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snek , 4 days ago

Is this the next Chiquita?

snek , 6 days ago

No one requested self driving cars. Goodbye.

snek , 23 days ago

Is this article some kind of apple propaganda?

P. S: I fucking hate Windows.

snek , 25 days ago

No to all cults in general, as a rule of thumb

snek , 25 days ago

I found them to be useful because I usee to be in an erratic team where people either get a lot done or drag projects on for years. At least the project draggers had no place to hide when needing to report their project daily.

In my current job we only have these stand-up type meetings once weekly which made a big difference because many people had more interesting things to report and it wasn't some kind of lip service, instead people were genuinely haring progress.

snek , 1 month ago

Emphasis added. Storing files is not the problem. Nobody cared when they were just scanning and storing them. The problem arose when they started giving out copies. And worse, giving out copies without restriction - libaries “lend” ebooks by using DRM systems to try to ensure that only a specific number of copies are out “in circulation” at any given time, and so the big publishers have turned a blind eye to that.

But libraries do not do that to limit access... (I think, unless there is some kind of copyright law making it necessary to restrict access). Don't they do do that because they have a limited number of book copies that they need to maintain to meet the book lending demands in their area? Seems to me like they are just trying ro maximise people's access to books given the constraints. Any digital library can obviously do this much faster.

snek , 1 month ago

It's not only that it discriminated against certain groups, but also that it in itself has a high enough error rate to make it unusable for any decision making. MAYBE to select people for screening, but we would be falling further down into a dystopian future.

At the current performance, none if these AIs should be involved in anything this critical.

snek , 1 month ago

I fucking hate how OpenAi and other such companies claim their models "understand" language or are "fluent" in French. These are human attributes. Unless they made a synthetic brain, they can take these claims and shove them up their square tight corporate behinds.

snek , 1 month ago

This is not at all what I said. If a machine was complex enough to reason, all power to it. But these LLMs cannot.

snek , 2 months ago

And let's not get started on 'Employer Unions' like ALMEGA (which in my head is synonymous with Satan)

snek , 2 months ago

Exactly

I can heae beyond his buzzwords that what he means is that thibgs are awful and morale is low, and that he hopes it is now over but we all know it isn't.

snek , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

"THE WORKPLACE IS NOT FOR POLITICS"

— With love, your employer who is investing amounts of money beyond your comprehension in a government of a country now being tried for genocide with undenial and ongoing human rights violations.

snek , 2 months ago

Why is this a surprise to us? We had faith in humanity.

And is it really common in all workplaces?

snek , 2 months ago

Here in Sweden, firing an employee for giving an opinion on company policy is illegal. Just look at the Tesla union wars.

snek , 2 months ago

Just because communism also sucks does not mean that capitalism has not ruined our lives.

snek , 2 months ago

They can be fired for misconduct, yes, What makes you think protests or giving opinons on work related mtter, possibly supoorted by a union, would be interpreted as "misconduct"? Can you give an example of a case like that where misconduct was having an issue with selling products to war criminals or similar?

snek , 2 months ago

Can you show that in Sweden?

If not maybe you could stop pretending to misunderstand a simple fact.

snek , 2 months ago

Can you give me the exact law that says this would be the case in Sweden?

snek , 2 months ago

Fair grounds for dismissal means that an employee is behaving in an undesirable way and is aware that the behaviour is not acceptable. As an employer, you are therefore obliged to make the employee aware that you consider their behaviour to be improper.

Misconduct, such as failure to cooperate, incompetence and poor work performance, can be fair grounds for dismissal on grounds of misconduct.

So yes, again we agree, there is a law of misconduct. Can you demonstrate any reasonable example where an employer in Sweden was fired on such grounds because they protest peacefully against their own company making an unethical deal with a questionable government or the like?

Also your tone is just shit.

snek , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

We both agree that misconduct is a thing. We disageew on what miscobduct means. I hope that makes it clear.

Have you read that article btw?

I am not sure what exactly you are asking me to show.... in Sweden (as said in the link you posted and as I already know by actually working in Sweden for years) is that you have to warn workers of msiconduct and they can appeal your decision if it's dumb as fuck (like what Google did). Do you have any reason at all to believe that workers in Sweden would be fired in a similar way? I don'y think so. This shit does not happen here, and there are mechanisms that give employees and unions power to stop it.

Like read this shit:

Google fired workers who willingly left the sit-in when asked by company officials, and also fired some workers who “had just stopped by to chat,” Hasan Ibraheem, one of the Google workers who was arrested and fired, said Monday during a news conference.

so do you have any case whatsoever that shows that this shit would fly at a Swedish company? One where it was legally challenged at least? If no, then what exactly is your point?

