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Gorgritch_Umie_Killa

@ Gorgritch_umie_killa @aussie.zone

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    'Everyone is unhappy': Meta employees describe a grim environment as the company reportedly prepares to axe roughly 8,000 workers

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  • I think awareness of the Fediverse, or the social web, is much lower than the people involved would assume. I'd think people in tech would have a greater awareness, but maybe thats not even a true assumption.

  • A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy.

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  • Ha! I like it!

  • A software engineer at Atlassian got laid off in March after 8 years. His response: a 38-minute YouTube video showing how the company's entire tech works, free for anyone to copy.

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  • I don't know if this is really effective revenge. An understanding of the software isn't why businesses outsource to a company like Atlassian. Its convenience. If Atlassian's product is good enough why build your own?

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  • Thats 8000 people with experience running social media that could use their knowledge and wealth to build the Fediverse and competitively reduce Meta's monopoly.

    If even a small group of them realise the agency they have, it could be damaging to Meta, and an acceptable form of growth for the Fediverse as a whole.

    I'm assuming anybody that works at Meta still now must be so signed up to their horrible practices, so i don't expect much from former Meta employees. I'd be happy to be surprised though.

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    "Counterterrorism" now officially means targeting trans people. The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

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  • Sex and ... rules.. can be fun... ;)

  • What questions do interviewers need to stop asking during a job interview?

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  • They're easy to spot. Their last job is always at a phone company.

  • Who recognizes who around here?

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  • Scrolled through found many recognisable names ladybutterfly, kolanaki, lots of others.

    Didn't see Blaze@piefed.zip shout out required.

    Its interesting a lot of the names I see are definitely found in the 'all' crowd of lemmy, but theres lots of users who are prolific, but spend their time in more secluded areas of the network that i'd recognise.

  • Jeffries says Trump impeachment not a top priority if Dems win House majority

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  • I was leaning toward, 'without winning the Senate its a waste of time when there are so many other pressing concerns.'

    But no, you're right, they have to walk and chew pedo-gum at the same time. They have to take action against the ongoing national threat, and they have to move the country on from these people's dystopic vision of the US. Its a necessary part of the program.

    It'd also have the tactical benefit of distracting from the WH regime's program, and allow political space for wavering Republicans to push back against certain excesses lessening the damage the WH is able to carry out from that point.

  • FediForum Starts Tomorrow!

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  • Unable to attend an event as its too late at night for me where I am. Does anyone know if theres recordings posted anywhere? I'd like to see what people talk about in these more free flowing sessions. Plus a couple of the speakers opening the days look interesting.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • Good list.

  • What tv show has the best theme song?

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  • As in "bert feed me!!" Trapdoor?

  • Oat milk w/ coffee: ya or na?

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  • Thus was my process, looked through the shops picked up ones on special. Tbh I found a lot of them were quite good. There was only one online one that was a complete bust. Nimbus, there wasn't much to like about it.

  • Oat milk w/ coffee: ya or na?

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  • Ha! I switched to Oat milk for coffee last year, after trying a few, i've landed on the Aldi unsweetened one as well. I don't need mine particularly creamy, and its a consistently low price in comparison, which is nice.

    Still haven't been game enough to go down the weetbix/weetabix road with it though. So a ways to go yet.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • We won't agree of course. Everything you've said other people in other countries do as well. The point about the monkeys and history is to show that these are underlying social factors, not something unique to US people alone.

    For a better future the US should see themselves in and of the people of rest of the world. Recognising aspects of themselves in others, then seeing how things are done differently is a primary way to making a better world, exceptionalism, even if virtuous, threatens to get in the way of that. I don't believe for a second you don't already know this though our conclusions are just different.

    Anyway, you've an interesting perspective. In your sharp critiscism of the US leadership I feel like theres also a demand for things to be done differently, and a genuine outrage that these people committing the atrocities we've been referring to in your homes name.

  • How do we reduce toxicity on the Fediverse, and on the wider internet?

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  • Living up to your name with this comment doomsider ;). I like your bonobo example, shows theres often other ways to handle things. Theres a lot to that comment, so i'm going to try to pick the key ideas in each area and directly address them.

    Fascism used so broadly becomes woolly. Certainly you could describe MBS' Saudi Arabia as a fascist regime by following definitions. But it doesn't get at the whole picture of that Authoritarian Monarchy. For example because there is no organised 'opposition' as such to suppress. Be it trade unions, opposing political parties. So calling everything fascist hides useful differences that helps understand how people across the world have freedoms or are oppressed in different ways.

