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Microsoft must really be trying to increase usage numbers for LinkedIn Learning, because the company I'm working at has tied both goals and bonus to employees using a certain number of hours of LinkedIn Learning.

Both the goal and the bonus amount are pretty insulting, especially to someone late in career. Learning really is its own reward, if it's something you need or want to learn, so providing access to *good* learning is good. LinkedIn Learning isn't good learning.

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Your power company wants you to financially help them provide power to people who can't pay their utility bills in deadly weather conditions. Why? So they don't have to cut into their own profits.

Flow is important to characterize, but it is also to understand what conditions cause one to enter and exit flow. This is especially important in knowledge work. Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister cited studies on interruptions to flow and the cost of reattaining it. Newer studies would be beneficial to understanding productivity in knowledge work.

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The Eviction Still Stands: CGL & RCMP Off the #Yintah On Jan 4 2020, the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs evicted Coastal GasLink from their territory. That eviction order remains in effect today. #WetsuwetenStrong (1/3)

@johnnymac Wow! That's a hard one. They all sound so condescending. I wonder if the department is poorly defined. If we outline the roles will the name fall out?

Dec 6, 9am PST: Join this virtual discussion on how platform coops provide a viable alternative to the gig economy, and how policymakers, governments & communities can cultivate a strong ecosystem for platform coops through policy & structural changes. 💜

berggruen.org/events/building-

Ranting about simultaneous translation 

Tech enthusiast: "I want smart lights, smart tv, everything, and connect them all to my digital assisstant!"

Tech worker: *looks wistfully into distance* "I should get a small place in a little town, with a garden, make my own furniture."

ForgeFriends (aka FedeProxy) is a federated free open git for software development, using the Fediverse's ActivityPub protocol. You can follow the project at:

➡️ @forgefriends

The project website is at forgefriends.org and there's more details about how it works at forgefriends.org/blog/2021/11/

#ForgeFriends #FedeProxy #Dev #Devs #Development #Software #SoftwareDevelopment #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Git #Gits #Forge #Forges #GitHub #Alternatives #Fediverse #ActivityPub

@lightweight
I wonder if you can also use the climate emergency as an argument to reduce landfill etc with right to repair. Make the arguments for data sovereignity with local data centres built in an ecological way. openuk.uk/patchworkkilt/
@freedcreative @alcinnz @shahaan

@onepict "Microsoft enabled" is rather poor wording. My first use of such software in consumer versions was pre-Microsoft. Microsoft's anticompetitive bundling practices is more about being coerced than enabled.

Microsoft continuing it's frankly predatory behaviour. Thread on how this will abuse poorer consumers.
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RT @GossiTheDog
Microsoft added Buy Now Pay Later into Edge (and so Windows 10 and 11 base OS), a thing which is known to be abused to harm people.

The tags on the post on Microsoft’s website say it all. Keep speaking out.
twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status

The customer *isn't* always right.

There. I've said it.

As reported by @derspiegel and @politico, Nextcloud has filed a complaint with the EU as well as the German anti-trust authorities over the behavior of Microsoft.

Find input from all the supporting organizations on our website antitrust.nextcloud.com

nextcloud.com/blog/eu-tech-sec

Interviewing for software positions is even more of a buzzword bingo these days. Throw in the stupid tests, personality questions, and rampant age bias, and you have a good recipe for no innovation, repeating mistakes, and reinventing the wheel.

Most companies want to improve quality and productivity without making any changes (and certainly without measurement!).

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