Notices tagged with amazon

LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 02:34:51 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Amazon #lobbying killed several privacy bills in multiple states https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-privacy-lobbying/ [www reuters com]
In conversation about 7 days ago from Choqok permalink
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1. The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
  
  from @SpecialReports
  
  Amazon has amassed a vast storehouse of consumer data. Internal documents reveal how it built a lobbying juggernaut that gutted privacy legislation in two dozen states.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 05:11:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

A #Mastodon admin ( "Tootmaster" ? ) learns that #Amazon's S3 file storage is not always cheaper. https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/goodbye-s3/
In conversation about a month ago from web permalink
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1. Goodbye, S3
  
  from Tek
  
  Amazon charges way more than their competitors, so we moved.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 17:19:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-12-15/amazon-ukraine-war-cloud-data [www latimes com]

#Amazon physically shipped a bunch of #Ukraine government records out of the country, then hosted them on their AWS service.

It isn't often that I say this, but "hurray, Amazon!".
In conversation about a month ago from Choqok permalink
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1. How Amazon put Ukraine's 'government in a box' — and saved its economy from Russia
  
  from https://www.latimes.com/people/russ-mitchell
  
  Amazon is helping Ukraine transfer critical government, business and property data into the company's data cloud.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Nov-2022 04:59:59 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I'm looking online at baby locks for cabinets and drawers to replace the ones that were in that recall notice. First thing I noticed was that #Amazon results include no-name clones of the recalled item.

I can't buy them yet anyway, as I still have to pay for the airline ticket and the cellphone bill.

In conversation about 3 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 05-Sep-2022 17:54:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://wickr.com/aws-has-acquired-encrypted-messaging-service-wickr/ [wickr com]

Encrypted messaging app #wickr acquired by #Amazon's #AWS cloud services division. This was more than a year ago, but I just saw this.
In conversation about 5 months ago from mustard permalink
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1. AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr
  
  from Carly Page
  
  Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to government and militar…
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2022 15:59:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://abc7.com/amazon-san-bernardino-bernie-sanders-walkout/12130465/ [abc7 com]

#SoCal #Amazon warehouse workers walk out over excessive heat, low pay
In conversation about 5 months ago from mustard permalink
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1. Dozens of Amazon employees in San Bernardino walk off job, demanding better pay, improved conditions
  
  from @abc7
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders expressed his support for a group of Amazon employees who walked off the job in San Bernardino.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 15-Aug-2022 05:59:23 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I ordered something from #Amazon. While I was still in #NYC, they claimed it had been delivered.

When I got back to #SoCal, it wasn't here. A few days later, I got an e-mail telling me that it was refunded.

If it wasn't delivered, why say it was?

In conversation about 6 months ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jun-2022 15:05:48 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage [www vox com]

Leaked #Amazon internal memo predicts that their warehouse network will run out of prospective employees to hire within two years.

> Raising wages and increasing warehouse automation are two of the six "levers" Amazon could pull to delay this labor crisis by a few years, but only a series of sweeping changes to how the company does business and manages its employees will significantly alter the timeline, Amazon staff predicted.

> "If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024," the research, which hasn’t previously been reported, says.

Their prospective employees do not include all adults.

> Amazon’s internal report calculated the available pool of workers based on characteristics like income levels and a household’s proximity to current or planned Amazon facilities; the pool does not include the entire US adult population.

They burn through a lot of staff because of their pay scales and working conditions. From this and other articles, it sounds like Amazon management believes very much in the "Theory X" view, which is that employees are lazy and have to be forced to work, and that trying to create a better workplace and better jobs to make employees happier is wasted time and money.

> The leaked internal findings also serve as a cautionary tale for other employers who seek to emulate the Amazon Way of management, which emphasizes worker productivity over just about everything else and churns through the equivalent of its entire front-line workforce year after year.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/15/us/amazon-workers.html [www nytimes com]

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977660/amazon-warehouses-work-injuries-retail-labor [www vox com]
In conversation about 7 months ago from web permalink
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1. Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire
  
  from Jason Del Rey
  
  Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
2. The Amazon That Customers Don’t See (Published 2021)
  
  Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.
3. The Amazonification of the American workforce
  
  from Jason Del Rey
  
  The e-commerce giant’s labor issues expose the complicated truth about getting what we want when we want it.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Feb-2022 23:59:22 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

There's an issue at one of #Amazon's fulfillment centers. Two different items, sold by two different sellers, are hung up in a "carrier picked up package" but carrier is "waiting for package" state. In both cases, I looked at their new customer ratings and found many bad reviews, all responded to by Amazon itself with something like "the delivery issue on this order was not the fault of the seller".

