the Go maintainers are now claiming that objectors to Google's opt-out telemetry proposal on the Go compiler - yes, really - are arguing in bad faith and violating the Code of Conduct, and their comments are getting hidden.
well done lads, you just keep doing that as hard as possible. i'm sure it'll work out great.
@csepp
I hate PoW cryptocurrencies but environmentally Amazon is worse because their prime goal is to make consumers buy goods and services they don't need, at an unprecedented scale, and with total disregard for the environmental cost.
@csepp
I didn't even know that. I found this article about their Scottish warehouse.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/amazon-s-uk-warehouses-destroy-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-every-year-1.4599174
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alas, all large retail companies have been doing this since 1970s, its only the availability of portable surveillance kit (often sold no questions asked by places like Amazon) that now make it easy for the whistleblowers to expose this.
I've also heard from mutuals in Northern Britain and locals here in Ipswich that as an employer, Amazon are *less worse* than many other local businesses (particularly retail organisations)
@vfrmedia @wim_v12e @csepp @davidgerard regardless Amazon is at least getting things to people. Crypto does _NOTHING_.
Look, I detest what Amazon is but my wife and I would have already had COVID without home delivery of necessities.
@gewalker @wim_v12e @csepp @davidgerard
the wider problem is rampant ruthless capitalism which encourages the maintainers of these "free" software to make users pay with their data (we may be all of the age where you once had to pay for a compiler for your PC!).
I recently read a news article that Halfords (a company which sells car and bicycle accessories) issued a profit warning and is laying off staff as they only made £60 million rather than £75 million, but its hardly going bankrupt >>
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