kayazere

@kayazere@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CEO will come out and say employees are more productive when forced to work 5 days at week. When asked to see the data, they will say trust me, I’ve seen the internal studies from X Big Tech company. Same exact playbook as work from home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe Valve just has a flat hierarchy, but not worker owned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tech-coops.xyz seems to have a list of companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One answer to capitalist companies seeking to maximize profit at all costs are worker owned companies. When the workers are in control of the business decisions, they won’t vote for the decisions going against themselves.

  Sadly, I don’t know that many worked owned tech companies. One example is www.igalia.com

  If more people would be willing to start work owned companies rather than your typically capitalist startup, we could have more options.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best New And Emerging Technologies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve’s Steam Deck is the only piece of technology to come out over this past decade that is exciting. Desktops/laptops and smartphones have completely stagnated. Proprietary OSes with each release are introducing more user hostile features and spyware. The Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air with it not being locked down and you can install whatever you want, as it includes a full KDE desktop environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops, I thought it said “not opt out”. Too early in the day apparently 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Allow third-party app stores for Android, and let those app stores distribute all the same apps as are available in Google Play (app developers can opt out of this);

  Developers should definitely be able to pick with AppStores their apps are distributed in. This seems strange they can’t opt out.

  Pretty sure Fdroid doesn’t want PlayStore spyware apps.