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by jzb 3y ago
Gen Xer here. I also want to retire early, but... not off to a good... middle? That's in large part my own fault - it wasn't even a consideration or on my radar for a very long time. I came from a blue collar background, hand-to-m
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There was an attempt quite some time ago, Air America, and it flopped. Conservatism in the U.S. is largely tribalism. The conservative demographic is very uniform. It's reasonably easy to create programming that appeals to that demogra
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Oh, awesome - Nate is tackling the fact that Republicans are banning books and trying to re-write history / forbid the teaching of history in schools. <reads article> oh. Guess not.
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"obviously it's going to eventually turn into a legal suit and they're going to lose." I'm not convinced that's obvious. I'm guessing for every story of "large corporation held to account for breaking
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by jzb 3y ago
I'm generally pessimistic but I don't think this is true. We're still generating print information at an astounding rate. Plenty of organizations work on archiving information in various forms. Historians will have plenty of
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Twitter. Twitter caused me to stop visiting Slashdot. I visited /. because I found things out on /. before I read the same thing elsewhere. That stopped happening at some point - I'd see something on Twitter and then see it o
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I've always heard (and used) "adulting" as "doing the boring, unrewarding, never-ending tasks that come with adulthood." Yes, we have a responsibility to do those things. But there's no harm IMO in acknowledgin
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by jzb 3y ago
People need to stop spouting the idea that plugging into the fediverse is "easy." Maybe for you, maybe for me, but the vast chorus since Twitter started circling the drain says otherwise. While I am a fan of federated social, it d
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What, exactly, is to be thankful for? I'd have been thankful if Songtradr had carried over Bandcamp entirely, all employees, and proceeded from there. There's nothing here to be thankful for, not a damn thing.
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I really, for absolutely no good reason, desperately want to own a old style wood card catalog. Card catalogs conjure some powerful memories for me of flipping through school and local library card catalogs to find things specifically and s
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"The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments and rebuilding them" Not trivial, considering a substantial percentage of elected officials are dead-set against allowing the
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We don't? Twitter sold for tens of billions, and it apparently costs hundreds of millions a year to run (or more). Those platforms also generate billions in ad revenues which means we're spending billions on that.
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If you're wondering whether a job is worthwhile, ask "what happens if this stops being done / being staffed?" And you can extrapolate to whatever level and timescale you like. That is, what happens if you stop doing your
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by jzb 3y ago
Is there any reason (e.g., patents) for Amazon not to natively support ePubs or do they just want to make sure there's that extra bit of friction in using anything not from their store? (While claiming "support" for ePubs --
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by jzb 3y ago
I wonder what level of demand there is for this. I could read books on my phone, but carry a separate e-reader because I want a larger screen that's more book-like. Currently using a Kindle Oasis and I like the fact that it's not
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by jzb 3y ago
"I'm aware of how the acquisition took place." Are you? Because your comments don't reflect that. "We all" don't "know" that, actually. Maybe they were, but as I understand it IBM's bid was
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by jzb 3y ago
Jim did not sell the company to IBM. It was not Jim's to sell. Jim received an offer from IBM which he conveyed to the board, which put it in front of shareholders, and shareholders accepted the offer. To the tune of 99.5% of sharehold
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by jzb 3y ago
I was at Red Hat while Jim was CEO. He’s very culture focused and is an excellent choice for restoring faith there. He got great results while at Red Hat, but they plucked him out for a non-CEO role at IBM after the acquisition. IMO that ha
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by jzb 3y ago
The sentence you quoted didn't say an ultimatum is abuse, it said to reject an ultimatum if from "an employer or abusive romantic partner" with "power" over you. As you say, an ultimatum isn't necessarily abusi
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by jzb 3y ago
Most of my career has been remote, excepting a stint with a hosting company (being on location was logical, no complaints there), and a brief dalliance with being in-office while I was with a company that was fine with me being remote. Trie
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I can give several reasons there's resentment: One - if you were hired with the understanding work would be remote, then it's definitely a reason to be resentful. Two, people love to handwave away the difficulties in "just fi
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"Advertisements and marketing are immoral." That's quite a position. Are you also taking the position that capitalism and commerce are immoral? Because you really can't have those things absent marketing. At any rate, I
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Is it popular with DJs, over something like Beatport?
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If Songtradr doesn't screw it up, I'm fine. I too used to look at their hiring page a lot. I think that Bandcamp has so much untapped potential, but it's held back by a mediocre site and terrible interface if you own more t
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From the announcement: "The company also announced that it’s divesting Bandcamp, an online audio distribution platform it acquired last year" I don't care a ton about Epic, but I love Bandcamp. It's my primary mechanism
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This is a reason we should hang onto remote work as a first option. Life is too short to have to choose career over family and friends. We work to live. Having to sacrifice proximity to our people is not something we should accept lightly.
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The actual thread shows the maintainer implementing the fix in a way he found better and prepping to do the backports for other stable kernels. The actual response was "Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently"
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Actions do speak loudly - such as misrepresenting other people's statements so they sound worse than they are. He didn't actually author the patch. He did get a reported by credit. If you look through the thread, he clearly got so
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This is when I lose all sympathy for the OP. All of it. Misrepresenting the actual statement this way is garbage. There's a world of difference in the two statements. I do understand why people clamor to get a patch into the kernel. It
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I 100% agree with this. My teen, OTOH, refuses to use a keyboard to write papers or do anything. She finds it completely normal and preferable to write on her phone. To me this feels like using a hammer to chop wood, but it's her nativ

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