like 80% certain Orion for iOS has okay support for one of the userscripts browser extensions! (Violentmonkey/Greasemonkey/…)You’ll probably have to tinker a fair bit to find out just how broken (or well-supported?) it is, but it might just work, too!
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Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp
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Comment on An announcement from Superlogical: Building the multiplexer for all work in ~tech
tauon (edited )LinkMitchell Hashimoto (of HashiCorp/Vagrant/Terraform and, more recently, Ghostty fame) has founded a new company, together with an all-cracked team. I'm very curious to see what products they have...Mitchell Hashimoto (of HashiCorp/Vagrant/Terraform and, more recently, Ghostty fame) has founded a new company, together with an all-cracked team.
We are building the multiplexer for all work.
Building and operating software today spans local machines, remote hosts, sandboxes, services, and production systems. It has many modes of operation: interactively with a human developer, automatically through CI and background processes, and increasingly through agents working in parallel.
This work is all related, yet today's tools divide it into separate systems. Interactive tools assume a person at an interface. Automatic work disappears into jobs and logs. And as the work moves to production it lives behind separate systems and controls.
AI makes this fragmentation more visible and costly, but it did not create it. System administration, continuous integration, remote development and collaboration have strained the same boundaries for decades.
We believe the missing layer is a durable session around the work itself: one that can span applications and environments, provide relevant context by default, expose structured data and actions, preserve history, and be driven by software while remaining visible and controllable by people.
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Get on the list for our first release
We'll let you know when our beta for the terminal multiplexer is available, and any OSS releases along the way.
I'm very curious to see what products they have in mind other than the terminal multiplexer in order to justify an entire new venture-backed company (the list of who all is funding them near the end of the landing page is incredibly star-studded too, by the way).
One detail among the many on this page I noticed was the hiring, ahem, "site": Clicking on "we're hiring" reveals
$ ssh superlogical.jobs, which, after briefly checking, seems to be the only place where the actual jobs and role descriptions are posted. I'm guessing to prevent an influx of AI spam applications that comes from such a high-profile announcement. Super creative stuff all around, in any case (see also: the gradient color when selecting text). -
An announcement from Superlogical: Building the multiplexer for all work
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon (edited )Link ParentYeah, I realize I worded it pretty badly, and this is something I actually wanted to clarify in response to your other comment already, might as well do so here now: You can and should have...If you were advocating for all jobs to be unionized by different unions I'd understand your point.
Yeah, I realize I worded it pretty badly, and this is something I actually wanted to clarify in response to your other comment already, might as well do so here now:
You can and should have different unions for different industries, and that's already a massive improvement over the status quo, for collective bargaining reasons alone. But IMO the real power reveals itself when those union groups start to combine across industries to represent "all" workers against the very, very small group of individuals owning companies. With the end goal being of course workers owning the value they create, instead of a small group of individuals.
But you're describing the government with extra steps and zero guarantee the union would actually represent the people any better, with less corruption than a government does.
Yes, that's obviously not the goal. I think I'd ask you all reading along to please discard the "everybody union" concept. Serious discussion about organizing workers shouldn't be hindered by someone like me with neither a theoretical clue nor practical experience making people who actually do something look bad (and/or not well-thought through) by extension. I just threw together an online comment.
It's not a reasonable workaround if it's also such a hyperbole that the actual goal is as little as 1/20 that number?
Eh, the bargaining power only increases with membership count, but can be surprisingly effective at low percentages already (at least empirically, that's the case here in Germany, where the two biggest unions Ver.di and IG Metall "only" comprise <5% each of all employees (under <9% combined IIRC), yet are in the news immediately when it comes to wage discussion season).
This is why the range I gave is so absurdly wide: Most people don't realize how (comparatively) little organizing is actually required to change something. Same as with the general strike's research they quote.Edit:
I think this is a nice example: If legislature doesn't mandate an inflation compensation, something I believe is an issue in the US as well because neither senate or house or admin or supreme court are incentivized (in the aggregate) to care about workers, why not have the union negotiate it for you?Edit 2:
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon Link ParentMy intended "everybody union" would be people strong. The ones who are not in it are the <1% ownership class members. Can you see how it might be beneficial for the 99% to have such an entity...My intended "everybody union" would be
a little under ≈270 million
people strong.
The ones who are not in it are the <1% ownership class members.
Can you see how it might be beneficial for the 99% to have such an entity represent them collectively, even if internally the scope is too broad?
The whole point of the original comments in this chain was, in my understanding, essentially "we can't get this passed as a law due to the 1% blockading the existing system" – so this would be a workaround.
Obviously that's not realistic and "100% union membership" is hyperbole, but 5, 10, 20, 50 percent would probably do more good than harm.
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon (edited )Link ParentYes, I said that because I believe in the end there should be one union with a little under ≈270 million members, otherwise the country will sooner go under than improve. Whether that can ever...Yes, I said that because I believe in the end there should be one union with a little under ≈270 million members, otherwise the country will sooner go under than improve. Whether that can ever even be organized federally, or if it needs regional/state divisions, I absolutely don’t know.
And yeah, unfortunately, without an existing union mechanism, it’s a catch-22: Starting one is way too high of a risk, and I’d never put personal blame on anyone just trying to get by, being too exhausted to push there.
The trend of tech – and many "office" workers in general to be honest – becoming too cocky (for lack of a better word, as this is an outside observation, I obviously don’t know the internal thoughts/positions they hold) is a thing here too, unfortunately. Which will probably come to bite us all in the behind sooner than later, when bargaining power vanishes and/or economic decline (somewhat specific to German sentiment currently, perhaps?) and/or automation takes over.
Edit: "Everyone is a union member" is of course wishful thinking. Maybe a calculation à la the US General Strike’s is sufficient: the group of unionized members, or in their case, striking workers, doesn’t need to comprise everyone to lift the tide for most.
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Comment on Reminder to myself that my employer does not give a shit about me in ~life
tauon Link ParentYou guys need to unionize so badly. The fact that there exists any setting which lumps together vacation and sick leave, even if it’s of course not nationwide, is bad enough… Let alone no...You guys need to unionize so badly. The fact that there exists any setting which lumps together vacation and sick leave, even if it’s of course not nationwide, is bad enough… Let alone no state-guaranteed minimum number of days that you have to either take, or be paid out.
And outside of the job, I truly believe a strong organized workforce could also help in overturning some of the more problematic political issues like Citizen’s United, and eventually maybe even FPTP or the electoral college.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
tauon (edited )Link ParentFollow-up: Vercel, as usual for them lately, have put out another vibecoded idea-to-code (that will probably become unmaintained abandonware in a few weeks to months, realistically). And this...Follow-up: Vercel, as usual for them lately, have put out another vibecoded idea-to-code (that will probably become unmaintained abandonware in a few weeks to months, realistically).
And this time, that “labs” project is a static compiler for TypeScript: https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc
The reason they’ve been able to make such an enormous progress—contrasted to e.g. Porffor, a somewhat comparable project—in such a short timespan is because the “init” commit added 800k lines of code.
Same. It was just so… captivating, I couldn’t help but read the entire thing (I’d discovered it briefly after the author completed the series, IIRC) in like two sessions, only pausing due to some (little) sleep + the following daytime obligations. The fact that it isn’t fiction is beyond words, and simply horrifying.