0xDREADBEEF

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Many people, like myself, can only get contract work as a software dev these days. Getting employment with any real benefits is harder and harder (often near impossible). How do you handle contractors? Completely avoids that answer. All of software devs need to unionize, not just your employee co-workers. Also, I'm going to be unemployed in a few weeks. This article leaves out completely how to get unemployed tech workers into a union. Thousands of devs are getting laid off with zero unions there to help them. Completely avoids dealing with them, as well.

Employment beholden to a single corporate entity and limited only by that corporate entity's desire to keep employed humans on payroll is not the road to a unionized workforce. Software engineers are often not profit centers. Anything not a profit center to a corporate entity will ultimately get outsourced. Solidarity across the entire industry is the only way to lasting change. You don't see carpenters or electricians or plumbers or welders being employed by a single corporation for 30 years and then retiring on a 401k. Those skillsets have industry-wide unions behind them.

the good people.

You are limiting your own intelligence by thinking companies can be described in those words.

They are not good. They are profit-seeking. Profit seeking doesn't necessarily mean evil, but it can never mean good. A non-profit who's goal is to improve their community around them, a co-op who's goal is to treat their workers with respect etc etc can all be described as 'good' to varying degrees, but no for-profit entity, especially a publicly traded one, can ever be described as 'good'

on Santa's Cookies · c/programmer_humor · 9 pts · 233d

if he's complaining about plaintext secrets, sure. But if he's talking about using session cookies he is wrong and should know he is wrong.

on Dinner is ready! · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 318d

I dont like pizza that much as a staple in my diet (too unhealthy imo, it is delicious tho) so thats not too bad, but as a cali-born, kentucky-raised filipino, yes.

on Dinner is ready! · c/lemmyshitpost · 8 pts · 318d

G has mexican, cajun, columbian, and tex mex. Seriously south florida is insane food choice as well. Hell, I can get california burritos too. D has filipino, thai, arabic, and indian. Incredible vegan options and protein options and who doesnt love spicy thai chicken and rice? Either of those and im set for life :)

Writing javascript (or any programming language, but sticking with 'script' here) to consume an http api from an agpl service (such as lemmy or mastodon) does not force you to open source whatever client you have.

Consuming an agpl client library (maybe mastodon or lemmy provide an sdk I dunno, or some third party one) and you embed it in your app and interact with that agpl code, then yes you must open your code up.

For example, there are closed source Mastodon clients that make a lot of money. Look at the mastodon client from tapbots. The owners of mastodon have a winning case if they sued them, if your logic held up. Tapbots can safely create an entire application and consume the mastodon api without worry, why can't you and your script?

If only "fullstack" or "typescript" devs weren't so scared of CSS. They can optimize a weird join, they know the Big O notation of a function that operates on a list that'll never ever exceed a size of like 1000 items so who the fuck cares, but as soon as you ask them about grid, layers, container queries, or even what things like houdini can hopefully do one day, they just collectively shit themselves.

What corporations and enterprise software development practices have done to the web makes me crash out, sorry. Very few people who actually care about CSS are making a living wage making things with it as their job.