Court's ruling against same-sex marriage sets up a Japan Supreme Court decision
A court has found Japan’s refusal to legalize same-sex marriage constitutional in the last of six cases likely to be brought to the Supreme Court for a final ruling.
https://apnews.com/article/japan-lgbtq-samesex-marriage-ruling-a5de3d7eda028a97e05ac8bc9af7043f
France | Paris' Louvre museum to increase ticket price for visitors from outside the EU
The Louvre museum has approved a ticket price increase for non-EU visitors, raising it from 22 to 32 euros starting in January.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…
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Sweden promises action against illegal sex doll sales
The Swedish government has pledged to combat the sale of childlike sex dolls online. This commitment follows reports of such products being sold in the country.
Archived version: archive.is/20251129004006/apne…
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Peru to declare a state of emergency as migrants leaving Chile trigger backlash
President José Jerí of Peru has announced a state of emergency along the country's southern border. This decision comes as Venezuelan migrants move north from Chile, where anti-immigrant sentiment has intensified during a tense presidential campaign.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…
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Chinese startup founded by Google engineer claims to have developed its own TPU chip for AI — custom ASIC reportedly 1.5 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020, 42% more efficient
It's allegedly 1.5 times the speed of Nvidia's A100 GPU from 2020.
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data
Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026
Asahi admits ransomware gang may have spilled almost 2M people's data
: Brewer finally tallies fallout from September attack as it pushes earnings into 2026Carly Page (The Register)
Apple files a case to stop a $38 billion antitrust penalty in India
Indian startups have accused Apple of abusing its market dominance, and the iPhone maker is on the brink of facing a $38 billion fine.
https://www.neowin.net/news/apple-files-a-case-to-stop-a-38-billion-antitrust-penalty-in-india/
Two tankers catch fire in the Black Sea after being struck, Turkish authorities report
Two tankers have been struck and caught fire in the Black Sea, prompting rescue operations, Turkish authorities reported Friday. Crew members on both vessels are safe.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/apnews.com/a…
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Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy has once again called for longer working weeks has returned, this time with an emphasis on schedules like the 996-pattern used in parts of China.Murthy's comments revive a debate which began in 2024, when he argued that Indian employees should work 70 hours a week.
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Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
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US halts all asylum decisions
The US presidential administration is halting all asylum decisions in the country after the shooting of two National Guardsmen in the capital, Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
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US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report
More than 80 people killed in campaign that law-of-war experts have labeled extrajudicial murder
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South Korea worker cleared of stealing snacks from office fridge after 2 years in court
That the man had to face legal proceedings for such a minor offence angered many South Koreans.
South Korea worker cleared of stealing snacks from office fridge after 2 years in court
That the man had to face legal proceedings for such a minor offence angered many South Koreans. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
[Article] Floating pavilion that rises with the river tides opens in Brazil
It’s been a productive year for Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm known for blending man-made construction with natural environments. The company recently unveiled a sophisticated mountain shelter that will soon find its permanent location in the Italian Alps. Now, CRA has collaborated with American creative studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian steel construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their five-month effort is a 400-square-meter (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.
Floating pavilion that rises with the river tides opens in Brazil
Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm, has collaborated with US studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their effort is a 400-sq-m (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.Maryna Holovnova (New Atlas)
One in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, NSPCC finds
Harms include threats to release intimate pictures as charity warns against parents sharing photos or details of children online
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Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
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Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback
The biggest problem is the harsh image thresholding done by the superfast receipt printer.
EA says 98% of Battlefield 6 matches have been cheater free thanks to tough security
The Javelin Anti-Cheat system that Battlefield 6 is using is giving good results for EA, with the company saying that cheat makers are getting increasingly frustrated.
Per EA, only 1.5% of Battlefield 6 players are currently having issues with activating the security measure.
Which doesn't include people who will never buy the game because of the Secure Boot requirement in the first place. That said, "gamers" are known to suckers so it's not surprising that players complain while bending over and taking it.
Surprise: The BrickBoy kit for the Lego Game Boy uses floating magnets instead of switches
How do they work?
Surprise: The BrickBoy kit for the Lego Game Boy uses floating magnets instead of switches
The Lego Game Boy kit on Kickstarter, the BrickBoy, seems to have mislead backers a bit about how its buttons will work.Sean Hollister (The Verge)
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.
The day after Lopez Belloza was arrested, a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States for at least 72 hours. ICE did not respond to an email Friday from The Associated Press seeking comment about violating that order. Babson College also did not respond to an email seeking comment.
https://apnews.com/article/babson-student-deported-thanksgiving-467393d8d9b9ae6351f99de7b9cbfb98
Indian fighter jet crashes during a demo flight at Dubai Air Show, killing the pilot
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The pilot of an Indian combat plane died after the aircraft crashed Friday during a demonstration flight for spectators at the Dubai Air Show, the Indian Air Force said.
The Indian HAL Tejas, a combat aircraft used in the Indian Air Force, crashed around 2:10 p.m. local time after the pilot had flown across the site of the biennial air show in Dubai several times.
The plane appeared to lose control and dive directly toward the ground just prior to crashing inside the grounds of the airfield.
Tejas is India’s indigenous fighter aircraft, built by state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Limited. The lightweight, single-engine jet is expected to bolster India’s depleted fighter fleet as China expands its military presence in South Asia, including by strengthening defense ties with India’s rival Pakistan.
The Indian government signed a deal with HAL in 2021 for 83 Tejas aircraft. Deliveries, expected last year, have been delayed largely because of shortages of engines that must be imported from the United States.
Indian fighter jet crashes during a demo flight at Dubai Air Show, killing the pilot
The pilot of an Indian combat plane has died after a crash during a demonstration flight at the Dubai Air ShowJON GAMBRELL Associated Press (ABC News)
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Germany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.”
Nearly 54,000 women and girls were the victims of sexual offences in Germany in 2024 – an increase of 2.1% on the previous year – of which nearly 36% were victims of rape and sexual assault.
Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors
Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior ministerGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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1. These drugs are around also, you know, for sick people who need them. It is the case of my mom who has multi sclerosis and the only pain killer effective on her is known as a rape drug.
2. Chemical submission can be achieved with a wide range of things, most commonly use it probably alcohol, regular drinks such as wine and beer. Attempting chemical submission with those shouldn't fly under the radar of justice!
3. I think it would be much more effective to amend the law in order for all cases of chemicals submission (with or without rape) and rapes to be brought to justice
4. A big issue that is ignored with this proposal is, victims often don't report the aggression or don't complete the full procedure. Police and Justice system personnel must be better trained about these cases of rape and rape with chemical submission in order for the victims to be able to report their aggression without feeling judgement or shame through out the entire process, from the police report until the conclusion of the court.
Palestinian group praises Nakba exhibit coming to Canadian Human Rights while Jewish organization pans move
A new exhibit recounting personal experiences of Palestinian Canadians who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948 is coming to Winnipeg next year, but one Jewish organization is pulling out of its partnerships with the museum over concerns the programming might not reflect important context.
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) announced a series of upcoming exhibits this week, including "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present," which will open to visitors in June 2026.
“Kudos to the museum for having the courage to tell the story and not because they're favouring the Palestinians or the Israelis," said Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba.
"This is a human rights story that really needs to be shared."
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Looks like the majority of Jewish organizations consulted on this supported the Nakba exhibit, it was just the squeaky wheel who got the attention.
It's a bold claim that a museum thought up by a famously Jewish head of a media empire to feature stuff about Jewish people and funded in part by the efforts of his Jewish sister is somehow not about Jewish people.
This is funnier if you know about the museum guides who had to censor their tours for groups who only wanted a tasting menu of human rights. To only learn about the people they think deserve rights and skip the rest, like those damned women and gays.
Docker setup for debian 13 trixie Ansible Playbook
Hello,
Does anyone have by any chance an ansible playbook to setup docker on a debian trixie?
This is my first experience with Ansible, i thought this would be easy and straightforward. I used existing ones for debian 12 as template and yes, with ai, and taking things from other templates, i am trying to make this work. but for the life of me, i cannot crack this.
i began with the most simple steps:
- name: install Docker
hosts: all
become: true
tasks:
- name: Install apt-transport-https
ansible.builtin.apt:
name:
- apt-transport-https
- ca-certificates
- lsb-release
- gnupg
state: latest
update_cache: true
- name: Create keyrings directory
ansible.builtin.file:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings
state: directory
mode: '0755'
- name: Add Docker GPG key
ansible.builtin.shell: |
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
chmod a+r /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
args:
creates: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg
- name: Add Docker repository
ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
repo: "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian trixie stable"
state: present
filename: docker
- name: Install Docker
ansible.builtin.apt:
name:
- docker-ce
- docker-ce-cli
- containerd.io
- docker-buildx-plugin
- docker-compose-plugin
state: latest
update_cache: trueand added some debug stuff that really didnt help that much:
- name: Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Debian (Ansible WebUI compatible)
hosts: all
become: true
become_user: root
vars:
docker_packages:
- docker-ce
- docker-ce-cli
- containerd.io
- docker-buildx-plugin
- docker-compose-plugin
tasks:
- name: Ensure required packages are installed
apt:
name:
- ca-certificates
- curl
- gnupg
update_cache: yes
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Ensure /etc/apt/keyrings exists
file:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings
state: directory
mode: '0755'
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Get system architecture for Docker repo
ansible.builtin.command: dpkg --print-architecture
register: dpkg_architecture
changed_when: false
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Download Docker GPG key
ansible.builtin.get_url:
url: https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg
dest: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
mode: '0644'
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Check if GPG key exists
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: /etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc
register: gpg_key_stat
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show GPG key status
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "GPG key exists: {{ gpg_key_stat.stat.exists }}, Size: {{ gpg_key_stat.stat.size | default('N/A') }}"
- name: DEBUG - List keyrings directory
ansible.builtin.command: ls -lah /etc/apt/keyrings/
register: keyrings_list
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show keyrings directory contents
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: keyrings_list.stdout_lines
- name: Add Docker APT repository (correct for Debian 13)
ansible.builtin.apt_repository:
repo: "deb [arch={{ dpkg_architecture.stdout }} signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/docker.asc] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian {{ ansible_distribution_release }} stable"
filename: docker
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Check if repo file exists
ansible.builtin.stat:
path: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
register: repo_file_stat
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show repo file status
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "Repo file exists: {{ repo_file_stat.stat.exists }}"
- name: DEBUG - Show repo file contents if exists
ansible.builtin.command: cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
register: repo_contents
when: repo_file_stat.stat.exists
failed_when: false
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: DEBUG - Display repo contents
ansible.builtin.debug:
var: repo_contents.stdout_lines
when: repo_file_stat.stat.exists
- name: Update apt cache after adding repo
apt:
update_cache: yes
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Install Docker packages
apt:
name: "{{ docker_packages }}"
state: present
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"
- name: Enable & start Docker
service:
name: docker
state: started
enabled: yes
delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"but everytime it fails at adding the package because its not found. because the repo was not added, my keyrings folder is miserably empty.
the target server has only root. so no user confusion there. yes, i know. bad practice. but its a learning exercise and its a lxc within my home network not internet exposed.
