An engineer showed up at my door, having been led to the wrong building by their phone.
I open my phone to help find the right place, forgetting that Google Maps has been left to rot since the 2023 layoffs
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👩🏼💻software engineer at █████ 🦥 opinions my own 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 join a union 🐣 she/her
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@rbanffy@mastodon.social
seems hard to get past the first step (or really 3) of this attack though: getting someone to clone & open in VSCode & trust a random repo? Even if you don’t trust it, before long you’re probably running some of the arbitrary code inside manually?
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…which is why we’d advise members to just take the settlement and avoid the stress & grief, since they’ll usually not get justice against a multinational conglomerate.
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So by (I’m guessing) not taking the severance payout, she’s made a huge personal sacrifice to pursue this in the open, and I hope her remaining colleagues will honour this by joining the fight ❤️
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This is the first such case that has made it to tribunal because Google’s severance agreements include a wide-ranging waiver of the right to sue, in exchange for a payout larger than what you’d usually hope to win in court…
I’ve heard so many stories like this as a @unitetheunion.bsky.social rep at Google, especially in Sales https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62v51d1ry2o
Microsoft Word’s “read aloud” function is still using the same voice synthesis as it did in 2003 lol.
It’s not even using MacOS’s more
modern voices, and those are hardly state of the art either…
Or is that punishment for “downgrading” to the Classic 365 plan without Copilot?
always the painter, never the brush https://youtube.com/shorts/LG-Qs9EJl5k
you have my attention https://youtu.be/AifAIqHezb8
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the donation form is timing out, i hope that’s a sign of popularity and that you’ll be making up the shortfall quickly 💸