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- Comment on what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly? 2 days ago:
Ask them for evidence. Rather, ask your union rep to ask them for evidence.
But don’t get all “brutal honesty” on me. You can always truthfully talk about wanting to earn your paycheck or get through each day in a smooth and productive fashion.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
That is a myth. The law is actually far more complicated, at least in the U.S., and presumably elsewhere too.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 days ago:
Get thee to The Pirate Bay and send your direct donations on the side.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 days ago:
You’re not fucked if you have The Pirate Bay. :-)
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 2 days ago:
Well, they’ve also been maintaining the software since 2005. They said why they’re closing shop, so why not take their words at face value? They have no obvious reason to lie.
Many of us have started and maintained projects and then moved on when our lives changed. That is just normal.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 2 days ago:
No, it isn’t the whole point. The point is to curate our own news. And a separate question is how to browse the results. If you use two devices, you might want a server side solution. Maybe. There are many reasonable setups.
- Comment on Why can't we have a static vintage web? 2 days ago:
Except we do, in so many ways. I think one simple example is RSS.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
I don’t think you can avoid it in a capitalist system, though. The capitalists are greedy, that being the whole point of their position, so they will always want more.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 days ago:
Exceptt that case is not nearly as clear-cut as people pretend it is. Actually a company boss has a ton of flexibility in how they run their company and spend money because nobody knows the future.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 days ago:
Maybe I’m not understand what you’re asking. You want to build a list of feeds to follow, right? To avoid single point failure or censorship, right?
So stop asking for one link, and start telling us what topics you care about. There is no point in a non-custom list of RSS feeds. You need to start the process yourself.
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 3 days ago:
It’s not ironic, is it? The creators of RSS knew exactly what they were trying to create, as did RSS users, and what the bad alternatives would be like. If you are new to the show, welcome!
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 days ago:
I say get it while you can, you don’t turn your back on love, no no no. -Janis Joplin
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 3 days ago:
That depends on the contract, of course.
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 4 days ago:
That’s only partly true. Even if Trump had been locked up, and the courts hadn’t said he can do whatever he wants, there could still be someone almost the same as him doing a ton of bad stuff right now.
Of course it is a disaster when the judicial branch fails, but we need to keep that in context of the complete lack of limits on campaign financing, of money coming from corporations and billionaires getting into politics, and how that guarantees the system will be corrupt in short order. In other words, Citizens United was one of the big steps towards the present disaster in the US. You simply cannot have a stable government when the ultra-rich have all of the power. And that, pushes us back to the destruction of anti-monopoly legislation in the '80s and '90s. Which is to say, the bad shit happening now was predicted by many, involves many aspects of government, and took a long time to unfold.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 6 days ago:
The short answer is, “because history”. Like most words, although this often feels like a non-answer.
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 1 week ago:
Let us note that Trump and his funders might say they’re capitalists, but like all capitalists, actually they aren’t. Actually, they hate competition, free markets, or anything that would make them compete without cheating. What they want to be are rentiers, who get money for nothing, no matter what they do.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 1 week ago:
Well yeah, if they cook the books like Private Equity always does, they can suck some profit out of it while destroying the company. And then later blame it on AI, why not? … Shit, the New York Times and the Washington Post would probably roll with that story.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
You say “security” I say “a bug that won’t let me log in”. Which is it?
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
And of course the motto should have been, “Don’t do evil.” That would have been a respectable goal. But it wasn’t, because even back then they only wanted to be slightly better than Microsoft.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 1 week ago:
Of course they know that. It’s about power and money. After all, they already have a security program that filters out malware. If we believe their stated reasoning (which we don’t), they’re tacitly admitting that their current security program is a complete failure, and also that they will not try to fix it.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
And to repurchase. Never forget that aspect of the scam. Sell but don’t actually sell, make the customer keep on paying.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
Authors would be foolish to publish on Amazon. Guarantees your book will be forgotten.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 week ago:
That’s a definitional question, though, is it not? I don’t think any facts actually changed.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Android is different because there are no alternatives to cellphones except Apple. On the web, there are other ways to share video. So Google can maybe lock YouTube down, but it can’t lock you down.
Many of us use 3rd party browsers a stop-gap measure. We’d like to leave the platform entirely, but we are still interested in some of the content there, so we’re OK with the cat-and-mouse game for now, knowing that if Google goes hardcore blocking mode that we will walk away and be better human beings for it.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re slightly misstating things. Those engineers will not pay 100K, it makes no sense at all. A potential employer could pay, but there’s no chance an employee would.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 2 weeks ago:
You call them hallucinations, the rest of us call them errors. But you don’t want to call them errors because then someone might inconveniently ask you what the error rate is, and you definitely can’t have that.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again. 2 weeks ago:
These systems at these prices, once you stop gaming, you really can’t imagine getting back into it.
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 2 weeks ago:
That’s absurd. Many other jobs should pay that much too.Take it from the billionaires.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 3 weeks ago:
Shit headline. “No” is the answer. Let’smoved on.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Interesting how this article is contradicted by hundreds of others.