PLAY [Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose on Debian (Ansible WebUI compatible)] ***
TASK [Gathering Facts] *********************************************************
[1;35m[WARNING]: Host 'anytype.lab' is using the discovered Python interpreter at '/usr/bin/python3.13', but future installation of another Python interpreter could cause a different interpreter to be discovered. See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-core/2.19/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more information.[0m
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Ensure required packages are installed] **********************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Ensure /etc/apt/keyrings exists] *****************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Get system architecture for Docker repo] *********************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Download Docker GPG key] *************************************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Check if GPG key exists] *****************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show GPG key status] *********************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "msg": "GPG key exists: False, Size: N/A"[0m
[0;32m}[0m
TASK [DEBUG - List keyrings directory] *****************************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show keyrings directory contents] ********************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "keyrings_list.stdout_lines": [][0m
[0;32m}[0m
TASK [Add Docker APT repository (correct for Debian 13)] ***********************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Check if repo file exists] ***************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show repo file status] *******************************************
[0;32mok: [anytype.lab] => {[0m
[0;32m "msg": "Repo file exists: False"[0m
[0;32m}[0m
TASK [DEBUG - Show repo file contents if exists] *******************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [DEBUG - Display repo contents] *******************************************
[0;36mskipping: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Update apt cache after adding repo] **************************************
[0;33mchanged: [anytype.lab][0m
TASK [Install Docker packages] *************************************************
[0;31m[ERROR]: Task failed: Module failed: No package matching 'docker-ce' is available[0m
[0;31mOrigin: /tmp/ansible-webui/repositories/1_ansibleplaybooksrepo/playbooks/debian13docker.yml:100:7[0m
[0;31m[0m
[0;31m 98 delegate_to: "{{ inventory_hostname }}"[0m
[0;31m 99[0m
[0;31m100 - name: Install Docker packages[0m
[0;31m ^ column 7[0m
[0;31m[0m
[0;31mfatal: [anytype.lab]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "No package matching 'docker-ce' is available"}[0m
PLAY RECAP *********************************************************************
[0;31manytype.lab[0m : [0;32mok=11 [0m [0;33mchanged=4 [0m unreachable=0 [0;31mfailed=1 [0m [0;36mskipped=4 [0m rescued=0 ignored=0 I am using ansible-webui.oxl.app/ although i doubt it has any effect whatsoever. but then again, i know next to nothing of ansible as of yet. so, for sure: what i am missing is incredibly dumb.
any help will be greatly appreciated.
It's a learning exercise
Then crack open the documentation and learn how to actually write and use ansible
‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
Donald Trump has hurled a wrench into one of the most sensitive negotiations currently under way in Europe, potentially derailing efforts to help fund Ukraine to stay in the fight against Russia.
For months European Union officials have been trying — and failing — to work out a way to use around €140 billion of immobilized Russian state assets held largely in Belgium to support Kyiv’s war effort. The cash is desperately needed as Ukraine is at risk of running out of money early next year.
Talks in Brussels are now at an extremely delicate stage, diplomats said, as top officials try to finesse a legal text that would enable the frozen funds to be used for a loan to the Ukrainian government.
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I feel this is where the coalition of the willing as the dubbed it, need to step up and say "fuck this", find a solution for the frozen assets, establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and put the US under pressure to stop being a little bitch and continue the intel support.
That being said, without US sanctions and support this would become exponentially harder to do.
Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.
Sessions at the summit, which Nature attended, covered a wide range of health-related topics, including psychedelics, brain implants and anti-ageing therapies. Academic researchers or clinicians were not among the speakers at the sessions, which were peppered by comments critical of the medical establishment.
I don't know if that was an intentional joke, but fucking hilarious to add that.
Bruh these people are completely fucked up...
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit, referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement. Attendees included Kennedy, US vice-president JD Vance, NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya, US Food and Drug Administration chief Marty Makary and the food activist Vani Hari, who blogs under the name ‘Food Babe’.
[...]
Throughout the event, speakers criticized established scientific and medical institutions. Both are frequent targets of Kennedy, who founded Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit organization in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, that is known for its anti-vaccine advocacy. Among these speakers was Bhattacharya, who said that the NIH, the world’s largest biomedical-research funder, has focused too heavily on small scientific steps instead of “disruptive” or “innovative” research.“What puts lives at risk is doing research that’s incremental,” Bhattacharya said. “All it does is advance the careers of the researchers that do it. It results in publications that don’t get used and aren’t replicable.”
Makary decried “groupthink that again and again led us astray”, citing as an example public-health recommendations against eating saturated fat. (Kennedy has suggested that saturated fats are part of a healthy diet; the US government has, for decades, recommended limiting saturated-fat consumption.) “We got ‘saturated fat causes heart disease’ wrong for 50 years,” Makary said. “That’s a war we’re going to end.”
Tech unions against enshittification - with Cory Doctorow - YouTube - Trades Union Congress (TUC)
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How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare
On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much panicke…Hackaday
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The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet: King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity…
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/the-p…Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind.
If you've ever visited a foreign country's national history museum, I guarantee you've read this little snippet:
King Whatshisface was a wise and noble ruler who bought peace and prosperity to all the land.Upon his death, his heirs waged bloody war over rightful succession which plunged the country into a hundred years of hardship.
The great selling point of democracy is that it allows for the peaceful transition of power. Most modern democracies have rendered civil war almost unthinkable. Sure, you might not like the guy currently in charge, but there are well established mechanisms to limit their power and kick them out if they misbehave. If they die in office, there's an obvious and understood hierarchy for who follows them.Most Open Source projects start small - just someone in their spare room tinkering for fun. Unexpectedly, they grow into a behemoth which now powers half the world. These mini-empires are fragile. The most popular method of governance is the Benevolent Dictator For Life model. The founder of the project controls everything. But, as I've said before, BDFL only works if the D is genuinely B. Otherwise the FL becomes FML.
The last year has seen several BDFLs act like Mad Kings. They become tyrannical despots, lashing out at their own volunteers. They execute takeovers of community projects. They demand fealty and tithes. Like dragons, they become quick to anger when their brittle egos are tested. Spineless courtiers carry out deluded orders while pilfering the coffers.
Which is why I am delighted that the Mastodon project has shown a better way to behave.
In "The Future is Ours to Build - Together" they describe perfectly how to gracefully and peacefully transfer power. There are no VCs bringing in their MBA-brained lackeys to extract maximum value while leaving a rotting husk. No one is seizing community assets and jealously hoarding them. Opaque financial structures and convoluted agreements are prominent in their absence.
