Tim Curry never looked hotter.

Funfacts

Fun fact: there’s a space in there.

what has meta done that was good

Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: “call mom” and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It’s a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.

Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like “this is an amazing device, but don’t get it because fuck Facebook.”

Now it’s been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.

And there’s been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it’s peerless.

There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.

Ciphers get broken. What you save out there now can be pulled down and then saved until it can be cracked 10 years from now.

Depends: did lennart poettering write it? If so, they’ll jam it down out throats.

Iso27002 fail.

• docker kills validation, so we can’t assure consistency as we’re essentially dividing by plaid.
• npm can’t be run in prod due to inconsistency of upstream, and dev tools which verboten in stage/prod.

an open-source social media scheduling tool.

Pshaw! Didn’t you read the tin? It’s the ultimate open source social media scheduling tool.

few of my workplaces have made use of Linux unfortunately.

Without the right punctuation, this reads as if they specifically used Linux in an unfortunate way.

You should use Linux in a fortunate way.

Are you really saying “we the developers are going to build this however we see fit, and you the user can go fuck yourself, or else learn how to code and build it yourself”? Is that really the dynamic you’re trying to cultivate here? Seems very welcoming and productive.

Nope.

People will volunteer their time how they want, and you don’t get to tell them how to, unless you pay and also say please.

Your choice, when faced with devs spending their free time not helping your particular goals, is between

• pay someone to work on your stuff
• work on it yourself
• stay on Facebook to get facebook but suffer their dev decisions and be the product they’re selling to advertisers while you do
• go to another similar setup and hope the features are closer to what you want to trade yourself for.

None of this should be surprising, given the fediverse is very largely supported by great people donating a lot of time. And remember, they’re not doing it for you specifically, and they’re usually doing it for their own interest or goals.

You’re going to have to spend some time or money making your particular goals happen; or else suffer someone else’s goals, or be the product they sell, or both.

I hope you realize it’s not someone denying you stuff; that it’s someone doing what they want with their free time, and it’s only accidental that it impacts you badly.

Make it better.

Oh, surely.

Wait. Non-profits looking to shepherd the upstream used by a dozen derivatives; that’s BAD now?

Whoa whoa. Let’s pick up the build of Mozilla’s ditched namesake and confirm a future there, and then maybe consider their next discard. Wait; who’s got tbird? Can we rescue that first? Get their trash in ‘tip’ order, anyway.

That’s a pretty unfair kneejerk without receipts.

I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.

Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.

“as above, so below”

If your test and prod are different, you need to ensure your manager understands the risks you will not magically account for. It’s on their head when it fucks up.

Testing in prod requires its own separate indemnification because that’s also only ever after direct orders.

It’s great to use an editor designed and built when vietnam and leaded gas were all the rage.

everything controlled by our government is

The questions been beggared.

You’re a whiny bitch that complains when people contribute to the conversation in a format you don’t like and everyone is too polite to tell you that your presence drags down every conversation you’re a part of.

That’s a lot of false consensus, right there.

3 times as much as what number?

Still requires docker?

Please add any groups that I forgot.

I think it’s faster to list the people who aren’t targeted; because it’s ever more segregation all the way down. It’s one ‘other’ group after the other, until it’s just “rich, white, fat, lazy, male, narcissists who are me.”

That poem’s last lines should be “and then they came for my wife, but I was born correctly and so I understood. And then we came for me, and I didn’t see it coming.” Look at how donald turned on his co-conspirators when it came down to it all – the entirety of othering pares down to narcissism.