Back in the day, when the Jacquard machine entered the industry, my advice to weavers would have been to either begin tapping into their network and move to artisanal sales, or to learn how to operate/maintain mechanical looms. The writing was on the wall with the punch card system. In retrospect, it didn't take too long to go from the mechanical loom to diffusion models and world models for robots.
Of course, there was a longer timeline of incremental improvements on the loom over years, so the industry was not transformed overnight. But that's what's worrying people this time. We might not have time to reskill or retrain before financial hardship strikes. Especially in the current political climate. The middle of WWIII is one of the last periods I'd have asked for this automation revolution to take place.
And another practical observation is that not many people have Lobsters account or even heard about it due to that (way less than people who heard about HN). Their "solution" is to make newcomers beg for invites in some chat. Guess what would a motivated malicious actor would do any times required and a regular internet user won't bother? Yeah, that.
I think this is the inevitable reality for future FOSS. Github will be degraded, but any real development will be moved behind closed doors and invite only walls.
How do you answer questions like "how are other people getting their work done on Windows?" How much leverage do you expect the average white collar worker to have?
I suspect this is about work related MFA apps; for example, one of the reasons I switched to an iPhone many years ago is the MFA app used at work would not run if the latest Android version with security bugfixes were installed, and the manufacturer had stopped providing updates for quite some time. At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter.
>At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter.
That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.
Fair, I could just buy a new Android phone, but at the time every non-flagship appeared to stop updates every two years, and being on an upgrade treadmill on that time scale did not seem like a fair use of my money. I have no idea if this continues to be the situation or if Android manufacturers have gotten better with their update cycles.
That's fair assessment (and it pissed me off myself), but thankfully it's much better now with Android.
I mean, I still wouldn't trust Sony even if it give a blood oath (they used to abandon flagships after 16-18 month form release!), but there are also more reputable vendors.
It also should be on your employer to provide a compatible device (especially when it's your personal device that's not secure enough for the business)
With customer support positions, escalating to engineering is also seen as a negative metric. They might blame customer support for this but it’s likely that they’d have been turned away with “why are you escalating this stupid thing to us?”
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