The most curious thing in the whole mess is the revelation that Americans actually think companies should react to this kind of thing. Like the employer would “naturally” and “obviously” have a right to invade employees’ personal life and privacy.
Tommi Nieminen
Staunchly Peircean pragmaticist linguist, phonetician and semiotician. Does translation studies and comparative literature too when time allows. Politically far left, deal with it. Localizes FOSS (eg. KDE Plasma, Vivaldi browser, Handbrake media transcriber).
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Tommi Nieminen@europe.pubto Linux@lemmy.ml•Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC5·8 days agoWell… not really. My current installation of Tumbleweed is three and a half years old, and back in 2022 the only reason I re-installed it was changing the NVMe drive. I’ve never read factory mailing list and don’t ever recall having made manual interventions. I’ve just booted it, updated (zypper ref; zypper dup), rebooted and continued working.
Tommi Nieminen@europe.pubtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Every Act of Resistance, No Matter How Small, ContributesEnglish1·11 days agoBasically a Sophie Scholl kind of resistance.
Tommi Nieminen@europe.pubto politics @lemmy.world•DOJ Describes Plan To Denaturalize Citizens on Scale That Has Never Been Tried2·11 days agoThat was probably one reason why Hitler wasn’t assassinated by the allies. OTOH, the death of Franco (but to old age!) meant the end of fascism in Spain. When a dictator dies, there’s always a chance for better.
Tommi Nieminen@europe.pubto Linux@lemmy.ml•Europe is slowly ditching Microsoft: why it's happening & why it could fail.71·12 days agoWin10 or Win11? :p
Which is not going to happen, and not only because he’s not born a US citizen.
When I was beginning to work at the university, there was a professor who had started an affair with his student. Everybody knew about that, no one cared a s***. Later on, the student got employed at the department, and then they got married. The only thing I ever heard of it being talked about was that it wasn’t quite sure whether it was the student or her professor who actually did her “maturity exam” (a then-compulsory exam after finishing your MA thesis, the questions of which were based on the thesis).