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by nimbius 4y ago
the article is from 2022 but it may as well be from 2012. Back about a decade ago there was a huge push in companies toward "employee engagement" and social media was seen as the next big thing. about a bakers dozen companies (t
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by nimbius 4y ago
Then lets work to make it better! most of your mastodon stuff is open source. Reach out to the maintainer on Github and let them know :) https://github.com/TheKinrar/instances
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by nimbius 4y ago
I understand coming from Twitter --where artificial choices are manufactured in order to extract value from things like outrage and fear-- it might be overwhelming to experience real choice for the first time. We made a tool for that, so
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by nimbius 4y ago
i work in a garage as a heavy diesel engine tech and this strikes a chord. our managers tried some of this hokey crap the last time the IT crew was allowed to upgrade us from our AutoZone style CentOS work tracker system to some Fujitsu mul
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by nimbius 4y ago
>there is an overreaction to new Twitter management Oh i think its a perfectly legitimate and reasonable reaction to new Twitter management. a guy worth about 200bn USD spent his first day at the office dragging a piece of plumbing arou
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by nimbius 4y ago
>Private corporations that adhere to US law the sentiment methinks is misplaced. the US is a 23 trillion dollar GDP. sooner or later, all private corporations adhere to its law. a better observation is that technocratic trappings of
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by nimbius 4y ago
more realistically id venture a guess this is a UK Gov agency trying desperately to justify its budget by getting overzealous with their Nessus scanning and then cowering behind the union jack when it comes time for public comment. curious
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by nimbius 4y ago
'treat your employees nicely' exists in tech for one reason only: to deter unionization in the face of overwhelming profiteering at the expense of an overworked tech cattle. if twitter employees understand now the excess capital f
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by nimbius 4y ago
to whomever is at the top of the automation repo commit log, i wish you a safe and speedy recovery. Enjoy this friday, that it may succor a distant memory of fridays past when the latest build didnt break production.
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by nimbius 4y ago
technically we tried to do that during the sixties but europe, canada, mexico, and a host of other countries eventually came to realize the embargo is washingtons petulant tantrum over the fact they not only couldnt overthrow castro in a de
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by nimbius 4y ago
friendly reminder, whatsapp is not end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp and iMessage are vulnerable to law-enforcement real-time searches. WhatsApp shares message metadata with law enforcement agencies such as the Department of Justice. If leg
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by nimbius 4y ago
Moxies always been fairly dictatorial about Signal. no third party clients, no decentralization. im not surprised to see a DMCA at all. So far Signal is a centralized encrypted messaging app that includes its own cryptocurrency and wallet
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by nimbius 4y ago
I was recently motorcycle camping a few weeks ago and noticed a ton of sprinters and transits that had been tricked out into european style motor homes. Im an american, and a master diesel tech by trade, so i had to ask how much one of the
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by nimbius 4y ago
duplicati is basically a paid C# version of duplicity, an open source backup application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicity_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplicati edit: oh boy, ne
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by nimbius 4y ago
>we're not playing a leading role when we should be. if the success of the Tiangong space station is any indication, we're not playing a role at all. the Tiangong analysis on HN alone should serve as a sobering wake up call
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by nimbius 4y ago
So for those wondering why no US collaboration, you can blame republican octogenarian Frank Wolf for introducting the Wolf amendment prohibiting any and all NASA collaboration with china that isnt expressly sanctioned by the rest of the ger
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by nimbius 4y ago
Just the fact that Irkut (Russian) and Comac (Chinese) have competitor aircraft not only taking orders but in the skies should be enough to get most of the octogenarians in congress to give Americas flagship aircraft manufacturer a green li
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by nimbius 4y ago
the one thing the article tap dances around is the fact that Meta as a company has been horribly overvalued for about the past decade. Its managed to avoid its market haircut largely with smoke and mirror efforts like marketplace and a vid
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by nimbius 4y ago
from the same folks that brought you quiet quitting, the death of wfh, privatized healthcare is the best in the whole wide world, and trickle down economics comes the tale of how awesome it is to be a slave on a boat.
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by nimbius 4y ago
curious to know if this will snowball into a market trigger effect in 2023...something like "well if you cant make it here you cant make it anywhere ." . for what its worth one of this epochs Rockefellers, Mike Bloomberg, gave
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by nimbius 4y ago
nonsense. for those who dont care to run tiktok ive written an ephemeral microservice driven with an AWS lambda, rust enabled, react framwork that uses an intuitive haskell based dockerless rootless console interface for the API i created
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by nimbius 4y ago
it may be a little obtuse but i find a rather interesting parallel between this social recession and the open ended presupposition of the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in the context of leninist revolutionary theory. the
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by nimbius 4y ago
if i may be so bold, this is an encroaching effort from multiple large players, FAANG included. its a pretty ham-fisted, transparent attempt to get the kids excited about code in much the same way your spanish teacher tried to pump the kid
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by nimbius 4y ago
s/tiktok/uber/g we literally have american companies that have been caught doing this with impunity.
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by nimbius 4y ago
google: you cant store that its hate speech GPG: okay..how about now... google: ah yes this data is clean and wholesome now.
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WSL 2: Why you should use real Linux instead(medium.com)
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by nimbius 4y ago
my only takeaway from this is cringe. IBM did the same thing with Watson for about a decade. find $thing, cobble watson onto it, gin up a presser, and kick it onto the stage to be unceremoniously ripped apart by the jackals of reasoned th
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by nimbius 4y ago
>platform engineering and enabling developer self-service. in any sufficiently large company platforms arent engineered, they are acquired or purchased/licensed based on their viability as an "enterprise grade" asset that
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by nimbius 4y ago
I have to commend you, the testimony is hilarious to watch and succors a distant memory of the "mission accomplished" era of our dear George W Bush. This show trial if anything was a teachable moment for a party which --at the ti
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by nimbius 4y ago
not to sound snide but...people still pay for docker? podman/skopeo/buildah exist free of charge and run containers rootlessly. theres even a podman-compose tool to migrate from existing compose orchestration. what does a docker

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