• spongebue@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 months ago

    I was looking for “buzzword soup website doesn’t say what the product fucking does”

    Maybe that wouldn’t fit in a square

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      25·
      11 months ago

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    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      1·
      11 months ago

      Happens often with GitHub projects as well. It’s that or “it expands on the capabilities of BLARG by making it easier to use” - doesn’t explain the changes

  • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    11 months ago

    You completely forgot:
    “Actually just monetizes somethign that already existed for free”
    Though I guess Ads is already the free space.

    • Lemminary@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      But it’s new and better! Just ask our huge team of three programmers and thirty marketing geniuses.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’m sure there are none, straight white guys are just a favorite villain around here.

      I can think of a tech that doesn’t work as well on black people though: Pulse oximeters. A pulse oximeter works by shining two wavelengths of light through your finger to measure the amount of oxygen in your blood. It also sees your blood come and go with your pulse, so it can detect your heart rate. Well get this: melanin blocks light. A black man’s finger is more opaque than a white man’s finger, so optical pulse oximeters have been known to fail to detect hypoxia in dark skinned people. This problem has been known since the 70’s, and continues to be a problem to the present day. Because you know what happened recently? A global pandemic of a respiratory disease. Pulse oximeters failed to detect hypoxia in more black patients than white patients, who then weren’t given supplemental oxygen. So why in the last 50 years hasn’t that been addressed?

      • Eranziel@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        While I’m sure the obvious systemic issues contribute to not looking for alternatives, that does sound like largely an issue inherent to optical pulse oximeters. Engineers aren’t miracle workers, they can’t change physics to their liking.

        I’m sure pulse oximeters now are more accurate than they were 20 years ago. The fact we’re still using them is because no alternatives have been found which are as easy to use, reliable, and non-invasive as pulse oximeters, even with the known downsides.

  • Adalast@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months ago

    Edit: why is it wrong to laude a company I work for because they are ethical and doing business how it should be done? If we do not share the good companies as alternatives how will we ensure that they stick around?

    I am actually very proud that the company I work for literally does not tick a single box.

    www.GridMarkets.com

    We are a cloud infrastructure company that caters to animation and visual effects artists. We sponsor people’s passion projects. Everything is a prepay model that does not have any minimums and actually let’s you zero your account. No advertising, no data harvesting (I can say that with confidence as I would be the person doing it if it were happening and I don’t). Genuine altruism and genuine customer centric development. And the culture is not toxic in the slightest. The owners always make sure we are all paid before taking a dime and never take more than they pay the rest of us. It is seriously such a good company.

    They also do compute for computational chemistry, prosumer AI platforming (providing access to ComfyUI, A1111, etc, not actually building AIs or stealing anyone’s data), and we can handle just about anything else.

    If anyone out there has need for compute power for anything and want to work with a company that actually gives a shit, reach out. Especially if it is in a vertical space we already provide services in.

      • Adalast@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I get what you are sayin, but it was not an advertisement since I am acting as a citizen, not an employee. I wanted to actually share that I was proud of my bosses for doing things the way they should. If we don’t share the ones that behave right, they will all vanish because it is not as profitable to behave right as it is to abuse customers and employees. I would encourage anyone who works somewhere that acts with honor and respect to share it and offer proof of why it is true. Laude the laudable, ya know? We do a good job of calling out the pieces of shit, but not for offering alternatives.