do i create a new tech alt on some short form content site? or is there an intended way to use the bingo board
So if someone says Windows, everybody gets a Bingo somehow?
My code only gets me one square :(
(Doesn’t work)
You completely forgot:
“Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
Though I guess Ads is already the free space.But it’s new and better! Just ask our huge team of three programmers and thirty marketing geniuses.
skynut will 100% be a thing meta makes
I was looking for “buzzword soup website doesn’t say what the product fucking does”
Maybe that wouldn’t fit in a square
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It’s so perfectly terrible 🥹
I was scrolling through job postings today and came across one that read like this. I was confused -> clicked the link -> saw a picture of two oil rig workers -> genuinely said “Ah, oil!” out loud -> and closed the web page.
They try to hide behind green washing and jargon. It happened to me at a university career fair a few months ago, too.
the only possible way this could be worse was if it was called CloudChain and also had weird blockchain/crypto nonsense.
Chat, is this real?
Oh, that CloudBox…
A game of Bingo requires several players to have different cards. That would be on another card. Other possible entries:
- Uses recently popular buzzword tech for no reason.
- Uses an always-on internet connection and multiple server farms to perform a function that ran locally on a Palm V PDA in 1997
- Isn’t legal in the EU
Happens often with GitHub projects as well. It’s that or “it expands on the capabilities of BLARG by making it easier to use” - doesn’t explain the changes
Are you talking about the turbo encabulator, retro encabulator, or hyper encabulator?
I would add “people blame programmers and CS majors instead of rich dudes for some reason.”
This is fucking hilarious
The “bug causes death” thing can be ticked for everything safety critical. Starts with the small electronics in an elevator.
Getting real SAO Abridged vibes here
Are they making elevators without mechanical fail-safes now?
What apps only work for straight white guys?
Plenty of stuff that works much better for white guys that speak English and with the right accent, because that’s who they are mostly trained on (image/speech recognition, spell check and translation, lots of medical stuff but that’s not very tech). Not sure about straight.
Edit: oh the image said cis, not straight. That’s easier.
Not an app, but the Kinect had trouble with people of certain shades
I’m sure there are none, straight white guys are just a favorite villain around here.
I can think of a tech that doesn’t work as well on black people though: Pulse oximeters. A pulse oximeter works by shining two wavelengths of light through your finger to measure the amount of oxygen in your blood. It also sees your blood come and go with your pulse, so it can detect your heart rate. Well get this: melanin blocks light. A black man’s finger is more opaque than a white man’s finger, so optical pulse oximeters have been known to fail to detect hypoxia in dark skinned people. This problem has been known since the 70’s, and continues to be a problem to the present day. Because you know what happened recently? A global pandemic of a respiratory disease. Pulse oximeters failed to detect hypoxia in more black patients than white patients, who then weren’t given supplemental oxygen. So why in the last 50 years hasn’t that been addressed?
Dating apps and similar with insufficient moderation come to mind, or even ones that effectively paywall dickpics and harassment instead of removing it.
For gender nonconforming people, lots of forms.
I’m not convinced dating apps work for anyone in any way.
While I’m sure the obvious systemic issues contribute to not looking for alternatives, that does sound like largely an issue inherent to optical pulse oximeters. Engineers aren’t miracle workers, they can’t change physics to their liking.
I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago. The fact we’re still using them is because no alternatives have been found which are as easy to use, reliable, and non-invasive as pulse oximeters, even with the known downsides.
Engineers aren’t miracle workers, granted. Which is why it is their responsibility to thoroughly test the devices they design and document their limitations. It’s then on the medical industry to train doctors and nurses on those limitations.
I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago.
As I said, this continues to be a problem into the present day. COVID-19 patients with dark skin would suffer from hypoxia that pulse oximeters would fail to detect, leading the medical staff to fail to administer supplemental oxygen. That’s probably happening somewhere on earth as I type this.
Do the little lights in the device need to be brighter, or have a brighter mode? Does their need to be a switch on the side? Can our cultures handle a medical device with a “white people | black people” switch on the side?
Not really an answer to your question, but worth a read to widen your horizon: It’s a huge problem that most health apps are created by men — here’s how to fix that
Does truth social have an app?
