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sxan , to Firefox in Vertical Tabs can now be enabled in Firefox Nightly and are movable to the right side
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Bing... X... Facebook... Bing... Google...

Not an Ecosia, Searx, Mastodon, Lemmy, or even DuckDuckGo to be seen. Just dreck.

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sxan , to Work Reform in CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages
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Have you heard of Holocracy? It's one of the more popular of set of flat, self-organizing management structures; it's been tried at a few big name companies, with limited success. I think failures at this point are easily attributed to sheer novelty and lack of experience, and good guidelines for avoiding pitfalls, more than a fundamental flaw in the concept. One of the big issues I see needing to be addressed is ego; we will never get rid of self-proclaimed alpha types, and extroverts will always have an advantage in rising in the ranks regardless of competency. These sorts of issues can sabotage - even without malicious intent! - these flat structures. Some people will simply tend to accrue influence and power. But another issue is overcoming the tendency to bikeshed. Companies who've tried, and failed, to execute Holocracy, Sociocracy, Matrix Management, and Lean Management (there are a few of these styles) have been pretty good at documenting the weak areas that causes struggles and failures.

Anyway, I'm quite keen on these approaches; companies employing them are just hard to find.

sxan , to Texas in The police need this for...?
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Brown people.

sxan , to KDE in List of locales in Plasma
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Maybe because not every system is Debian, and Plasma has to work on systems that either don't have /usr/share/i18n/supported or put is somewhere else?

I manage a project that encounters this sort of thing regularly; my biggest problem is terminfo entries. Not all distributions contain all of the same terminfos. It is one of the biggest source of bug reports my project gets. I've been considering just embedding all of the terminfos in my project, just so I know they'll all be there on every system it's installed.

I don't know this is Plasma's reason for including their own list, but it could easily be. It could also be because those are the locales Plasma supports, and it may not support every locale that might be in the distro system list.

sxan , to Work Reform in Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’
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sigh. I literally know people who will take this to heart, who already mostly believe this is how companies should operate, and don't need much more
" proof" like this.

Yes: if you beat your slaves, they will work harder until they die, at which point you can replace them. It's true. You can be successful this way.

It bugs me to no end that we've created an economic model that measures success by exactly one metric: profit. It's such a shitty situation with a disastrous, unsustainable end; it's just taking a long time for it to play out.

sxan , to Work Reform in Waffle House Is Taking Heat For An 'Especially Alarming' Paycheck Policy
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Dude, I will literally run interference.

sxan , to Work Reform in Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more
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You’ve convinced me. I’ll never take Uber or Lyft again.

Tell me one thing: if I’m visit some city, whether in the US or elsewhere, is there a reliable taxi app that works pretty much everywhere, or do I have to search for a local one?

sxan , to Work Reform in Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more
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I don’t know if taxi companies have upped their online game, but Uber and Lyft’s huge advantage used to be that the customer could see what the ride would cost them, when their ride would arrive, and pay online. Those of us old enough can remember days when you’d worry about whether a taxi driver was going to take the scenic route, whether you’d have enough cash, whether they’d accept a credit card, whether they’d add some surcharge to credit card transactions, and then having to trust your credit card to yet another random stranger. Having to use taxis used to be a reliable source of stress when traveling; Uber utterly removed that (if you were male; I know women have additional sources of angst when getting into cars with strangers).

If Taxi companies have gotten their online shit together, where I can see the entire transaction - times and costs - in advance, then yeah, I’ll agree with you. But originally, Uber and Lyft were huge game changers for customers.

sxan , to homelab in Setting up a WireGuard client on GL.iNet travel router
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I’ve only used my GL.iNet router with Mullvad, and I assume you’re going through the manual configuration for WireGuard part of the UI? Have you found the scan qr/upload config/manual input config part? From as far as I’ve tried it, it’s like setting up any WireGuard endpoint - you have to give it the same sort of config file you’d give wg-quick, including subnet, hosts, etc - the same place you’d put your pk.

Generate the config file on a different computer and upload it through the UI.

sxan , to KDE in Gushing about KDE applications
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You’re right. I will add that there are far more GTK apps with no Gnome dependancies, then there are Qt apps with no KDE dependencies.

sxan , to Work Reform in Trader Joe’s Follows SpaceX in Arguing US Labor Board Is Unconstitutional
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Your local co-op?

sxan , to aww in Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night
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Nesting? TA also says the mouse was stockpiling seed the guy was leaving out for the birds.

sxan , to Politics in Boebert faults Ryan Reynolds, Barbra Streisand for her district switch
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Ryan would make a funny president. I would love to see him in a debate with Trump.

sxan , to homelab in I'm looking for recommendations for a cheap, and basic OpenWRT router
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“Cheap” being relative, I think GL.iNet products are reasonably priced, and their software is OpenWRT with a customized web interface. $40 for their small, portable WiFi 5 Opal; $95 for their WiFi 6 “home” router; $130 for the WiFi 6 Opal. The Opals work fine for covering a 1br apartment, but have 2 eth ports. The bigger one (Flint?) has 4.

sxan , to Work Reform in Mailchimp cancels podcast after refusing to work with union producers
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I’m so close to blocking their mail servers; so much spam comes through their servers, and they don’t honor unsubscriptions.

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