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ipsocannibalon The FSF unionised because of RMS

This is a great question. What is the cost/benefit to the mission of the FSF of keeping RMS in a leadership position? I guess this depends on the stated mission of the FSF. If its evangelizing for software freedom then RMS himself is too much of the story to do that effectively anymore I think. If its to promote RMS and give him a platform then he must stay. If its to do practical organizational work to support free software projects then RMS is easily replacable. If its to write free software the last I checked RMS really hasn't contributed much in the way of code in years.

ipsocannibalon Leah Rowe Coups Libreboot

https://thetranscenter.com/transwomen/gcs/

"The decision to have gender confirmation surgery (GCS) is a very personal, private matter, and not all transwomen will elect to undergo this procedure. It is important to keep in mind that GCS is not a requirement for transition, and many transwomen feel happy and content with their bodies without undergoing GCS."

So yea, its elective.

ipsocannibalon The FSF unionised because of RMS

So I think this is the most cogent argument against RMS's leadership I've seen. It directly relates to his ability to practically lead an organization. Its too bad that this argument has not been front and center instead of the politically charged but subjective comments by RMS. In short RMS is a bad boss that does not consider the needs of his employees according to the author.

ipsocannibalon Leah Rowe Coups Libreboot

On a side note what was the deal with https://libreboot.org/news/leah-fundraiser.html . This seems kind of unseemly to be fund raising for an elective surgery using your open source project as a platform. Was the fundraiser successful? Is type of thing common among project maintainers?

ipsocannibalon Leah Rowe Coups Libreboot

Thats the context I was missing. Thanks.

ipsocannibalon Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying

Nice to see research coming out of UGA showing up here on HN. Go Dawgs.

ipsocannibalon Leah Rowe Coups Libreboot

This seems a little fishy but I might be missing context. According to https://libreboot.org/contrib.html [name redacted] is still listed as a maintainer.

ipsocannibalon Science solved the mystery of feet washing ashore in the Pacific Northwest

Archive link: https://archive.is/QYRIG

ipsocannibalon Google's Killing Third-Party Cookies as They've Better Plans to Dominate the Web

The title implies past-tense but the article describes Googles actions as ongoing.

Archive link: https://archive.is/4E04M

ipsocannibalon USA Today editor alleges 'white authority' after being fired for a tweet

"Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." seems to be the sentiment.

ipsocannibalon Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack

I think Amazon needs to ask itself how this barrage of reputational damage is going to affect tech recruiting. Its been very slow to get on the remote work as the future train, its anti-worker crush the little guy cred is through the roof, and the hypocrisy of the LPs in light of recent company actions is blaring. Each of these is particularly off putting to a sizable portion of the typically left leaning US dev set Amazon tries to recruit. I guess Amazon has recourse as they can double down on hiring H1B's to sidestep negative perceptions in the US.

ipsocannibalon USA Today editor alleges 'white authority' after being fired for a tweet

I think the key paragraphs in the article are:

"Jhaveri wrote that she was fired after she faced criticism and harassment online over a tweet she posted "responding to the fact that mass shooters are most likely to be white men." The tweet in question said, wrongly, "It's always an angry white man. always." Jhaveri admitted in her post that it was a "dashed off over-generalization."

She said she apologized and deleted the tweet. "It was a careless error of judgement, sent at a heated time, that doesn't represent my commitment to racial equality. I regret sending it," she wrote"

So a journalist whose primarily job is to attempt to convey the events of the world in a factual way made something up without fact checking and then was fired for it. How about just not making broad over-generalizations in the first place, especially if your job is intended to combat that? Pulling out the "persecution" card seems disingenuous here and speaks the reporters lack of judgement especially in light of the "Alexi Mccammond" situation.

ipsocannibalon Addiction to Outrage (2020)

For reference see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html for the question regarding paywalled content.

ipsocannibalon Addiction to Outrage (2020)

Archive link: https://archive.is/nMiHk

ipsocannibalon Female Founder Secrets: Men Clamming Up

Seems like online twitter mobs and callouts are actually counterproductive to the "-isms" that employ them. Too bad but expect more of the same as we've basicslly given a global megaphone to any hyper-purist or power-tripper with a social media account. This stops when people have to pay a price for engaging in a cancel action.

