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I don’t want anything except posting with my friends and CNCF crowd without having to deal with the worst people in my feed. If someone tells me to kill myself because I posted about inclusive tech, I want the report dealt with. If I reply to an open source maintainer, I don’t want to have to also see people calling them awful names just because they may be trans. I want to be able to block the worst people who gripe about genetics and technical acumen. And I definitely do not want Elon injected into my feed. You can’t virtue post about hosting differences of opinion here. This isn’t “well, I like Python and don’t like your Node.js but I’ll fight for your right to hold your opinion.” This is (should be) objectively vile stuff.

Bluesky gives me all of this. X is a chore.

Agree on this, wife is a professor at a local college and the loss of Chegg will not be mourned. Honestly, AI at least can provide predictive text that might send the student down a path of realization. Chegg… is not useful for this.

Ok yes this guide is fine, a lot of things are up for negotiation, and I think it’s a lot more widely known these days to negotiate for stuff.

But man, a lot of the people out there absolutely still do not grok negotiating. They know it’s something you’re supposed to do, but they will try and negotiate things that are not negotiable (like making it a hard ask for extra contributions per paycheck for healthcare to match their former employer, rather than just ask for more money to cover the difference) or they’ll make demands for things we already offer if they had just paid attention and read the benefits packet we emailed them, and it takes a bunch of back and forth to figure out what they’re asking for (nothing, in the end). Or they’ll ask for weird PTO accrual and cash out schemes that just leaves us asking “why didn’t you just ask for more cash and more PTO up front because now HR is pulling people into meetings to try and figure out this demand”.

People need more than knowing to negotiate, they need to know how to negotiate, and that means partially knowing what is negotiable. (We’ll change a lot actually in negotiations, but not everything)

Cast iron? My eggs slide around great every time, and I scrub it with Dawn and a sponge after every cook (it is a myth that you cannot do this)

I don’t buy this. Bluesky serves me multiple feeds with no politics in them. I have a game dev art feed, art, gardening, none of these have politics. I think the more likely answer is that politics is more likely to cause doom scrolling, and thus, ad impressions.

What I’m saying is not offering algorithmic choice is, in itself, a choice that X makes.

I have no use for a weak willed news product. Endorse Trump, Kamala, or a third party, but if your tagline is “democracy dies in darkness” and you’re embracing that slogan in the opposite direction, I’m just going to cancel.

Mike Masnick is a treasure. He posts on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/mmasnick.bsky.social

Can cigarettes be blamed for a lung cancer death?

Used a search engine.

First result: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/08/16/california-created-nearly-...

Please explain.

I’m struggling with the exaggeration of calling mineralization as “mass medication”. Would you refer to remineralization of anything out of e.g. a desalination plant “mass medication”?

There’s two types of electronics you’re referring to. There’s incidental radiators, like electric motors, switching power supplies, etc that the FCC understands that RF will be generated from, and they ask that these devices merely minimize their RF.

Then there’s Unintentional Radiators which is probably what you’re thinking of, which include computers and other electronics, which are regulated to limit RF.

I’ve worked with Matt’s team while I was in the hosting industry- Matt has always cared very deeply about it being called WordPress. I’ve written recursive web crawlers to alert us on miscapitaizations for this specific issue, even 10 years ago.

If you don’t understand, then stay and enjoy twitter. There’s now more good fit competitors for everybody- you don’t have to like the same things other people like.

I happen to enjoy Bluesky more than its competitors. Twitter’s vibe shifted once Elon started injecting his rants into my timeline and made it so people could pay to be boosted in replies, and I’m not really into what it’s become now.

“WP” is not at dispute here.

There’s an HEB and a Kroger within 1 minute from each other where I live. On the day before thanksgiving, people will be parking in grass medians to go to HEB, and the Kroger lot will be mostly empty; people seem to avoid it here.

I often joke that the only thing keeping me from fleeing Texas is HEB.

Yes it does and I can tell that you have never been piled on by followers of large accounts. Blocks aren’t perfect but they make a huge difference.

Why you trying to run interference for this article?

A book ban can take many forms, it can be diminished access, it can be explicit removal, it can be shuffled to a back room to make room for other content. What is common though, is administration, the school board, or legislature being the impetus in the decision of the removal of content.

> The media claimed that the removed books were banned even though kids were allowed to read their copy

This statement is why I’m thinking you’re not arguing in good faith.

I thought the same thing as soon as they wrote the statement about the value of the market being $50B. That private equity is remarking on its market size means they are definitely sizing up how to squeeze it. A16z has no shame and it shows here.

Currently in the middle of an EKS to on-prem OKD migration for a large company. It’s definitely happening- on prem with negotiated power/connectivity contracts, datacenter space, and hardware is a fraction of the cost of AWS at a certain scale. DC space includes remote hands but we could even throw in a few DC tech full timers and still save a ton of money.

And yet, I have Facebook posts that will be 20 years old next year. The attitude that “I’m distrusting of social media, therefore this major adoption blocker is fine as it exists” is why only techies have managed to adopt Mastodon, and is why that will be the limits of its adoption.

Individually productive, 100% no argument there from me, people work better and quicker at home.

Collaboratively productive… remains to be understood. We need a collaborative tech breakthrough to push remote productivity forward. AWS Chime is awful and they use it very extensively. MS Teams is awful. Google’s Meet is subpar. Asking for certain work to happen remotely is just not going to be as fruitful as in person.

So do non 501c3s mean nothing now? (I guess you could argue that they never meant much?) Is bootstrapping as a nonprofit intended to reduce tax burden? What’s the point of being a non-profit?

Noteworthy yes, unmaintained no.

Are we really at the point where last commit less than two months ago means something is unmaintained?

Concept cars fit into two buckets: proofs of concept like this one that are showing off the tech itself, and the externals are a means to an end. You don’t waste a bunch of money hiring your Giorgetto Giugiaros of the world when you’re pitching your internals. The other is a bucket of vehicles that might exaggerated externals to demonstrate the design language of a vehicle or series of vehicles. You might be more willing to hire fancy designers to do these cars, and tone down the externals for market appeal and ease of manufacture.

Honest answer, probably because it’s a YouTube video, convention in the past used to be to tag it as a video in the title, but people don’t seem to do that anymore.

I don’t think this post is accurate, there were multiple problems with the 360 design, it wasn’t capacitors.

The towel trick warped the board and sometimes it worked and most of the time you wound up with a warped board and a system that continues to RROD.

I fixed mine this way and still have it at my parent’s house, I’ll take a picture when I can, it’s very obvious what happens with the towel trick.

Why? Waiting around for Elon to footgun himself seems like an inevitability rather than a gift.

You linked to Elon’s alt account, not exactly an unbiased source. Fact of the matter remains that operating in places with less free speech means that you have to submit to their less free speech. Old Twitter knew this, and so do other social media companies. Running a successful business means you can’t be an ideologue all the time.

Okay, use X then, I don’t understand your problem here. The rest of us are going to choose platforms where we don’t have to be neighborly with phrenology enthusiasts.

The internet has something for everybody, just pick the social media you are happy with.