In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Feb-2022 23:16:54 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

I've been looking at Samsung tablets for a couple of months. Today, I went to Best Buy, looked at their tablet display (one tablet with a huge 12 inch screen) and left. Then I visited their site: order now and it will be available for in-store pickup 2022-02-11.

Finally, I decided to go ahead and buy it off #Amazon. Delivery expected on Tuesday 2022-02-08. #Best_Buy has an extensive store network, but no product in their stores. I can hear the sound of Bankruptcy Court incoming.

(This happened with #Frys_Electronics a few years ago ... first they stopped having their normal product lines in stock in their stores, then they tried to branch out to include products that no one would think of buying there, then when sales cratered, they shut down.)

In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jan-2022 01:48:55 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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We talked a lot about #Microsoft's purchase of Activision-Blizzard and other game studios and about price comparisons between #Walmart, #Target, and #Amazon.

If an item is available at all three places, I generally prefer to buy it in person at Target, even if it costs more than either Walmart or Amazon.

In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jan-2022 22:56:52 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Amazon to pay fine, end program in #antitrust investigation. #WA Attorney General did their job. What were the Attorneys General of the other 49 states doing?

https://www.wral.com/sold-by-amazon-program-ends-following-state-investigation/20100568/ [www wral com]

${NASDAQ[AMZN]}
In conversation about a year ago from web permalink
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1. ‘Sold by Amazon’ program ends following state investigation :: WRAL.com
  
  from WRAL
  
  Amazon will end its “Sold by Amazon” program after an investigation by Washington state's attorney general found it was anticompetitive and violated antitrust laws, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2022 15:25:52 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

Today is a very slow day. Ordinarily, I'd be using the company-paid #LinkedIn / #LockedOut Learning subscription to learn more about #MSAzure, #AWS, #PowerShell, or even #PHP.

I take courses on both #Microsoft and #Amazon clouds, but never #Google, #IBM, #CenturyLink / #Lumen clouds. I need to look into those clouds.

In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 24-Jan-2022 19:08:46 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#NLRB: #Amazon illegally fired union organizer. https://www.engadget.com/nlrb-amazon-illegally-fired-union-organizer-new-york-101549596.html [www engadget com]
In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
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1. Invalid filename.
  
  US labor board says Amazon illegally fired union organizer in New York | Engadget
  
  from https://www.engadget.com/about/editors/mariella-moon
  
  The NLRB will issue a formal complaint against Amazon if it doesn't settle the case..
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Dec-2021 01:28:25 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/284086 [www wusa9 com]

#Amazon's #AWS #cloud service has another outage.
In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
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1. Reports of another possible Amazon Web Services outage, unclear how widespread
  
  Reports started to come in on Twitter and the website Downdetector, where users reported not being able to access various websites.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Dec-2021 17:40:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://nu.federati.net/url/283972 [bleepingcomputer com] #Amazon #aws

Affects #zoom, #twitch, and others
In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
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1. AWS down again, outage impacts Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Hulu, others
  
  from @BleepinComputer
  
  Amazon AWS is experiencing an outage that has impacted numerous online services, including Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Xbox Live, Doordash, Quickbooks Online, and Hulu.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Dec-2021 17:35:19 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

#Amazon explains last week's massive outage https://nu.federati.net/url/283971 [bleepingcomputer com]
In conversation about a year ago from mustard permalink
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1. Amazon explains the cause behind Tuesday’s massive AWS outage
  
  from @BleepinComputer
  
  Amazon has published a post-event summary to shed some light on the root cause behind this week's massive AWS outage that took down a long list of high-profile sites and online services, including Ring, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Roku.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Oct-2021 00:50:30 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712365/twitch-data-leak-breach-security-confirmation-comments [www theverge com]

#Amazon’s #Twitch subsidiary confirms security breach.

Site’s members urged to change their passwords.
In conversation about a year ago from Shoyu permalink
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1. Twitch confirms it was hacked after its source code and secrets leak out
  
  from Tom Warren
  
  Twitch creator payouts and internal tools were leaked earlier today
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:13:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

It appears that #Amazon is having problems with their site right now. I'm on the phone with S and she's trying to tell me what she bought. ... Can't pull it up to see it on any computer.

In conversation Monday, 12-Jul-2021 03:13:17 UTC from web permalink
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Jun-2021 19:06:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

https://honeypot.net/post/tripping-on-cracked-sidewalk/ [honeypot net] #Amazon Sidewalk

In conversation Thursday, 10-Jun-2021 19:06:53 UTC from mustard permalink

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