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  • Pretty sure the 2nd advisor isn’t actually a computer scientist/developer or if they are they are absolutely employed as Technical Sales for a consulting company. Otherwise their answer would have looked incredibly similar.

  • About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off
  • Because money.

    When you sell to a big corporation their only goal is to milk every dollar possible.

    And it will keep happening again and again until the system changes or people with more conscience than greed decide not to sell to the highest bidder.

    It’s not good enough to be profitable. It’s good enough when your current workforce is at its breaking point because you can barely get the required work done. Then you announce record profits, the investment banks expect even more growth next quarter, the employees are thanked with a canned letter from the CEO for their hard work, you cut a division in half while increasing their work, hire a consulting firm that will do a crap job on a project but you don’t have to pay benefits, and then give your employees a negative review for poor time management of an impossible workload and do it all again.

    I’m not jaded at all. :(

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    MrBeast's Main YouTube Channel Racked Up 2 Billion Views... In One Month
  • Then stop claiming it’s OC with your post title. Not hard.

    Edit - not sure if it’s an issue with my client or Lemmy - this comment was originally a reply to OP’s now deleted comment. Now showing as a reply to someone else (at least on my client).

  • Federal police shot a homeless man living on national forest land. He's now suing.
  • As cities and states across the country pass ordinances cracking down on camping and homelessness…

    Homelessness should only be a crime if houses are provided to everyone wherever you desire to live and then you chose to then be a public nuisance and sleep blocking a sidewalk or a street.

    Until then, this is just disgusting. Our society is fucked.

  • iPhone 12 sales halted in France because they emit too much radiation
  • For anyone like me that can’t keep track of what model we are up to now: the 15 was just announced and will be released by the end of the month.

    The 12 is a 3 year old device at this point so this really only affects resellers. Will be interesting to see if Apple pushes an OTA update to reduce the radio power to fall in line even though they no longer sell the device.

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    Was Unity lying yesterday or are they lying today?
  • I mean, the non alarmist view here is that they are planning to use data provided by the various stores (Steam, Epic, etc) to determine installation count.

    Not defending Unity, I haven’t done enough research to have an opinion on the change; but this take seems to correlate two things that probably aren’t related. Plus, what’s easier to do: build a system that tracks specific installs of specific games to specific hardware or to ask Steam and Epic for install counts over the last X months.

  • A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply
  • AI Tools - plural. ChatGPT (and OpenAI as a whole) predominantly runs on Azure infrastructure. Microsoft also owns GitHub with its associated copilot. And now all the Microsoft product specific copilots.

    Not trying to defend their usage, but there are several forests here that are quite visible.

  • Supercut of Mike Lindell's problematic deposition
  • I knew he was nutty, but holy fuck this guy is actually insane.

    If you haven’t, watch at least the first minute of the video. That’s all you need to have your jaw hit the floor at the crazy.

  • Georgia special grand jury recommended charges in election case for Sen. Graham and 2 ex-senators
  • So many people don’t get this but it’s extremely important. Jack Smith and Fani Willis have been extremely careful and smart in the charges they have brought. They can add more later. And many think they will. But if you are going after the mob, you better make sure your charges are in order and you have a sure fire case or it will come back to bite you.

  • Feature Request: HIDE NSFW (and another)

    Really really liking Avelon so far. First app that may be able to dethrone Memmy for me.

    Main Request: add a partner option that goes along with Blur NSFW to entirely hide NSFW. I actually like browsing on all to find new communities but I don’t need those posts in my feed at all unless I specifically want them.

    Secondary: While we all wait for Lemmy to introduce instance blocking on a user level, it would be nice to see filtering options for keyword and instance.

    Thanks again! Great work!

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    Trump says he'll appeal DC trial date; legal experts say that's not possible
  • Because his only plan, and the only plan that has even the slightest chance of working, is to delay.

    Delay and bank on winning the election. Then have his new AG drop the charges and pardon himself.

    Look at the 3 big cases. Respond on the last possible day. Challenge everything even if there is no reason to and they know it won’t go anywhere. Just the challenge slows things down because it has to get litigated.

    Trump has used this tactic for decades with his casinos and other properties. Something in your way? Tie it up in litigation until it no longer matters and then drop the suit. But now it’s in overdrive and much much worse.

  • A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that s...
    edition.cnn.com A 10-day UPS strike could be the costliest in US history | CNN Business

    A 10-day UPS strike could cost the US economy $7.1 billion. That could make it the costliest work stoppage ever in US history, according to an estimate from a Michigan economic research firm that studies the costs of labor disruptions.

    A 10-day UPS strike could be the costliest in US history | CNN Business

    Better Title:

    A few rich people that refuse to pay living wages could cost the US economy &7.1 billion.

    cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/620668

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    SNOOcalypse - document, discuss, and promote the downfall of Reddit. @lemmy.ml theDoctor @lemmy.sdf.org
    /r/PICS is being forced to break the site-wide rules.

    Copy of the post in the event it is deleted or you don't want to give ****it any traffic.

    > Hey again, /r/PICS! > > We have another interesting development for you: /u/ModCodeofConduct still hasn't responded to our request for a public reply... but they have seen fit to threaten us: > >> This is a final warning for inaccurately labeling your community NSFW which is a violation of the Mod Code of Conduct rule 2. Your subreddit has not historically been considered NSFW nor would they under our current policies. >> >> Please immediately correct the NSFW labeling on your subreddit. Failure to do so will result in action being taken on your moderator team by the end of this week. This means moderators involved in this activity will be removed from this mod team. Moderators may also be subject to additional actions, e.g., losing the ability to join mod teams in the future. >> >> Lastly, if you suddenly begin to post, or approve content that features sexually explicit content to your community in order to justify the NSFW label, we will immediately remove and permanently suspend moderators who have participated in this action. > > Needless to say, we responded as you would expect: > >> Please read and publicly respond to our message addressing this. >> >> We are not in violation of the cited rule as it is written. Moreover, according to Reddit's listed policies, our subreddit is considered NSFW. If these policies are themselves in error, please correct their verbiage immediately. Otherwise, /r/PICS reverting to SFW would itself be in violation of those same policies. >> >> Our team is currently discussing our actions in the meantime. Please permit us some time to reach a consensus. > > Maddeningly, /u/ModCodeofConduct is telling us to go against Reddit's listed guidelines, which puts us in something of a pickle: If we follow their commands, we'll be in violation of the site-wide rules... but if adhere to said rules, they'll remove us. /r/InterestingAsFuck is still unmoderated (at the time of this writing), so we can reasonably assume that our removal would effectively kill this community. > > Well, we don't want /r/PICS to die, so while we figure out how best to handle the situation (which includes waiting for a public, user-visible response from /u/ModCodeofConduct), we're going to be exploring new ways of ensuring that innocent, unsuspecting users are not presented with offensive content. One possible avenue would see you – yes, you, the upstanding Redditor reading this – having the ability to tag any post that you personally found offensive. > > If you have any other ideas, please share them in the comments! > > Sorry for the confusion, /r/PICS! We'll get back to you with more soon!

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