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Linked – If the web loses net neutrality, independent musicians will lose their careers.
It’s not just musicians, it’s also little websites like mine, for this same reason: When someone buys digital music from an artist directly they’ll see long, slow downloads that hopefully manage to finish. When they stream music from that same musician’s site it’ll hang and pause unless it’s compressed to hell. But when that same…
Linked: Coronavirus: Managers impressed by workers’ productivity at home
It’s a UK survey, but the results do not surprise me. “A survey of more than 1,000 UK office workers by Hoxby, a virtual agency and consultancy firm, also suggests managers have been pleasantly surprised by teams’ performance from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. 52% of leaders said workers had even been more productive than…
Wordfence WordPress Plugin Checks for Pwned Passwords
With the recent release of Have I been pwned version 2.0 I’ve seen a lo of articles talking about using the tools to check and see if that oh so clever password you came up with is actually so unique or if it’s appears in a data breach before. There’s also been some talk of…
Linked – No One Wants to Talk About How Completely We Were Lied to
Remember when social networks first came about, and the basic idea was that, as a user, you chose who you wanted to follow, and then your feed, or timeline, etc. showed you what just those people had shared, in reverse chronological order? Had they stuck with that, there would be a lot less to complain…
Linked – Say Hello to Norman, the World’s First ‘Psychopathic’ AI
This is why AI makes many of us a little nervous, feed it a biased dataset, and well, we have a psychopath. “In one way, we shouldn’t be surprised – our AI systems have already proven to be fraught with human biases. But this experiment highlights the need for an ethical approach to AI. With…
Linked: Can the ‘right to disconnect’ exist in a remote-work world?
Anything the government comes up with might protect workers from being required to work all the time, but the devil in the detail is how to allow workers to choose which hours they do work within that? It gets a bit messy, doesn’t it, and really isn’t that the issue with the government getting involved? It limits the possibilities by putting a defined “work” time, when what is really needed is the flexibility to figure out the best time, and location, that allows a worker to get what needs to be done, done, and still have a life that is outside of work. That’s going to look different for everyone, so there can’t be rules passed down from an outsider, there will need to be an understanding between workers, and management, on what works best for everyone, including when they will disconnect.
That does, of course, require some more effort and imagination. Are you up to it?
