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Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently told employees that those who do not want to return to the office at least three days a week should consider finding employment elsewhere. According to a recording obtained by Insider, Jassy stated “It’s past the time to disagree and commit,” adding that if employees cannot commit to the new...

maynarkh,

Nope, because the biggest shareholders in the vast majority of companies are financial institutions like Blackrock, that coincidentally have large commercial real estate portfolios as well.

Individual shareholders are a drop in the ocean next to that immense amount of centralized wealth. When you think of shareholders, it’s not even the 1%, it’s a couple hundred people who own everything.

maynarkh,

Was “sedan” meant here and not “saloon”?

They don’t use the term on some of the colonies, but in the King’s English, saloon is a term for a luxury sedan.

maynarkh,

They sure as hell don’t act like it though

maynarkh,

Just checked the prices for a round trip a while ago to Vienna from Amsterdam by train (Nightjet, full cabin booked) and by plane with KLM for 2 people. Prices were very similar.

maynarkh,

the low-population-density makes track-laying and maintenance unprofitable

Yet no one cares how much municipalities have to keep going into debt to subsidize the creation of those low population areas in the first place.

maynarkh,

I’m from another nation-oriented instance that has an outsized presence, right next to Duitsland.

My guess is:

  • Germany is a big, populated country
  • People from DACH also gravitate towards feddit.de
  • The culture kinda gives itself to the project
  • The NL and the EU are the main funders of Lemmy
  • The government itself is embracing the Fediverse
maynarkh,

German-speaking countries in Europe. Deutschland (Germany), Austria and of course the Confœderatio Helvetica (Switzerland).

maynarkh,

It’s aliens. There is no other sensible explanation.

maynarkh,

Yeah, but then the blocklists themselves become a centralized feature. I’m not saying “don’t block the fascists”, just that it’s going to be hard to maintain a blocklist.

I can totally see the Fediverse going the way of email, as in you need a reasonably large amount of capital to maintain a well-respected, not defederated-from server.

maynarkh,

I mean that Lemmy and the Fediverse is not big enough for Russian troll farms and US ad agencies to start up massive numbers of instances and drown us in bullshit, like with email. If it goes that way, blocklists will sadly not be enough.

maynarkh,

It’s not “governments”, it’s the “US government”. Here in Europe, it just works.

maynarkh,

It’s not like nationalism in video games is a new thing.

maynarkh,

Ah, it won’t. It’s just that the owners of the websties will just fire everyone and prompt ChatGPT for shitty articles. Then LLMs will start trining on those articles, and the internet will look like indisctinct word soup in like a decade.

maynarkh,

How is the DSA in any way similar to this?

maynarkh,

Not a bad deal, I’ll take it.

maynarkh,

There is a law in the EU that is similar, you can’t have systems making automated decisions about people without the decision being explained to the people you make them about.

This is part of the reason EU companies don’t use crappy automated filtering in their ATS systems.

maynarkh,

Like your mom.

maynarkh,

And you would still get caught on the company device trusting company CAs, thus enabling them to decrypt all your traffic.

Use a personal device on a personal network for personal stuff.

maynarkh,

I love the fact that firing me what the person you’re answering mentioned is illegal here.

Peace of mind.

maynarkh,

Just as soon as Linux sales people wine and dine the CTO better than the Microsoft ones. Usually it’s not IT people. If it was up to IT in my experience, Jan from Accounting would be using a tiling VM on Linux.

maynarkh,

But they can still be rented from the government which can still own people as long as they had some drugs planted on them, right? I mean you just went into Slavery-as-a-Service instead of a proper ownership model.

maynarkh,

Yep, but the social credit score thing AFAIK is not really implemented that thoroughly or at all. This thing is pervasive in the US and people keep defending it for some reason.

maynarkh,

In the Netherlands I went from not being a customer to making a phone call at the carrier in 10 minutes, while being in a third country. It really isn’t hard. And I have a Fairphone, so not even a mainstream brand.

maynarkh,

If you think Apple will implement these changes outside the E.U. you gotta be insane.