Eugen Rochko, the outgoing CEO, has a remarkably honest blog post about the transition. I wouldn't wish success on my worst enemy. He talks plainly about the reality of dealing with the pressure and how he might have been a limiting factor on Mastodon's growth. That's a far step removed from the ego-centric members of The Cult of The Founder with their passionate belief in the Divine Right of Kings.
Does your tiny OSS script need a succession plan? Probably not. Do you have several thousand NPM installs per day? It might be worth working out who you can share responsibility with if you are unexpectedly raptured. Do you think that your project is going to last for a thousand years? Build an organisation which won't crumble the moment its founder is arrested for their predatory behaviour on tropical islands.
I'm begging project leaders everywhere - please read up on the social contract and the consent of the governed. Or, if reading is too woke, just behave like grown-ups rather than squabbling tweenagers.
It is a sad inevitability that, eventually, we will all be nothing but memories. The bugs that we create live after us, the patches are oft interrèd with our code. Let it be so with all Open Source projects.
#bdfl #mastodon #openSource #oss
The Future is Ours to Build - Together
We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.Mastodon Blog
Gopherbook – The Self-Hosted Comic Reader (Full Tutorial)
From the peertube video description:
Want a beautiful, fast, private web reader that handles HUGE encrypted CBZ files without much effort? Then Gopherbook.
In this video, I walk you through everything
Intro & why I built this
easy install / Docker setup
Creating your first account (first user = admin)
Uploading your first comics (including massive encrypted ones)
How the magic password system works (it just remembers them!)
Auto-organization by Artist / StoryArc
Admin panel – toggle registration & delete comics
Where everything is stored & backup tips GitHub: github.com/riomoo/gopherbook
Codeberg: codeberg.org/riomoo/gopherbook
Gitgud: gitgud.io/riomoo/gopherbook
• 100% local, single binary
• Full encrypted/password-protected CBZ support
• Automatically tries all your known passwords on new files
• ComicInfo.xml metadata extraction
• Gorgeous dark UI with cover grid
• Per-user libraries & encrypted password vault
• no tracking
If you hoard comics like I do, this is the reader you've been dreaming of.
GitHub - riomoo/gopherbook: Self-Hosted Comic Library & CBZ Reader
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cbz files are not encrypted, they're just zip files full of images with the xtension changed to "cbz". Similarly, CBR files are the same thing, but using rar compression.
If you are referring to zip "password protection", then I guess that's technically valid, although why anyone would rely on such trivially-cracked security is beyond me.
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TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
TNT that Europe needs to defend itself is being used on Gaza, Polish MP claims
Maciej Konieczny claims Europe’s sole supplier, in Poland, sends much of its production to US, which exports it for use by IsraelPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
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The NGOs point out that between October 2023 and July 2024 the US transferred at least 14,000 MK-84s and 8,700 MK-82s to Israel. In May 2024 Biden paused the shipment of some larger bombs, but these restrictions were lifted by Donald Trump as soon as he entered office.
One of the functions of the Palestinian Genocide and the conflict with Iran is/was to deplete weapons stockpiles both to make more money for military industrial companies but also to make it easier to make up reasons we cannot help Ukraine more.
The amount of bombs dropped on Gaza is horrifying.
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China’s Economy is Forecast to Grow Faster Than Expected in 2026
Goldman Sachs Research sees 5-6% annual growth in China’s exports and raised its real GDP forecasts for 2026 and 2027 to well above consensus.China’s growth will likely come at the expense of other high-tech producers such as Europe and Japan
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Community mention spam from Microblogs
So, this meme.
tl;dr Mastodon users occasionally spam mentions and Lemmy (and probably Piefed) ingests them all and makes the post across all of the mentioned communities.
Sucks, right, because on the theadiverse, you're not actually able to do that so easily.
Basically, it's because Mastodon mixes mentions with addressing. Every mentioned person gets addressed, even though sometimes you don't mean for it to go into that community.
So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post? We can already tell which posts come from threadiverse software and which don't (because we use audience, Mastodon doesn't.)
Just an idea, I can't speak for the other softwares.
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So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post?
I'm pretty sure Mbin already does that with sorting posts into communities based on their hashtags. Does it not do it with mentions too? I can't really test it since 99% of federated posts only mention one community, if any. So I'm struggling to find a post that mentions two communities, let alone two that are active enough on my instance to compare them.
But like, is it actually an issue? I always get the impression Lemmy users have more of a problem with the hashtags and mentions in general, not with the fact the post appears in multiple communities. Which would be easily solved by having their instance remove those from microblog posts.
We can already tell which posts come from threadiverse software and which don't (because we use audience, Mastodon doesn't.)
I honestly don't think that's a good way to decide between threadiverse and others in general. There's no guarantee non-threadiverse software won't make use of it in the future.
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silverpill@mitra.social isn't wrong though, in many cases the posts do mean to be posted in that community.
But it's an expressive thing. I'm able to mention a community like startrek@startrek.website and it won't be posted there, because I'm only mentioning that community.
And yes, Mastodon needs mention spam to function because otherwise people you reply to won't know they received a reply. It's ... an approach.
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neon_nova
in reply to Sahwa • • •Some billionaires are saying shorter work weeks be used of AI, some are saying longer.
If this just a way for us to be “grateful” for things to remain the same?
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in reply to WeirdGoesPro • • •Em Adespoton
in reply to NoForwardslashS • • •By retirement?
I’d expect majority shares in any company I worked that much for, AND a 7-figure salary.
And retirement would be in 5 years.
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Zephorah
in reply to Sahwa • • •There is a large body of research out there regarding 12h shift work in healthcare. I’m only linking 1 article, a quick search will yield more, easily.
A TLDR on it: 12h shifts decrease performance. Stacking them decreases safety and performance, cumulatively. Car accidents pick up significantly on day 4.
