Biggles @Biggles@social.cleverlibre.org
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Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
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Both parties have held the debt ceiling hostage as a political tool. For example, in 2011, the Republicans did it. But in 2013, the Republicans did it. On the other hand, this year it is the Republicans who are doing it.
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TL;DR "We know layoffs don't really cut costs and they hurt productivity, but everyone else is doing them and our board wants to know why we aren't." https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
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Layoffs are yet another area where companies refuse to follow the science. Here's what the science says.
Layoffs:
- don't save money
- don't improve company performance
- don't increase stock pricess
- destroy trust
- have huge impacts on health, well-being, and income of employees
So why do layoffs? It's a network effect: execs lay people off because other companies are doing it
Stanford Biz School article: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/
Harvard Biz Review:
https://hbr.org/2022/12/what-companies-still-get-wrong-about-layoffs
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The internet needs to do it’s thing with this absurdity and come up with infinite memes of people in small boats
RT @tomgara@twitter.com
The new UK Online Safety law requires digital platforms to protect children from content promoting self harm and eating disorders, as well as any content that depicts migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats in a positive light https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/17/donelan-confirms-stiffer-online-safety-measures-after-backbench-pressure
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No one is going to email you to give you money, sell you reputable pharmaceuticals, or blackmail you. No, they didn't watch you flog your dolphin via your webcam, and no they will not send video of it to your friends and family unless you pay them. (If someone ever gets a video of me flogging my metaphorical dolphin, my greatest fear will be them releasing it to the public without letting me narrate it first.)
If someone somehow does get compromising video of you, narrate it.
One thing I miss about the birdsite was the ability to boost with a comment. I know it was abused to mock, but it was also handy to direct users to a thread with particularly insightful comments.
I hope people realize that when I boost a random comment in a thread, I'm saying "This was a good thread, and this particular person was particularly insightful (or hilarious)". Because a lot of them need the context of the thread to be fully grokked.
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@ido or perhaps how every single-use, dead-end electronic project should ever be terminated by law.
Landfills are already full of hardware-locked failed products which could be properly usable objects with an open firmware
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Lord Winston Hefferbottom, MP for West Hemmingwedge: Motion to fuck around!
Lord Skeffington Hooblebooble, MP for East Hinkleswitch: Second!
Lord Bandersnatch Scruggs, MP for North Bloodfart: Third!
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[at the English parliament]
Lord Thistlewit Splodge, MP for North Wankingshire: I say I say I say!!! Scotland thinks it can self-determine? Egad!
Lord Nigel Dinglehopper, MP for South Slurrysham: [hurumphing through dundrearies]
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me: working from home gives me the opportunity to focus on tasks free from the the distractions of a noisy office!
brain:
TROUT
TROUT
LET IT ALL OUT
THESE ARE THE FISH I CAN DO WITHOUT
SALMON
I’M TALKING TO YOU
SALMON
me: cool never mind
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You want to know how I really feel?
https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/
P.S. That's the tame version.
Casting this to the wind: I'm looking for a small/cheap device that has WiFi and supports usb otg, aka "gadget mode". And is actually in-stock anywhere.
I'd normally opt for a pi-zero-w or pi4, but you can't get them for any reasonable price. And that's unlikely to change soon.
Outlandish suggestions encouraged. Alternatively, if a wifi thumb drive exists, point me to it.
Thanks kids.
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Watch out, a car's going to hit you!
“I don't believe it.”
Look, it's right there.
“You're exaggerating.”
No, you should move.
“I am free to stand where I want!”
But you'll be hit.
“I've been hit by cars before.”
Please move!
“Stop living in fear.”
I am afraid! Afraid you'll be killed.
“I'm tired of car crashes. We have to learn to live with them.”
I beg... oops, too late.
“Please get me to a hospital.”
I can't--they're overcrowded with others who wouldn't step out of the way of cars.
#COVID19
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might make this my new homepage
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Hi everybody, I’m ready to unveil my year-end-holiday-hack project:
Meet Searchtodon: ***Private*** Timeline Search for Mastodon
It fills a gap that I have been missing over on Twitter as well: “I remember seeing this THING, where was that again?”
It is built with privacy and consent in mind (pls see the FAQ), but is also *an experiment* to see if something like this is accepted by the larger Mastodon community.
Here goes: https://searchtodon.social
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@robmiracle
"If you can remember it, it's a lousy password."
@robstyles
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Disabling copy/paste into passwords fields is a Red Flag™ that tells me your Product Owner doesn't understand security.
It leads me to wonder what other aspects of security they've fucked up.
- python
- science
- games
Father of 4, Lasers and Computers and Physics, Oh My! Soon to be a major motion picture. My Pokemons, let me show them to you.
Joined Apr 2022
