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by lapcat 11mo ago
> remember the four food groups? LOL this cannot be a serious reason for homeschooling. You're trolling me, right? Please tell me you're trolling me.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Especially when there is propaganda taught in the public schools that does warp the students' world views in ways that harms them and me. This sentence caused a record needle scratch sound in my head. I'm afraid to ask what y
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I hear your viewpoint, but parents do have a right to teach their religious beliefs to their children. I didn't claim that they don't have a right. I just claimed to be skeptical of the idea that the primary motivation for ho
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Recent estimates put the total homeschooling population at about 6 percent of students across the United States, compared to about 3 percent pre-pandemic. One thing that concerns me about many pro-homeschooling comments is a kind of te
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I don't find this analogy enlightening. Only a few people are ever trapped in a mountain pass during a blizzard and starving, so of course it doesn't tell us much about humanity. Whereas millions of people participate in online fo
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I wouldn't say we've made zero progress. There are always ups and downs, temporary wins and losses, but I think that over the long term, there's more skepticism and scrutiny now than in the past.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
It's unclear why a link to the Wayback Machine has been submitted when the original article has always been available and is in no danger of disappearing: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/textedit-gatekeeper.htm
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It isn't charitable I think it's accurate. What's inaccurate about it? Moreover, I think the article author would call for those leaders to step down if he thought that would be effective. After all, he called them &qu
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> It raises a really interesting question which is how do people like him climb so high up the ladder? The real world is not a meritocracy. Awful, greedy, immoral people protect and promote each other. They also have an insatiable appeti
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I think you are putting words in their mouth. They could easily have explicitly called to those leaders to step down. Let me quote from the article: "The last year has seen several BDFLs act like Mad Kings. They become tyrannical
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> Why are you here I agree with, uh, assbuttbuttass: "there are still a lot of interesting articles posted here". As for commenting, it's just a matter of too much time on my hands, temptation, and bad habit. > Promise
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> AWS's networking can be deceptively complex. Even when you think you've done your research and confirmed the costs, there are layers of configuration that can dramatically change your bill. Unexpected, large AWS charges have
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I feel that part of the problem with WordPress and Rails is that that there is no model for replacing poor governance. But Eugen Rochko was not replaced. He voluntarily stepped down from power because he was personally dissatisfied in
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> If you look at the recent shenanigans of WordPress and Ruby, they are causing discontent within the existing organisation of contributors. This is why I think the article is a bit of misdirection. Your criticism is about project gover
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I wouldn't even call it "nice." Stepping down only 9 years after the introduction of Mastodon seems a bit premature. I wouldn't call it selfish, though some people might. Plus, Rochko did get paid 1 million euros in the
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I'm not sure there's much utility in this article. It feels like the point was mainly to dunk on Ruby on Rails and WordPress without mentioning them by name. And such dunking may be justified, but it's not particularly intere
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> they don't really fix the central problem with modern social media, the godawful culture. That's just human culture, or more accurately, human nature. If you gather a bunch of anonymous strangers online in one place and let t
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by lapcat 11mo ago
It's unbelievable that the end of this postmortem is an advertisement for Cloudflare. The last thing we need here is for more of the internet to sign up for Cloudflare.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
> I did some random sampling and it looks like large number of active users are talking to void and may not have realized it. They post regularly, have 100s of followers but no active followers. This is true on Twitter/X or any soci
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Yes, and Mastodon has an executive director (as I already mentioned), which is basically the nonprofit equivalent of a CEO.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
It's an open source project. What exactly are you expecting? Keep in mind that every for-profit publicly-owned corporation has many shareholders, as well as a board of directors, which is, gasp, a committee!
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by lapcat 11mo ago
There's no power vacuum. There's now a Mastodon nonprofit organization with an executive director and leadership team.
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I think it's good for the future of Mastodon as a decentralized platform to not depend essentially on any one person. After all, the web itself no longer depends on Tim Berners-Lee. That doesn't diminish their accomplishments, whi
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by lapcat 11mo ago
Do you have a reference for this?
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by lapcat 11mo ago
I believe that Apple is planning for succession, which of course they should, as an obvious responsibility to shareholders, especially given the health issues of the previous CEO Steve Jobs. However, I don't believe that Tim Cook is
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by lapcat 1y ago
This is a misinterpretation of the article and perhaps more of an indication of your own political ideology. Here's the same author with a different article: "A UBI would free Americans to shift from scarcity to abundance mode, wh
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by lapcat 1y ago
No. Here's the same author with a different article: "A UBI would free Americans to shift from scarcity to abundance mode, which would enable more people to take risks and engage in a greater, more expansive vision for their futur
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by lapcat 1y ago
> It's not talking about entrepreneurs who start with nothing. No job, no nothing. There's a lot more of those than people think. How many is "a lot more", and how "successful" are they? > it appears to b
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by lapcat 1y ago
Ok, but... your claim that the article its "extremely misleading" seems unjustified. There are two different issues: (1) the motive for the article and (2) the information discussed in the article. You said, "I read the suppo
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by lapcat 1y ago
Well, consider the subtext of the article: "We’re in an era of the cult of the entrepreneur." But it's only the ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs who have a cult following and are worshipped for their "risk taking." Where

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