kattfisk

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just shifting the tax burden from salaries toward capital should make it less of a problem. When capital income is taxed less than salaries wealth concentration gets worse as workers are replaced.

  But hey, GDP line goes up, so it must be good right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Great Engineering Orgs Thrive on "Normal" Engineers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Moving fast doesn’t have to mean poor workmanship.

  To make an analogy, if you want to be able to make a cup of coffee fast, you need to make sure that the coffee beans, the water, and the brewer are all near each other, that there is electricity and that the water is running. These are all things that enable you to move fast, but they don’t decrease quality, if anything they increase quality because you aren’t wasting time and effort tackling obstacles unrelated to brewing.

  Which is in fact the point of the article. That you should make sure you have a good development environment, with support systems and processes, so that you can work effectively even if your developers are not savants. Rather than trying to hire people who are good enough to do a decent job even in the worst environments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that wouldn’t make much difference. I don’t think I’ve seen a real world attack via SMS that even bothered to “forge” the from-field. People are used to getting texts from unknown numbers.

  And how would you possibly implement this supposed “caller-id” for a field that doesn’t even have to be set to a number?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Blaming the victim solves nothing.

  Scamming is a rapidly growing industry that is becoming more professional and specialized all the time. Anyone can be scammed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote the most salient post

  The app doesn’t provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.

  Which is a sorely needed feature to tackle problems like SMS scams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps it was a poor choice of words, when I said “organizing” I meant everything required to run an event (with thousands attending). From planning and programming to picking trash and cleaning toilets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it was just a very dirty, tough job requiring some specialized equipment and skills. Are you saying it’s somehow fundamentally different from other human activities?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience organizing non-profit events have shown that most people actually have no problem doing dirty jobs for no material compensation. If the following things are true:

  1. They understand why the job is important
  2. They feel responsible for the job (usually comes from being given autonomy and trust)
  3. They get recognition for doing it (social rewards are actually very powerful)
  4. No one else is getting compensated either.

  I understand that this seems foreign to a lot of people, because this is not how work is generally motivated in capitalist society. You are used to your job being rather unimportant, with little autonomy, little trust, not much recognition from society and some people definitely profiting more than others. Your primary motivator is the threat of violence (via homelessness, starvation etc.), so it’s hard to imagine what would happen if that was removed.

  That to me is the core idea of Anarchism, to base your organization on volontary cooperation rather than coercion.

  An interesting side-note is that the people who do the dirty jobs in these circumstances often take great pride in it, forming an identify around doing what others are not willing to and calling attention to it as a way to get more recognition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI and megaplatforms take over, the hyperlinks that built the web may face extinction⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s essentially just a bunch of pre-made css classes that do a specific thing that you mix and match from.

  AFAIK the programmatic part is so your served CSS file will only include the classes you actually use, rather than all available ones. You could always just not do that.

  It always seemed to me like one of the least overengineered front end tools.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the tech labor market has really proven that the idea of employment contracts being negotiated between equal parties isn’t true even in the best of circumstances.

  Even when companies are desperate for talent, and willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money on salaries and perks, they are not willing to negotiate on anything outside of that. They still have terrifying contracts with non-compete and damages clauses they could use to wreck your life, no workplace democracy, unpaid overtime and whatever other shit is legal.

  But hey! You get free snacks and enough money to buy the dinners you don’t time to cook and save up to survive your inevitable burn out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless unions work differently where you live, they are a democracy that will pursue whatever issues its members vote on. If members don’t think pay is a problem, why would they try to change it?