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  • Shopify laid off a couple thousand people, then "chaos monkey'd" the entire company just over a year ago, and forced everyone to open an FB Workplace acct as though it was going to boost productivity somehow having us split our comms between slack (which already sucks) that we've been using for years and some half assed afterthought Zuck's team came up with (at least the public facing piece) leading into their own layoff waves.

    I left Shopify happily and voluntarily and I'm not gonna pour one out for FB Workplace, at all. Good riddance to bad garbage.

  • Worked at Shopify for over two years and left voluntarily ahead of wave three of mass layoffs. Watched dozens of great people get shafted for cost-cutting. And I am still close with someone who trains our overseas replacements. To be clear, I have zero bones to pick with our peers working overseas, they're also great people. What I have a problem with is Shopify's explosive growth over lockdowns necessitating over-hiring (in their words) and meanwhile the user base nearly tripled over the same period.

    They didn't lay people off because the workload eased up. They did it because they reached peak inflection enshittify status. They trimmed thousands of locals, contracted out for pennies on the dollar, and wall street and the enterprise clients now know they're willing to spill blood to thrive. Shopify is now part of the tech cool kids club.

    It's not even ironic that they don't want to chip in for the Canadian tax base. They don't need Canada anymore. They're only staying here on paper because our legal system is more forgiving than almost anywhere else. They're laughing, heartily.

  • Obligatory Bunsenlabs plug. Nice light Debian based distro with no DE. It cleverly uses openbox wm and tint2 and some other tricks to make it feel like you have one though.

    Confirm it runs awesome on potatoes.

  • It's kinda janky but I've been running HoloISO on my gaming rig for over a year and it was mostly pain free. To be clear I don't use that system for much more than gaming but recreational browsing and music/movies etc as well. It's fine.

    Recent decisions by the maintainer to make that distro immutable have confused me and I'm thinking about switching to Endeavor. I was historically a Debian user. This was my first experience with Arch (btw) so I'd kinda like to get to know it a bit before we introduce thicker weeds and deeper rabbit holes thanks very much bye.

  • Yeah that's a fun one. Not that I go a lot for this purpose (ahem) but three of the five times I went through Lifelabs at the behest of my doctor were for routine STI screens. When I saw news of that breach I was like well at least the darknet will know I'm free of sexually transmitted diseases! Not altogether stoked that they might have access to all of my other personal info though!

    Signing into this now. Thanks for sharing!

  • You might like Commento which is FOSS. You can self-host it (or fire it onto a free or low cost cloud host), and fun. It's more like a Lemmy/reddit format (comment up/down votes can be enabled) than masto but maybe you'll enjoy it.

    Users can comment anonymously or you can enable basic verification steps. Decent moderation for if spam bots find you. Etc.

    ETA I used to host my instance on Heroku's free tier and it was more than enough for what little traffic was coming to my site.