ipsocannibalon Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute

Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26592846

ipsocannibalon Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee and Defecate En Route, Despite Company Denial

Relaxing the metrics would be one solution. I think this or required pit stops at the loading facility for bathroom/meal breaks would work. Adding the location of public bathrooms on the apps the drivers use would also help. In all cases though most likely fewer packages would be delivered per driver cutting into profitability. How UPS and FedEx deal with this issue?

ipsocannibalon Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

I guess lying is becoming more of a standard practice at Amazon, https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottl...

ipsocannibalon Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

The problem is lying about why a company is taking an action. A lie by omission is still a lie. How do you "Earn Trust" with your employees by taking this action and meeting their concerns with silence? If you think unions are going to be the death of your company then make your case and state when a change is intended to inhibit union organizing. Thats not whats happening according to the article. Is lying standard in all big organizations, and more importantly should it be?

ipsocannibalon Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

I think the major concern is the motivation behind the change. From the report HR's response to pushback on this change was basically "we don't care what this breaks deal with it, we are not reverting, implement a workaroud, end of discussion". This seems highly unusual for what seems essentially to be a technical change. For starters, why is HR involved at all in this change?

ipsocannibalon Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

I think [1] is related. It seems that the internal tool that was modified was the big company directory. Cutting off employees in different FC's from each other by removing them from the tool seems to be an effort to isolate the unionization contagion. Its pretty stupid, social media exists, employees will still find each other, most of what this does is make every Amazon employee believe in those leadership principles Amazon loves to bandy about a little bit less. Day 2 has arrived.

1. https://gizmodo.com/inspired-by-alabama-coworkers-amazon-wor...

ipsocannibalon Amazon Just Cut Off Warehouse Workers from a Companywide Directory

Related HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26576416

ipsocannibalon Amazon employees accuse the company of union-busting

This is similar to other reported actions that impose barriers on employee communication like limiting the number of employees that can be on an unmoderated email list in the wake of the firing Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa, and moving mailing lists to slack. The timing of these actions seems to always coincide with an internal tool being used to organize groups of employees around issues where Amazon seeks total control. Amazon used to encourage tech employees to visit FC's to understand how they operate. I've heard they've stopped that too.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/14/amazon-wo...

ipsocannibalon I finally escaped Node

The author took way too many words to say message passing between processes is a more grokable form of concurrency than callbacks. Then goes on to say that Node is less grokable than Erlang because concurrency in Node heavily relies upon async/await which is just pretty callbacks. There are some weak analogies to the importance of data structures mixed in to the text which aren't helpful.

I think BOTH models of concurrency have their uses. The only problem I see is not being able to apply the appropriate one at the appropriate time because the language doesn't support it.

ipsocannibalon Over twenty subreddits have gone private

I know the Reddit drama is juicy and such but I left it for exactly that reason. And now consistently this crap spills over into HN. Can we at least aggregate this story into a single post?

ipsocannibalon Tableau CEO to Head AWS

If it walks like ajassy and talks like ajassy then its definitely got to be the new head of AWS. Doesn't Amazon just love their boomerangs. At least Tableau got 5 years out of Mr. Selipsky.

ipsocannibalon TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated

According to [1] 68% of websites still support TLS 1.0 as of 2019. Unfortunately, the pace of deprecation is slow.

1. https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/ssl-stats/

ipsocannibalon TLS 1.0, 1.1 officially deprecated

According to [1] IPv6 is only at about 33% penetration and this is for a backwards compatible 25 year old standard. In contrast TLS 1.3 is supported by approx. 14% of websites in 2019 [2]. So in comparison to IPv6, TLS 1.3 is being adopted quite rapidly.

1. https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

2. https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/ssl-stats/

ipsocannibalon Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced to Sign 'Biometric Consent' Form or Lose Job

Employment with respect to Amazon or its contractors is an adversarial system. Giving your adversaries time to prepare only negatively effects the companies' ability to extract maximum labor at the lowest cost. Sure some employees will quit rather than sign, but that number is small. Some will sign with the intention of quiting as soon as possible. Amazon still made its money and burns and churns through recruiters and contractors to deal with the turnover. Working for Amazon is like gambling in a casino, the house always wins as evidenced by the stock price.