    The suffering the US has caused? Its a lot, but USAID saved millions as well, always weigh in good things done by a people, it may amount to nothing, but its intellectually dishonest to ignore. The key is were the US actions that caused suffering more or even with Mao's Great Leap forward, the Bengal Famine, many more examples abound. The only unique suffering the US has ever caused is the nuclear attacks on Japan, and that was chosen in part due to the perceived larger loss caused by a US and allies ground invasion. What could have happened to the East Asia region if Stalin's Russia were more involved? I think more suffering.

    Europe is an interesting case from the 1700's, and certainly earlier than that, to compare to. Because its there that you have the most well known to the Wsstern mind progenitor to the Nation State model we live in today. Its not really the enlightenment that changed attitudes, plenty of people couldn't give a fig about a lot of the enlightenment ideas, and went on their merry way suppressing, murdering and extracting the wealth of other parts of the world. Every European country is guilty of this througout that time, just like the US. The key point though, is they didn't do it in Europe. Because there was a rules based society between those peoples, war was ongoing but organised, this is why the European Aristocracy completely freaked out when the French Revolution then Napolean happened, because it threatened to flip that rules based system the contolinent worked on.

    Systematic extermination has happened in many societies, the sack of the city of Troy might be a famous old example, the Rwandan Genocide is a new example. So systematic extermination of a population isn't unique to the US.

    So hopefully the violence and greed of humanity can be put to rest as a uniquely US trait.

    The real reasons for uniqueness though, you are right, come from the scale and abundance of the US.

    But its not ideological, its what I touched on with the French Revolution. The worst of crimes happen when the rules guiding the society are somehow suspended. And this is what happened with the US over and over again in different contexts.

    Below are some examples of the worst crimes where the rules guiding a society have for some reason been suspended, in this vacuum of instability is the most dangerous moment.

    • Bengal Famine 1943, in the course of the British total war effort (suspension) Churchill directs the required food supplies out of India.
    • Rwandan Genocide 1994, assassination of the President and resulting power vaccum and disarray (suspension) led to militias hunting down the Tutsi minority.
    • French Revolution, Estates General (suspension), storming of the Bastille (suspension) ,King Louis flight to Varennes (suspension), Thermidorean Reaction (suspension), Coup of 18th Brumaire introducing Napoleon (suspension), the White terror (suspension). The whole period from 1789 to the restoration is littered with suspensions of varying degrees, and like with all historic comparisons France makes an excellent comparison to the US.

    The suspension of the guiding societal rules is why canny commentators looking at the US are so intent upon the court system. If that breaks, then all bets are actually off. But the Orange Babboon's regime has been knocked back significantly more than they've won, so its hard to argue the courts are pliant, even with the Supreme Court's favourable ideological bias.

    Conclusion:

    Its not a barbaric ideological group of elites, although they may be there and present, its the moments in time and place where a suspension in the guiding rules of people are suspended.

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  • You're so right with all that you say. Except your admirable self deprecating US exceptionalism. US peeps shouldn't beat themselves up about the crimes or horrible acts their countrymen are/have done. Where and when any other country is in the same position individuals of those places act in the same ways. Cue every powerful and not so powerful civilisation in history. The rest of us it seems have to clean up their messes as best we can. It seems its a natural animal response that we as a species haven't been able to adequately address socially or civilisationally.

    I don't really know enough about the subject and how it relates. But these awful group dynamics aren't confined to humans alone, i feel like this article, Chimpanzees in Uganda's Kibale National Park wage lethal 'civil war', relates in an important way to the point you make in your comment.

  • Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle

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  • I don't know why software engineers being on lemmy, so are using activitypub, are so down and out about industry job cuts. Don't get me wrong, change of industry might be on the cards, but that doesn't mean being a software engineer stops, and these proof of concept sites and networks are a revelation.

    There are so many projects for software engineers. For example, Activitypub is the chance to develop a genuinely healthy market of small to medium sized networked social media sites that are far more reactive to users, unique, and experimental than the likes of engagement driven fb could ever be.

    I don't know, the rivers of gold might be over for a portion of 'big' tech software engineers, but it seems like a super exciting time to be in small enterprise software engineering, with the plethora amount of projects that could be being explored.

    Of course there are heaps of other non-social media software engineering small scale projects, i just focused on activitypub here because it seems so strange and obvious to a rando like me.

  • Trump on rising gas prices during Iran operation: 'If they rise, they rise'

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  • Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities

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  • Ah! Oh cool, but this would take geolocation. I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

    But as I type that i realise/remember your post here is primarily an introduction for potential instance operators, not so much a user base. So the geolocation as an 'issue' is likely far less important (not forgetting a user can just turn it off anyway).