Humans can’t do then benevolent part for very long.
You can fake it for a bit, but by and large we’re just absolutely shit at not being assholes to each other once you get outside of your family tribe or maybe your local neighbors.
(Also having a complete mental breakdown doesn’t help, and boy howdy.)
Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.
So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.
Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.
And, before someone goes ‘but gerrymandering!’, the ®s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that’s not the root cause of it either.
Another handful of people moving here isn’t going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they’re still willing to buy that line.
That’s a much better name than something I was thinking.
I just made the assumption they’d do the standard open source thing and call it Libre-something.
I’d pay actual money to see the meltdown Matt would have if it was forked and called WP Core.
I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.
I’ve never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn’t 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.
The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it’s a 50/50 split.
And let’s be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won’t move.
If the goal is to avoid “liberal bias”, or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won’t do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people “chose” not to move to where their job is.
So we’re going to get a couple of jobs, but they’re going to be filled by people already here.
$5 says there’s a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.
It’s GPLed, so while you can’t call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you’re no longer involved in dealing with crazy.
I’m not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won’t give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.
Eh, I’d say you’ve almost got it but not quite.
I wouldn’t tolerate it in any sense, “ironic” or not.
Too many people are too stupid to determine irony from a serious statement, and just assume the “irony” is a legitimate support of their shitty opinions.
No tolerance at all is required, because we don’t want to confuse anyone into thinking that maybe that crap is remotely acceptable here.
Essentially, yes: they’re not going to contribute to their primary project because some fee-fees got hurt. It’s not really a suicide note, but they’ve certainly decided they’re not opposed to it.
That’s so petty, I’m actually impressed. Like, it’s VERY hard to end up universally disliked by everyone, but it looks like Matt’s figured out how to do it.
That’s the biggest crybaby nonsense: Oh no, the lawsuit is making us broke. Yes we started this whole thing but it’s not OUR fault! It’s those bad evil private equity firms. Yes, we take equity money too, but not from the BAD firms! Fine! We’ll take our ball and go home!
Also, hilarious because I’m sure all the developers they have on staff are not involved in doing ANY lawsuit anything, though if they are, I’m going to watch this even closer since if there’s a group of people that firmly do not understand legal shit more than developers (because developers rightfully expect the rules and procedures to make some sort of damn sense) I don’t know who it’d be.
They’re offering to pay you to watch ads, same as what Brave does.
You’re going to get people who fall for the “free money” aspect, same as always.
(Also replacing a site’s ads with their ads is exactly the same shit Honey is doing, so it’s nice to see that the founder has a single idea and is going to keep going after it.)
Not quite.
We’d need the waymo cab to start screaming about how the robot just jumped right out in front of it, and how they should stay the hell out of the way.
Then we’ll have reached parity.
The $95 million is about nine hours of profit for Apple
I’m sure this will stop them from ever doing something like this again.
(Also I can’t wait for my $0.48 check three years from now.)
Sir Lord President Muskovitch owns an ISP, so he’s on the side of whatever makes him more money, which is always going to not be the one that you’re on.
US yes, maps no.
There are less dumb dumbphones that do a bit more, but I went for quite literally phone-calls-and-sms-only.
I have navigation in the car that works fine, so I personally don’t need that, and am using an iPod, so I don’t need any media functionality.
The camera is shit, but again, if I’m going somewhere specifically to take pictures then I’ve got a reasonable DSLR.
Like I said, not for everyone but works great for what I want and makes it where I basically spend zero time on the internet unless I explicitly sit down at my desk.
I’m with you on phone reduction, and I’m closing in on like 8 months of using a dumbphone.
If you’re really serious about removing distractions, a Nokia that feels like it fell out of 1996 is a shockingly good way to do it.
A bit harsh, perhaps, for a lot of people and I won’t deny there’s a lot of compromises you have to make, but if your goal is to reduce distractions and be in the present, it’s pretty much the gold standard.
No social media, no group messages, no email, no push notifications, no advertisements masquerading as ‘important’, nothing. If you want me you can call or text, and if you don’t want to do either then I guess whatever it was turned out to not actually be that important anyways.
Also mine lasts like 10 days on a charge, and doesn’t cost $1000.
My compromise to survive in modern society was an iPad mini. It’s loaded down with all the crap my phone used to have, but it’s also something I do not take to bed or out of the house, so I can still do banking apps and totp 2fa, and take and send pictures via email and all that stuff without it being a device that’s attached to my hip most of the time and thus in easy reach of noise and nonsense.
Not shocking? There’s probably zero ROI on bothering to invest in R&D for consumer gear.
You can’t sell enough premium drives to offset the fact they’re down to commodity pricing now: the market for a $45 1tb SSD is much larger than a $100 one, and frankly, I wouldn’t be on the premium side of that business either.
High-spec big and expensive enterprise drives are 100% the way to go.
Same thing already has happened with GPUs and CPUs, so storage being next is not surprising.
Spoken like someone who’s never even looked at the qualifications for a TS/SCI (which is what these “good jobs” are going to require you to get).
It’s an absolute giant investment in time and energy and the requirements disqualify a shitload of people - it’s not just “be a US citizen”.
And, even if you don’t step on any mines while getting it, keeping it is also not a guaranteed thing: there’s a lot of shit that can wreck you later, too.
Second time’s the charm, maybe?
Unlike incarcerated residents with jobs in the kitchen or woodshop who earn just a few hundred dollars a month, remote workers make fair-market wages, allowing them to pay victim restitution fees and legal costs, provide child support, and contribute to Social Security and other retirement funds.
Interesting if that’s really true, given how prison labor being slavery is pretty much how it works otherwise.
I’d love to know how fair-market the wages are, becuase I somehow suspect that:
This reads to me as a feel-good whitewashing piece so fragile white liberals can point to it and go ‘See? Prison labor isn’t that bad!’, but perhaps I’m wrong.
I’d love to know if this was just some guy who went ‘let’s ship it to all our customers!’ or if this was a C-level 300 hours of meetings type of thing which concluded that spreading christmas malware cheer was the right move.
Why pay someone when you can just use ChatGPT?
I mean, the quality of what you get is going to be garbage either way, so you might as well just use AI to cheat rather than paying for a site that pays someone a tiny fraction to do it for you.