I’m interested in the logistics of this. I’m an EU citizen, I prefer using Signal for my messaging, but I do my share of Whatsapp with some people. What the EU mandates is that Apple provides an open API for everyone else to implement sending messages with to iMessage. So as an EU citizen, I will need to be able to use the API to send messages to other EU citizens. Will I be also able to send messages to people outside of the EU or will the API just say that’s not permitted? Does that infringe on my rights as an EU citizen? If it does, and I need to be permitted, will a group chat for example stop working as I leave if I’m the only European?

Hey Linux devs - Build a GUI or gtfo

Not everything actually requires a GUI, obviously. But anything that requires configuration, especially for controlling a hardware device, should have a fully functional GUI. I know Linux is all about being in control, and users should not be afraid to use the command line, but if you have to learn another bespoke command syntax...

maynarkh,

Apparently it has something called “advanced options” in the setup for sound cards, so maybe it can.

maynarkh,

Would commercializing the trained AI count as a commercial public performance though? The legal problems with AI don’t come with the training, but when you start selling it.

maynarkh,

IMO the biggest difference between standards in flying and driving is the training and requirements toward operators. Imagine having a DUI being a strong indicator that you’ll never drive again, or basic driver training taking 50 driven hours, in addition to stringent theoretical tests.

Or people needing to check their cars for safe operation every time they start it, and omitting it being a crime.

Or a significant percentage of the population being just medically disqualified from driving, especially over 60 years of age.

It would be a different world for sure.

maynarkh,

Yeah, as the pinnacle of human achievement, we need to bring traffic congestion to the skies.

maynarkh,

Let me be a bit more optimistic:

Mass surveillance

I think we’re already there, and despite the fact you can see laws signed that would point to more surveillance, you can’t ban encryption effectively. It’s kinda hard to ban maths, much harder than weed or booze, and see how they went. Point is, these laws IMO drive awareness of the issue, and everyone can just encrypt their stuff easily, and enforcement of a ban on that is near impossible.

Regionalistic Economies in place of globalism

That’s the geopolitical dream of some countries … but I don’t see the current world order in trade buckling. That said, let’s say that the current world order changes by the USD losing the world’s biggest reserve currency status, what then? Will some countries simply not trade with others because of that? Maybe some pecking orders will rearrange themselves, but no one is interested in destroying the system, people just want their country to dictate instead of the US.

Widening wealth disparity

I don’t think it can widen much more, as the pendulum swings both ways. See how socio-economic woes destabilized the US. We either fix the billionaire problem in a legal orderly fashion, or it resolves itself in an uglier way. It can’t get much worse than this without social order breaking down, and then it’s all moot. The rich can move to their New Zealand bunkers or the Moon to escape the mob, it’s not that much different from them dying or going to prison as far as the rest of the world is concerned.

Intensified distrust of our governments

Have we ever trusted them? And to be honest, should we trust them? I mean I think governments are less untrustworthy than corporations, but still, they have power, and thus should be scrutinized. And besides, the loonies who always vote for the biggest idiot already don’t trust the government. If this growing distrust results in more participation in politics from decent people who just want to live their lives, that’s a good thing.

maynarkh,

I haven’t been playing a lot of CS for a while, but this does not sit well with me:

CS2 will only be available on PC and will be free to play. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be replaced by this game.

CSGO, despite being eleven years old, is now enjoying a golden time. Indeed, the game reached a new activity record four months ago with 1,818,773 concurrent users.

People are enjoying CSGO, and the owners are going to yank it because they don’t want to compete with its popularity.

maynarkh,

I don’t get what the serde maintainers get by shipping precompiled binaries. Can someone enlighten me?

maynarkh,

I’m a huge fan of the originals, still boot Black Hawk Down up from time to time.

Judging from the trailer, this is not a reboot of the series, but a Battlefield 2042 / Call of Duty mashup multiplayer hero shooter. Except I guess less polished. Kinda bummed out to see the owners of the IP use it for such a blatant trend chasing cash grab.

maynarkh,

The Western world, try anywhere. I’m from Eastern Europe and I haven’t had a data cap even on my mobile network for a while.

