mgraybosch

If I knew a developer who was doing this, I'd never admit it unless I was under duress.

Why shouldn't workers do everything they can to get ahead in a country where you can make six figures and still be living paycheck to paycheck?

Sure, it might be unethical, but I'll worry about the ethics of "overemployment" when CEOs go to Death Row for wage theft.

Does Elon Musk even know what HIPAA is? Would he even care?

I hope it stays down this time.

If this happens, I'll start going to church again because this will be a miracle that shows that there is a God who gives a shit about us after all.

Merely reading The Count of Monte Cristo didn't make me a better person. I had to actually think about what I had read, particularly the notion that even the mostly meticulously planned revenge can spiral out of control and hurt innocent people, and then act upon my conclusions.

That's a lot of text that could be condensed into, "Y'all need Satan" or "Stop being so goddamned altruistic toward the undeserving."

Unless your paycheck depends on performing tolerance toward people who make no effort to solve their own problems before coming to you for help, why bother coddling them?

This is what you get for not having your own website and depending on Facebook for your web presence.

This isn’t relevant in the USA, and if anybody who isn’t a close friend texts me I will report it as spam. You are not entitled to my attention.

I won’t believe that Twitter is dead until twitter.com and x.com cease to resolve over DNS. Until that happens, there’s no point in celebrating the platform’s demise.

I refuse to use GNOME because its developers give off a paternalistic vibe I find intolerable. They do not know better than I do about how I want to use my computer.

If I want to deal with a computing environment that thinks I need my hand held, that’s what Windows and macOS are for. I don’t want that sort of coddling from a GNU/Linux machine. Fortunately there’s MATE.

I learned my lesson when Google+ turned to shit while trying and failing to eat Facebook’s lunch. Parasocial media isn’t worth my time. Not even for POSSE. If somebody thinks something I’ve written is worth syndicating on Bluesky they can share it themselves. And if a platform wants their users to see what I write they can pull my website’s RSS feed. That’s what it’s for.

I’d like an AI that detects and rejects AI scrapers and people referred from commercially owned search engines, social media platforms, and parasitic news aggregators like Reddit and HN. Why? Because my website is not a side hustle and it’s not for commercial use.

While I doubt that was the answer you hoped to receive, nobody’s paying me to pretend your feelings matter. The more I read about AI the harder I yearn for the Butlerian Jihad.

Somebody at my day job tried to sell me on Bluesky by saying it was run by a public benefit corporation and thus was less likely to abuse its users.

I wasn't persuaded, because I remember ello.co [0] (which shut down in July 2023). It too was run by a public benefit corporation, but it couldn't sustain itself because t-shirt sales and affliate links weren't bringing in enough revenue, and they never got their freemium model off the ground.

No great loss, which is what I'll say when Bluesky starts to rot because its operators need to provide ROI to the VCs backing them [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ello_(social_network)

[1]: https://decrypt.co/288157/bluesky-raises-15-million-no-crypt...

So do I, but a lot of people here don't care much for the notion that neither HN nor its parent company YCombinator are universally admired.

It could be worse.

Have you seen what you get if you visit jwz.org with a HN referrer header?

Not that I blame JWZ at all.

You should never trust digital media.

You should be extremely selective about what analog media you trust.

If you weren't there to see it happen yourself, all you've got to go on is somebody else's perception. Be careful who you trust.

I grew up poor and didn't want to spend my adult life that way. So I got my hands on a used computer and some tools, and learned to code.

I'm only in it for the money.

> Is anyone doing anything interesting on this platform that I can check out?

Define "interesting". I'm on [octodon.social](https://octodon.social/web/accounts/13051) and I interact with BSD users, all sorts of developers, writers, artists, musicians, video producers, podcasters, and activists.

Whether you have a good experience in the Fediverse depends primarily on you and your efforts. Make an account, fill out your profile, post an introduction with the "#introduction" hashtag, and follow/interact with interesting people who show up in the local and federated timelines.

As long as you're not an asshole and don't expect others to bend over backwards to make you feel welcome, you'll probably be fine.

How about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus?

It's one of my fondest hopes right now.

I would pay for the privilege of seeing Mark Zuckerberg reduced to cleaning toilets and struggling to make his alimony and child support payments after Priscilla Chan dumps his broke ass and takes him to the cleaners, and indulging in the sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

> Do you think there another social media platform out there benefiting from the deletefacebook move?

It's called Mastodon. Chances are the last time you heard of it was because Lance Ulanoff couldn't find William Shatner and decided to bitch about it in Mashable instead of admitting his ignorance and asking more experienced users for help.

> Or is this the perfect time to start one?

Now would be a great time to start a hosting service that makes it easy to set up personal instances of Mastodon, Pleroma, or Diaspora* and offers support and updates. Such a service would ideally be based in a country that is subject to EU data protection laws and has a habit of saying "Warrant or GTFO" when Uncle Sam wants users' data.

Right now, US law enforcement. I haven't gotten recruiter spam offering contracts to code for INTERPOL, for example.

I'll change my mind when driving while black is no longer punishable by summary execution in at least half of the US.

Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. If your web app doesn't work in Lynx on a 56K modem, it's defective.

I'm not creating a LinkedIn account just to read some rando's opinion on why we shouldn't enforce existing antitrust law and do to Google, Facebook, and Apple what we once did to AT&T and Standard Oil.

Why doesn't this guy have his own blog?

I ascribe to the ACM Code of Ethics.

https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/

In practice that means I...

* refuse to work on adtech/corporate social media

* refuse to do work for the military or with military applications

* refuse to do work for law enforcement or work that might prove useful to law enforcement

This is what Republicans and conservatives advocating laissez-faire capitalism wanted, but now that they're getting it they have the temerity to say it's not what they had in mind?

Anybody versed in Apple's history might have seen this coming. Remember when Apple gave Steve Jobs the boot in 1985 after Jobs' failed attempt to oust CEO John Sculley? Apple managed without Jobs until 1991, but were in such dire straits by 1997 that Apple had to buy NeXT and re-hire Steve Jobs to turn things around.

I think history is repeating itself under Tim Cook, despite his efforts. I wonder if anybody at Apple knows a good necromancer...

The default styles are lousy because there's no reasonable standard on how pristine HTML5 untouched by CSS should look. So browser developers make assumptions because they figure everybody will just use CSS anyway.

Fortunately, we have stuff like normalize.css (https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/) nowadays.

Thanks, Vaskivo.

Getting silence in an open plan office is more difficult than you think. Management frowns on me duct-taping other developers' mouths shut.