Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Do not trust them personally: Hypothetically, imagine you're a Mastodon instance operator and you're contacted by some Facebook employee about a relationship between your instance and some Facebook project. Imagine this employee is nice, really Gets It, seems sincere. This employee doesn't actually hold any power! If you trust this person you'll find a couple years later the person you were talking to has either been suddenly replaced or that they cannot follow through on their promises.

I would like to strongly offer this advice:

- Do not trust Facebook, ever -

Do not trust them as a market participant: If you look at their company history, every time Facebook is afraid their MAU dominance will be challenged by some new platform, they just buy it. Instagram, Whatsapp, Oculus.

Do not trust them as a platform: What Instagram users can tell you is once they have you locked in, the features you liked about your now-bought platform will disappear in favor of monetization

FUCK WEBP

QUIT GOOGLE

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@SecurityWriter it was either this or sleep.

Saying that ChatGPT "can't yet provide reliably correct answers to questions" is like saying your cat can't yet provide reliable services as a paralegal

added an nginx useragent directive to make my website render correctly on google chrome

LGBTQIACAB spotted in Bratislava, Slovakia

“Shitposting is an anagram of Top Insights.”

Ah things I learn on the Fediverse

New touch lamp extension #cat

Periodic reminder to descale your SiliconGraphics IRIS Indigo.
Don't wait for the L1 cache to clog up! #espressigo

The funniest/saddest thing about tech bosses fighting unions so hard is that many of the very same things they complain non-stop about their employees would vanish with a healthy and strong union.

Worries about employees hopping from company to company? Offer them a pension and unions have perks and promotions based on seniority, people won't be leaving.

Struggling with DEI initiatives? Giving the Union rep a seat at the table means that you'll be rid of toxic managers and keep your most valuable diverse employees.

Struggling with recruiting talent? A clear union contract showing what the company will give in exchange for what expectations, you'll have a whole class of people who want stability over chasing the highest paycheck beating a path to your doorstep.

Activist shareholders bullying you about needing to do layoffs even when you know it's not going to actually benefit the company? Tell the investors "Sorry, but we can't do layoffs without risking Labor action." The Activist investors will go away and you'll get more investors who want to hold for the long haul.

Worried about hostile takeovers? Not with a union. Vulture capital will leave your business far alone - Unions are their kryptonite.