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Clients are learning to open doors^W^Wwrite slop themselves. Cheaper, same pile of shit at the end of the process.

His mailing list was public. No harm in sending the link to the meeting for last week, I guess. You can find the Zoom meeting coordinates there; they were reused every time. https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe983...

Could be AI-knitted. They lost an opportunity right there.

"By AI Content Team"

Would be nice to start flagging these articles so we don't lose time on slop.

RTO in a nutshell.

I saw this a while ago on Mastodon and it's on point (https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/114027906524929311):

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In today’s “terminology matters”:

Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

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He can share them before you do and get more likes.

Is that the codename for Windows 11?

You mean this is the way to write comments now? I might join, sounds like a good idea?

The title should be changed to "In response to Google?" to keep up to date with the latest practices around here.

I told you you should all go back to the office for the culture and the interpersonal relationships. Now you got this.

As a user of the PPA packages (https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa), now I'm confused. Are these the same packages? Should I switch? I'd have appreciated at least a mention in the article.

Matt Levine's "slightly annotated diagram" in one of his latest newsletters tells the story quite well, I think: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/42469

This made me remember one anecdote written in one of the books about how Amazon became what it is today (it could be "The everything store", but I'm not sure.)

If my memory serves me well, the book mentions that, for a while, Amazon had "the most read books in your zip code", until someone realized some corporations were so large a zip code was basically just them. So that became "the most read books at Intel's research department", and the entire thing was scrapped.

Register.ing sunsett.ing and redirect.ing it to google.com.

mutt does both things. I've been using it for years. The learning curve is certainly steep, and being in the terminal all the time might throw people off, but it does what you're asking for.

"Quick! Use this in your app before we shut it down!"

This is good for Bitcoin.

It's an amazingly fun book.

The Financial Times (well, Alphaville, a kind of blog inside the main journal) ran a very short-lived experiment for a few months: https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788e...

I was going to say "what is this new thing, will they close it soon?"

But I was wrong, it isn't new.

Oh, damn, I really thought it was published :-(

If you have a chance, read the selection of HST letters that are published. I've read the first two volumes and can't wait to get my hands on the third one https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/the-fear-and-loathing-let...

He was a very prolific letter writer and kept carbon copies of almost everything he sent. This is the one he sent to Anthony Burgess when he was editor of Rolling Stone: https://www.openculture.com/2016/05/hunter-s-thompson-writes...

I keep this article in my bookmarks re: how to write a proper complaint letter. It talks specifically about credit reporting agencies, but a lot of what he says can be applied anywhere else: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...

This is good for Bitcoin.

Yes, you're right. However, the trend during the last months is very clear.

Here it is: https://paquita.masto.host/@rinze/109954928934842396. My "toots" auto-expire in a month, so if anyone wants to keep these plots, make a local copy.

I'm running the script from January 2018. However, covid was really disruptive, so I don't know what we'll be able to see. Anyway, I'll paste a link to the plot when it's done.

Edit: typo.

No, they're following the same trend. Remote jobs are consistently 75 % - 80 %.

Speaking from anecdotal experience, over the years this constant push for more complex and efficient work from individuals has lead to me cutting more corners than I ever wanted to and producing more questionable products and services in the name of efficiency.

I read a while ago a perfect word to describe this world we're living in: crapitalism.

For the HTML email that doesn't work as intended (which is not a lot, mostly newsletters, which I prefer to read via RSS), I use https://github.com/tshirtman/.mutt/blob/master/mutt_bgrun and this macro. It picks up the first HTML attachment in the mail, saves it to a local file and opens it in a Firefox tab (and Firefox is already typically running):

macro index,pager ,b "<view-attachments>/html<enter><view-mailcap><exit>" "View first HTML attachment in browser"

You'll need to combine it with this entry in .mailcap:

text/html; mutt_bgrun /usr/bin/firefox %s >/dev/null 2>&1; needsterminal