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I also have a 20+ year old Montauk. I had the cushions replaced a couple of years ago because they don't offer a restuffing service. Not cheap, but should keep me going for another 20 years.

My country does have a good safety net, so I choose to work for a company that shares my core ethics and has a solid work/life balance. I could be earning a lot more but I choose sanity over wealth.

Not sure why this was downvoted, that second paragraph is right on the money.

Same for me with Podcast Addict, which as far as I can tell is a solo developer effort and a great product.

We use Matomo and have been fairly happy with it.

Sure, but why use google analytics? There are better trackers for this kind of thing that don't need cookies and can be self-hosted.

and bikes?

I got the impression English is not the Author's native language.

I wrote a curses based cheque processing system in C over a weekend after our old cheque processing server literally went up in smoke. I'm guessing it is long dead and did not become a leader in its field though.

I very strongly disagree, without online interactions I probably would've gone crazy during lockdown. Even now that's all (mostly) over, I still rely on online interaction for communicating with most of my family.

I find my phone even more important using public transport, checking schedules and figuring out which buses and trains I need to get for my destination.

Literally cancer? Really?

The same is becoming true of Twitter, can't remember the last time I saw an embedded tweet.

I tend to ask ChatGPT first these days, but then follow up with a DDG search because I don't fully trust ChatGPT.

And everything was simpler, you could throw something up on a $10/month shared host. Now you need a full stack of services running in the cloud charged by the minute.

Seems almost like you just read the headline

None of those definitions fit the original blog post. It's not satirical or ironic, it's not aggressive, it's not trolling, it's not off-topic, it's not even a "comment". It's not poor quality (imo). It's an opinion piece.

My definition was from urban dictionary btw, the first entry, maybe it sorts differently for different people.

1. (noun) any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context. Differs from a meme: whereas a meme's humor comes from its repeatability, a shitpost is funny simply because it isn't a predictable repetition of an existing form. Shitposts can become memes, but memes cannot become shitposts. 2. (verb) to create such a post

What are 200X and 201X internets?

Your definition of shitposting is... odd.

There are diminishing returns at a certain point though, the crowd gets so large that utility stops increasing.

I want to interact with experts in subjects I'm interested in, the occasional media figure, and some brands. Sadly brands are lacking, but I get enough of the rest on Mastodon to keep me happy.

It's a shame Patrick Rothfuss isn't on Mastodon, but John Scalzi is, so that's cool.

Isn't this basically how we got Boaty McBoatface?

It seems to be a favourite thing in the javascript community sadly.

I don't think the UK pasteurizes their milk to the same degree as North America. When I lived in the UK a pint of milk would last a week or so at most, but here in Canada it can last a month.

I expect most "tech nomads" use Airbnb and the like.

Not sure if you're being deliberately obtuse or not, but here's my comparison:

"Complicated electronics" on a car are designed (usually) to make it safer. If those complicated electronics go wrong, it can cause injury or death.

"Complicated electronics" on this gun are designed to make it safer. If those complicated electronics go wrong, it can cause injury or death.

So if you won't use a gun because it has "complicated electronics" you shouldn't drive a modern car either.

A car?

Maybe think about what other lethal weapons already contain complicated electronics.

I cancelled my account last month, mostly because they were incapable of dealing with the fact that my IP address is not near where I live.

On a personal level this is all true, but on an infrastructure level Mastodon can only survive and grow (and remain federated) with many well managed and well funded instances.