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    caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link | on: Slack is removing their IRC and XMPP gateways

    you’ll only be disappointed by this if you trusted slack in the first place

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      airencracken avatar airencracken 5 months ago | link

      For many of us I assume this isn’t so much of a choice because it’s mandated by our employer.

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        caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

        unionize!

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          calvin avatar calvin 5 months ago | link

          then the union is on slack too

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            caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

            yours is?

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              calvin avatar calvin 5 months ago | link

              Slack often is desired by users, sometimes even set up as clandestine shadow IT uncontrolled by corporate sysadmins. If organized labour is made of these people, it seems logical to assume those people would want Slack there too.

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                caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

                it’s logical that they would want some form of communication, if that’s what you mean. but i don’t see where you get to slack being the obvious choice.

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                  calvin avatar calvin 5 months ago | link

                  What makes you think that a union wouldn’t choose Slack?

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                    caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

                    union members are likely to care about freedom

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                dbp avatar dbp 5 months ago | link

                Yup.

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                  caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

                  :(

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              whbboyd avatar whbboyd 5 months ago | link

              Regrettably, in the US, most software professionals are opposed to unionization; and outspokenly supporting them is hazardous to one’s employment. Furthermore, unionization presents a path to removing Slack from the workplace, but certainly does not guarantee it.

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                caleb avatar caleb 5 months ago | link

                supporting them is hazardous to one’s employment

                it’s illegal to fire someone for organizing a union

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                  technomancy avatar technomancy 5 months ago | link

                  It’s illegal but it happens all the time.

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                  Forty-Bot avatar Forty-Bot 5 months ago | link

                  Regrettably, in the US, most software professionals are opposed to unionization

                  They are?

          1. hdeshev avatar hdeshev 1 year ago | link | on: Electron is flash for the desktop

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              technomancy avatar technomancy 1 year ago | link

              If your admin won’t enable the gateway, wee-slack allows you to connect from weechat, an ncurses-based client: https://github.com/wee-slack/wee-slack

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                je avatar je 1 year ago | link

                Thank you! I didn’t know about WeeChat itself.

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                  technomancy avatar technomancy 1 year ago | link

                  You can even use WeeChat’s relay functionality to connect from Emacs: https://github.com/the-kenny/weechat.el

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                dethos avatar dethos 1 year ago | link

                I’ve been able to “survive” with these gateways. Even though you lose some features, they are good enough. The main issue is related with the threaded discussions, that get mixed with the normal content.

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                  airencracken avatar airencracken 1 year ago | link

                  The IRC gateway is the only way I’ll use Slack. Beyond not wanting to devote gigabytes of ram to chat, I also have no desire to see the flurry of gifs, emojis, and reactions that the more “modern” view provides.

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                  airencracken avatar airencracken 3 years ago | link | on: DHI Group, Inc. Statement on Plans to Sell Slashdot Media

                  Does it even matter at this point? That brand is incredibly tainted after the recent actions of sourceforge in particular.

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                    JordiGH avatar JordiGH 3 years ago | link

                    It matters to us in Octave. I know everyone is just screaming GET OFF SOURCEFORGE ALREADY, but honestly, it’s a lot of work and Sourceforge has not done anything evil to us. And there has been a lot of misreporting about what it actually has done.

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                      zajd avatar zajd 3 years ago | link

                      Yet. Sourceforge has not done anything evil to you… yet.

                      Bundling malware with installers is pretty much indefensible in my eyes…

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                    airencracken avatar airencracken 3 years ago | link | on: Sleepwalking into a Monoculture and Lock-in with Linux Containers

                    Really well written article that highlights some realities about the over application of Docker and the ignorance of older containerization technologies such as LXC in this case.

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                      airencracken avatar airencracken 4 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

                      Work: Auditing some services for another team.

                      Away from work: Volunteer work for the WRCCDC and attempting to hack on some Julia stuff in my scant spare time.