I am so tired of people going "research showed that a higher salary only temporary boosted happiness and productivity" as an excuse for poor arse salaries. It's miss leading cherry picking. Yes a few researches showed that, however the caviat was that that happens ONLY after someone has a living wage in the first place, because only then secondary agreements start to have an impact.

A fucking pool table ain't gonna do shit if you pay a slave wage, but if you pay your staff we'll, then yes a pool table and Friday drinks help with overall satisfaction.

Also, having only a limited amount of sick days is a scam. Having to pay for sick leave with holiday days is a scam. And having to rely on tips to have a living wage is a scam.

Has anyone made a spreadsheet with a different tiling yet?
Like the obvious one is hexagons.
Where's my hexagonal spreadsheet?

Even a big wolf looks tiny in the wide expanse of nature

Fursuit by: Sarah Cat Fursuit ( https://www.sarahcatfursuits.com/ )

#SarahCatSunday #Fursuit #Furry #Photography

Oh, so, spicy take -

I expect to see other failures of similar nature to the crowdstrike issue, in other companies and their products.

My expectation is informed by the massive number of layoffs in the past couple years, and a suspicion that many companies' internal infrastructure has been running in a degrading or possibly entirely unmaintained state since heavy layoffs occurred.

Does anyone have info about the context of this slide? I see it credited to an IBM presentation from 1979---but a presentation by whom, to whom about what?

🇪🇺 There's a petition to the EU asking for a European wealth tax to finance the social and climate transition and help countries hit by climate change.

Initiated by Marlene Engelhorn und Thomas Piketty, among others.

💸 Many people want a tax like that and so this could be a success.

🔢 France has already reached the threshold of signatures.

Germany is close but in many countries more signatures are needed.

See https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home/allcountries

✍️ Share, and sign!

#TaxTheRich

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/

"Linux would have prevented this!" literally true because my former colleague KP Singh wrote a kernel security module that lets EDR implementations load ebpf into the kernel to monitor and act on security hooks and Crowdstrike now uses that rather than requiring its own kernel module that would otherwise absolutely have allowed this to happen, so everyone please say thank you to him

Best analysis I've seen of the disastrous failures at Microsoft and Clownstrike" that took down so many vital services: https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/?ref=ed-zitrons-wheres-your-ed-at-newsletter

"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."

Pink inflatable husky, and cross fox, nothing clever to say today.

#FursuitFriday #Inflatable #Fursuit #Furry #Photography

While not exactly the same, remember that what is happening with #CrowdStrike could also easily happen with kernel level #anticheat software. Giving proprietary software vendors permission to insert whatever they please into your kernel, especially with the ability to auto update it, means giving up all control of your system to that software vendor. One day CrowdStrike, the next Riot Vanguard. Don't let this garbage into your system! A game is not worth losing your system or your data over.

Tip for software companies. Your stock price can’t crash when you release a bad update if your update manyages to take out the stock exchanges

i think when you rotate your mouse it should turn the cursor. like on a nintendo wii

Raccoons are trying to break into Cybertrucks, and there's some speculation that this is happening because the raccoons are literally confusing them with dumpsters

If you think there a shortage of houses underlies the country's housing crisis (and of course, not all of you do), then as this graph starkly shows, that shortage is almost entirely the result of the collapse of public/social housing new builds - since the 1970s, there has been no appreciable rise (or fall) in annual private house construction.

But of course, private house builders want to engineer a shortage to maintain prices, so we shouldn't be surprised.

#housing #politics

h/t FT