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Negative Impacts of Shiftwork and Long Work Hours - PMC
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in reply to Zephorah • • •Truscape
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in reply to Hylactor • • •Let’s try this one
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The impact of moving to a 12h shift pattern on employee wellbeing: A qualitative study in an acute mental health setting - PMC
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Zephorah
in reply to Hylactor • • •Yes, I failed to paste the copy. After a 12 hour shift.
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Negative Impacts of Shiftwork and Long Work Hours - PMC
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lectricleopard
in reply to CompactFlax • • •Capitalism protects the capital (goods, and equipment, on a truck), and values human lives at approx $3 million (based on financial cost for the company when a life is lost).
The value of the truck and the contents of the trailer are frequently greater than the value of the driver for a given trip, and therefore justify more caution and care than any given patient in a doctor's office.
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Tollana1234567
in reply to CompactFlax • • •HertzDentalBar
in reply to CompactFlax • • •US: Truck driver crashing causes property damage, patients dieing causes the bed to open up for another paying customer.
Rest of the world: Shortages due to cost of education along with not enough spots available for said education.
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in reply to CompactFlax • • •There’s less errors overall in having consistency in who healthcare reports off to between shifts. The 17% is balanced out by that (math wise). The errors in having 3 people reporting around an 8hr clock are significantly higher than with the 12hr clock.
But a 4th shift? Staying over to 16hrs? The 36hr week, I feel, is the extent to which you can safely take the 12h shift.
Additional madness is in that, in 26 states, the administrators of hospitals can hold shift workers over into double shifts. I don’t know about you, but I lose the capacity to read words around hour 18. Yet, this practice is engaged routinely in health care, without regard to sleep patterns. Maybe it is an 8h shift. Maybe that person spent day shift in school then went to work for an evening shift. Now is being held on their license to stay a night shift. And expected to drive home after more than 24hrs awake. Maybe their babysitter leaves at midnight. How good and safe is that patient care going to be?
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in reply to Zephorah • • •Zephorah
in reply to Naich • • •This is true. It also results in less intershift rancor. But it doesn’t change the difficulties of 4th and 5th shifts in the same week.
I’m all for turning a 40hr/5day work week into a 36hr/3day work week. It works well in 24hr professions.
What I’m not for is this 996 nonsense.
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Zephorah
in reply to Naich • • •In the healthcare environment that is true. 12h shifts retain consistency between back and forth reporting, while with 8hr shifts things get lost or missed or misinterpreted in the handoff.
My point is that 3 is the sweet spot, it’s the 4th and fifth shifts that become cumulatively bad and result in increased car accidents on the commute.
MuskyMelon
in reply to Sahwa • • •Infosys is a shitty boss that would contract for 2 resources but only assign 1 to do the work. That's why he wants 80 hours per headcount.
This is why I'm somewhat happy that AI would render extinct companies like Infosys, Wipro, etc.
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in reply to Zier • • •The amount of fuel required to launch them into the sun is more than is required to eject the from the solar system completely, it's not very efficient.
Although putrid, they remain a valuable source of protein and nutrients. As a more carbon-efficient alternative, I suggest tying some waste stone around their feet and chucking them into the sea. Something in the depths will eat them.
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in reply to the_q • • •Personally I'd make an exception to my moral stance that work as punishment is slavery, and would prefer to keep him around forcing him to work 70 hours a week, in addition to doing all the other chores required so that he can live - in prison - for the rest of his life.
Maybe we'll make it 84 hours a week just for good measure, can't be giving him a day off.
Seems more poetic
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UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to Somecall_metim • • •We pretend to work
They pretend to pay us
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count_dongulus
in reply to Sahwa • • •These are the little fuckwits that pretend waiting on a phone call back from someone is hard work. They have no concept of what real work is like; their "work" is just their ordinary greasy life made to benefit a shareholder in addition to themselves.
Oh, you want me to go play golf with this guy using the company card and then go for dinner and drinks? Do some soft sales, just having regular conversation? Sure, I'll take that "work". Man, it's tough. Nobody works 80 hour weeks like me.
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krooklochurm
in reply to Sahwa • • •I am not an advocate of slavery generally speaking but I do think that it is a just and righteous thing to enslave someone like this and to use them for backbreaking labour for 20 hours per day.
Like. Make it pointless too. Dig this hole. Fill that hole. Dig it again.
Feed them stuff you find in dumpsters. Beat them if their hole digging is going to slow. Test cosmetics on them. Sell them to be used for sex.
That seems right to me.
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in reply to krooklochurm • • •Nah, just...make them work regular hours for a pay of an ordinary employee. They could take extra hours to earn more and demonstrate to everyone how to "work hard and earn big". This will be cruelest punishment they can get.
Oh, and put them on a KPI and control their work productivity.
BarneyPiccolo
in reply to krooklochurm • • •You're using the word "slavery" rhetorically, more or less, but in the eyes of a Sociopathic Oligarch, we are already living on literal slave wages. They couldn't imagine living on the average annual income in this country, but they expect us to, and work harder on top of it.
They would pay us nothing, like the olden days, but then they'd have to cover our food and housing, and that would cost them more. So they pay us just barely enough to keep us from revolting.
We are already slaves.
krooklochurm
in reply to BarneyPiccolo • • •No I'm not.
I mean we literally force people like this into irons and force them to work under threat of corporal punishment.
There's what, maybe 10, 20,000 people like this the world over?
It would be a one time thing. If they managed to have kids before they died from exhaustion or the unforeseen results of pharmaceutical experiments their children would be given good homes and loving adoptive parents, so we didn't risk reviving the institution of slavery. It would be a one time thing. Justice.
dukemirage
in reply to krooklochurm • • •Wispy2891
in reply to Sahwa • • •I do not understand his logic.
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
Someone working 70 hours is a mindless drone. This is how you get 13" iPads accidentally sold for 15€ "because the computer said so" (happened in a big box retailer in my country, no human involved in the process objected the price until WEEKS after the sale, when accounting noticed it, and they had to beg customers "pwease return our €1000 iPads and we give you a €25 gift card as a token of gratitude" and everyone just laughed about that)
Especially for developers, for the same price is better to get two that can do tasks with full attention rather than a single one that after 12 hours of job is just mindlessly clicking on "accept" on whatever a LLM is spitting out or half assing solutions because don't have the right state of mind to think for a proper one.
