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Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by vouaobrasil on Friday June 21, 2024 @09:05AM (#40749210)
> Refusing to work on something is not newsworthy.

One person, no. A hundred, who knows. Ten thousand programmers united together not to work on something? Now we're getting somewhere. A hundred thousand? Newsworthy.

Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by kjkjadksj on Friday June 21, 2024 @01:50PM (#40751973)
The issue is quantifying this sentiment. How would you even identify programmers who are doing this? Yet another reason why software engineers really ought to organize their labor like a lot of other disciplines of engineering have done decades ago. Collective action like this would be more easily mustered, advertised, and used to influence outcomes if labor were merely organized and informed of itself.
Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by int_19h on Saturday June 22, 2024 @02:59AM (#40757010)
You can do public pledges, e.g.: https://neveragain.tech
Re:The Engineer Who Refused to Approve the Challenger Launch by BlarfMcFlarf on Friday June 21, 2024 @03:13PM (#40752688)
I would bet there are a hundred thousand people refusing to work in war, ai, ads, gambling, crypto etc. I certainly am. But all it means is that pay goes up and quality of engineering goes down a little in those sectors, but not much more.