My old company stopped putting money into our 401ks. I told a couple of co-workers that was REALLY strange and that it could lead to a lawsuit. I asked management about it and they said to “trust the process”. The business failed about a month later and never saw the money. I worked for the IRS at one point and knew its VERY illegal to take money out of 401k and not put it in the designated accounts.

They got sued by a class action after the initial bankruptcy and we, the workers, won. We got about 1/3 of the total money. Still sucked…but I was right!

And people went to jail. They didn’t want to give us access to the 401k for little more than a year after the bankruptcy which scared a LOT of people because they rolled over their accounts.

If you want to get angry: https://abc30.com/post/bitwise-401k-contributions-employee-access-business-closure/14403735/

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/bitwise-fraud-scheme-unraveling-22218110.php

Honestly the founders got off easy. Theres a ton the IRS can do…and the lawsuit did use three letter federal resources to prosecute.

Fantastic series, thanks for introducing me!

The screenshot really should have a cat photo on it.

Looks great! GL!

Its automatic in piefed and peertube. Its part of the cross post feature.

I wonder if someone is trying out an AI or something and seeing the results. Then deleting. More evidence will pop up eventually.

It sticks around in other software just FYI. Maybe lemmy should have something that admins can do? Maybe something super admins can re-instate if a mod states should be un-deleted? I dunno.

Its over 100F this week. Woo.

Ha! You have been to the central valley thats for sure.

Bakersfield is special sort of place.

Oh yeah also piefed only has a couple of devs on the entire project. A lot of open source is like that actually (kinda like xkcd is calling out in your example). Its crazy how much software we use is made by a VERY small subset of people.

I was thinking of getting one. What made you decide to get a priority folder?

Im looking for one that I can take to work and back, and can easily fold up without too many long term repairs. Ive heard horror stories about fixing some old folding bikes but ive never had one.

CURL is kinda like that. Its in a better place now but hes still getting a bit burnt out .

Gardening.

I love plants but I dont have the time to micromanage. Ive set up automatic systems in the past, and found that the plants that want to live will live. And just propagate those to hell. I have loquat trees that love neglect. I have grapes that are WAY overgrown that need trimming each year and produce way too much. Ive tried other things but one hot 110F+ (43-44C) day and most plants die. And we get months of that kind of weather.

People think successful software is usually made by huge teams.

In actuality, most open source is just one or a couple of people building something they found useful and releasing it. Even corporate software is usually a small team. Sure some software has huge numbers of people working on it (google for example) but its not the norm. Your bank app, this site here, all very small teams.

I remember when bitcoin first started and I got into the idea of sending $$ with it. First couple of years had less than 100 people in total touch it. And 90% of it was a couple of people at most.

A bit of a tangent, but most software has NO plan if that person or people walk away from the project. Or just straight up die. We live in a somewhat golden era when software has only just started outliving its builders. But watch the next 20-40 years. It will be interesting times.

Im mostly remote in an industry ai cant really take over.

nice stickers! I have a couple on my laptop too.

Ive actually ran corporate email servers for around 7 years at a couple of previous jobs. Ill be honest, I just dont want to do it. Its too much like work and for literal cents on the dollar I can have some entity deal with it.

Its the one thing I dont want to self host. Hell I even have my own lemmy/piefed I keep around for testing purposes. But email admin-ing over the years sucks

I hear you. You get used to one of the clients, the really awesome nitche communities, start making friends (or at least start recognizing the user names) and then…rug pull. The clients were removed, a lot of the ways we communicated with said people got MUCH worse. And then you discover people are getting paid to post/comment on reddit, teh whole AI thing…just felt crummy.

The last thing you want to do is make it harder/impossible for your power users, users that love your platform enough to make a free app to interact with it to use said platform. Its so dumb they made a competitor thats still going strong to this day (US).

Its nice when you go on Fedi websites and see ublock origin with 0 blocked elements.

Ill put it on the reading list :)

I remember the book series that was called rats, bats, and vats. Its sci-fi but It explores a bit of “Shareholders” AKA people who owned everything and “Vats” people born from vats/test tubes that owned nothing. In fact you owed the shareholders for being born and almost no one could pay for themselves. But if you only got one share, then you had much more rights in the society they found themselves in.

The only people that will make money are the Shareholders and only huge amounts of shares at that. Everyone else will become the “Vats”. Thats one such terrible way of living that I could very well see occurring in the US. Next generation land owners vs everyone else except its peoples time via shares.