Takže, v paralelnom vesmírne Erica Schmidta, môže za zaostávanie Googlu na poli AI rozhodnutie, že ľudia môžu pracovať z domu.

Takéto vyhlásenia sú zlé na tak veľa úrovniach, ako to je len možné a vedia ma dostať do vývrtky. Áno, než som toto napísal, musel som si napočítať do desať, opakovane, ináč by som sa znížil iba k jednoslovnému vulgarizmu.

Pracujem z domu viac než dekádu, coachoval som viacero kolegov a známych, ktorí behom toho obdobia (už aj pred pandémiou) postupne prechádzali na remote work. Sám som za tú dobu vystriedal množstvo interných pozícii smerom hore, či dokonca prešiel úžasným (externým) kariérnym skokom, takže smelo predpokladám, že som biznisu odovzdával nadpriemernú hodnotu.
Taktiež môžem povedať, že som týmto veľa získal v osobnom živote - týždenne ušetrené hodiny času, môcť vidieť, v priamom prenose, svoje deti vyrastať, flexibilita na starosti denného života... Je to na nezaplatenie a je to win-win.

Iste, nie je to pre každého, iste, sú aj ľudia, ktorí budú mať tendenciu takúto príležitosť zneužívať, alebo ju iba jednoducho a ľudsky nezvládnu. Adresovať tieto nástrahy je však úlohou managementu. A kto vedie management? Leadership!

Takže, ak Eric tvrdí niečo takéto, treba pozorne počúvať. Síce to znie ako, boli sme ňuňu dobrí na ľudí, a preto zaostávame, ale v skutočnosti tým hovorí - sme naprd leadri, s mizerným managementom, ktorí nezvládli svoju základnú úlohu - efektívne riadiť ľudí.

Ono, je tu však ešte tretia, najpravdepodobnejšie (uvidíme) možnosť: nedarí sa, spálilo sa mrte prachov bez adekvátneho vysledku, treba nájsť vinníka a ideálne zmienku ako zoštíhliť firmu, teda vyhodiť pár ľudí... ale keďže sme už ňuňu dobrí, my nikoho vyhadzovať nebudeme, my iba všetkým prikážeme návrat do office a oni odídu dobrovoľne... Rád by som sa mýlil, ale za posledný rok som takýchto pribehov videl už niekoľko.
Je tu však háčik - takýmto spôsobom sa firma zbaví predovšetkým tých šikovnejších, tých ktorí sú si vedomí svojich schopností aj pridanej hodnoty, bez toho aby strávili život v openspace... A viete čo - dobre im tak!

#ustrelilomidekel #somsaopustil #homeoffice #ericschmidt #google #alphabet

From: @zachklipp
androiddev.social/@zachklipp/1…

A bunch of #XMPP developers, including myself, will have a booth at #FrOSCon this weekend. Come say Hi and grab some merch.

Additionally the TroLUG devroom will host some entry level XMPP talks.

froscon.org

"It didn’t matter what Joe Biden did – pull the country out of a pandemic ... tame inflation, grow jobs, grow wages, enforce anti-monopoly laws, revive every single one of the so-called 'left behind' counties that voted for Trump in 2016 because of 'economic anxiety' ... The press corps decided nothing was more important than his age, and lo! 2024 became an election about vibes and vibes ended his candidacy.

"Vibes are this press corps’ forte, not fact and substance."

editorialboard.com/kamala-harr…

Kamala Harris is taking power back from the press corps

She learned from Biden’s fatal error.

^{John Stoehr (The Editorial Board)}

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

arstechnica.com/?p=2042921

Self-driving Waymo cars keep SF residents awake all night by honking at each other

Haunted by glitching algorithms, self-driving cars disturb the peace in San Francisco.

^{Ars Technica}

Picker is a simple app; give it a list of items and let it pick one out for you! It can help make decisions, picking from tasks you haven't started but really should, or it can help you decide what you want for lunch, picking from ingredients in your fridge! Once the app has selected an item, Picker gives you the option to copy it or even to remove it from the list entirely!

You can get the app on Flathub here: flathub.org/apps/io.github.mez…

#gnome #apps #flatpak

I thought that Chats (GNOME Chatty) is an SMS app, but it actually supports Matrix and XMPP too. So I can join discussions on the postmarketOS Matrix server from postmarketOS devices. Cool.

#linuxmobile #postmarketOS #matrix #chat #gnome

Fortunately I hear that one of the big benefits of distributed version control is that it does not rely on a central server and works even when some participants are offline, therefore I’m confident that this outage will have minimal practical impact on developers’ work today.

[touches earpiece]

Wait…

From @ryanrandall:
hcommons.social/@ryanrandall/1…

Ryan for a permanent ceasefire (@ryanrandall@hcommons.social)

Nope, it's not just you. #GitHub is indeed down for lots of people.

