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Amazon’s 'Just Walk Out' grocery stores are dead (gizmodo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by self@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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(via https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/112202942593125987, archive: https://archive.is/VnqRZ)

surprise, Amazon’s godawful surveillance grocery stores were just exploiting hidden labor and calling it innovation, and even that was too expensive

even worse, the few times I’ve seen one of these fucking things in the wild, it still had 1-2 employees hovering near the entrance to make sure nobody did the utterly obvious (fuck with the payment system and get free shit), a job that’s also known as a fucking cashier, but with much worse pay, much harder labor (physically stopping shoplifters), and no counter to lean on or opportunity to even sit down

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

activitypub is underspecified in practice and interop comes from seeing what breaks

[–] self@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

and the Lemmy devs generally insist on only implementing what is specified by activitypub, leading to some truly low-hanging fruit being absent. and besides that approach to federated software being fucking nonsense, it’s also something they’re very inconsistent on — they’ll use “we don’t implement mastodon-specific interoperability features” as an excuse to not fulfill feature requests, then use mastodon-specific interoperability features to implement their own pet features. it’s just pure toxic developer double standards