MattDemers

I think people also don't acknowledge how much terminology, slang and other culture originate and spread there. When it breaches into Twitter (usually through funposters) people kind of ignore the unsavoury origin and rewrite the history. The anonymous nature kind of provides that petri dish of "if it's strong culture, it'll survive or be modified."

Drink the verification can.

Why remove it in the first place?

Because that would get in the way of Pocket.

While I realize this does nothing for mobile (RIP third-party clients), Control Panel for Twitter [1] has been nice for me to use as a browserscript. Defaults/hides "For You" and tweaks a bunch of other stuff (hideable trends, etc).

[1] https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-twitter

I like this a lot, thanks!

Thank you; finding a habit tracker on IOS that isn't juiced to the gills with social and/or subscription features is impossible.

Implicit in the article is an assumption that life is lacking, and I'm not sure that is a healthy outlook.

It's essential to the eventual "I have a course/lifestyle/Notion template to sell you" pitch that people like this are going for.

This reminds me a lot of TransparentTextures.com; thanks!

This means that management needs to be good enough to realize that it's a good idea to include young talent, give them opportunity, and respect their different perspectives. This means better stories, and also means that the management holds those beliefs as principles, and are willing to take risks "for the sake of it."

But that seems counter to the idea of a management pastiche drooling over the cost-cutting potential of AI.

It's funny how I'm STILL looking for an RSS solution that feels the same. I've settled on TTRSS, but it's not 100% there.

A reminder that if you pay for ProtonMail, you get a free SimpleLogin account to go with it.

It was to podcasting what House of Cards, Orange is the New Black and Arrested Development Season 4 were to Netflix.

You gotta love the usage of social justice vocabulary with this. Find a way that it'll "impact low-income taxpayers" and suddenly it's morally correct to keep things from being more convenient for the vast majority of people.

Selling Notion templates is a complete cottage industry right now. So many people who were once selling video courses are just bundling up what they think mid-level managers will think looks sexy/smart from a note-taking/organizational system and selling it to them.

I know that's not anything new, but it's interesting to see how pervasive it is for one, specific service. Seems much easier to do than selling like... Asana automations? Zapier zaps?

I hope one day governments catch up to the harms they're doing, and regulate them just as they did for Big Tobacco and many other truly evil industries.

But how does that happen when our government officials (at least in North America) seem technologically illiterate, and rely on Silicon Valley for their re-elections and donations (therefore becoming more susceptible to lobbying)?

If you're a fan of Calvin, would definitely recommend the 10th Anniversary Book [1], as it has its fair share of commentary by Watterson.

[1] https://archive.org/details/calvinhobbestent00watt

Serial was probably the first "killer app" of podcasting, with an episodic look at a crime that they (arguably) had a hand in reversing the decision for. Every bit of True Crime podcasting owes something to Serial, and it was a normie-friendly product that wasn't being published anywhere else, in any other formats. Journalists also bigged it up, which meant it got a lot of hype, as well.

The finger was shot off during the invasion of Juno Beach on D-Day.

By friendly fire, apparently!

What I get from this sentence (out of context) is to not burn bridges. Have a way to go back if you decide the new direction isn't right for you.

I think that it's more speaking to... "I know why this thing that I'm leaving led me to the place I'm going, and I'm appreciative for that." Notsomuch the practical burning bridges in terms of jobs, but the piece I was quoting was more about the mental progression of "Okay I was really into this type of relationship, but it doesn't work for me any more. But I'm going to keep the connection of why it did work for me, so I can have context and appreciation for the growth I'm experiencing as a person."

Got inspired by some writing about personal change that happens when your brain says "Nope, this (person, job, situation) isn't working for you anymore."

Felt it applied well to creatives and athletes who feel like they still have a role to perform, based on something very personal.

Yet in no where in the article did the affected parties go on record to corroborate this.

Not excusing the article, but it feels very rare that we get someone "on the record" or an objective "this is actually happening due to the information we have" out of journalism. It's opinion and supposition disguised as fact.

Obviously it's because of NDAs, punishments for going on-record and personal safety, but it still feels like that shouldn't be an excuse for shoddy articles.

I've been using Obsidian in order to store a "clips" folder with some front matter/tags/aliases.

I'll agree; we're just getting to the "Substacks writing about writing Substacks" phase now. Up until now all those people were on Medium.

I guess my thoughts are: isn't this activism, though? "They are using their time to impart the results that they want. They're developing the tools and implementing them to get their opinions and actions across to as many people as possible."

Is someone finding that annoying or distasteful, or thinking "wow, they have a lot of time on their hands" valid reasoning to calling them "evil and disturbed", or are people just not wanting to put the equal amount of effort to resisting/subverting that?

My biggest frustration with the self-help industry is that nothing addresses the fundamental action that needs to be taken. It's little tricks and hacks. They might work temporarily but then that goes away...because guess what you need discipline for sticking with the little tricks and hacks as well.

This is worse when the book is just... anecdotes? Stories about hypothetical clients (or ones they swear exist, but don't), which you can't really port over to yourself.

The thing is, you're never going to get that "manual" from a self-help book. Maybe from a therapist or a coach, but the majority of the work and exploration has to be done by yourself; to the people that feel hopeless, discouraged, depressed and alone (the people who may be buying these books) this is a hard thing to sell, so the authors don't.

Important to know that most "normies" that consume home automation have a tech representative who deals with their setup.

I wouldn't have assumed that; I was more thinking the "got some Hue bulbs for Christmas and someone pointed them to HA" kind of thing. Thanks for pointing it out.

The web has changed but Google isn't keeping up.

I'd argue that Google incentivized the web to change in a way in order to better exploit/profit from Google, and that's led to a net negative experience for Google users (who then leave, causing problems for Google).

A browser search shortcut for:

site:reddit.com OR site:news.ycombinator.com %s

Happy to see this, mostly because HomeAssistant stuff is nowhere near consumer-ready. I barely have the Docker knowledge to get it working in the first place on my NAS, and even just doing basic automations assumes you know much more coding/process stuff than the typical normie.

We figured out pretty quick how to use Windows' internal network messenger, and that was pretty cool (in terms of being able to chat with peers without the teachers knowing).

It still blows my mind that kids are using Chromebooks and Ipads daily on an elementary level.