^{hcommons.social}

Reminder that you can use AccessibilityAttributes on your AttributedStrings to have more fine-grained control over how assistive technologies interact with your Text, such as modulating the pitch or pronunciation #VoiceOver uses! #accessibility #iOS

developer.apple.com/documentat…

AttributeScopes.AccessibilityAttributes | Apple Developer Documentation

There's never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.

^{Apple Developer Documentation}

This is my favorite coconut water product. Just coconut water and coconut flesh, frozen in a bag. The next best thing is getting a young coconut on a Thai beach.

Keeps me going, what with all the terrible coconut water products here

On an especially hot day, taking this out of the freezer = having coconut ice slushy instead of water, which is also excellent

sayweee.com/en/product/Coconut…

#Food #tootsea

I can't even find the words. Like, just stop being weird to women.

#tech #infosec #technology

Everyone else just staring at the github status page?

githubstatus.com/

#github

Aaand… Welcome to the RB family, Pinboard! 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.f…

#reproducibleBuilds at #IzzyOnDroid

„Pinkt for Bookmarking“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Pinkt is an unofficial bookmarking client for Pinboard and Linkding

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

From Freedom Scientific:
Learn How to Access PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader with JAWS
Thursday, August 15, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

blog.freedomscientific.com/lea…

Learn How to Access PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Reader with JAWS

Are you required to access PDFs at home, school, or in the workplace?  Need tips for setting up Adobe Acrobat Reader for optimized results? Join us Thursday, August 15 at noon ET for a live we…

^{Freedom Scientific Blog}

Sources: Sonos is considering relaunching its previous mobile app as it works to improve the redesigned version, which launched in May to widespread criticism (Chris Welch/The Verge)

theverge.com/2024/8/14/2422042…
techmeme.com/240814/p31#a24081…

Sonos considers relaunching its old app

Sonos has discussed bringing back its S2 app for Android and iOS to reduce customer frustration as the company continues working to improve its redesigned software.

^{Chris Welch (The Verge)}

So the Department of Energy emailed me

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14…

GOOD NEWS EU 🇪🇺 For innovation in app distribution, Epic Games has granted us a MegaGrant grant that we plan to use to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee going forward — and we won’t take it for granted!

What does this mean? AltStore PAL is now FREE — no subscription necessary 🎉 altstore.io

Esta noticia es increíble. Una mujer come en un restaurante de Disney y, después de preguntar y pedir repetidas veces si la comida no tenía ciertos alimentos a los que era alérgica, y de ser asegurada, repetidamente que no los llevaba, muere por una reacción alérgica a la comida.

El marido denuncia al restaurante por negligencia y ahora Disney quiere desestimar la denuncia porque la mujer una vez se apuntó a una prueba gratuita de un mes de Disney+, y entre los T&C aceptas uno que dice que cualquier disputa que tengas con la empresa deber resolverse con ella (y no a través de los tribunales).

longisland.news12.com/disney-a…

Disney wants wrongful death suit involving LI doctor tossed, citing Disney+ terms

The lawsuit claims that Dr. Kanokporn Tangsuan suffered a fatal allergic reaction after eating at a Disney Springs restaurant despite repeatedly informing the waiter of her severe allergy.

^{News 12 - Default}

@matrix I know you worked on encryption and key exchange in the latest iterations, but you made it worse.

That is freaking not usable. A new contact added by ID in 1to1 chat, "Never send encrypted messages to unverified sessions.." not activated. Just a brand new contact.

Not working at all. Trying to get users to #Matrix like that won't work.

It's not only old-style looking, heavy and non-intuitive, it's just not working at all.

(matrix(dot)org homeserver btw!)

We announced that we are sunsetting unauthenticated media access on matrix.org just 2 months ago, and already 60% of requests are now using the new authenticated endpoints! We’re grateful to and proud of the ecosystem for moving so quickly 🚀

We’re on track to hit nearly 100% by August 28th, but some fixes and releases will be landing awfully close to that deadline – so we’re moving the deadline back one week to September 4th.

Learn more in our original announcement: matrix.org/blog/2024/06/26/sun…

Sunsetting unauthenticated media

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Travis Ralston (matrix.org)}

exercise wheel...

#exercisewheel #wheel #bicycle #bicyclewheel #snake #exercise #plants #animatedgif

The recording for my talk from Berlin Mini GUADEC about the GNOME STF project is now online! Probably the talk with the least preparation and sleep I've ever given, but hopefully interesting nevertheless.

youtube.com/watch?v=bFQjlbsY5u…

I'm very sad that @sonny was not allowed to give the talk with me as planned. He is the heart and soul of the STF project, and none of this would have been possible without him.

#BerlinMiniGUADEC

GNOME and Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) - Tobias Bernard - Berlin Mini GUADEC 2024

Last year, Sovereign Tech Fund invested 1M€ into the GNOME project. We will share our experience organizing and managing the initiative, go over some work th...

^YouTube