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By day, I'm an embedded Linux developer at an electronics manufacturer.

By night, I make pixel art.

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2024-05-22 06:00:13

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Right. But the WGA *wasn't* operating under conditions where their labour had lost all value (and neither were those game devs). Counterexamples include the garment workers in that very book (which is so far my favourite book for the year) - and, in more recent times, typesetters. Typesetters here had a *very* strong union (they had the power to literally stop the presses and not start them again!) - but when their work was rendered valueless, they were screwed nonetheless.

2024-05-22 05:29:49

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I'm a union member and a software developer. *Lots* of developers (and engineers in pretty much every engineering discipline) in my country are.
Unions are a defense against all sorts of labour abuse and every worker should be in one, but if full-on replacement actually becomes possible, I don't get why people think the union can protect them. The union can threaten to withhold labour, but what good is that if that labour has just been rendered valueless?

2024-05-21 21:15:55

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*Of course* it won't be kept local. Same with the "we'll listen in on your phone calls to check for scammers!" features Google is hawking.
"We're running out of high quality language data!" ... "It's a total coincidence that we've made this decision right now, but we've decided to listen in on every phone call / watch every software interaction anybody ever makes ever again".
They're after more training data.

2024-05-15 15:12:56

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I'm Danish and although I don't actually speak Swedish, just by the bits of Swedish I've picked up by cultural osmosis I can tell that's bad.
(I know that "stylish" is actually "stiligt", so I'm guessing "styltigt" is actually "stilted"?)