They can be, albeit that it may require some serious $$$ to actually do it the right way, but it's been done before, the most famous example being https://www.worldanimalprotection.us/latest/blogs/story-keiko-first-captive-orca-returned-wild/
Edit: and for dolphins born in captivity, see https://www.thedodo.com/another-seaworld-myth-debunked-751539462.html
My solution to this is that I accept the other job offer, and I don't quit until the night before I start my first day in the new one. As a result I've never spent a single day unemployed. If something I'm counting on doesn't come through I'm already at my backup plan.
If companies won't be loyal to us in this way, why do we owe any loyalty to them in return?
I hear what you're saying. Just remember that Cygnus Solutions and Red Hat, both prominent commercial supporter of FOSS, were based in and headquartered in the US when they were independent companies. (Now they're both part of IBM.)
Even the Linux Foundation and the Free Software Foundation have to obey US sanctions - LF is based in San Francisco and the FSF is based in Boston.
Going FOSS is good, but the US abusing their sanctions powers is a different kettle of fish.
The reponse is going balls deep on Foss but I don't think your avg westoid regime is willing to open that Pandora's box.
I mean, GMail is from Google who uses Linux/GNU extensively (as per https://www.computerworld.com/article/1612523/the-story-behind-google-s-in-house-desktop-linux.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16175182 )
Even M$ supports using Outlook on Linux/GNU via the webapps (see https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/microsoft-365-and-outlook-for-linux/0eeaef13-c337-4c92-8260-8ac7fdf4df9f ) and back in the day they ran Hotmail on FreeBSD ( see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113296 )
The issue here isn't the use of FOSS per se but that these folks aren't tech savvy and don't want to run things themselves - they'd rather pay someone else to do it. They want "enterprise customer support" and all that. And then whoever they pay might end up bailing out due to fear of US sanctions ... which sadly even Swiss banks aren't immune to.
Either EU can do it now or later
The sooner they stop/prevent/workaround the abuse of power by the US here, the better.
The US should no longer be allowed to lead the international banking system. Under the current administration, they've proven that they can't be trusted with that kind of power anymore.
Agreed. If only kbin.social had implemented this, it might still be up and running...
Great to see piefed.social taking steps to avoid the same fate!
Good question. I went through the code but I actually can't find that option, https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/app/templates/admin//_nav.html#L14 (that's with the latest commit being https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/c1c718180fc39d51a8ac1820f727491e17c86fbd as I write this)
From the screenshot it should be showing between lines 14 and 15 of that file.
Unpopular opinion here but
The choice of M$ - made before the sanctions - was likely just a case of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"
I'm quite worried here actually - M$ did this not because they sided with Netanyahu or against Palestine, but because the US threw its might and compelled M$ to do so. The article says the chief had to move to Proton Mail which is a Swiss provider. While the Swiss have historically been independent and unyielding to foreign pressure, the US got them to agree to information sharing under FATCA (see https://international-adviser.com/us-and-switzerland-finally-seal-delayed-double-tax-deal/ and https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/switzerland-us-agree-exchange-financial-account-data-2024-06-27/ )
So, worried. How long before the US comes and tries to sanction Proton Mail? The free world needs to come up with a response to this and prevent the US from abusing it's power here. Perhaps the free world needs to sanction the US and kick them out of our international banking system before it's too late?
And in an alternate universe where Harris won and the US was using its sanction power responsibly, it's not that unreasonable to go with M$. As per https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/office-365-platform-service-description/office-365-us-government/gcc-high-and-dod M$ actually has offerings tailored to highly classified and secure agencies. (Not that I'd go with M$. I'm just saying I get why a bunch of intelligent lawyers and prosecutors who aren't particularly tech savvy would say yes to M$.)
In fairness it wasn't just adding bike lines in Paris that did it, as per the byline
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic
Which just means in addition to adding more bike lines (rather than removing the ones we already have), we should also restrict car traffic in this city of Toronto to get ahold of the local air pollution problem here.
In a working paper released earlier this month, economists Anders Humlum and Emilie Vestergaard looked at the labor market impact of AI chatbots on 11 occupations, covering 25,000 workers and 7,000 workplaces in Denmark in 2023 and 2024.
Hmm, Denmark you say?
Also Denmark,
Denmark doesn’t have at-will employment. Employers may only terminate an employee with just cause and sufficient notice. Just cause can include financial reasons or employee misconduct.
https://www.rippling.com/country-hiring/denmark-employees
Actually, perhaps this points at a way forward... we should employment laws in the US that match those of Denmark.
Not following how his inability to find a job has any connection to AI?
It's in the fortune article:
some of those few interviews have been with an AI agent instead of a human.
“I feel super invisible,” K tells Fortune. “I feel unseen. I feel like I’m filtered out before a human is even in the chain.”
That is, he's getting fewer chances to establish a human-to-human connection to an interviewer, which is hurting his ability to get hired.
The bigger picture is that folks are indeed losing jobs to AI, have had their jobs cut because of AI, see
Software engineer here - I make more than this guy did and I have roughly the same amount of experience in the industry that he does (perhaps a smidge more, going off of his linkedin profile).
For folks who are saying that there's something off about this guy - that would not have mattered two or three years ago. At most he would have just been seen as a highly talented dev who was also slightly quirky.
For those who say it's not about AI and more about the economy - well, maybe. We do have a couple of major ongoing wars right now and moves over the last couple of months by the recent administration of the US haven't helped.
But I was around during the crash back in 2008, and this still feels different. Harder. Before, I had recruiters just banging on my door. Now, it's tough to past the automated screenings unless I have a contact at the company who can refer me there.
Meanwhile, I'm hearing from my co-workers about how great AI is - how they ran their code through it and it came up with a bunch of unit tests for them and some boilerplate code. Vibe coding is already a thing. So is using AI to write your resume and cover letters and applying to jobs.
Likewise, I look upon tools like Devin.ai with increasing trepidation. Today, LLMs aren't good enough to replace a single senior dev, despite a lot of investment happening to move things in exactly this direction. It probably won't happen tomorrow, or even next year. But in 25?
Let's just say that this article really hit home for me.
The other point here is - the day that a person with no coding ability can ask an LLM to create and deploy an entire website, write and manage a brand new app from scratch, is going to be a day that's a win for the people. We want to lower the barriers to entry here, to give this highly elite power to others. Actually, there shouldn't be an elite at all - there should just be a democracy where everyone is equally empowered to create and build great things.
Working in tech will not remain this vaulted, lofty place for much longer. If we aren't content creators, or controlling company owners, then ultimately tech workers like myself are in the same position as any other kind of worker - we work for someone else and serve only at their sufferance.
The article doesn't really explain why though.
Captive-born dolphins have been successfully released into the wild before, see for example: https://www.thedodo.com/another-seaworld-myth-debunked-751539462.html
Edit: Oops https://whalescientists.com/captive-dolphins-release/ were still wild born. Replaced with a better example