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Hanrahan
in reply to Wispy2891 • • •What he wants is to pay one person for 70hrs, the same as he'd pay one person for 35 hrs.
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in reply to Hanrahan • • •kameecoding
in reply to Wispy2891 • • •I mean it isn't, but the difference is like marginal, but you get added costs like more hardware,more HR needed ( after a certain number of people) It support for those people etc.
But really it's penny pinching.
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in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •They should take inspiration from my coworkers, who don't even bother to pretend.
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AnarchistArtificer
in reply to WanderingThoughts • • •A form of wage theft that's common in the US (and elsewhere) is that workers are expected to still do work when they have already clocked out (such as closing up the shop).
I have a Japanese friend who told me that it's not uncommon that if your work colleagues are going to the bar after work, you are expected to go along. If you don't, it shows a lack of commitment to your job. As it's not a formal requirement, of course you don't get paid for this, despite it being functionally mandatory. What's worse is that you can't just stick around for one drink and then head home — you are expected to stick around at least as long as your boss, even if he (let's face it, the boss is probably male) is still drinking long into the night. I consider this to be an especially egregious form of the wage theft I described above.
It sounds so exhausting that I would likely be unable to do anything besides pretend to work, and even that would lead to inevitable burn out. I had heard that the work culture in Japan was bad, but I had no idea how bad until my friend shared some first hand experiences with me.
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in reply to Sahwa • • •Balldowern
in reply to Sahwa • • •Always hit them where it hurts - their wallets.
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in reply to Sahwa • • •And yes, he's ragebaiting.
Don't even know if I'm giving him too much credit here; maybe he is literally dumb enough to advocate for modern slavery.
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in reply to oftenawake • • •Technology is now used as a tool to perpetually force the working class to obey the ever increasing draconian rules. AI is one thing, highlighting that all it matters to them is a profit with no gratitude towards the workers.
This is essentially legal slavery, fuelled by big corp and the governmental bootlickers.
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Korhaka
in reply to oftenawake • • •Arguably we are already there. Depends how much you want to yourself. My house? No comrade, our house.
Share a house and you can do very little work. You could take it pretty far too. Think of those capsule hotels, could fit loads of capsules in my current bedroom even if you want to have your own capsule - sharing can further increase population. Less than 20 hours of work a month for static fees (mortgage, tax) per person. Food is about 4 hours of work a month. Heating wont change, though you will use more hot water for washing, probably 2-5 hours of work for energy and water.
All essentials covered, less than 30 hours of work a month required per person. Basing this on my expenses in the UK and minimum wage.
Grandwolf319
in reply to Sahwa • • •Shit like this should be shown to people who argue against unionization.
Remember, the parasites will take everything they can, even if it means their eventual demise.
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willington
in reply to Korhaka • • •The priviledged class will trade among themselves.
You can have a society with 7.5 billion people that are fed, clothed, sheltered enough to stave off early death, and 500 mil people with property rights trading among themselves.
Nothing says economies must collapse if not everyone is enfranchised. There is no such law.
Korhaka
in reply to willington • • •I could see a black mirror 15 million merits type of society. Pointless work for pointless pay. But gotta keep the poors in a position that they get something they want from their meaningless work even if it's got no real value but they want the shiny.
But then what happens to the individuals that reject consumerism? It clearly shown the main character racked up a shitload of cash by doing that. Couldn't you then do very little work?
willington
in reply to Korhaka • • •You can't get cash rewards for consuming less. Spending is the least important variable in the accumulation game. All else being equal, spending less means you can spend more at other times. So if I penny pinch all year, I can splurge on New Year's eve, that sort of thing. That doesn't make you rich. That doesn't elevate your status in societies where all the needed and useful resources are paywalled.
Income and time is what matters. And if you can get income while keeping all your time to yourself, that's what elevates status. In other words you don't trade your own time for income. That means there must be some slaves or extremely poor people that are constantly exploited to enable the elite living conditions.
A society doesn't need parasitic elites. But if you want a better society you will have to pry it from the elites' cold hands, because they won't go along with a scheme that makes the world a happy and healthy place at their expense.
If I have 400 billion, but in a happy and healthy world I can only have 100mil max, which is 3 orders of magnitude less, I would rather burn down the whole planet than lose 1 cent. My interests are everything to me. My personal condition is what I experience first hand, while the rest of the world is just a theory, a story on a newspaper page, an image on TV, etc. I won't accept tangible personally felt losses for gains which to me are theoretical.
Of course if I inhabit a worker instead of a billionaire, things are different, the calculus is different, but crumbs are always crumbs. Whether I am a worker or billionaire, man or woman, I refuse to crumb myself. I want a 10 course dinner, with hookers and blow to boot, with every trimming. Always. I'd rather have food I can't eat than not have enough. No matter who I inhabit, the previous statement is true.
If what you want is in a tree, you have to shake that fucking tree. If you want fish you have to catch it.
Some assholes wanted to exploit people, so they killed, threatened, organized and propagandized and accomplished it. We need to understand this and take notes. Know yourself and know your enemy and you will always win.
If we want something else, if we want a different system, there will always be people that are super happy with how things are now. These folks have done very well under the present system. These folks will block our way. They are the tree, the fish, they are the soil that we have to plow and sometimes pave, to get to where we need to go. It will be ugly. It will not be without struggle.
If we just remain passive, and modestly undemanding, and we just politely wave our slogans on street corners, we know exactly what happens next.
Korhaka
in reply to willington • • •willington
in reply to Korhaka • • •Korhaka
in reply to willington • • •willington
in reply to Korhaka • • •Please watch this video, and think about everything.
Don't do anything stupid and treasure your own life. Thinking has to come first, or there will be regrets later.
