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- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
My Github Actions configurations will bankrupt entire continents
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Random side tangent, my favourite coworker got fired last year. The real reason was that she was unhappy (manager has been promising a change to a team that isn’t as dogshit as mine, but not delivering on it) so her output of code was pretty low. It took a year for the company to actually go through with the firing, and since “not delivering enough output” is not a valid reason for firing someone here, they had to give “the company does not have enough money to pay for you” as a reason. They gave her 3 months of paid leave (that’s the agreed duration for notices of termination, anything less would have been illegal) and wanted her to sign something that says she’s okay with being fired. She was smart enough to not do that.
Because she could prove that the company did have enough money to pay her (they re-filled her position almost instantly) she could have sued to be re-hired. Well, she went back to the company and was like “okay, how much severance will I get to not sue you?” and she got another 15k on top of her paid leave. It was a pretty good deal. Oh, and she also got an excellent recommendation letter, because you can also sue a company if they say anything negative about you in their recommendation letters (there are lawyers specialized in finding hidden dog whistles in those letters and suing accordingly).
German worker’s rights really are pretty solid imo. My company isn’t even bound by a union, the protections are much stricter for companies that are. My husband works for a company that voluntarily follows IG Metall guidelines and he got a random 4k/year raise recently just because IG Metall adjusted their pay recommendations. And government jobs are even crazier than that, there are some where you literally cannot be fired whatever you do.
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Basically any kind of employee surveillance is illegal (here in Germany) unless the employee is suspected of serious misconduct or a crime. An employer is only allowed to check whether an employee fulfills the tasks given to them, not how they spend their time at work.
I make software that other companies use and we aren’t allowed to even build any user -> activity metrics, especially not if that users boss could access them. So i.e. for Datasets, we’re only allowed to show “This Dataset was last edited by User x” and not “User x has edited the following Datasets: […]”.
Here’s a German article about some specifics. Basically these things are very explicitly illegal: Keyloggers, surveilling browser data, surveilling email or phone call contents (unless explicit consent is given) and recording any part or the employees screen or from their webcam. Surveilling an employee with AI would definitely fall into one of these categories. oh, and the fine is around 300k€ or 1-2 years in prison.I’m pretty sure other European countries have similar laws 😄
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
Luckily something like that is highly illegal here haha
- Comment on who would win 1 week ago:
I don’t like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
There’s a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that’s unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer. - Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 1 week ago:
Excellent application letter for a paramedic job tbh.
- Comment on Im pan so anyone can apply 1 week ago:
Non-European spotted 🫵 We just bike to each other’s houses to fuck, if our countries touch we’re close enough.
- Comment on My first radishes just started sprouting!! 1 week ago:
ooh neat, I’ll be putting and new radish developments in the coming weeks there then ^^
- Comment on My first radishes just started sprouting!! 1 week ago:
Well I’m vegan, so I gotta find alternative ways to use all that pulled pork 🤷
- Comment on My first radishes just started sprouting!! 1 week ago:
It’s from Action! Here’s a link: www.action.com/de-de/p/2567006/anzuchttisch/
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- Comment on new instance, same me🫶 1 week ago:
Oh, why’d you switch? Not that world is bad, but why world of all places? :0
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 2 weeks ago:
Behold: Metten’s “Dicke Sauerländer Bockwurst” (Thick Sauerländer Sausage - Sauerländer is an ambiguous term that means to say the sausage is from the “Sauerland” region, but a person from that region would be referred to as a Sauerländer as well) Image
- Comment on wir suchen dich‼️‼️🗣️📢📢 2 weeks ago:
I disagree, because them still searching at least means they haven’t found you yet.
Wir haben dich gefunden 👁️👁️
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, I’m on the side of the normal people for once.
Stacking your coins like that (and holding them in order in your pocket/hand) would warm the coins up because you touched them, and there’s nothing worse than warm coins. - Comment on The worst Italian mobster names you can think of 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 2 weeks ago:
Would be an option, firing someone after their trial period (usually 3 months) is over is an incredible pain in the ass around here lol
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit, I applied to that company a few days ago. Guess I’ll be telling them to fuck right off when they call back
- Comment on meat honey 2 weeks ago:
They need to make a Dominion 2 just for this kinda shit
- Comment on But I'm a Nice Guy(TM)! 2 weeks ago:
It’s also completely useless if self-assessed. Literally everybody thinks they’re nice, it takes a third party to verify that claim.
- Comment on Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Confidence is important 2 weeks ago:
MinTaxxing
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You mean the holey land?
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 2 weeks ago:
I zonked out on the couch last night and dreamt that my husband got himself a snake too. Woke up sweaty at 4am and scrambled to find a similar looking one on morph market while I still remembered the dream. Her name was Pipper 🥹
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost warm enough for dresses again 😎
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I like your posts bc they’re relatable
- Comment on Somewhere out there, there may be an alien life form imagining how terrible a planet with molten dihydrogen monoxide in the atmosphere might be. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, there’s a great Asimov short story about this! Victory Unintentional (1942)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
User was kicked from the polycule for this message
- Comment on Put the shoes on 3 weeks ago:
Right, it oughta be at least 90°C to be nice and comfy
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oooh, I interpreted the questions as fishing for their answers to common password security questions haha
