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Steeve ,

I think this speculative take is so popular because it gets a rise out of people, but it’s much more likely that corporate real estate is just a real big asset on corporate balance sheets, and if everyone panic sells their offices at the same time that market will crash leaving corporations to hold the bag.

I know we want to believe that every senior manager on the planet is fragile masochist who needs to see their employees to feel big and strong and in control, but it’s much more likely that this is related to finances.

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Very good point about forcing attrition, my only counter argument (for lack of a better word) would be that it’s more dangerous than traditional layoffs since you don’t get to choose which or exactly how many employees leave, and my guess is that there’s reason to believe you’d lose a large number of senior employees who would have an easier time finding a different remote position.

However the benefits of not having to admit to actual layoffs might outweigh these cons for a lot of companies for sure.

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I don’t think it’s ok to post and share inflammatory bullshit to further your agenda, regardless of whether or not I agree with that agenda.

Unfortunately in this case yes, there is a meaningful difference. At a very high level, jobs and the economy are tied to markets. A major upset like a crash in one sector can cause a domino effect as debt goes uncollected and collateral becomes worthless, remember the 2008 housing/financial crisis? Now I’m speculating here, but given that even the US federal government has a vested interest in employees returning to the office, I’m willing to bet that there’s a lot more tied up in there than we realize. Corporations and financial institutions fuck up and the working class pays for it.

Don’t mistake logical thinking for apathy though, it is bullshit and you should be mad, but without understanding the actual working mechanics you’re just giving ragebait articles more clicks. Without spreading the actual source of the problem it’ll never be fixed. I’m personally not content with just shouting “eat the rich” over and over on the internet and hoping something changes.

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What kind of question is this? OP you’re sketchy af

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You have a massively inflated view of Lemmy’s importance in the social media market.

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Political Group A FUCKING SUPLEXES Political Group B, Follows Up With a FIGURE FOUR LEG LOCK on Policy Debate. PEOPLE’S ELBOW At Eleven!

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Never heard of it, let me AskJeeves it

China's 'aggressive behaviour' in South China Sea must be challenged, US Navy official says (www.reuters.com)

China’s “aggressive behaviour” in the South China Sea, including the use of water canon by its coast guard against a Philippine vessel, must be challenged and checked, the commander of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet said on Sunday....

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How about gulf of Canada

In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. (steamdb.info)

After 5 years in development and heavily pushing Unreal Engine 5 technologies, Immortals of Aveum was met with a whopping 751 player peak. For reference, Forspoken was considered a flop but still had over 12,000 players peak total. This may be the biggest flop of the year.

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Just looked at Steam reviews and apparently it’s another shitty launch that doesn’t run on anything other than the best cpu and gpu combos, so they can’t even promise good graphics lol

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Very intelligent species 10/10

The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. (www.eff.org)

The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online.::Congress has resurrected the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a bill that would increase surveillance and restrict access to information in the name of protecting children online. KOSA was introduced in 2022 but failed to gain traction, and today its authors,...

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I once pretended to be over 18 on a… website

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This is a pretty dumb hot take if you ask me. Yes, they are asking for your feedback, which is data. Everything is data. Why is “data” a bad word around here?

Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city (www.theguardian.com)

After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian...

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Lemmy users: We need more housing, walkable cities, public transport, and renewable energy

Developer: Plans to build more housing in a new walkable city with public transport powered by renewable energy

Lemmy users: Not like that!

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Where do you get the impression this is built “for the ultra-rich”? Why would they be taking public transport over their personal jets and private cars? Why would they live in an urban area with tens of thousands of other residents instead of their personal mansions on acreage? This is definitely an investment for upper-middle to upper class residents.

As for farmland, article itself says “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production”. When you need housing, housing needs to go somewhere.

Your government isn’t going to build the cities the climate needs, if tech investors want to with their own cash I say go for it.

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Right, why think critically and make an intelligent argument when you can just hand-wave “history” lol

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Whatever you say strawman, keep up with your scorched earth policy of gatekeeping who’s allowed to fight climate change.

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It’s being built by an investment firm though, doesn’t look to be company housing, just looks like an investment to me.

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Didn’t make it past the title huh

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Yes, and stay on Lemmy, the totally unmoderated version of those filled with Russian and CCP propaganda.

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This is a shitty opinion article that links speculation, anecdotal evidence, and “experts” with no actual studies at all. Whether or not they’re doing a good job at it, all of these companies invest heavily in moderation on their platforms, and that investment hasn’t been reduced substantially.

Everyone hates social media through elections, it’s an easy thing to blame because the loud get louder. This article is punching down early for clicks.

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If you’re going to compare it to corporations like Meta who spend billions per year on platform moderation then yes, it’s absolutely unmoderated. Even compared to the shitty volunteer moderation of Reddit, which at least has mod tools. If Lemmy was big enough to be noticed by the media it’d be right up there on that list of misinformation spreaders, because that’s just what social media is.

I like Lemmy better than those platforms, I’m here after all, but saying get off those other platforms from a platform that has the same problems is the pot calling the kettle black

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Lol what was that?

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You’ve never seen my code

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Hey I said this like 6 years ago on Reddit and I got downvoted and called a fucking idiot lol

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You’re not really all that familiar with how ratios work are you lol

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That’s just bringing down the top without helping anyone. Need to lift from the bottom instead

What in the fuck does “lifting from the bottom” mean to you if raising employee wages isn’t it.

Lift from the bottom, pull from the top. The ratio is the actual problem here. You get that right?

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Raising wages isn’t a boost? The hell are you talking about

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Lol you’re trolling right?

CEO pay/4 > CEO pay/200

You get that right?

