Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46611348

I thought you said the law was powerless!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/13360943

Me_irl

The agreement provides a $250 signing bonus to drivers who have completed a minimum of 50 trips since July 1, 2025. Uber drivers are also eligible for quarterly bonuses based on the number of trips they have completed. For example, drivers who have completed more than 750 trips will receive quarterly bonuses of $600. The union also negotiated an annual 5-per-cent increase in wait time and cancellation fees that drivers get if a passenger is late or cancels a trip, and an annual $500 wellness fund for sick time and benefits.

“We heard from drivers that they wanted to tie benefits to the number of drives they do, rather than the distance or time, so we really tried to push for a compensation system that reflected that,” Mr. Godoy said, adding that it was important for the union to ensure that driver ratings determined by customers were not tied to any of the benefits in the collective agreement.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-after-organizing-victorias-uber-drivers-union-officials-hope-to-do-the/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47017054

Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw. Art by Tjeerd Royaards

source mastodon - https://newsie.social/@royaards/116594142035336090

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1132003/how-the-next-episode-button-looks-at-me-when-it-s-3-am-and-i-have-to-work-tomorrow

After being excommunicated from the GOP, Geoff Duncan is trying for a comeback on the Democratic ticket

In the Georgia governor’s race, Geoff Duncan’s candidacy tests American politics as much as it tests his political appeal.

The former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia is a current Democratic candidate for governor, with former Biden official and Atlanta ex-mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms currently holding the lead in Tuesday’s Democratic primary. A Republican is still favored to win, with billionaire Rick Jason up against the secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, and the lieutenant governor, Burt Jones.

Though his candidacy might not prove successful on 19 May, in offering himself to the public, Duncan is asking Democratic voters to consider what the off-ramp for Republican leaders should look like in the waning days of the Trump era. Can it be as simple as switching parties and rearranging one’s political values?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/53164571

Cross post from https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1tg6wbr/scoop_philly_revokes_gun_permits_for_black/

The ATF has slowly been redefining who can own a gun and the government is starting to pull the rug. They've also proposed requiring you to put your birth assigned sex on the paperwork, so if you are trans and have ids matching your gender you'll be required to lie on the form to buy your guns.

The fact that they're taking these steps prove to me that they think armed leftists and minorities are genuinely the only thing that can stop them now. I sense the US entering the cool zone

Cross posted from https://sh.itjust.works/post/60361701

But I had an onion ring once.

Google is encouraging its database developers to lean "heavily" on AI coding tools as it ramps up contributions to open source projects such as PostgreSQL.

Earlier this year, Google announced a raft of new contributions to PostgreSQL, the open source database that has become a popular RDBMS for developers building new applications in the cloud.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1131937/pov-you-are-about-to-pull-your-car-in-a-middle-of-a-usy-road-picking-up-a-friend-instead

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1131961/former-microsoft-vp-says-microsoft-missed-the-ai-wave-like-the-internet-and-mobile-as-co

Context

He was replying to a tweet with the text:

In the past 6 weeks we have seen a rather strong shift for both Xbox and Windows implementing requested features after years of ignoring them.

This is great but…what changed for both of this massive orgs to suddenly start listening?

Let's see...

1. You make Bing your biggest bet with AI. Not a single percentage point of user share goes up from that investment
2. You bet on Copilot with AI. Not even 3% of paying users use it, even when the distribution is massive, and it's pre-deployed right in their faces
3. Then you hire the wrong people and assign them to jobs they are obviously not qualified to do. It gets worse.
4. Your OEMs invest on NPUs to then find out that nobody cares because not a single valuable use case was built for those in Windows/Office.
5. Your GitHub, which should be thriving in the age of AI, drops below 90% SLA
6. Your COGS go up significantly
7. Your shares drop significantly
8. The only thing you can brag about looks like an utilities company, not a software company
9. Shareholders start asking the hard questions

There's a point where you start getting fun phone calls and an increasing number of voices start asking you to maybe listen to customers.

I say that as a very positive thing (I know I don't sound like that, I'm grumpy by nature, can't help it). This is actually positive: If you don't push for change, change pushes you.

Hit Factory Reset might be what Microsoft actually needed, since Hit Refresh wasn't enough. Even if it comes with a ton of disruptions.

Source: Mat Velloso on X/Twitter.

Mat Velloso who was most recently the Vice President of Product for the Developer Platform at Meta’s Superintelligence Labs. He also led AI developer products at Google DeepMind (including the Gemini API and Google AI Studio). But before his stints at Google and Meta, Velloso spent over 12 years at Microsoft, where he served as a Partner Director managing AI innovation in Windows and, interestingly, spent four years as the Technical Advisor to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

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