I’ve never even seen even offers of data capped wire connections in person.

maynarkh,

Can’t, it’s an e-sim.

But you can get your own for 30 EUR here with no data cap, or 10 EUR with a data cap.

maynarkh,

The NL.

maynarkh,

Never has a teaser got my interest so much in the first few seconds only to slam it to zero just seconds later.

Starts off with a nice thematic shot of something that could be Black Hawks flying over Fallujah … oh yeah, we get a Black Hawk Down remake, gotta go clear my calendar. A few shots of stealth gameplay … well, not what the original was about, but why not?

“Recon arrow, out!” … “Powering up, let’s do this!” … and a dude outrunning a tank in a shot where everyone fires only tracer rounds. Meh.

Why does every studio have to release the same game over again? A while ago it was all battle royales, now everyone is releasing hero shooters.

Just don’t call it Delta Force then if it’s not a real sequel to the originals. This is more like Overwatch: Fallujah.

maynarkh,

I’d be careful around interpreting any challenge to big business as the doing of hostile foreign powers. That line of thought rationalizes corporations being above the rule of law, which is kinda fascistic.

maynarkh,

Since the DMCA, just the circumvention of copyright protection measures is a crime. It’s stupid, but the point is that even if training AI on the data is completely legal, if the data was protected with something that is also used to protect copyright, and you needed to circumvent that to get access even for legitimate purposes, you’ve broken a law.

Copyright has been made obtuse and stupid and damaging to society by big IP holders, it’s just now there’s big corps on the “infringing” side too. This will get interesting.

maynarkh,

Multiple, actually. There is one for the government, and one for the city of Amsterdam.

maynarkh,

What’s up with them? Never heard of the place, it seems they are into… visual novels?

maynarkh,

The point I think is that a “console” is from a certain PoV a locked down piece of hardware only able to run certain software in certain ways. So eg. Stadia was a console, while AWS virtual desktops are not, despite both being just VMs running on some cloud service.

Point is, it’s the software that makes a console, not the hardware.

maynarkh,

TBH it’s not like one religion is worse than others in this way. We’d still have the same state-adopted weirdness, except we would be arguing about whether Jupiter is for sex ed or not.

That said, it would be interesting to see how Islam would have ended up looking like if there is not a lot of Christians to take inspiration from.

New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 (youtu.be)

No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.

maynarkh,

Upgradable RAM isn’t as fast as non-upgradable RAM

Really? Why though? Is soldered-in RAM attached differently to the CPU?

maynarkh,

Only thing is that repair technically should belong to “prolong” I think, so even more desireable.

maynarkh,

Yes, but the point of the law is that apps that you install that are not from the official store actually have to work. It even has clauses so that installing stuff from different sources than Apple can’t intentionally be a worse experience than the official app IIRC. That might be just for messaging though.

maynarkh,

I’m not a motorbike person, but couldn’t they sell a 50 cent plastic thingy you could screw on instead of the cap that would make it go into some container even?

maynarkh,

I don’t know about China, but Biden is really throwing stones from glass houses here as the leader of a country which is teetering on the edge of civil war, had a full blown insurrection in the past few years, and not only has it failed to prosecute the leader and instigator, it has allowed him to run for election again and there is a possibility of him being elected.

And this is not mentioning that so many in the highest offices “on both sides” are so hilariously corrupt in a country with its national ethos being “the land of the free”.

I’m not happy about this by the way, I don’t think a world order built by China would be better than the shitty one we got from the US.

maynarkh,

I think there is a difference between “capitalism” and “capitalism”.

I think a more nuanced argument is that better games come from companies that are not primarily driven by the quarterly revenue cycle of Wall Street, that is defined as “capitalism”.

I think it’s more of a hit-and-miss, and good corporate leadership is the kind that people forget it’s there when good games come out. I mean CDPR had a CEO both when Witcher 3 was the thing, and also when Cyberpunk 2077 was the thing that flopped. Obviously, people were more interested in the beancounters’ influence in the latter case.

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