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The support we want vs the support we need.

Some supervisors are good at determining what resources you need, most are not.

I would love that actually. Maybe bugtracking doesn't need to be intimately interwoven with git, but it could be stored as a submodule?

It occurs to me that things will stay the same, or even get better. This thing will produce better liars. We're used to lying to our managers to get the support we want, and now we'll have an easier time with EMAI. Further, if you want less stress you'll pretend to have a deficiency and get lighter work allocated.

In 2.0 they'll catch on and implement performance improvement plans that lead to separation.

If I try to pretend this thing has good intentions at heart, I think it'd be great for some folks to improve based on AI recommendations where they can shed their ego. Harder to do in front of a project manager.

I would expect AI regulation to speed up real quick if it starts making middle management redundant :-)

Oh certainly: I would /hate/ my version control software locking me into a particular bug tracking methodology. However, I think in the same way the browser has become the standard runtime for most applications that we will need to join version control and bugtracking together to preserve "all the history". The next frontier is someone layering bugtracking on top of something like git, so software archaeologists won't be abundant. :-)

I'm convinced things like git will need to include bugtracker capabilities at some point. A commit log is one thing, but internalizing decision matrixes and issue reports will be important to not repeating the mistakes of the past 4 decades. We need to keep the history with the history and a 1-3 line commit message will not explain everything for the devs that come 3 decades later.

"Brian Heater is the Hardware Editor at TechCrunch. He worked for a number of leading tech publications, including Engadget, PCMag, Laptop, and Tech Times, where he served as the Managing Editor. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy."

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This site isn't my first choice for news, but I'm not sure how any of that dismisses from the points made in the article. Maybe someday we'll care about consumer protection laws and starve the growing industry around AI for training data.

Before this, you could take advantage of their poor planning and not keeping parts or offering repair service. Now they're required by law - as long as the product is still being sold.

I liked getting new stuff freely :-)

I'm not a lawyer. Would this make it harder to invoke California's Songs-Beverly Act for device replacement? (California's Lemon Law)

Previously, you could buy an appliance >$100 and if it broke in 5-7 years you could ask for service or parts to repair it. If the company cannot produce that, they would be required by law to replace the "thing" with an equivalent or newer product. This looks like the 7 year requirement is on things still being sold.

If companies must retain 7 years of parts now, this kinda closes the loop on getting new stuff in a Planned Obsolescence world. :p

I'll happily take a win for Right to Repair.

There are a couple reasons I can only back Gnome at this point, even though I loved/miss XFCE.

Wayland multi-seat + idle-inhibition HDR + variable refresh Fractional scaling (I think XFCE has some/all of this?)

We're just playing catchup to MacOS for over a decade, and soon enough Linux will have to compete with 3d desktop environments (Apple Vision Pro interface). I think we're almost to the point where the DE will be just a physics simulator (game engine) to help augment your reality.

Anyway, I still use XFCE on resource-limited hardware but Gnome has been the only option for a while because progress isn't being made by other DEs on these critical things (color, refresh, alpha-composition, and some wayland protocols missing in wlroots).

I'm just glad Gnome isn't the dependency hell it used to be, and has slimmed down. I really love what they've done with GJS but I believe there's a competing KDE bindings project.

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How does one do the equivalent in Linux with nftables? It's very cool that you can create a logging interface.

I know I'm naive: I don't understand why US companies are so sensitive to respecting Israel. I don't know why our gov is so sensitive to this either. Israel - like all countries - deserves criticism, no? This can't purely be about respecting the billions spent on US weapons to defend Israel, right? I genuinely do not understand, because I think they'd happily buy from the military anyway.

I agree. I spent 2 months trying to figure out why i couldn't transcode on my truenas scale box. I was missing 1 file for the Intel GuC, and had to add some odd thing to the kernel cmdline to actually enable the guc. I think it was: i915.guc_enable=3

Just maddening trying to get what should be something easy working on Intel. Totally done with that, going AMD, never looking back. And only Intel could market performance vs efficiency cores like some win to the user getting bilked. I'm looking forward to my Storaxa from kickstarter if they can figure out production.

Intel isn't wrong to try to to SR-IOV and virtual functions, so each VM gets what I would call a shard of the physical hardware GPU. However, I think the easier leap is to just go AMD and have much better Linux support. Just keep the iGPU on the Proxmox host, give the dGPU to the VM guest and be done. Wait for SR-IOV and the AMD equivalent to mature for some other year.

I use an extension called LocalCDN (iirc) to locally supply copies of common JS frameworks so I'm less likely to be tracked on that front. I'm sure it skews some log somewhere if I never request those libs.

Now I'm off to find an extension that serves local copies of common Google fonts.

Part of the problem is reacting in real-time. The part I'm talking about: Is you can "tell" the car what to expect at this interchange, and still react in real-time to present conditions. You hear all the time about Teslas driving off a ramp or not changing lanes quick enough due to odd paint stripes on the road, and I keep thinking you can see this from space. Why isn't there a database of known "this is a road, this is not a road" that it looks at first before looking at surrounding cameras outside the car? You can see how traffic moves -> from space. Part of these conditions are known well ahead of time on any present day regardless of the weather.

