• No1@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    If I wanted to reduce the workforce, but didn’t want to pay for redundancies, I’d implement some nasty, overbearing policies that would make anyone with morals, a sense of decency, or integrity, resign.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Install an autoclicker/autotyper HID USB key that, when it senses and idle computer, spams clicks and keystrokes at plausible spoeds, but which outputs pseudorandom nonsense, to muddy the data pool and produce far more incoherent data than coherent data

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I can’t tolerate surveillance software on my PC that I use to develop surveillance software!

    • Facebook employees
  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    obviously a layoff tactic. Their AI group shit the bed after they burned millions on third life the zuckerverse

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      obviously a layoff tactic.

      It sure smells like it, right? But, and I’m repeating myself and others, the important part here is that, if it is a layoff tactic, it’s a horrible one: as per the Dead Sea Effect, the people who leave as a result of declining workplace environment are those most able to leave, i.e the most employable staff, with each round of departures. Thus, the people whom Meta would want to stay around are the people most likely to find, get, and depart for jobs elsewhere. And while Meta are bastards, the mechanics of working in a massive org like that one score really well for skills companies want.

      I wish them luck in this terrible job market, and hope they can find a supportive environment again. We can always do with more smart people working for the greater good instead of against it.

  • rozodru@piefed.world
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    2 months ago

    ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?

  • Luiz Cavalcanti@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Oh, cry me a river to fill that data lake. I guess all that user and non-user data they helped collect was not enough…

    If a least those folks had decent sindicates, they could stand a chance resisting it 🤷‍♂️