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by CM30 2y ago
Fair point. I guess a better explanation would be "don't use messaging apps for publicly accessible content, regardless of if the system is open source, federated or e2ee". The same general issue would apply if these communit
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by CM30 2y ago
Oh, London is notorious for having... questionable internet speeds in certain areas. It's good if you live in a new build flat/work in a recently constructed office building or you own your own home in a place OpenReach have gotte
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by CM30 2y ago
This is the key part here. There's nothing wrong with using Discord to chat about random stuff. If you're talking to your friends about your latest night out or playing online games with a community, then Discord is fine. The issu
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by CM30 2y ago
I guess for me it was how people developed sites because they were passionate about the topic, not because there was a chance to become a millionaire off of it. You had lots of fan sites and technical resources about every random subject un
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by CM30 2y ago
Yeah, I think the first factor is probably the biggest one here. Devs tend not to rebuild existing sites on a whim, especially not to integrate new technology for the hell of it. We'll almost certainly see more container queries used o
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by CM30 2y ago
This is really the biggest factor as to why the UK startup scene is a lot smaller than the US one (and from what I hear, why similar issues occur in Europe overall): > On the contrary, many UK investors take an extremely risk-averse view
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by CM30 2y ago
Negativity gets more attention, and is arguably easier to provide. Look at the news. Most stories are negative ones complaining about something or another. Look at reviews and essays, whether on blogs or YouTube or anywhere else. The majori
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by CM30 2y ago
Exactly. A lot of the problems asked of people are basically "do this multi week task that a team would probably work on at the actual company, except in an hour or two". They also make you question whether you'd want to even
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by CM30 2y ago
One of the main reasons for this is that entry level roles have basically disappeared in many industries. The idea of hiring someone who knows nothing (or a little bit) about the work in question, then training them to get better seems to h
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by CM30 2y ago
Honestly, shaming these people might be the only way things do change. Make it utterly embarassing to work for a company that does evil or questionable things, so that those who prioritise money and power over doing the right thing in life
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by CM30 2y ago
It genuinely baffles me that we haven't seen more aggressive antitrust action taken against Microsoft with Windows 11. Trying to lock down what people can install, attempting to force users into using Microsoft accounts with dark patte
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by CM30 2y ago
Well, we're already seeing it happen, but I suspect we'll continue to see social media services decline due to the rise of AI and general burnout with the concept. Twitter is on a decline, Facebook is definitely on a decline, Redd
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by CM30 2y ago
So it's the same situation as in London, where the bins were removed after IRA bombings? Makes sense, unfortunately. Does make me wonder if people's behaviour towards litter (aka taking it home more often) would have been differen
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by CM30 2y ago
So, is there a reason they could be doing this? Like from Discord's perspective, what would this actually accomplish business wise? I'm kinda drawing a blank here.
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by CM30 2y ago
It surprised me that this was actually a working door that could be interacted with from both sides. I honestly expected there to be no loading zone on this side at all, like there usually isn't in games where a door isn't meant t
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by CM30 2y ago
This definitely seems to correlate with what I've seen too. General web development expertise has far less demand now than it did before, while specialist expertise in particular niche subject areas and combinations of frameworks/
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by CM30 2y ago
Hmm, while the advice is mostly presented as relevant to startups, I kinda wonder if this is also an issue in other aspects of life and business too. Like say, having a side project or hobby. If you try something and find you both don'
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by CM30 2y ago
Compared to other platforms? Generally much better, though that might be because standards on most social media platforms are on the floor... fifty feet below sea level. By comparison to the average post on Twitter/Facebook/Reddit
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by CM30 2y ago
I think the main thing people forget with stuff like this is that yes, all these setups are possible (or even trivial) to bypass, but you're not really dealing with a dedicated adversary that's targeting you in particular. Spammer
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by CM30 2y ago
I honestly don't see what's so controversial here. For me, it's just another expression of the idea "you can do all this on a tiny device now". Kinda like that infamous Pokemon Red and Blue ad with the bus driver:
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by CM30 2y ago
Surprised it didn't happen earlier to be honest. Wonder what they were paying in API fees to keep this functionality working?
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by CM30 2y ago
What collaboration? At best my team is in your situation, and worst you end up with one where reaching out gets you no response whatsoever. It's gone into overdrive since the company announced they were outsourcing all their tech work
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by CM30 2y ago
I've always seen this saying as being more about vague and general aspects of life as compared to professions and subjects where competency can actually be measured in any real way. Like when it comes to living their life as an indepen
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by CM30 2y ago
From what I can tell, the tech you'ved worked on tends not to be seen as a disqualifying factor for most job applications, so long as you also have experience in whatever tech stack the job you're applying for uses. And if it did,
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by CM30 2y ago
Well, as someone working as a web developer, I dislike how clueless management tend to be about organising the work and planning out projects. I rarely if ever see a company where things are planned out properly and people actually know wha
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by CM30 2y ago
Yeah, that's a huge issue for sure. If you don't use any of these services, then getting support is incredibly difficult. The only possible alternative might arguably be Hacker News if the company is a tech one, since there are Al
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by CM30 2y ago
That's a fair point, Twitter's certainly not what it used to be. That said, there are still a surprisingly number of large companies using it, and a fair few them still run ads there. Not sure when they'll move to Mastodon&#x
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by CM30 2y ago
Nah, the 2024 solution for getting support is through social media. Tag the company account with your complaints, maybe with a few extra tags for large media outlets or popular internet creators that can amplify it. For example, almost ever
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by CM30 2y ago
Or have it so it's trivial to sign up online, but cancelling requires contacting them via phone/post/whatever. 'Funny' how well these systems seem to work when people are giving you money, but how much of an unusabl
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by CM30 2y ago
Oh god job application forms are a travesty. Every single company seems to do it differently, about half of them seem to like making the form ten times longer than necessary and good luck figuring out whether your submission will actually g

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