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How will we keep Meta out of the fediverse?
We could collectively vote to defederate them.
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How will we keep Meta out of the fediverse?
We could collectively vote to defederate them.
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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
I hope this all does them in.
I anxiously check news headlines each day hoping to see that reddit is canceling their IPO.
I can't wait until their valuation is sub-$1B down from a $10B peak.
Fuck Steve Huffman.
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Reddit's Valuation Has Fallen Even Further, Fidelity Says
I anxiously await the day where a news headline mentions Reddit's IPO be postponed, delayed, or canceled due to a loss of investor confidence.
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This hurts.
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Broadcom CEO tells VMWare workers to 'get butt back to office' after completing a $69 billion merger of the two companies
Hahaha.
Fuck off
A 50mi commute where I am is going to be ~2 hours each way due to traffic. That's 4hrs each day of lost life which, if I had to do, I'd demand to be compensated for. At even a low 225 days a year that's 900 hours of time at tech-level per hour pay.
There are no collaboration benefits. My Product Manager friend and I disagree on this greatly - but I'm still confident from an engineering standpoint that there is no material value add to in-person meetings that cannot be realized remotely with simple concessions (if anything at all).
There are a significant increase in distractions, long lunches, arriving late, leaving early (to name a few) = significant decrease in productivity / output.
A lot of tech places where I am that are 40-50 miles away will require me to pay for parking. Screw that.
RTO can die. Commercial landlords can burn for all I care. I do feel bad for neighboring small businesses that are negatively impacted by the loss of foot traffic - but if my area is at all indicative, many of them just left the city and went suburban or rural and are just as successful with lower rents.
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Dodge RAM driver kills a cyclist. Media calls it a "bike crash".
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Obligatory...
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Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout
When GM killed the Bolt, I tried to buy one at two different dealerships near me. One wanted a $10k premium over MSRP and the other wanted $8k.
They also both had a non-negotiable "security" etching added and wheel protection whatever that I had to pay for.
It isn't that I didn't want one, it's that your dealerships fucked it up.
Honestly, may have settled for MSRP, but they wouldn't budge. Fuck off.
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Why Americans feel gloomy about the economy despite falling inflation and low unemployment
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I really like that car crash analogy or whatever you want to call it. It isn't like sudden positive changes in inflation or job numbers magically fixes QOL for people overnight. It can take weeks...months, maybe even years (maybe even never?)
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What do ridiculously rich people (like Bill Gates etc.) ask for/get for Christmas/birthdays/etc.?
I'm nowhere near Bill Gates money and never will be.
I think amongst my circle of family and friends, I probably net 3-4x more than the highest earner I know. For the most part, I can buy myself whatever gadgets or books or food or things I typically want.
But...I don't, well, I don't always.
In fact, oftentimes I find myself putting off buying Book A or B because I just don't feel like it's a good use of money right now.
Sometimes I won't even buy myself new socks until all of mine have been worn down to absolute tatters. I own two pairs of jeans and one pair of shoes and they're going to go until they completely fall apart.
Other times, I want this new game and I don't buy it because I can't really justify it for how much time I might end up having for it.
But if anyone I know gets me any of the above or similar, I'd honestly be super happy. It removes that mental battle for me and I get something I actually want / need.
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What is going on in the fourth panel?
I think he's sick with COVID or sick in general and is about to board a plane and infect everyone.
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Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
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6,000/day isn't that much since I heard it counts all replies, too.
I think this might also be related to their Google Cloud bills and inability to move off that platform fast enough. Now they don't want to have to pay for the usage.
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Incorrect password!
This reminds me of when USAA would let you enter a longer password on the login screen than was actually possible to set, so if you generated a 14 digit password and pasted it into the password reset, it wasn't immediately evident that it only took 12. But on login, you could enter all 14 characters and then it'd just say it's wrong. I'm...90% sure they don't do that anymore.
Also, KeyBank used to (or maybe still is? I closed my account years ago) not support case sensitive passwords. So whether your caps lock was on or not, or you alternated upper/lower however you wanted, your password still worked. I think they were converting to lowercase on the back end.
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Why? Are we not doing enough?
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Absolutely the case for me, I had like 5-6 alts, now I use maybe two.
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Conservatives have already written a climate plan for Trump’s second term
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For the good of literally everything, they need to die way, way faster / sooner.
Yes, this includes people I know. Yeah, it'd be (kinda) sad. But it'd be better for all.
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Signal tests usernames that keep your phone number private
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Seconding Molly, based on Signal's (lack of response), they seem to have zero plans to ever add Android tablet linking. Much to my own dismay.
I'm a recent Molly convert and so far so good. I really hope they don't shut it down or block it somehow. For how much I love Signal, I don't understand why they won't focus on much needed additions that Molly implemented.
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What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies?
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100% this. I used to be able to control my ceiling fan, my portable a/c, and my TV from my phone.
Now I have to use the fan remote, the a/c remote, and install and create an account with some stupid TV app.
...it was also fun for changing the channel of TVs at bars & restaurants.
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Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices
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I pay $500, lol
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Just a heads-up, there are activity reports that can be run that will readily show this.
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Reddit Ramps Up Its Threats To Protesting Mods, As Ad Buyers Leave
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Dude, I paid for Reddit Premium or Gold or whatever the fuck it's called for 5+ years just to support. I wish I could claw it all back.
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Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it
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Can you elaborate further on the benefits? I have a Mac mini M1, a MacBook Pro M2, a more powerful Lenovo laptop, a more powerful Dell XPS, and a more powerful windows desktop (on paper).
I don't use them a lot, but thus far, I struggle to find any benefit to MacOS. I use them because I have to and, generally, no longer than that. I mean, I might as well use Linux at that point and make my life easier and productivity faster. Mac keyboard shortcuts are an absolute nightmare to me (but maybe I'm just not used to them?)
I must be missing something, because some people swear by them.