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Korhaka
in reply to willington • • •willington
in reply to Korhaka • • •Who said "have to?"
Can.
We can just acquiesce. That's always an option.
As for coercion, it's a spectrum. Killing the bags of bones is only one small slice of that spectrum.
Regardless. Conflicts of interests exist. Coercion exists. We can just try to sleep through it all and hope for the best hopium. Or we can do the adult thing. Admit reality. Prosecute our interests vigorously and sophisticatedly.
We have some thinking to do. I prefer there aren't any simpleminded and naive folks around me. Being honest about what's happening is better than our usual game of hopium, copium, fig leaves, whitewashing, and sleeping.
Stern
in reply to Sahwa • • •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
Overwork people until they die/kill themselves, great idea, what could go wrong. Really, I want to see homeboy do a month of whatever his lowest employee does with that schedule and THEN say he's still for it. Bet he'll be real fuckin' quiet.
sudden death from overwork
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in reply to A_Random_Idiot • • •That's the thing, looking at the company they don't work "normal labor" jobs. Infosys is into info tech, consulting, and outsourcing services and looking at their acquisition history I get the impression they buy up smaller companies and consolidate their work into their product. Basically they make websites and tools that your company buys for $100k to analyze and optimize workflow, but the site doesn't work well and they never fix it. After 2 years enough time has passed that the higher ups don't feel embarrassed retiring the software and buying something else. Also, rather than just coding themselves they code with AI or buy other companies that already wrote the code and put it into their own product.
At the end of the day they aren't "working," they are being available. They are the shitty guy who is answering a work call on a Saturday while they are supposed to be watching their kid's ball game. They are the person who has to step out of the movie theater because they are getting an urgent work call at 10 pm on Friday. They are the person who flies back from their vacation two days early because the boss wants to ask about sales numbers. This is how Executive suite types say they work 16 hour days 7 days a week, they count every hour of the day as work because they are available, not because they were being productive that entire time.
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in reply to Sam_Bass • • •Uriel238 [all pronouns]
in reply to Sahwa • • •Crunching does not work!
Instead, it reduces productivity to a fraction (often 10% of normal), countering any time added.
You want to improve your productivity, you make your workers happy. Make sure they can eat, have good healthcare, have adequate family life, etc.
We now have studies that counter the crunching myths and time theft myths.
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in reply to Rooster326 • • •potoooooooo ✅️
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in reply to potoooooooo ✅️ • • •theparadox
in reply to Uriel238 [all pronouns] • • •Uriel238 [all pronouns]
in reply to theparadox • • •The bosses win if winning is continuing to manage the company poorly.
The shareholders lose since cruel treatment reduces productivity and weakens profit margins. It depends on how seriously the business controllers want to actually do a capitalism and create a product and turn a profit.
theparadox
in reply to Uriel238 [all pronouns] • • •willington
in reply to Uriel238 [all pronouns] • • •Is maxxing the productivity top priority?
They might value control over their workforce above productivity.
JcbAzPx
in reply to willington • • •Uriel238 [all pronouns]
in reply to willington • • •In actuality, yes, their job is to maximize productivity for the dollar spent, hence maximizing profits, and the best way to do that for most job pools is by improving the QoL of the workforce.
They likely do value control over productivity, but that's not the job of upper management. A lot of jobs (the bullshit jobs ) are to fulfill a personal need for an entourage, the illusion of business activity. That is a -- human -- trait.
Our c-suite execs might believe it controlling the workforce is their job, though, if they're inadequately educated about the current state of the art. Hopefully, their AI replacements will be more current and won't be interfered with by the BoD or shareholders.
willington
in reply to Uriel238 [all pronouns] • • •Imagine if every muscle cell in my biceps wanted to self-actualize. I want to grab a cup of coffee, but every muscle cell in my arms has their own ideas. Something that normally takes a second, now takes 10 years of negotiations. It would not do me a lick of good if I had the strongest muscle cells in existence if I could not control them.
Of course people should not be regarded as mere muscle cells, but the point here is to show how obviously valuable and vital control can be when you want to serve some ambition.
Should workers be controlled like they are soldiers?
Whose interests does the business prioritize? And how heavily?
In a worker cooperative workers are the owners. Workers hire and fire their managers at every level of management. All power flows are bottom up. The workers are the entourage. In this case workers are better positioned to self-actualize, because there is no capricious, lazy, ignorant, spoiled silky pants tyrant at the top.
But what about a more typical business? Well, there is either one owner or a tiny cabal of owners, and everyone else is just a resource, a means to an end. And you have to exert control over the means of labor to benefit the entourage at the top. If the entourage can figure out how to produce things without workers, they will get rid of them immedeately, why? Because the workers are just a means, they are incidental, they exist because slavery was deemed too toxic, and because no one figured out a way to get rid of the workers yet. That's the only reason workers exist in capitalism.
Managers want to give orders and see those orders followed immediately. They don't want debates, challenges, counter proposals, etc. If workers want to self-actualize, that's a huge problem for a top down power flow. That's why it is essential to beat the desire to self-actualize out of workers early. That way mindless servility is assured, which is good for control.
Also, if your workers work 80 hour weeks, they won't start competing ventures in their spare time. Again, control.
I kinda feel sorry for all the workers out there, because self-actualization is a heavenly mandate for every sentient being, and yet they are plugged into and slotted into a structure where worker (out group) self-actualization is a huge obstacle for the (in group) entourage.
Getting everyone happy can be a slow and messy process. What if you make weapons and your workers decide it is unethical to make weapons? You are a manager of youtube and you order workers to censor channels for entourage's benefit, but they have their own ideas, and they pretend to be censoring while actually not censoring? There is no end to such possibilities. Hence why the soul of many people MUST be crushed if the top down power flow is to be served in full measure.
Every so often there is an oddball manager like Ricardo Semler. But Ricardo Semler is the exception.
coffee_nutcase207
in reply to Sahwa • • •Darkness343
in reply to Sahwa • • •70 hours a week? What? So we can just stare at our screens pretending to work for half that time, if not more?
