rzazueta

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by rzazueta 6mo ago
All nerds, for sure. I was young, so my idea of age was a bit off... but I recall them being from their mid-20s up to their 50s. Mostly in their early 30s, though. I should also note - the person who handed most of his equipment down to me
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by rzazueta 6mo ago
I was about 12 or so when I discovered BBSes. That was way the heck back in about 1987. 1. I used to go to local computer stores to get a locally produced "magazine" - printed on news print - that was focused exclusively on comput
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by rzazueta 1y ago
Very cool take. So, how have you fought off similar oppression in your utopic part of the world, wherever that may be? Please, enlighten the rest of us.
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by rzazueta 1y ago
Naw, decentralized means not having everyone on one platform. ActivityPub-enabled sites (Mastodon, PeerTube, Lemmy, etc.) can be run by just about anyone, and can serve multiple users. So, if you have the technical skills and the willingnes
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by rzazueta 1y ago
Perhaps not so much "wholesome" - because I can definitely provide a handful of historical and current examples that definitely aren't - but certainly more "community minded". In that regard, your experiences match
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by rzazueta 1y ago
About as effective as robots.txt.
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by rzazueta 1y ago
I'm in my fifth decade and I only answer the phone if it's someone I personally recognize - and, even then, I often let it ring out or dismiss it, unless it's my immediate family members. I'd say I let them go to voicema
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by rzazueta 1y ago
It was recently stated that 40% of owner-occupied homes are mortgage free: ( https://www.fastcompany.com/91376388/housing-market-the-real... ) Various stats put the ratio of owner-occupied residences to renter-occupied r
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by rzazueta 1y ago
Have you never been to a Maker Faire?
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by rzazueta 1y ago
> Once upon a time, we geeks truly believed that computing and telecommunications would bring us together. I still believe that. We just lost the plot. We can get it back.
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by rzazueta 2y ago
And what, exactly, are we paying congress for? We could save tons just firing the whole lot!
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by rzazueta 2y ago
I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it. However... If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host m
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by rzazueta 2y ago
Remember: PG&E is a for-profit company. The CPUC consists of folks pretty much entirely in bed with PG&E. I also love California - it's beautiful here, and the people are generally wonderful. But our state government, despite c
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by rzazueta 3y ago
Currently using SvelteKit for a project, and I dig it. I've used Vue in the past and tried to get on the React train, but both felt a bridge too far from good ol' HTML, JS and CSS. Granted, I'm mostly using the packaging and
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by rzazueta 3y ago
I bought it in the hopes of causing mostly harmless mischief, but its capabilities in that realm are oversold. That said, I knew very little about UART communication or SPI until I started playing with this and an ESP32 device. I also knew
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by rzazueta 3y ago
The social pressure to "be interesting" is one of the factors that I think leads to a lot of our collective misery. I think the problem is one of scale - if you're not engaging with other people because they don't share
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by rzazueta 3y ago
No - the clapper will kill the power to it, so it won't be able to respond. You need to add a Google Nest device that will respond to your request for claps.
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by rzazueta 3y ago
I've been feeling this way for a while. So much human effort spent on producing human suffering and death. No wonder everyone feels like everything is falling apart.
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by rzazueta 3y ago
If the org has a software development team, there's really no reason not to roll your own. As stated previously, this is a pretty well solved and well documented problem. A lot of development teams outsource this under the idea that au
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by rzazueta 3y ago
I agree mostly with this observation, but would add to it - people are willing to work when they own their work. There are definitely a lot of jobs and likely entire industries that would disappear tomorrow if we stopped optimizing for mo
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by rzazueta 3y ago
"Lobbying and weaponisation of PR" is just artisinal, organic, farm-to-table corruption.
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by rzazueta 3y ago
This is a cleaning house / loyalty test: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-prote... Reddit mods who do not want to be exploited further are best walking away now and trying to reform - if
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by rzazueta 3y ago
I have a pet conspiracy theory that the leadership there thinks this may rid them of "troublemakers". Huffman's seemingly ludicrous hardcore stance against third party Apps and mods who disagree with him would seem to reinfor
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by rzazueta 3y ago
I run my own instance of Mastodon just for myself - and am thinking of doing the same for Lemmy. I, of course, can do that because I have the skills - most don't, so they must rely on sites like these for their accounts. I've been
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by rzazueta 3y ago
And all of their wealth - including that of Gates, Bezos, Ellison, ad nauseum - is built on the knowledge, expertise, and labor of people they ruthlessly exploit and manipulate for their own gain. And everyone still celebrates these asshole
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by rzazueta 3y ago
The crypto hype bubble was the new mobile hype bubble. The mobile hype bubble was the new portal hype bubble. The portal hype bubble was the new dot com hype bubble. I swear there's a pattern here... Maybe I'm not seeing it...
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by rzazueta 4y ago
Cold calling is a numbers game - better suited for larger orgs with a defined process for driving prospects down the funnel. Not ideal if you are independent. Your best bet is referrals - from family, friends and especially colleagues in th
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by rzazueta 4y ago
You will always have to work - you need to feed yourself, clothe yourself, shelter yourself, etc. How you go about doing all of that is what matters. With that in mind, I think you;re asking "What would I do if I didn't have to ha
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by rzazueta 4y ago
This just... WAAAAAAY too on the nose...
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by rzazueta 4y ago
I went through something almost exactly the same a few years ago, and I'm almost completely on the other side of it now - far happier and with a new set of life goals. We are told that money and our jobs are what are most important in

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