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The forums I keep an eye on have been bought by aggregators who redesign them for maximum ad-suck.
It’s a shame bc very old threads contain massively valuable information and conversation on topics I care about.
One of the best forums moved to a Google Group long ago and that’s maybe the best bad outcome.
I’ve applied for several jobs outside of tech or only tech-adjacent. I’m not happy to give up significant income and benefits, but you don’t get everything you want.
What AI-first means for companies who are not actually AI companies is elevating staff with the right degree of _partiinost_ around AI and using vendor AI products to show how many Jira issues have been closed in pursuit of the latest exciting and important new transformation.
Dangerous, addictive drugs played a role in me meeting my wife. Do I wish the same for my children? No.
I can relate to a certain type of reluctance, in that I live in a part of the US that has never needed air conditioning. I don't look forward to the hassle and expense of installing a heat pump. I don't look forward to the cost of running one. And I won't like resigning to the fact that the summers I've experienced my whole life, as did my ancestors, are over forever.
Of course when it's regularly in the upper 80sF / 30C I will give in. I just empathize.
The two matches for my name are hallucinated athletes. For now.
It’s the opposite of obscure - it’s commonplace. It’s a skull and crossbones. It’s not a swastika. It’s a nothing burger.
He didn’t have a nazi tattoo, full stop.
Gosh he's not behaving as if he wants to make a deal.
My worst interview was decades ago where the building was a walk-up and the office was on the 8th or 9th floor, something absurd. It was winter, I had layers of warm clothing on, and I walked into the interview a sweaty disaster and when my sweat became drippingly apparent panic kicked in and made it even worse. At the end of the ordeal I had to walk down the steps which also sucked.
I'm sure you've heard a few. Thank you though!
I feel differently. Like the author of this article, I attended an expensive, quasi-prestigious prep school in the American South _and_ went to Columbia. Kids in both milieus were competing with each other to be the weird ones.
It’s also worth noting that tbe author has spent a chunk of her career in advertising, using what she knows (first hand!) about how young brains are seduced by the verboten to sell trend forecasting to companies who want to mine that ore.
As a parent I consider it a specific challenge to help my daughter discern between behavior that looks or seems cool and behavior that is actually worth emulating.
This is like a person-sized Roomba. Even if it might work, within certain strict constraints, it's essentially unnecessary.
I went home from a bar in 2003 knowing only the first name of a wonderful girl I chatted with that night, and thanks to Friendster I was able to locate her in a city of over 8MM people and find a way to contact her. We are married with a family now.
Update: watching YT in a browser on iOS is completely enshittified. I am giving up and actually looking into sideloading an app that kills shorts.
The disappointment needs to be directed at Craigslist, which sat on its hands and let FB eat their lunch.
And while FB marketplace search kinda sucks the algorithm is supremely effective at surfacing listings based on your searches and activity.
Stealing an idea is different from lying to people in order to steal their actual business, which is more like what Zuckerberg did.
If you consider Marketplace its own product it’s a massive win but they haven’t monetized it beyond some very ineffective post boosting and advertising. I honestly think they could charge 10% of list price for items over $50, plus membership levels that reduce or remove listing fees. and make a significant amount of money.
Came to request the auto-hide feature as well!
Really hard-core, old-school Charleston accent missing: https://youtu.be/rxNZrFyl2DA?si=VV7OWi-fY2m3twIA&t=1835
Why isn’t a MacBook Air M5 on the hardware list?
I know what you mean, but I am willing to lose that content, in that form. Similar to the way I have used Instagram for a decade but have no idea what a reel is and ignore them.
I've deleted the app from my phone. When I want to watch YT I open Brave, which blocks shorts and promoted videos in search. As an added benefit watching videos feels like a slight chore and is not frictionless.
On my Mac I also use Brave and have allowlisted only the YouTube domain and Google auth. No shorts, no search spam, and just slightly inconvenient.
I have done similar grafting experiments, although at present I am navigating a change in motivation. I got into apples through cider, but gave up alcohol this year. (As an aside, this was a long time coming and absolutely worth some small sacrifices!)
While I’m interested in heritage apples, I think it’s probably more important to find and cultivate wild apples showing attributes that can keep them hardy in 21st century climate. An apple that thrived over a century ago depended on conditions that are different today and are continuing to change.
Some cool people active in this space include:
- https://gnarlypippins.com/6th-pomological-exhibition-high-hi...
- https://www.mofga.org/trainings/annual-events/seed-swap-and-...
More importantly I feel like federation is a reaction to a problem small social networks don’t have.
I want a Tumblr for just people I know. I don’t want it to metastasize and interact in any way with people I don’t know.
You’re underestimating the probability of multiple things needing attention over 5-7 years.
That is baked into the price of AppleCare just like any insurance premium.
I definitely think coverage should be free for 2 years though.
That’s the direction this developer went in but I think you could also go in a more personal direction and leverage automation where it’s effective but avoid all generative text.
Not uncomfortable just deeply uninterested. I’m into preserving family stories - I’m not into the navel-gazing that is all manner of ‘quantified self’ endeavors
You’re not wrong in general but I happen to be dead serious. I’m a little closer to the art world professionally than many, YMMV.
This amounts to “works on my machine”.
I’m happy for you, but your circumstances are unusual and incomparable to most.
For decades, I have successfully used reverence for Marina Abramovic as an attribute to filter out persons with whom I am incompatible.