Judging from the POV, it’s a pretty tall hill.

Disclaimer: this is not really about code, but about using IT in my non-IT workplace and I realized this just yesterday. A rant.

I work in the social sector. Our boss seems to have slipped into position sideways (they did not do our work for a significant amount of time before).

I got zero onboarding when I started working there; everything I know about the organisational ins and outs I learned by asking my colleagues.

The boss seems to actively want to not inform me of things, i.e. even if I ask about something they reply in the most cursory manner or immediately refer me to somebody else. I have no idea why they do it, my guess is that they sense that they’re woefully inadequate for the job, plus me being much older triggers insecurities?

For example, when I could not log into an app to see my future shifts, I asked the boss about it first but they immediately refered me to tech support. Calling them, after a while we found out that the boss had mistyped my name. Then I could log in.

Last week I was sick and waited til Sunday noon to check this week’s shifts - but again I couldn’t log in. The boss answered neither phone nor email. Fair enough I guess, on a sunday. Thankfully tech support was working and after a long while we found out that the app for checking my shifts only allows log-ins from within the workplace network, not the open web.

I almost missed my monday shift because of that. Boss calls me, enraged. I explained the situation. They clearly did not know that the app only allows log-ins from within the workplace network.

All my coleagues tentatively/silently agree that this boss is useless. How do we keep the workplace running, and why is it me who is left in the dark? Turns out they have a Whatsapp group. I don’t use Whatsapp. They asked me repeatedly and urgently to join.

tl;dr: this workplace would fall apart if people wouldn’t communicate through Whatsapp instead of official channels

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We need clean thieves!

Majority of Latino voters disapprove of Trump

At this point it’s a hypothetical (and maybe always was), but if Trump legally won another election I’d recommend euthanasia for large parts of the US population.

It’s really just a gimmick.

And now I want a ground-coffee vending machine made from glass.

Prices are in €

IDK, but it perfectly encapsulates the hype.

Smaug Bezos

I wish the father had expanded on why people shouldn’t strive to be dragons. Maybe explain the value of being a sharing member of a community, as opposed to a hoarding sociopath.

That’s what you get when there’s “real” ICE goons who refuse to show their faces or badges. Anybody can just waltz into an establishment, shout “ICE!”, empty the cash register and waltz out again. TBH, Mr Doolittle’s strategy seems less ideal.

malicious compliance

Ok, I didn’t catch that’s what you’re going for; what you described didn’t sound like a too bad strategy to get at least a little bit out of AI. And every employer should support your motivation. Should.

There’s different kinds of nutjob. He’s one with sufficient intelligence & patience to be properly dangerous. So I guess we agree.

We need to pay (even) more attention to Peter Thiel. The more I learn about him the worse it gets. Well, we should’ve started paying more attention to him 10 years ago I guess.

It’s been a while.

I wonder if Syd Barrett is still alive.

It was literally written by Russians, in Russian, then translated into English.

That’s a pretty weak and evasive follow-up to your strongly voiced opinion.

Could you please clarify?
The fact checking is in the phones he presents; what I’m interested in is how he got them; he explained that well in the beginning, but I’ll admit I took him at his word. Maybe you have more on that?

OTOH, a web search shows a few articles that find the exact same things on separate devices.

What exactly is your criticism here?

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That was extremely interesting, thanks for sharing.

So well explained, in-depth yet not too jargon-y.

In the end, analyzing this device gives a pretty good picture of what it’s like in North Korea, not just wrt smartphones.

The Middle East Eye has given us great content, but this headline really sucks ass.