mgraybosch

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by mgraybosch 2y ago
If I knew a developer who was doing this, I'd never admit it unless I was under duress. Why shouldn't workers do everything they can to get ahead in a country where you can make six figures and still be living paycheck to paycheck
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
Does Elon Musk even know what HIPAA is? Would he even care?
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
I hope it stays down this time.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
If this happens, I'll start going to church again because this will be a miracle that shows that there is a God who gives a shit about us after all.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
Merely reading The Count of Monte Cristo didn't make me a better person. I had to actually think about what I had read, particularly the notion that even the mostly meticulously planned revenge can spiral out of control and hurt in
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
That's a lot of text that could be condensed into, "Y'all need Satan" or "Stop being so goddamned altruistic toward the undeserving." Unless your paycheck depends on performing tolerance toward people who make
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
This is what you get for not having your own website and depending on Facebook for your web presence.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
This isn’t relevant in the USA, and if anybody who isn’t a close friend texts me I will report it as spam. You are not entitled to my attention.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
I won’t believe that Twitter is dead until twitter.com and x.com cease to resolve over DNS. Until that happens, there’s no point in celebrating the platform’s demise.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
I refuse to use GNOME because its developers give off a paternalistic vibe I find intolerable. They do not know better than I do about how I want to use my computer. If I want to deal with a computing environment that thinks I need my hand
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
I learned my lesson when Google+ turned to shit while trying and failing to eat Facebook’s lunch. Parasocial media isn’t worth my time. Not even for POSSE. If somebody thinks something I’ve written is worth syndicating on Bluesky they can s
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
I’d like an AI that detects and rejects AI scrapers and people referred from commercially owned search engines, social media platforms, and parasitic news aggregators like Reddit and HN. Why? Because my website is not a side hustle and it’s
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
Somebody at my day job tried to sell me on Bluesky by saying it was run by a public benefit corporation and thus was less likely to abuse its users. I wasn't persuaded, because I remember ello.co [0] (which shut down in July 2023). It
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
So do I, but a lot of people here don't care much for the notion that neither HN nor its parent company YCombinator are universally admired.
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by mgraybosch 2y ago
It could be worse. Have you seen what you get if you visit jwz.org with a HN referrer header? Not that I blame JWZ at all.
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by mgraybosch 8y ago
You should never trust digital media. You should be extremely selective about what analog media you trust. If you weren't there to see it happen yourself, all you've got to go on is somebody else's perception. Be careful who
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by mgraybosch 8y ago
I grew up poor and didn't want to spend my adult life that way. So I got my hands on a used computer and some tools, and learned to code. I'm only in it for the money.
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by mgraybosch 8y ago
> Is anyone doing anything interesting on this platform that I can check out? Define "interesting". I'm on [octodon.social]( https://octodon.social/web/accounts/13051 ) and I interact with BSD user
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by mgraybosch 8y ago
How about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus ?
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
It's one of my fondest hopes right now. I would pay for the privilege of seeing Mark Zuckerberg reduced to cleaning toilets and struggling to make his alimony and child support payments after Priscilla Chan dumps his broke ass and take
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
> Do you think there another social media platform out there benefiting from the deletefacebook move? It's called Mastodon. Chances are the last time you heard of it was because Lance Ulanoff couldn't find William Shatner and d
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
Right now, US law enforcement. I haven't gotten recruiter spam offering contracts to code for INTERPOL, for example. I'll change my mind when driving while black is no longer punishable by summary execution in at least half of the
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
Graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. If your web app doesn't work in Lynx on a 56K modem, it's defective.
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
I'm not creating a LinkedIn account just to read some rando's opinion on why we shouldn't enforce existing antitrust law and do to Google, Facebook, and Apple what we once did to AT&T and Standard Oil. Why doesn't th
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
I ascribe to the ACM Code of Ethics. https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/ In practice that means I... * refuse to work on adtech/corporate social media * refuse to do work for the military or with military appli
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
This is what Republicans and conservatives advocating laissez-faire capitalism wanted, but now that they're getting it they have the temerity to say it's not what they had in mind?
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by mgraybosch 9y ago
Anybody versed in Apple's history might have seen this coming. Remember when Apple gave Steve Jobs the boot in 1985 after Jobs' failed attempt to oust CEO John Sculley? Apple managed without Jobs until 1991, but were in such dire
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by mgraybosch 11y ago
The default styles are lousy because there's no reasonable standard on how pristine HTML5 untouched by CSS should look. So browser developers make assumptions because they figure everybody will just use CSS anyway. Fortunately, we have
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by mgraybosch 12y ago
Thanks, Vaskivo.
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by mgraybosch 12y ago
Getting silence in an open plan office is more difficult than you think. Management frowns on me duct-taping other developers' mouths shut.

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