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Haha what the fuck do you think we’re talking about here? Nobody said lower CEO pay or anything about a ceiling, we’re talking about lessening the pay gap by enforcing a ratio. If CEOs want to make huge wages they need to pay employees more. This is grade school math dude.

Obviously you’re trolling and I’m just feeding it, but on the small chance that you’re not… Well shit man, maybe don’t dig yourself into stances so strongly if you can’t do basic math?

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No, it wasn’t. You did a dumb, you doubled down swinging, and now you’re trying to point the finger and lash out at everyone else out of embarrassment. Have some humility and own it or delete your comments in shame lol.

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Damn, you turned him into a mute

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It’s a bit more complex than that unfortunately. Governments have not invested significantly in regulation, the people writing the regulation have almost no idea how the underlying tech works and as a result they have to lean on tech companies to help write the regulation that’s going to regulate them. It’s a weird line to walk, but if they don’t walk it they end up with regulation that just gets thrown out of courts every time they try to enforce it.

One recent example, a few months back the GDPR slapped Facebook with a $13B fine for the way they transfer user data from the EU to the US. It was all over Reddit, people were celebrating, but it’s going to be thrown out if it hasn’t been already. Why? Because there is currently no legal method of transferring user data from the EU to the US, and, like it or not, that’s critical for the operation of thousands of global companies.

The high level TLDR is that the EU courts invalidated the only legal way to transfer user data from the EU to the US, causing a conflict in US and EU data transfer laws. Companies started using a different method, which was agreed to be allowed until the EU and US came to an agreement on how data is legally transferred. This was in the works when the Irish DPC used the GDPR to throw a $13B fine at Facebook for using the only data transfer method available to them, causing thousands of companies across the world (including mine lol) to collectively shit their pants.

When this shit happens once, whatever, but when tech regulation starts getting laughed out of court regularly we’ve got a bigger problem on our hands.

Americans at high risk advised to wear masks as new Covid variant detected (www.theguardian.com)

As authorities revealed that a new Covid-19 variant has been detected in the US, medical experts are emphasizing that high-risk persons resume masking to prevent potentially deadly infection. Warnings from these physicians come amid an ongoing increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations....

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Cause I got 3 vaccines, I work from home, and it itches my smooth little baby face

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Not just news reporting, but the propagation of information in general, so add in social media and word of mouth in there too. Assume everything you hear or read is wrong, because the majority of info is created from the first peak of a Duning-Kruger chart.

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My company started prioritizing developer time by heavily discouraging meetings with devs before noon, and one day a week is supposed to be meeting free. We also just don’t respond to pings before noon now unless it’s an absolute emergency. Took managers a bit to catch on, but my efficiency has honestly skyrocketed and I’m loving it.

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Problem is, how are you gunna run it? Meta has already open sourced an LLM that rivals GPT-4 with only 65B parameters, but you can’t even come close to running it with a top of line GPU.

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They could! It is open source.

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Damn, get her one of those Kryptonite U locks for Christmas, they’re basically indestructible unless you’ve got bike thieves walking around with angle grinders… Which actually sounds like you might.

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Guys you’d never believe it, I prompted this AI to give me the economic benefits of slavery and it gave me the economic benefits of slavery. Crazy shit.

Why do we need child-like guardrails for fucking everything? The people that wrote this article bowl with the bumpers on.

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I don’t think you’d want a cervical pillow for sleeping on your side would you? A taller memory foam pillow with support would probably be better on your side to keep your neck straight.

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Wahhh

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Actually, wrong ✅

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Just google it you dumb piece of shit - Stack overflow user

Marked as duplicate

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Wouldn’t necessarily be impossible to “remove” Denuvo from a cartridge after a certain amount of time, not physically remove it, but bypass it with a patch. Makes sense to add in this capability too, since Denuvo licenses can be subscription based and at some point it just isn’t worth the ongoing costs.

Definitely expect a huge performance hit though. Games with Denuvo run like absolute shit lol.

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You don’t need it to be perfect, there will still be human intervention.

Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead (beehaw.org)

I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app....

Steeve ,

Yeah, none of that means they’re tracking everything you do all day long.

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What? Nowhere does that say their apps are spying on you when you aren’t using them, this screen just says they have a cross app profile on you. You’ve clearly misinterpreted what this screen means, but “just keep sitting there and saying nuh uh”.

but don’t try to persuade other more privacy savvy individuals otherwise.

I’m a Data Engineer, in tech, focused on privacy. Lol

www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?section_id=4-HowD…

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I work in tech privacy, I’m an expert in this space, it’s literally my job to know how this stuff works. I’ve had this conversation many times and the amount of times I’ve been called an idiot, ignorant, a shill, etc for trying to stop the spread of misinfo on here is fucking exhausting. But sure, let’s do it again.

Facebook makes billions by selling targeted ads, not by selling your data. Facebook has never sold user data, that’s never even been a popular criticism of them. The “other companies” it mentions here are other Meta products. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Oculus are all considered “other companies”, and even cross app linking is coming under regulation by the GDPR.

You are being tracked on the internet via web cookies (not personal identifiable information), but that was never the topic of conversation, we were discussing whether or not you’re being spied on “all day long”. There’s a misconception that Facebook products listen to your conversations through your microphone or somehow root onto your phone and dig through your data without you knowing it. This doesn’t happen and there’s no reason to think it’s ever happened.

Additionally, Facebook’s policy is that the content of private messages in Facebook Messenger is not used to target advertisements.

And before you say you don’t believe them, look at the size of the GDPR fines that are being handed out. Lying about something like this has the potential to wipe out tens of bllions of the revenue of a company that makes $80-90B per year. That’s hugely significant. Getting caught once would absolutely obliterate their stock price.

There are plenty of actual reasons to be skeptical of big tech and social media and your comment is nothing but a distraction.

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