The irony of all the Americans on Red Note is that it's the best propaganda for the Chinese government inside China.
When you live in an oppressive regime, but you can afford groceries and rent and not worry you might die because you can't afford it - the other oppressive regime looks less appealing.
If your phone support lines are forever "receiving higher than normal demand" then your definition of "normal" needs updating, as does your support headcount
It used to be that I’d see LinkedIn notifications celebrating people being at the same big tech for 5, 10 or 15 years and roll my eyes. Why celebrate someone staying in their comfort zone and getting paid well?
Now I think “Congrats on surviving so many rounds of layoffs” 🫡
Well I’ve now had to post on Bluesky to ask someone if they know their software is broken, because that’s where they are. Complaining At Brands is exactly how Twitter got me so I guess I’ve put myself on the slippery slope now
How can rich text or HTML source code be obtained from the X clipboard? For example, if you copy some text from a web browser and paste it into kompozer, it pastes as HTML, with links etc. preserv...
this year (next month!) is 10 years since I left the abusive household I grew up in and stopped talking to my family
very thankful for my chosen family, many of whom are here. I wouldn’t be alive right now without you.
@thcrt@fops.cloud You hire an army of senior developers to audit the AI results *or* you don't do AI. One of those is more expensive, the other is what you did before AI.
It should be very clear that there's no "keep the AI but make it cheap and effective" path available.
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An existential moment for Duck Alignment Academy. I've mostly tried to keep the content evergreen. I have proto-thoughts on the Mastodon announcement, but I'm not sure if DAA is the right venue or if I should put it in the DAA newsletter or on my personal blog (or as a thread on Mastodon for maximum obnoxiousness)
You mean the same dipshit billionaire who was wrong about knowing how to rescue kids trapped in a cave *also* doesn't know shit about fighting fires?
Elon Musk is not really a smart person, but the people that think he's smart are among the stupidest people the world has ever known.
I'm sorry and I know this is so incredibly petty, but I find it really hard to take a person's salty rant about open source seriously once I notice they hyphenate open source
Having a lazy morning in bed with two cats and Kim and I can’t adequately express how content I am.
Traveling to NYC the next 2 weeks, and I’m already looking forward to coming home to more of this.
i’ve often had men and women who had more power than me in a situation come up to me after i said the shit that had to be said and thank me
and i hope you know i hold you in all in deep contempt
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Joined tech 5 years ago and it’s disappointing to see where the industry is going year after year.
Same can be said about society in general but it’s kind of astonishing to compare 2019 tech culture with now.
i was thinking about how i'd like to set some intentions for the new year but have been blocked. i have more time on my hands than ever in my life, so i'm currently working on navigating that without the paralysis that comes from having so many options and ideas, and adhd - a damn hottie disorder. then i realized tonight, while scouring the live laugh blog archive, that i wrote one of these posts when 2024 started, so let's start there.
As the year wrapped up, I spent some time reflecting on my transition from a CyberSecurity engineer to Principal engineer which inspired me to write a blog about the steep learning curve of writing quality coding and—how I used #rust to reinforce my skills. Check it out and let me know what you think!
https://tilde.club/~chimbo/blog/posts/rust-learnings-and-journey.html
#RustLang, #Rust, #SoftwareEngineering, #CodingJourney, #CareerChange, #CyberSecurity, #OpenSource, #TechBlog, #blog
New job at a company where I'm customer-facing (professional services). I still don't know how much I want to cross my personal brand with the company brand, but either way I gotta start blogging and doing conference talks or I'm never going to meet my quarterly objectives.
I wonder if there's a sweet spot where you can leverage the company reputation to build your personal brand as much as you're helping to build the company brand. Perhaps @shanselman may have advice here?
#NewJob #EnterpriseLife
My favorite feedback I’ve every received in my life was when @krisnova.net was on a stage talking about the book we wrote together and she said how good of a dad I am to my kids ❤️
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You shouldn't expect your job to be interesting or intellectually stimulating. Those are needs you fulfill in your free time, for example while you're driving to or from work
That's nice, @sessionize.com gave me a badge for being in the top 3% of speakers on their platform in 2024 https://sessionize.com/most-active-speakers-2024/ (Congrats @virtualized6ix.wtf who is top of the list!)
I am disturbed to think how far I would travel to be able to swing dance to a live rendition of the Super Mario Bros 2 overworld theme as excellent as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPSVW_H0ZyA
Folks, do you think if Threads/Meta/Mark Zuckerberg were really that bad, John Mastodon himself would partner with them? Do you think they’d even be allowed in the Social Web Foundation?
No, surely you’re mistaken.
Otherwise, what does that say about John Mastodon and the Social Web Foundation?
https://socialwebfoundation.org
#SocialWebFoundation #Threads #Meta #Mastodon #partners #JohnMastodon #MarkZuckerberg
Pardon the cross post, but this is evergreen. Going through your partner’s phone, email, etc is abuse. I don’t care how you rationalize it, there’s is never any reason to do it. If you don’t trust your partner, end the relationship, but don’t become an abuser to satisfy your curiosity.