This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes' hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.
Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector's hiring preferences is probably accurate.
Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.
No. Dead wrong. It's precisely the frontline staff who need customer feedback, and if makes them uncomfortable then so much the better.
It's the rank and file's job to pass criticism of the service offering on in team meetings, culture surveys, etc. My job sucks this week because I have to do x and yet the customers all hate it. Staff will drive change to policy when it's their ears copping the response day-to-day.
'I couldn't possibly bother the floor person' is code for 'I am going to tolerate in silence any corporate policy no matter how obnoxious', and line management and the executive know it.
Only academics, commentators and researchers truly care about collective security, where the whole world gains because certain technology and is commonly agreed to be off-the-table
Everyone else (that is, corporations including government and private enterprise) only cares about zero-sum security - your insecurity is my security gain - but they pretend in their messaging to care about collective security. It explains why nation states continue to demand purpose-built backdoors into hardware and encryption implementations, and why employers are content to treat your mobile phone like their own property, demanding apps, RATs, etc. be installed
Most cybersecurity is thinly-veiled compliance, and amounts to certified bureaucrats implementing products from that small bunch of vendors with the means to influence policymaking
The public messaging around security always uses the noun in the abstract, which to me is telling. Security for whom? Security against what? Security for what? See also social media and the term "safety".
Badda Bing Badda Bang is the best holodeck episode and a DS9 top-ten, and its central conceit has made it more relevant than ever, now there's a common recognition of the value and significance we derive from virtual worlds, and our habit of anthropomorphizing LLMs.
If you concede your powerlessness, why would you issue them in the first place? I'm reminded of signage in workplace kitchens, requesting that people wipe benches and ensure dishes aren't left in the sink - a conscientious worker will follow it in nearly all cases (either by accident or deliberation), but it's pointless when in front of a careless worker.
I've never understood the progressive left's eagerness to 'claim' pronouns and put them on display. It's silly to believe anyone can possess them. Your being a he or a she is determined by social context. Accept that your ability to enforce a personal preference is limited at best.
If you see this, flag down an employee, tell them you don't have your cell phone, and make them get the item for you.
Yes. Get staff on-board with you, against hostile policy that wastes everyone's time. 'I drove a sale that may not have happened otherwise, simply by humoring the customer'. Everyone wants to feel productive, regardless of love for the work.
Then when you go up front to check out, say nevermind and leave.
No. Now you've got them on-side with management, because you wanted to be a smart-ass.
The plastics industries don't want any disruption to manufacturing volumes, so they've invested (together with government) a lot of money in propagating the plastic recycling myth in order to keep political pressure off themselves. Recycled plastic is poor quality and unfit for consumers, which is why the recycled portion of new plastic units is typically single-digit percentages. They've also created a new bit of greenwashing aimed at convincing the public there's a 'new and improved' class of plastics that stand up to recycling at higher rates, but most experts think it's just clever accounting.
These articles always get me thinking about filesharing doomsday. That theoretical point in time when our governments go full China and enact their own national firewalls/other scheme of effective P2P connection surveillance; when you need to know for certain that you've downloaded enough (and that your storage game is good enough) to last decades of leisure time, perhaps even a lifetime's worth.
This whole thread is a Reddit-style two minutes' hate session that gets pissy about the language of his post without addressing the content.
Eich is right to be wary of US Intelligence infiltration of the non-profit sector, and his characterization of the sector's hiring preferences is probably accurate.
Also the image presented by the glowies concept is hilarious, and demonstrates again why the Right memes better than the Left.