I'm sure I'm just naive because I don't work in this space, but I keep wondering why they don't do machine learning from a satellite perspective. Yes, the cars need to notice and react to things in front of them. However, a lot of problem areas and odd navigation can be identified from space. I'm surprised they don't do some massive slow exposure shots from a satellite and see how traffic flows across the entire US. I want a car that can react in realtime to new problems, but it has a massive amount of storage so it can probably be told ahead of time what roads, interchanges, freeway onramps, etc.. are problems, and what should guide its decision making.

I think very much you're an outlier. Rampant fatigue in the tech sector is a huge problem.

I do not see how mandatory 4 weeks off (paid) are mutually exclusive with PTO accrual. In my own corner, I've been elected to a board to represent other employees. Something we're lobbying for is a certain minimum of mandatory paid leave - as well as circumstances where being overworked would accrue additional time. Am I mixing up terms?

Something we're trying to cut down on is 7 days a week, 14-hour days. We've attacked this from a cost point of view if we can't get leadership to understand the humanitarian need. We're now putting it in policy that working lengthy hours will accrue paid (admin) leave. So the supervisor ultimately hurts themselves authorizing so much overtime. They will have to settle the books, and lose that person for their minimum and accrued time.

Sidebery is wonderful, but the real gem is Tab Stash. Lets me organize tabs into topic-related groups, with the added bonus that not all of these are "living" tabs. Some are archived/hibernated. By default, live tabs are in an unorganized/unnamed group. The only issue I had was I couldn't tell which tab was playing audio. Tab Stash doesn't have indicators for this, so I installed the Sound Control extension to list tabs playing audio and switch to them.

I got: vertical tabs, tab grouping by topic/label, tab archival (low memory use)

I'm viewing software engineers like FAA pilots, where they must have a certain minimum amount of time between shifts so they can't [necessarily] be exhausted. But that's pertaining to long shifts. In softwareland I'm used to seeing folks who are poor at recognizing their own fatigue. I understand there are some that do not want time away, but I'd say considering the impact of our work it'd be important to mandate time away. Maybe that's reaching, but I'm looking at it from a safety aspect and the potential to do harm if you're not careful/cognizant due to long hours and extended months of work to beat deadlines. Depends on the area you're working in, I'm sure - but it's a ridiculous thing I'd love to be commonplace. Paid time away: 4 weeks minimum that you must exercise. Doesn't have to be contiguous.

You're saying your work doesn't have PTO accrual: There's another thing we should lobby for.

How many times has productivity doubled since the industrial revolution? I would love the tech world to stand still for a time so we can demand these things that seem ridiculous, because we've been succumbed to wage slavery. Even that sounds odd: Software wage slavery - puh-lease, right? Except few things have expanded the economy of several nations in the world like software, like tech. We should be much more demanding.

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I have a pretty awful view of this:

In the less complex jobs, they struggle to get things like paternity leave and time off. We have those. We should be looking at those ridiculous things we think we don't deserve and organizing to get them. We could be a leading example for the industries that come behind us.

Paid time off is common in softwareland. Let's make it mandatory "you must take 4 weeks off minimum a year". We know "unlimited time off" is a guilt-tripping farce.

If 1 software dev can add billions of dollars of value to a company, we should be getting these ridiculous things. These things that seem like coddling us. Maybe even a formula for "if i added x% profit, I deserve y% of that"

I think hollywood is ahead of us on compensation formulas imo.

I've got nothing to hide.... today. The problem is tomorrow. What's legal today may not be tomorrow. We usually consider "hiding" things to be stuff only criminals do. Society usually makes the right choice on who is a criminal. But society gets it wrong sometimes. Many girls across this nation are hiding their menstrual cycles from school authorities now.

I've got everything to hide because it's none of your damn business. What gives you the right to know what I'm hiding? Nothing. And we're just hurting entire generations from developing thoughts and ideals that may benefit society, because our private space gets smaller every year.

Thank you for this. I didn't know about the EURion constellation thing. Very cool/alienating examples of DRM.

Objectively it is bad to defame and distract from a public servant rescuing kids from a cave.

(Objectively.)

but like.. objectively what he does is bad. I wish there were a smaller bandwagon to bandwagon-onto.

I think we'll see gui toolkits adopt something like reactive design, where if you have the screen real estate the single-window-with-tabs will permit you to break them out to a dockable window, a modal, etc. Less choice, but I could see it going this way.

We care more about protecting capital than people.

When did it become okay to trademark letters or single words of our language? So tired of capitalism.

Kindly suggesting you talk to someone.

There are many, many pedophiles out there. I'm also convinced of a conspiracy theory that a lot of dark web traffic and hosts are created/operated by secret parts of the gov to de-legitimize the need for anonymity. I believe this because it would be too easy with the access to that material and no oversight. Just muddy the waters so nothing in there looks worth protecting.

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You can demonstrate this to folks with a very recent change in government: Abortion and LGBT rights.

How much do you want to bet states like Texas or Florida will use government surveillance to prosecute folks seeking medical care?

I give it a month before we hear about someone being charged with some form of conspiracy to leave the state before their poor kids are taken. "Exhibit A will show the defendants intent to move their children across state lines..."

Wish they'd adopt a code of conduct but at least they'll be able to mine my phone contacts 60% faster. I always feel held hostage by LinkedIn. I have to write a resume for every posting, and update LinkedIn and connect with every working person I've ever met on there. Otherwise I don't exist.

What a plague of a company.