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alilbee ,

Subnautica: Way Above Zero

alilbee ,

I agree with this in principle (and I know it's just a meme and I'm taking it too seriously) but how do we still allow for people who take pride in their trade or craft, even if the majority value has been stolen by a megacorp? I work for one of those huge soulless corps. Sometimes, every once in a great while, I enjoy working on something I've built. I'll put in more hours than I have to just because I'm having a good time or whatever. I guess that's still separate from the "being on my grindset" culture of doing that all the time though.

Idk, thinking out loud here.

alilbee ,

I'm in the same boat. Hell, sometimes I can even get into the groove on something useless. It's more for me though, not for my employer. Wouldn't the "grindset" people say the same though?

alilbee ,

I'm not disputing that, but the meme kinda is? I guess what I'm getting at is asking where the line is between gross overwork grind culture and taking pride in your work and possibly working a bit more as an investment in that regard. Other people have had some good thoughts here. I think it's just about watching yourself and your motivations for working to ensure you haven't fallen into the trap.

alilbee ,

I don't believe it would be, actually? Both of your examples do not resemble any of the listed sub-items. Holding all Jewish people responsible for those items would be antisemitic, but they do also explicitly mention that any criticism that could be leveled at another state is valid. Comparing them to the Nazis is a no go, but it sounds as if you can accuse the state of Israel of apartheid or genocide and that is still not antisemitism under this bill.

To be clear, I am opposed to this law and believe it will have a chilling effect on speech. I just don't think your examples above would be in violation.

alilbee ,

Sorry, that "explicit" was referring to another page from the same source I saw referenced elsewhere in regards to this bill. I'll retract that unless I can find it again.

Are the legal experts saying your examples above would be a violation? Do you have a link to that? If you are referring to the linked article, I'm not sure I'm seeing these two examples listed. Again, just want to emphasize I'm with yall on the bill here. I just want to actually understand and discuss the limits that might be applied here.

alilbee ,

I'm with you that the primary purpose of this bill is to chill speech. It could have been useful in less charged times but there is zero possibility of passing anything like this without the current zeitgeist interfering in either direction. Regardless, I just cannot agree with your interpretation here. In the current landscape, the hypothetical arguments you presented don't follow logic that a court would follow.

Accusing Israel of apartheid is not the same as the wording of the text, which is to assert that the existence of Israel itself is racist. Saying Israel did something that Nazi Germany did is not drawing a comparison in the same way that me saying you breathe air is not comparing you to Hitler. I would have to assert "you are like Hitler because you breathe air like he did" to draw a comparison.

I also cannot get down with "they said 'but not limited to' so it could literally be anything". That's standard boilerplate stuff that is only saying the definition cannot explicitly list every example of antisemitic behavior. It's not meant to stretch the definition out.

Frankly, I think this bill is dumb. It's obviously meant as a deterrent for pro-Palestinian voices. The danger in this bill will be in the implementation and enforcement. However, I don't see anything inherently wrong with the definition of antisemitism used by the bill.

alilbee ,

Wagging can be in any position depending on the dog's mood

alilbee ,

Boggy the froggy! I got the plush and was very pleased. Love the paint job!

alilbee ,

Oh christ, there goes Terraform... That really sucks.

alilbee ,

Most of my clients were not impacted by that change, since it was more related to building Terraform-adjacent tooling and not so much products built with Terraform. I was not a fan, but it didn't necessarily kill it as an option for me. This though... IBM will absolutely fuck this up.

alilbee ,

I hope that gets to the point where major players are able and willing to use it. I only have so much sway with my clients when it comes to tooling choice and open source options can be hard to sell to some enterprises until they hit a certain proliferation point.

alilbee ,

The outrage against TikTok, even a chunk of the privacy concerns, are 100% moral panic. The way people argue against it is the exact same way parents argued against video games, televisions, cars, or literally anything an older generation does not understand the appeal of to a younger generation. It's been beyond disappointing to watch the millennial generation perpetuate the cycle, even if I should have expected it.

