Glorified network janitor. Perpetual blueteam botherer. Friendly neighborhood cyberman. Constantly regressing toward the mean. Slowly regarding silent things.

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: December 27th, 2023
  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us
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    4 months ago

    Never heard of 996 but feels like these types of articles pop up every time there’s some kind of tech hype cycle going on. Silicon valley is full of IT heroes, ready to sacrifice it all - their families, health, environment - in order to make it big. Get rich or die trying. That’s the American Dream, right? Work hard, provide full value to shareholders and some precious honey might trickle down to you. The American “success culture” we Europeans apparently lack.

    Meanwhile, here I am, I’m living in northern European social democratic utopia with free healthcare, education and annual, fully paid 6 week vacation while wondering why my 4-day work week is taking so long,.

    Different priorities, I guess.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
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    5 months ago

    It’s kinda sad.

    The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 accounts and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general

    As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

    As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.

    Regarding this “W” social media launch though - There’s a post on the CEO’s LinkedIn about a “pre-launch” in Davos, and that links to an German article saying the same thing - but there’s no link to this launched site anywhere. ¯\(ツ)/¯

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•Sincere question: why play long video games?
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    5 months ago

    I swear I’m not trying to troll

    But you’re doing it anyway. If you really are old enough to be posting “back in my days” shit on the Internet, then you must also be old enough to be able to reflect on what you’re actually trying to say and start a discussion about.

    Games, like any hobbies are done with whatever expendable income and time we have after everything else “important” is done. They are hobbies. Taste in this fleeting field of entertainment is just as personal and subjective as anyones taste in music. I’m pretty sure you know since you used to have a band in high-school after all.

    So what exactly are you trying to say with your post? Why play long games? Because I want to. Just like you seem to want to troll people in this group.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•If you are boycotting "America", does that include "American culture"?
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    5 months ago

    Ok - so while I’m not ‘boycotting’ America, because I don’t really think that’s going to change anything, I’d much rather spend my energy focusing on my local community. But having said that, I don’t either understand or subscribe to certain U.S American cultural tropes such as:

    • Driving oversized gas guzzling cars everywhere and believing it’s freedom.
    • Nuclear family values.
    • Rampant exceptionalism (granted, I live in Sweden and we have our own flavor of it - hate it here as well)
    • Zealous Christianity. Religions should be abolished.
    • Out of control late-stage capitalism backed by military. But I’m a anarco-syndicalist so pretty much every country sucks.
    • The American Dream. Connected to the above. It’s not going to trickle down. Ever.
    • Shitty polyarchical political system designed for the ‘elite’ and ‘weath of the nation’ (but again, I’m an anarchist, so everywhere sucks)
    • Obesity and fast food culture.
    • Everyday racism. The U.S is supposed to be the New World melting pot of cultures, showing us old world Europeans how it’s done. Seems that didn’t work.
    • Enshittification of the Internet. Lack of anti-trust, lack of trade union power and lack of worker agency have all but destroyed the promise of early Internet. We have surveillance capitalism instead.

    There’s not much I can do about them though. Except to act in my local community, and to tell my kids and anyone listening: There are better ways to live and better ideals to aim for.

  • 0xtero@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?
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    6 months ago

    I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements.

    I think lot of that is embedded in the privacy communities/movement, so it gets easily overlooked as a separate part, even though most of the time it actually is the cause of the disease. Many times it’s just easier to treat the symptoms (“just install adblocker, bro”) because the real cure is to topple the entire system and challenge our late stage capitalism. That tends to be a bit too much for a “normie” who doesn’t necessarily even see the constant flow of ads as a problem and even if they do, installing a browser plugin tends to be “lol, too much work”