Go to hell.
DegenerationIP
in reply to Sahwa • • •switcheroo
in reply to Sahwa • • •Jyek
in reply to Sahwa • • •If you follow the standard 5 day business week, that is 70 hours worked for every 50 hours not worked. Account for 8 hours of sleep a night and you have 2 hours a day to commute to your job. Literally zero time for any other needs. And that's ONLY if you are generous enough to give everyone the weekend to recharge.
For a 7 day work week with no days off, allowing for 8 hours of sleep per day and 2 hours of commute time, that is 4 hours a day to do anything else. I also would assume that part of the day would still be considered off hours for lunch. As well. Call it 3 hours a day for anything not work related.
This man should be hanged for even suggesting this as a reasonable productivity schedule for any living being.
pseudonaut
in reply to Jyek • • •JensSpahnpasta
in reply to Jyek • • •pyre
in reply to Sahwa • • •Avicenna
in reply to Sahwa • • •"Infosys co-founder suggested slavery could be brought back with updated terms and conditions"
This is how this news should be titled
floquant
in reply to Sahwa • • •And management will lead by example right?
...right?
Little8Lost
in reply to Sahwa • • •But other than that 40 at most
__lone_eagle___
in reply to Sahwa • • •To be Frank guys this is the sick reality of Indian workers in India. The Labour and Workers are always exploited as much as Possible. Indian Labour Law is mostly in Favor of the Corporate Crooks, even its harder to start a WORKER UNION in Service based sectors like IT and Non coding Jobs. Normal working hours is 8 hrs but most Indian worker in such sectors their minimum working hour is 10hr (Personal experience), even the work environment it evolved into is one Most Sick and Selfish environment you could ever Imagine. Yes, sadly many Indians Lack Civic sense I don't object and we too are being discriminated in a stereotypical way for that. But I must say that many Indians who leave for On-site is not just for higher payroll but for better Work environment and to embrace their basic Work-Life Balance which is a JOKE in India.
~ Random Comrade
slacktoid
in reply to Sahwa • • •Quadhammer
in reply to slacktoid • • •RememberTheApollo_
in reply to Sahwa • • •yeehaw
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in reply to potoooooooo ✅️ • • •Jaysyn
in reply to Sahwa • • •The sooner we start eating these motherfuckers the faster things will improve.
Billionaire is a mental illness that isn't compatible with civil society,
jjjalljs
in reply to Sahwa • • •Sunflier
in reply to jjjalljs • • •chemicalprophet
in reply to Sahwa • • •CileTheSane
in reply to Sahwa • • •rothaine
in reply to CileTheSane • • •That's the fun part: you only have to pay them for 40 hours!
Hazor
in reply to CileTheSane • • •ricecake
in reply to CileTheSane • • •Insurance, benefits and labor expenses. Even in places with little worker protections there are costs that scale with the number of workers instead of the number of hours.
A brief look indicates employers in India can expect to budget on the order of 18% of an employees take home per year for those expenses.
There are some circumstances and places in the US where you don't need to provide as many benefits to employees who work below 40 hours. Then you see employers hire more people and schedule them for just under the threshold to give them benefits.
The answer is always because it's cheaper for them somehow.
Zink
in reply to CileTheSane • • •You just aren't thinking like a billionaire, man. What you do is get the two people anyway, and still force the 70 hour work week.
Your job is not to find a reasonable steady state of operation. Your job is to exploit the resources before you (even the ones with emotions and families) to extract value for the shareholders in the most efficient way possible, before somebody even more evil and clever than you figures out a better way and we direct future fresh meat to his meat grinder instead of yours.
ObliviousEnlightenment
in reply to Zink • • •WorldsDumbestMan
in reply to ObliviousEnlightenment • • •AeonFelis
in reply to CileTheSane • • •Seth Taylor
in reply to Sahwa • • •Clot
in reply to Sahwa • • •ObliviousEnlightenment
in reply to Sahwa • • •Iceland made theor 4 day workweek experiment permanent...because it was actually more productive.
They don't even want all the money, they just want us to suffer
shirro
in reply to Sahwa • • •You could replace most management people with a rack of GPUs and nobody would notice. Mostly they are a very unimaginative lot parroting the same misguided group think that devalues the employees that create all their companies value. Infosys is a consulting company. They don't make anything or own valuable IP. They pimp out Indian labour to undercut the labour rates and conditions in developed countries which already makes them a shitload of profit.
You would think with increasing options to Indian professionals, their recruitment people would be shitting bricks trying to hire talent with this bullshit out there but they have probably sacked them as well. Though, if I wasn't poor I would probably say all sorts of shit to pump share prices and cash out before the AI bubble bursts.
HopeOfTheGunblade
in reply to Sahwa • • •It's not just saturday morning cartoon villain evil.
It's also incredibly fucking stupid.
Anything that you get better outcomes from by making people work longer, like assembly lines, can be done better by robots anyway, and of course you as capital owner don't have to live life after your dominant hand gets crushed and amputated.
Anything that isn't pure rote work, you get better results when people are not overworked and spending thirty hours a week sticking fucking pencils in your acoustic ceiling because nobody's fucking brain works that long and hard.
ArmchairAce1944
in reply to HopeOfTheGunblade • • •AnimalsDream
in reply to Sahwa • • •Higher taxes on the rich don't go far enough, because they can just leverage their assets to corrupt democracies and roll everything back.
Corporations need to be banned.
blarth
in reply to Sahwa • • •Dogiedog64
in reply to Sahwa • • •ArmchairAce1944
in reply to Sahwa • • •I learned that China had basically made this shit illegal years ago, but work hours in China are still insane. I am willing to bet that they will still have incredible growth and prosperity even if those workhours are strictly enforced.
People like this dipshit need to be stripped of all possessions and wealth and immured alive.
nutsack
in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •ArmchairAce1944
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in reply to ArmchairAce1944 • • •Lor
in reply to Sahwa • • •Treczoks
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