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by tonfreed 6y ago
Maybe it is affected by the number of people on the internet. Back in my initial internet troll days, you could go on pretty much any forum and know you would be treated fairly even if you were a dickhead. Now you can start whole blood feud
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Political union was a stupid idea, Europeans all have different values that I doubt can be reconciled for the sake of good governance. I doubt the average German cares what a French cheese is called or what the dimensions of the wheel are,
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by tonfreed 6y ago
I agree, the difference now is that we have direct access to the information, it doesn't have to filter through a journalist now. All these twitter/facebook/youtube bans are trying to put a genie back in a bottle, Parler is g
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Partly, I guess. The whole internet is a battlefield in the culture war now, though, and even completely unrelated subreddits start banning people who post in the "wrong" places even if they're otherwise following the rules.
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by tonfreed 6y ago
I mean, it's not like he killed gay people and wrote incredibly racist stuff about black people. But my point was the people that idolise him online and think they're going to carry out a violent revolution are inevitably the same
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by tonfreed 6y ago
My money would be on a more homogeneous culture. Look at somewhere like Australia, the Scandinavian countries or NZ where we pretty much share our attitudes with the most of the others in the country. As opposed to the US where you're
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Spend 12 years telling anyone against the political establishment they're all matter of -ists/-phobes and then tell them leading up to the election that they'll be gulag'd and yeah, of course this is gonna happen. This i
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by tonfreed 6y ago
I blame the internet. Back in the days before it, we had to learn to live with those around us, now you can just go out and find someone as equally stupid as yourself. I call it the toaster fucker problem. Man wakes up in 1980, tells his fr
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by tonfreed 6y ago
People say this like they think they're correct. If it turned out they were wrong, you can bet they'd be the first to demand the censure of anything that went against their careful constructed narrative
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by tonfreed 6y ago
And the ones making all that money are the ones telling you to vote democrat and bring in huge numbers of workers they can pay peanuts instead of having to pay a good wage to an American.
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by tonfreed 6y ago
My favourite is how it blocks me from doing anything because I use various cookie blockers. I hate recaptcha so much, because all I want is some goddamn privacy.
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by tonfreed 6y ago
When penguin employees are having a cry about a guy that published a book with all the life advice a good father would give, I'm really not surprised there's people out there shoving their hands out looking for or concessions not
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Race grifters gonna race grift.
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by tonfreed 6y ago
The only place I've really found duckduckgo lacking is its meme game and maybe esoteric tech problems. Even with the techy stuff if I narrow my search to github and stackoverflow I usually find what I'm looking for.
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Not at the moment, but I have seasonal mood swings that I usually control with the gym and taking a holiday to the northern hemisphere when the worst of it hits in winter. This year was really rough on me mentally, being away from people an
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Twitter constantly encourages new levels of batshit because everyone is fighting for attention. I had a troll account with over 1500 followers that got nuked in I think 2017 after I posted a screenshot of the twitter stock price and tagged
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by tonfreed 6y ago
The problem with this is not many people actually use Twitter, and they actively derank content they don't like. For example just today I noticed "#donutdick" trending because the leader of the opposition down here said somet
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Personally I love serverless, but this article definitely mirrors my own experience. In two jobs now I've been told to do things "serverless first" and both times I've ended up with an ECS solution. My reason always boil
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by tonfreed 6y ago
My Pixel 2 was great (I'm colourblind, so I didn't notice the apparent colour issues), so I was really disappointed when they pushed and update at some point and destroyed my battery life at around the 2 year mark. I bought a Pixe
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by tonfreed 6y ago
Facebook deliberately drives wedges in between people to drive engagement. Burn it down for all I care.
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by tonfreed 7y ago
I've been using it for about 18 months now. I find myself barely using !g anymore, and usually it's when I'm looking for something really specific.
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by tonfreed 7y ago
I'm convinced the way we'll return to the golden age is if we all jump off broadcast social media if it's not anonymous. The amount of people I see demanding special treatment because of their follower count or whatever, or i
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by tonfreed 7y ago
> namedropping Cambridge Analytica And opinion discarded
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by tonfreed 7y ago
Always worked in open plan offices, would never work in cubicles. I'd find it soul destroying if I felt like I was alone all day. The thing that shits me is hotdesking. That there is some bullshit. I worked with a client on site where
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by tonfreed 7y ago
Shitfights are what drive engagement and sell ad space. I think the only way it's going to stop if we start moving to a pay model instead of relying on engagement
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by tonfreed 7y ago
Yep. I call this resume oriented development, which I think is in the Gotime podcast he links at the bottom here. Martin Fowler wrote a good article about the same thing https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.
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by tonfreed 7y ago
I remember all the puff pieces when Obama's campaign did something similar in 2012, where his app would drink down all the data it could from the social graph. When CA broke, I was asking people why they thought this was news and why
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by tonfreed 7y ago
I learned it from my guitar teacher as an adult. Started with scales and ear training, then onto what chords were, modes and then chord substitutions and things like that. Most of the weird stuff I know about music comes from YouTube videos
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by tonfreed 7y ago
I wonder if it's even possible in this day and age to run a subscription news service and still be viable. Are people even willing to pay for good journalism anymore?
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by tonfreed 7y ago
Sent this to my wife, we've been talking about having kids but she's still nervous about it. Maybe it's just my personal biases, but he's confirming a lot of what I've long believed about parenthood.

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