Maybe the skin cancer detection app?
Tinder?
Nothing comes to mind at the moment but I doubt somebody isn’t trying.
[obligatory George Carlin reference]
Bingo
Somewhat unrelated but… can anyone define “rich”? How much money before one is deemed rich? Where is the line drawn between rich and non-rich?
Bought the gov means you’re rich.
Here’s a couple of good starting points for the line:
if you have to sell your time/labour for money, you’re not rich.
if you can take a day off and not need to tell anyone about it and not lose money because of it, you’re rich.
That’s a really poor metric, because that encompasses many salaried jobs.
But yes, it’s ultimately just about whether or not you are selling your time for money, or if you have acquired enough money to exploit the labor of others to make yourself more money without doing anything yourself.
Most people with salaried jobs are not rich
That’s what I’m saying.
Is your main income through capital or labour. That simple. Always been.
You’re middle class if you’re still working for your money. You’re rich when your money works for you.
A $5 million a year actor/athlete still has to work; they are also paying for their trainers, agents, dietitians, clothes etc. They are upper middle class.
A trust fund baby with an income of $1 million a year is the rich one. imho.
It’s more vibes-based than anything else
Except that the rich know who to bribe with campaign contributions.
Look at Ronald Reagan. As an actor, he was not a giant star. Plenty of folks got a higher salary. Reagan lucked into a job as spokesman for General Electric, at the time one of the biggest companies in the world. Reagan hung out with the big shots and introduced them to his Hollywood buddies; in return he got stock tips and investment opportunities that made him rich.
Edit: why is it wrong to laude a company I work for because they are ethical and doing business how it should be done? If we do not share the good companies as alternatives how will we ensure that they stick around?
I am actually very proud that the company I work for literally does not tick a single box.
We are a cloud infrastructure company that caters to animation and visual effects artists. We sponsor people’s passion projects. Everything is a prepay model that does not have any minimums and actually let’s you zero your account. No advertising, no data harvesting (I can say that with confidence as I would be the person doing it if it were happening and I don’t). Genuine altruism and genuine customer centric development. And the culture is not toxic in the slightest. The owners always make sure we are all paid before taking a dime and never take more than they pay the rest of us. It is seriously such a good company.
They also do compute for computational chemistry, prosumer AI platforming (providing access to ComfyUI, A1111, etc, not actually building AIs or stealing anyone’s data), and we can handle just about anything else.
If anyone out there has need for compute power for anything and want to work with a company that actually gives a shit, reach out. Especially if it is in a vertical space we already provide services in.
You might have just crossed off the central box
I get what you are sayin, but it was not an advertisement since I am acting as a citizen, not an employee. I wanted to actually share that I was proud of my bosses for doing things the way they should. If we don’t share the ones that behave right, they will all vanish because it is not as profitable to behave right as it is to abuse customers and employees. I would encourage anyone who works somewhere that acts with honor and respect to share it and offer proof of why it is true. Laude the laudable, ya know? We do a good job of calling out the pieces of shit, but not for offering alternatives.
Where is the source code?
Just wanting to make sure I understand your position, only open source code can be ethical?
Yes. Libre to be exact.
That is interesting and a bit anarcho, and I will not say I disagree, but I am of two minds given my distinct role on both sides of the line. We have made some of our code public, but there are privacy and security concerns given we are handling people’s personal data and private artwork, so exposing the whole codebase exposes potential security flaws, so keeping parts closed source makes sense. Balancing people’s privacy has to be a consideration as well when dealing with offering services.
Nearly got bingo with FOSS apps. Specifically used to avoid paying big corporations (Spotify, Netflix, google)
Shoot. Maybe someone’s card is in the right order.
Destroys well-paying jobs has been a major public issue since the mechanical loom was invented in 17whatever. I like mechanical looms. I think there’s varying opinion even on here about which squares are actually bad and which are just whining.
Troll harder.
Woah look at me I just donated to Postmarket OS in response.
Hella bait!
how do they only work for cis white dudes? is it a fleshlight that refers to its user as a man?
Do fleshlights not work on black people?
They do not 😞
I may have forgotten that part, um… mame it activated by the reflection from skin and ignore the condition that removes skin pigmentation
