“The payment had raised a red flag with Google managers and the bonus program was put on pause. Then, on Oct. 27, Modis said the extra payments had been terminated and that workers would not receive back pay for the weeks that they had worked the full 40 hours.” 🤯
Daisuke Wakabayashi https://twitter.com/daiwaka
When the staffing agency for temps working at Google’s data centers reneged on the promise of a pandemic bonus, they fought back. And surprisingly, they won. nytimes.co...
Now they do.
I learned that this extremely confident cat doesn’t live at this guesthouse, right after letting them in 🙃
Estonia had quite a few "make delivery/takeout packaging sustainable"-startups sprung up recently*, and is anyone surprised here that this, too, turns out to be fundamentally a social, rather than a techn(olog)ical problem? 😶 (*not very promising ones, I should add 😕)
I just earned a skill badge for Cybersecurity! Maybe I can do this stuff. lnkd.in/eEMzAU3y
Mark Collier 柯理怀 https://twitter.com/sparkycollier
Using only food, where did you grow up? twitter.com/martin_casado/…
Lots of friends have relocated ever since the pandemic started. If you live in the Bay Area, have you
Web3 is hopes and dreams coupled with technology and grift that support neither.
Darn. Of those 50 years, I have used it for more than 60% of its lifetime.
Today is the 50th Anniversary of the 1st Edition of Unix.... It was targeted at the PDP-11/20 with 8kW of memory (16,384 bytes)....

Are you showing your healthy teeth during eternal Caturday?

Doin a strem Music Composer twitch.tv/fluffycritter
Can we mention a bit tone deaf of the Department of Defense to release all the #cmmc changes on Diwali? All the talk about DEI yet folks forget one of the most holiest days for Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs. You choose this day to drop CMMC 2.0? Cool. No Am…lnkd.in/eeRtnv6c

[Notes] How to play Backgammon on FIBS using Telnet

On the off chance that you would like to play Backgammon on the oldest continually running internet Backgammon server, and you'd like to do it using Telnet on the command line, I have written up a brief tutorial: tinysubversions.com/notes/backgamm…
Rails has also begun to stand out as the base of a whole slew of community/publishing platforms, some open source others closed. Just off the top of my head: Mastodon, Discourse, Forem, Codidact, Revue, Polywork You start to wonder if there’s a pattern here…
[Rails] continues to provide incredible bang for your buck. I just don't think the value curve (one-person startup growing all the way to web scale) is appreciated enough...
If CMMC has evolved or matured to the point we can remove maturity processes is it now the CMC program?
GitHub Copilot is revelatory. I find myself pressing tab at unexpected times. For instance, just now I wrote an (English) code comment describing the intent of a domain model; Copilot suggested a flawless Django ORM class definition for it.
So proud of @RevWoman! 1 full year of weekly episodes is a huge milestone. If you're not familiar - from revwoman.com: "She’s lined up women activists and volunteers from around the world to tell their stories and the stories of the women they work with."
This week marks r(Evolutionary Woman podcast's 1 yr anniversary!! Featuring my very 1st guest from last year @ccylevin talking about motherhood, advocacy & upcoming book ...
"The lie of patriarchy is hierarchy—that you're above the world you're above nature and you're imposing your will like a doctor on a patient, or a mechanic on a car—you are above the system. This is called hubris." —Terry Real, psychologist boffosocko.com/2018/12/06/epi…
Today is a good day as any other to ensure/enable you have 2FA on your npm (and other) accounts.
to protect your accounts and packages from similar attacks, we highly recommend enabling 2FA on your npm account: docs.npmjs.com/configuring-tw…. [3/3]