Stabby, I just wanted to say, I saw your original comment, and was going to side with you - I don’t think it’s feasible to avoid surveillance. I also wanted to say that the way this conversation touches on all the points I thought about ‘drafting’ my comment in my head, so it was really great to read.

While you can have reasonably dumb sensors (like motion lights in our house, but y’know in a city application), anything beyond that gets really challenging to use without compromising privacy, or becomes a tremendous pain the ass if we give a shit about privacy. Having a bajillion sensors all not talking to each other, or talking to each other through numerous layers creates a data management nightmare. it’s why you don’t get a bunch of technical experts to write several different parts of a report, for instance. You need one main author to go through and make it all sound the same and the parts to speak to each other. Same goes with data. Because of that need, you open yourself up to all that data/surveillance being compromised by 3rd parties or abused by governments, as you point out.

Wait, so your PM freaked out because his AI chatbot told him something was wrong with your code? And then he had to log it back? Am I getting this right?

LMAO

Two things: of course this is our there, and I just happened to open this when my absolute plastic-crack addicted transformer manic 4 year old came up to me. ‘oooooo! What’s THAT?! That looks cuuuoool!’

While @AugustWest@lemmy.world provides an anthropogenic use for bat boxes, they are widely used in conservation.

Disturbance is putting a lot of pressure on bats. White nose fungus is also hammering bat populations. Anyway, bat boxes are artificial refugia - simulated habitat. These boxes, like other artificial refugia, such as bee boxes, need to be pretty carefully designed so they don’t do the following:

• thermally stress the animals - they won’t use them, or they’ll die if they freeze or fry in them
• act as traps - predators are smart, and will exploit poorly designed refugia
• promote disease, in the case of bee or bat boxes - refugia can be any shape or size, but ones that encourage multiple animals to use them can cause mortality through spreading disease

In general, refugia are at best temporary spaces while ecosystems recover from disturbance and natural habitat re-establishes. This is hard in the case of bats, because they need tree crevices (found in older trees) or rock outcrops and the like.

there’s some really cool papers out there on artificial refugia, if you want to nerd the fuck out about it. Cowan, did some great work around them. He’s a cool dude, and was super pumped to hear how his papers were being considered from a reclamation standpoint when I reached out to him: https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.204

Careful, I’ve been called out for ableism in this post, and your comment might be perilously close.

Uh, sure.

You’re just making a solid ZZ top reference and some troglodyte down voted you. Sigh.

Howling

My dearest Fossil! Congratulations! Super proud of you dude - that’s not a small feat. My M.Sc. damn near did me in.

You seem to think I, of all people, would post quality content.

If it makes me smirk, it ends up on Lemmy.

Careful, those boys will come after you

For the past 5 years I have been living proof that we do not need to be huddled together in one place to effectively do our jobs. I will die on this hill. Me too, thanks.

I get to enjoy the space I pay for, the way I want to, and as long as that isn’t negatively impacting my ability to do my job, I will not be convinced that it’s somehow not as efficient or as good as working in an office.

don’t forget the flexibility for things like kid drop off etc. If you have to duck out early you can easily make up the time at night or whatever.

IMO, the only reasons we are being forced into returning to the office is for middle management to feel like they’re doing something by literally looking over your shoulder, and so that business owners can justify spending so much money on the property where their office exists. Either they want to keep leasing the space from their fat cat real estate friends, or they need to somehow justify owning a large piece of land because their company is so big and successful, and they can waive their big building around like a dick to impress all the other CEOs.

preach

I agree with everything. I do damn good work, and while they have encouraged/mandated hybrid RTO, I just don’t go. No one calls me out on it other than the occasional ‘hey, it’d be good to see you again here for the next monthly meeting’. I’m happy to go if I NEED to go to the office, to meet a client or what have you, but otherwise, go eat a heaping bag of farts.

Holy shit, $2350???

definitely possums. Not a woman, but I fucking love possums

Hell yes, I’m all for it. It’s insanity that we don’t have wage parity at this point

Why do I have a metallic taste in my mouth after reading that

I was waiting for someone to post this. Why anyone thought this was a good idea is beyond me.

You now have two things with this method:

1. Trace amounts of dishwasher chemicals in your fish

2. A dishwasher that smells like fish. A fishwasher if you will

I’m glad you see things differently.

I’m not opposed to belief in God, but institutionalized religion doesn’t sit well as it seems largely as a method to control people.

That, and I could never get past the Epicurian paradox.