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Yeah that is a lovely PR piece, and i watched nextdoor implement that "fix" wired was very generous with the breaking sacred design rule headline, the site wasn't exactly web 3.0 from the beginning and i think that was the point.

It's primary audience appears to be "homeowners" (owners from 1-50 years they do not seem to care) who might want to sell their home or are interested in service for their home.

So two years later and I personally still see the almost identical "those people" posts across all of San Francisco. A valiant effort but without serious moderation it is meaningless.

At a certain point mods in the nextdoor community need to either ban people completely which would cuts away at their fantasy ethos or shadow ban people which basically is the same result.

good fences make great neighbors

jimbo999on Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon

"Good negotiators tend to go for their own salaries, interesting projects" is a general rule in life too right?

I can work in an open office plan when i set my own hours and work remotely or in a private space (i'll be using this space for 4 hours every day seems to work for me)

As long as you establish this upfront and it is written down into your contract.

jimbo999on NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

right... "verified"

there's definitely no way to get a pre-paid visa / giftcard and set an address to it to use as verification for next-door

edit: next door recently asked it's own members to verify their neighbors... because that's always reliable

jimbo999on NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

lol our nextdoor 'lead' has their house blurred out on google maps... speaks volumes to me about nextdoor

fwiw you can still see the house from satellite / 3d

jimbo999on NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

depends on what kinds of drugs they are selling in my experience, color of their skin is irrelevant for the most part

jimbo999on NextDoor Says Users Who Share Posts with Reporters Could Be Kicked Off the Site

oh you mean like this in the San Francisco Bay Area from two years ago

https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/racial-profiling-via-...

jimbo999on It is as if you were doing work

that is horrifying

jimbo999on Math That May Have Mapped the Brain in 11 Dimensions

Perhaps it's nitpicking to say that a sense of seriousness shouldn't be / isn't required to read articles like this?

Science writing should be accessible to all. Especially in publications like wired.

Also, jokes about holes are funny... to topologists at least.

jimbo999on The problems with Youtube’s restricted mode

I'm interested in seeing any publication you've seen writing about the notion that you stated "The persisting idea that this was to protect children is such a lie" - thanks!

jimbo999on H.R.387 – Email Privacy Act

there is no magic for that... yet

jimbo999on House Passes E-mail Privacy Act

If you expect any privacy while using a corporate google apps suite you are misguided.

Endpoint security is an entirely different subject.

jimbo999on House Passes E-mail Privacy Act

You have opted in to that "reading" of your email as a convenience to yourself. Any purpose a government puts to that "voluntary" disclosure remains to be seen.

jimbo999on What.CD is shutting down

Which is why low cost seedboxes exist.

last time i checked 100GB of storage with 1-2TB caps at 1GB in and out was close to $5 month

You can pay in bitcoin if you're concerned about "privacy" but they all take paypal.

jimbo999on What.CD is shutting down

Can't agree with this more.

And the efforts of hundreds of thousands of engaged music fans who deleted bad tags, promoted good ones, made the connections.