The number one concern I see is "it's shortening their attention spans!" and that's just the biggest pile of nonsense. Teens have short attention spans and you're not one anymore, so you should stop judging the behaviors of the younger generation from your current behavior. Hell, Vine was more conducive to short attention spans and I didn't see anywhere near the levels of outrage.

alilbee ,

Or, maybe it was never quite so bad as we all believed? There is no doubt that the internet and social media impacted all of our lives and routines drastically, but I think some of the impacts of social media are exaggerated by layfolk just reacting to how they feel about it. There are tons of great studies showing its impact to the mental state of children and we have to work on that, but I don't think it has entirely uprooted the childhood experience. Just my two cents.

alilbee ,

Just disband Hamas

Anyone who has this thought needs to take some responsibility and realize they have no business having any "ideas" about what should happen with Israel and Palestine. It's the "let's replace all the school fountains with mountain dew dispensers" of adult politics. I'm genuinely baffled that someone could say that with a straight face.

alilbee ,

Oh this can absolutely happen at the less luxurious positions. For instance, FAANG (the big 5 tech companies, if you don't work tech like 3/4 of the Fediverse) can afford to pay salaries well above any other employers. We're talking 200k-400k here, not obscene billionaire-class stuff. Once they grab you, they can treat you worse once you get adjusted to the salary that no one else can match. I've seen it happen to a lot of people who end up miserable until they leave and have to go through the readjustment period.

alilbee ,

Wow, those are some serious Licensed Insurance Agent skills

alilbee ,

Really cool to see you over here on Lemmy, Tobias! I will definitely give this one a shot soon.

alilbee ,

Ahh man, didn't even notice. :(

alilbee , (edited )

Magic Research on mobile, which is a fantastic game if you haven't already played it. Still waiting on my next big PC incremental.

196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election.

I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

alilbee ,

There are multiple people advocating for it in this thread...

alilbee ,

It's the Fediverse. Go make/run your own. I'm no tankie fan, but if somebody puts in the work to set up and moderate a sub, they kinda get to own that space.

alilbee ,

Looking at the downmeter shot someone posted above, it's half the SREs in the country. Not sure what the root cause will be, but damn that's a lot of money down the tubes. I would not want to be the person who cost Meta and Google their precious thirty 9's of availability lol.

alilbee ,

The country where all of those services are maintained and hosted in... Just colloquial shorthand, not trying to be exclusionary.

alilbee ,

I've been an SRE for a few large corps, so I've definitely played this game. I'm with you that it was likely just the FB identity or ad provider causing most of these issues. So glad I'm out of that role now and back to DevOps, where I'm no longer on call.

alilbee ,

That's fair. Yall, I was really not trying to be shitty. It was just shorthand I used, thinking of their HQs. No ill intent intended and I apologize for any harm it caused.

alilbee ,

Yeah I'd be less worried about internal pressures (which should be minimal at a halfway decently run org) and more about the externals. I don't think you would actually end up dealing with anything, but I'd know those reliant huge corps are pissed.

Man, your on-call situation sounds rad! I was salaried and just traded off on-call shifts with my team members, no extra time off. Luckily though, our systems were pretty quiet so it hardly ever amounted to much.

alilbee ,

Electoral results for the last 50 years?

alilbee ,

Oh fwiw, I agree with your parent comment completely. It's just fairly self-evident that the majority of progressive voters are young, which is a demographic with turnout issues, historically. I think progressives both think that people who think like them are more numerous than they are (which is likely a bias of all citizens, if I had to guess) and that they have fairly unique issues with turnout given their age group. Either way, they have to adjust if they want to actually win or achieve anything on their own. Until then, they're gonna have to rely on those pesky pragmatic party politicians they hate so much.

alilbee ,

While everyone should be able to afford basic necessities like a vehicle and wages need to be increased across the board, the title is weird. You can work at a factory making a thing you can't afford and not have much of a problem with that. "I build cruise liners for a living. I can't afford to buy one." would be a strange statement.

alilbee ,

Please reread my first sentence.

alilbee ,

A car is a necessity, nobody is denying that and I state as much. To be clear, I think people should be able to afford cars. I just don't think it's weird to work at a factory where you make luxury items more expensive than the average person can afford.

alilbee ,

Yep, and I think that would have been a better title.

alilbee ,

It's alright, I'm willing to just take the L on this one. I just thought the title was inferring something that it seems some people don't.

alilbee ,

As I said in another reply, fair enough. I just read it in a way that inferred something it seems other people didn't.

EDIT: Fake screenshot about some facts from the Palworld development, very loosely based on a really interesting blog post from the dev that's linked in the post body. (programming.dev)

UPDATE: So, apparently it's mostly fake, taken from this article [translation] (where they even mention some kind of VCS)....

alilbee ,

I'm a DevOps person by trade, and I have been playing a lot of Palworld. This is my worst nightmare and I have no idea how any team bigger than one person could have done anything without basic source control. Guess it just goes to show that nobody cares about the details as long as you ship.

alilbee ,

Yeah, I have a colleague or two who have worked in that space. You could not pay me enough to work with their tools, conditions, and practices. Guess I'm in the wrong sub for that opinion, but I'm just a wanderer stopping by.

alilbee ,

God, I need a drink or two after reading that. Just chaos.

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