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ianbetteridge, 5 months ago to random

There's a post doing the rounds which says that Meta's terms and conditions mean they plan to harvest Mastodon users' personal data to target them with ads. Unfortunately that post is misreading the T&Cs, and cherry-picks from a section which is clearly about Threads users, not "third party service users" (ie. us). Here's the full, unedited section.

campuscodi, 12 days ago to random

Microsoft not saying a peep about the Recall privacy scandal is a huge tell of how much the company is focused on security

We should have had a statement by now that Recall is either re-engineered or removed

drahardja, 3 months ago to random

“The best data to date shows that the reasons and justifications for RTO mandates are largely misguided. Such mandates do not generally lead to higher productivity, better performance or improved corporate values in the short term.

It also shows that the reasons and justifications for WFH are largely real and serious. Remote work does improve schedule flexibility and work-life balance, and it saves employees a lot of time and money.

In other words: Forcing employees to work in an office doesn’t benefit companies, but does harm the lives of employees — at least in the short term.

More to the point: Most companies cannot show actual monetary benefits from RTO mandates. But most employees can show actual and significant monetary costs from RTO mandates.

In essence, these kinds of mandates represent a transfer of wealth from employees that their employers don’t even benefit from.”

#returnToOffice #remoteWork #flexibleWork

“The hidden high cost of return-to-office mandates”

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712843/the-hidden-high-cost-of-return-to-office-mandates.html

dangillmor, 25 days ago to random

Democrats ask America's most corrupt Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, if he would be kind enough, pretty please, to explain more about his corruption...

He is, of course, not explaining anything -- and daring anyone to do something about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/181627/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-democrats-letter

aral, 3 months ago to random

You know what was so refreshing about the early days of the fediverse? No fucking neoliberals. But, like a bad rash, they’re back.

siracusa, 19 days ago to random

https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

Robin Williams What Year Is It GIF

plantarum, 12 days ago to random

@pluralistic The Pizzaburger Presidency (29 May 2024)
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/29/sub-bushel-comms-strategy/

The dems can't celebrate their few (but amazing) accomplishments because half of their party opposes them.

QasimRashid, 11 days ago to random

BREAKING: Israel confirms its military forces are in central Rafah and expanding their offensive

To recap how we got here:
•March 10: Biden warns of Red Line over Rafah & Netanyahu vows to defy Biden's Red Line
•May 23: Biden says Rafah attack doesn't cross Red Line
•May 31: Israel forces are in central Rafah and expanding offensive

As the facts show, there is no Red Line: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/p/does-a-red-line-for-rafah-even-exist

jann, 5 months ago to random

Amazon faces backlash from users over upcoming change to Prime service - TheStreet https://apple.news/ATIVEFlnHQaOqB-zDEnaQ0A

Plumbert, 5 months ago to random

@postitman @ashwinvis @scubbo I saw an op-ed he wrote recently in which he said he still stands behind this law, and also has no problem with people referring to Trump as a Nazi.

drahardja, 5 months ago to random

Ben Smith was a VP at Amazon Prime Video until early 2023. Despite my disagreement with his claim that 80+ hour weeks back in the 2000s were great, actually, and the way he refers to women as “females” (cringe), he does articulate well why “hybrid” #RTO is a losing strategy.

“Companies need to either be in the office 5(+) days a week or at “home” 5(+) days a week. And I think the right side of history is the latter. The opportunity is to completely reinvent the rhythm of work where there is no central office - where people come together for intensely collaborative activities on a regular schedule (3 days a quarter?), where we find new ways to mentor early career staff, where senior managers are ok trading of short-term productivity for long-term productivity, where employees travel for in-person collaborative time organically.

“Mea culpa for advocating a compromise that really was "deciding to lose" and not having been a voice for leaning into the future.”

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-smith-9561635_rto-activity-7127027218362335232-obKv/

glyph, 6 days ago to random

I am skeptical that this monitoring is accurate. (This is after a reboot.)

A screenshot of the macOS "weather" app with "San Francisco" and then two dashes being the only visible elements on a blank blue background.

freediverx, 4 months ago to random

Effective obfuscation

https://citationneeded.news/effective-obfuscation/#reference-3

siracusa, 24 days ago to random

I spotted this car on the road, and my daughter asked why I thought it was cool. After I explained, she said, “Why would a company name a car 9/11?”

gedeonm, 13 days ago to USpolitics

I would not doubt for a second that Trump even if found guilty in his NY case won’t serve any jail time what-so-ever. It’s just the way it goes when it comes to him for some bizarre reason. #USPolitics

stroughtonsmith, 1 month ago to random

No doubt about it, ChatGPT upended Apple's roadmap. True disruption at work.

"Apple executives are said to be concerned that AI threatens the iPhone's market share because it has the potential to become a more compelling operating system with an ecosystem of AI apps that undermine the App Store. Apple apparently fears the ‌iPhone‌ becoming a "dumb brick" compared with other technology.”
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112418294057786439

rmondello, 1 month ago to random

big. egg.
https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/112291962688460811

daringfireball, 1 month ago to random

TikTok Sues US Government Over Forced Divestiture and Potential Ban
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/07/tiktok-sues-us-government

CanadianCrone, 5 months ago to random

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-bankruptcy-b8e8377dcc45df5f2938ff547228328f How #FourthEstate misleads. Headline states: “Alex Jones offers to pay $55 million ….” It implies Alex is being “fair” and “sincere” when in fact, he’s the same slanderous slob he’s always been. The headline should read: Alex Jones was ordered to pay $1 Billion for his false & cruel claims that Sandy Hook was staged & parents were “crisis actors”. But he’s trying to weasel his way out.

arstechnica, 6 days ago to random

Subscribing to Max just got up to $20 more expensive

Monthly ad-free subscriptions cost $1 more.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/subscribing-to-max-just-got-up-to-20-more-expensive/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

arstechnica, 1 month ago to random

Apple’s plastic-free packaging means pack-in logo stickers are going away

Pack-in Apple stickers go back at least as far as 1977’s Apple II.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/apples-plastic-free-packaging-means-pack-in-logo-stickers-are-going-away/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

NewsDesk, 21 days ago to Aviation

One dead, several injured after severe turbulence hits Singapore Airlines flight.

CNN reports the flight from London to Singapore diverted to Bangkok: https://flip.it/BgllSl

#SingaporeAirlines #Turbulence #Aviation #News

daringfireball, 20 days ago to random

How to Make Google’s ‘Web’ View Your Search Default
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/22/google-web-tedium