PS: sorry can't be bothered to fix spelling lol. Your tone was so crap that it even put me off trying to explain my point. You cannot fire people in Sweden for doing whay those employees at Google did.

snek , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I want to say I understand your point. You sre saying misconduct laws are vague and that allows employers to fire employees for BS. You also seem to think those Google employees committed some kind of 'misconduct'. I disagree.

The issue in my opinion is that you are basing it on the law sounding vague... and
ignoring the part where employees would
receive warnings that first and foremost makes it clear to them that such a thing is regarded as misconduct and could lead to.termination... and you are ignoring that in is able to appeal the decision with the help of a union representative. Then you are ignoring all free speech laws and the fact that this is not a common culture or occurrence in Sqeden .

I work in Sweden and have read the law a million times. I also raised problems at work and challenged authority and was never fired nor sent to HR or anything like that. There are laws in Sweden that act as a safety net to prevent employers from firing a person for such trivial shit. Has this ever happened? If no one seems to interpret this as misconduct in Sweden, then where is your claim coming from?

So allow me to rephrase the question to you in a more civil way: aside from the "law being vague", do you have reason(s) to believe that staging a sitdown as protest in Sweden or having coffee and a chat with people staging a reasonable peaceful and coordinated protest in Swede would get you fired?

This may be the case for some European countries (I have no idea and won't speak our of my asa about places I don't know much about) but not Sweden. If you never worked here, then you may not understand how Swedish law and unions work exactly with cases like this. I am quite thankful to live in this kind of society where my employer cannot fire me just because they would rather fund the literal mutilation of thousands of children and be complicit in international human rights violations.

And for the example you cited: as someone who has worked in Stockholm specifically and works there now: no, that would not be grounds to fire you, and you can appeal by law and get help from your union representative.

If you are unaware of Swedish law, I would advice that you avoid generalizing European laws to Sweden

snek , 2 months ago

Seems to me that the problem is bankers. Not the average Joe

snek , 2 months ago

I think you misread Swedish law and are (on purpose?) misreading what happened at Google. I have nothing more to say other than the above in my previous comments. Have a nice day.

snek , 2 months ago

It depends where you are in the world. In the Middle East, even a deepfake of you naked could get you killed if your family is insane.

snek , 2 months ago

Would it be any different if you learn how to sketch or photoshop and do it yourself?

snek , 2 months ago

I am not saying anyone should do it and don't need some internet stranger to police me thankyouverymuch.

snek , 2 months ago

This is the only good answer.

snek , 2 months ago

And if you have to say that, you're already sounding like some judgy jerk.

snek , 2 months ago

They cannot articulate why. Some people just get shocked at "shocking" stuff... maybe some societal reaction.

I do not see any issue in using this for personal comsumption. Yes, I am a woman. And yes people can have my fucking AI generated nudes as long as they never publish it online and never tell me about it.

The problem with these apps is that they enable people to make these at large and leave them to publish them freely wherever. This is where the dabger lies. Not in people jerking off to a picture of my fucking cunt alone in a bedroom.

snek , 2 months ago

Creepy to you, sure. But let me add this:

Should it be illegal? No, and good luck enforcing that.

snek , 2 months ago

Lol you'd be surprised...isn't this one of those things people would do in private but never admit in public (because of people likr you getting all touchy and creeped out by it)?

snek , 2 months ago

I think anyone claiming otherwisw would be lying most likely.

snek , 2 months ago

You can feel whatever you want.

snek , 2 months ago

Everyone has imagined someone naked at some point. Do you feel the same? How do you feel about yourself?

snek , 2 months ago

I vote for adding the tails os logo too

snek , 2 months ago

I meant tails as one tool people use specifically for added security.

snek , 2 months ago

This is more Musk spam than it is tech-related.

snek , 2 months ago

Why is that "r" stuck to that "m"?

snek , 3 months ago

Religion is about shit that is not real. Linux is about good engineering and open source software.

Big fat downvote for this pathetic attempt st being provocative.

snek , 3 months ago

Except all of it is true and tested. :/

Ps: have you ever heard anyone say "Islam/Sikhism/AnyOtherReligion is easy"?

No. Because it's a really dumb comparison.

snek , 3 months ago

I am fun, just not in the presence of bs and cheap jokes.

snek , 3 months ago

Whatever you need to say to make yourself feel better.

snek , 3 months ago

Sure, but then your meme format isn't reflecting that so clearly.

snek , 3 months ago

The meltdown is over really crappy logic.

snek , 3 months ago

Good. May they forever stay down. Who cares.

snek , 8 days ago

No one ever requested screens instead of buttons. It's probably some BS some CEO came up with and forced the engineers to implement.

snek , 4 months ago

Often companies have layoff packages that pay workers X months of pay as a severance agreement, doesn't that mean they would be paying triple wages for some number of employees? Wouldn't that bring their costs up?

snek , 4 months ago

Thanks for the explanation