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Re: [nexa] Fired by Bot at Amazon: 'It's You Against the Machine'

by Luigi Scorca

Ciò conferma che, di fatto, chi consegna non è un lavoratore autonomo nello svolgimento della propria mansione.. Il gio 1 lug 2021, 10:37 AM Enrico Nardelli <nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it> ha scritto: > Online retailing giant Amazon's Flex contract drivers say their jobs are > at the mercy of software that can unfairly rate their performance. > Algorithms mine data on performance patterns and assign drivers routes, or > deactivate them, with little human feedback. One source says the Flex > algorithms do not account for human nature, setting up good drivers for > failure. A former engineer who helped design Flex says Amazon believes the > program's benefits offset the collateral damage; a former manager says the > company knew the software would lead to errors and bad press, but felt > addressing such issues was unnecessarily expensive, as long as drivers > could easily be replaced. > > Full article: > > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turn… > <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turn…> > * Full Article > <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-2bad7x32c185x071…> > * > -- EN > > > ===================================================================== > Prof. Enrico Nardelli > Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" > Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma > tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 > mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it > home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli > blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ > http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ > ===================================================================== > -- > > _______________________________________________ > nexa mailing list > nexa(a)server-nexa.polito.it > https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa >

July 1, 2021

Fired by Bot at Amazon: 'It's You Against the Machine'

by Enrico Nardelli

Online retailing giant Amazon's Flex contract drivers say their jobs are at the mercy of software that can unfairly rate their performance. Algorithms mine data on performance patterns and assign drivers routes, or deactivate them, with little human feedback. One source says the Flex algorithms do not account for human nature, setting up good drivers for failure. A former engineer who helped design Flex says Amazon believes the program's benefits offset the collateral damage; a former manager says the company knew the software would lead to errors and bad press, but felt addressing such issues was unnecessarily expensive, as long as drivers could easily be replaced. Full article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turn… *Full Article <https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-2bad7x32c185x071…> * -- EN ===================================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Dipartimento di Matematica - Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it home page: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/blog/enardelli/ http://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ ===================================================================== --

July 1, 2021

Re: [nexa] The future of Android App Bundles is here

by D. Davide Lamanna

On 30/06/21 23:30, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Since we launched the Android App Bundle in May 2018, we’ve seen our > developer community embrace this new standard to benefit from > streamlined releases and advanced distribution features. There are now > over 1 million apps using app bundles in production, including the > majority of the top 1,000 apps and games on Google Play such as Adobe, > Duolingo, Gameloft, Netflix, redBus, Riafy, and Twitter. To bring these > benefits to more users and focus on modern Android distribution that > benefits all developers, Google Play will start requiring new apps to > be published with the Android App Bundle starting August 2021. [...] > > If you haven’t made the switch to app bundles yet, here are some of the > benefits you’re missing: [...] > > - Play App Signing: Play App Signing, which is required for app bundles, > protects your app signing key from loss by using Google’s secure > infrastructure and offers the option of upgrading to a new, > cryptographically stronger app signing key. > > ___ > > Marketing tratto da > https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2021/06/the-future-of-android-app… > > https://web.archive.org/web/20210630211418/https://android-developers.googl… > > > Per chi non lo sapesse, Play App Signing è questa roba qui: > > ``` > When you use Play App Signing, your keys are stored on the same > infrastructure that Google uses to store its own keys. Keys are > protected by Google’s Key Management Service. > ``` > https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9842756?hl=en > > https://web.archive.org/web/20210630211524/https://support.google.com/googl… > > Così Google terrà al sicuro le chiavi private di chi pubblica > applicazioni (ed i loro aggiornamenti) su Google Play. > > Potrà così decidere autonomamente di aggiornare una applicazione. > E visto che Google Play autentica gli utenti, potrà farlo in maniera > "personalizzata". > > Per la sicurezza dell'utente, si intende. :-D Questa gente è pericolosa. >:( D.

July 1, 2021