I guess we’ll see, but I do think people will start adapting to their new reality out of necessity.

I really think it’ll depend on how bad the employment situation gets. At some point people are going to start realizing they’re not temporarily inconvenienced billionaires, and that their interests aren’t aligned with the oligarchs. Software devs have been largely insulated from general economic problems until recently. Getting a job has been relatively easy, the pay was way above what most people make, and that fed individualistic behavior. Now that jobs are becoming scarce, and there’s a huge pool of laid off workers, people are starting to get concerned.

wonder when software devs will get serious about unionizing

exactly

basically, large capitalists will buy up the assets from failed companies and make bank

I used LineageOs before, but GrapheneOS now.

Israel using nukes is a very plausible scenario. There’s a great interview with Postol that I can highly recommend if you haven’t watched it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbQI_IYz6uM

I imagine what got them worried was that they saw that they couldn’t control the narrative anymore. If this was happening 20 years ago, we wouldn’t even know there was a genocide happening in Gaza. The news wouldn’t cover it, we’d be told that Palestinians are eating babies, and heroic Israel is defending our glorious western civilization against these savages who are attacking it completely unprovoked. But that doesn’t work when Israeli atrocities are being live streamed to everyone’s phones. All of a sudden people start asking questions, and that puts traditional media in a bind. If they keep ignoring it they become completely discredited, and if they start. covering it, then it confirms what people are seeing.

So now they’re going after all the alternative channels to shut them down and make sure that you only get sanitized information that doesn’t challenge the official narrative.

an app designed to harvest phone numbers isn’t a privacy tool lmfao

nice thanks!

yeah same here, the whole thing is incredibly relatable

Ah, I never read the book. Sounds like it could be entertaining.

cry harder

still entertaining, and does describe how large corps work internally fairly accurately based on my experience

so brave

I was complaining about copilot specifically, which is an embarrassingly terrible product

those are not normal salaries for people working on regular open source projects though

I don’t know why you think I would care about that. Sounds like you should work on your narcissism.

the whole context here are the insane payouts for the execs

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