qyron

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We could just regulate tech companies and outright ban some practices but since we apparently don’t have time for rational solutions…

  Well thought out sabotage can be written off to causality or involuntary human error.

  Not giving notice of lay off is an abusive work practice and only shows how far we’ve allowed work conditions to degrade.

  And that practice itself can be highly dangerous, if we consider a person can be midway into a complex task that can turn extremely difficult to follow by another: waste of time, resources, energy and money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Small acts of sabotage are easy to write off to causality, if well planned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stupid question but what is stopping the software engineers to poison the well?

  Insert malicious code, self destructing functions, have entire batches of code lost or corrupted, hardware damaged, etc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS always annoys me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A national supermarket chain has its own foundation and sometimes runs fund rallies for it, which they collect through their store front.

  What I stated comes from an explanation I was once given by an accountant. It works (or worked, hopefully) like that here, Portugal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS always annoys me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt your word. I paraphrased the explanation an accountant in my country (Portugal) gave me. It may work differently in other places and I sincerely hope so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I stand corrected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is officially getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used it for personal ends. But I’m curious to see if all the companies using as a work tool will divert from it.

  Signal.

  And IF I learn how to run Jammi, it will be my default communication application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS always annoys me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.

  According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.

  a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign

  This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.

  As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.

  b) You donate. But now it’s their money.

  Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.

  That money is held within the company’s vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.

  It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).

  c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you

  Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.

  This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.

  Want to do something good?

  Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don’t hand over money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, stupid heartless people are a dime a dozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A couple that lived near me had a little thai cat, a sweet of an animal. They would let the cat out daily.

  At some point, they just decided to leave the country and abandoned the cat.

  The creature became the neighbourhood boss. Killed several males in fights, some even larger, fought off dogs, became a ferouscious hunter and never agaim entered a house.

  That cat was king of the street for three years until one of his own blood dethrowned him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting question I really hadn't thought about⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jo jay!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that wine or paint? Wine washes off, unless you boil the stain into fabric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jo jay!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to risk that is going to last for a very long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a sure way to have this technology properly funded and true recycling being done: all sharks would jump at having the opportunity to make fuel at the price of pennies.

  But do we need more cars running on it as it is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that is interesting. From what and how?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d prefer they excreted gasoline and matches?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone loves some good food;⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to download and print this image, to keep a few copies around. But Lemmy won’t allow me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take care of Your friend.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There was once a version of this comic as a risqué meme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I read it, the more messed up it gets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does self hosting, at home, really pays off nowadays, or does hiring server space is a mandatory requirement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to risk that going back to personal websites would be a blast. And people would enjoy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t we go back? What’s stopping you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My keyboard doesn’t have that many symbols.

  I concede.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ==

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eventually, we’ll run out of these and enter proper discourse, with full sentences and long words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the intuition these would be for medication.

  But that raises another question: are these labels only manufactured by one entity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Still not enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not enough!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mild vandalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What type of products would be getting these?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And give him free atention? Nah.