One of the use cases on Reddit is to tag titles that are misleading/wrong/changed, which doesn’t matter as much here where titles can be edited.

I definitely agree about community specific tags. Filtering by, for example, community announcements, news, or discussion posts can be pretty helpful on bigger communities. We could self-enforce that for searchability with [terms in brackets], but a drop-down to select tags would be a lot smoother.

I think those other things exacerbate the fear in “AI”. Like, on top of all of that other stuff, some fancy new software is starting to take jobs in writing, journalism, art, voiceovers, etc.

I’ve worked with a couple “senior technicians” (companies will probably be goofy with titles without a degree) who were indistinguishable from some of the software engineers, other than the title. Some were hired off the bat as a software technician, and other started on the hardware test side and moved over.

I used to use Disa, I think until the FB messenger connection broke? I hate that I have 6 apps in my IMs folder.

Remember that Google Streetview cars were sniffing Wifi networks back in 2010.

For incandescent lightbulbs, his point was that bulbs can burn fast and bright or low and slow, and standardizing on a lifespan of 1000 hours was a sweet spot between performance and longevity. For example, it makes 60W bulbs from different manufacturers more interchangeable and less prone to tricky marketing gimmicks like a “long life” 60W bulb that’s dimmer.

I hear the Xodus has begun and the bird site is slowly being Xpunged

There hasn’t been much movement to Mastodon this time compared to when the rate limiting was going on. It looks like there was a decent new user spike yesterday, but the rate limit thing caused a big sustained increase for days.

(Based on @mastodonusercount@mastodon.social )

There are so many ways to dunk on him lately that I don’t think there’s a need to misrepresent this stuff. I think we can give him some flowers for being neck deep in the Tesla Roadster and SpaceX Falcon 1 design and release processes almost 20 years ago. But, then he did a Pokemon evolution from that baseline crazy to whatever we’re seeing now.

One of the jobs that I worked for awhile had a bunch of old timers waiting for their pensions to be ready and newer people who only lasted a few years, with basically nobody in between. The old timers seemed weirdly surprised that everyone who didn’t have the same heritage/grandfathered in incentives and benefits didn’t want to stick around. I got to watch the tail end of the transition from the old engineer-run company that all the old guys talked about, to one run by beancounters who stiffed people on raises, bonuses, and promotions when times were good, and had plenty of layoffs when times dropped to ok. Thanks Jack Welch. I left pretty much right after my 401k match was fully vested.

Hmm my 4-year-old $100 Brother printer is due for its first toner swap. Generic ones are $20 but Brother owns are like $75. I’m gonna have to see if this applies to mine.

That’s weird to me, because it’s easy to go to the search page and see popular hashtags, posts, and “for you” recommendations. I haven’t used Twitter, so I don’t understand what the algorithm offers that those things don’t.

Meanwhile, Mastodon added about 100k users in the last day and should hit 13 million total today.

I really don’t see the appeal or point of Bluesky.

Tbf, there are a ton of comments that I think are genuine, not projection, about the API changes and blackouts, along the lines of “who cares” and “neckbeards!”. And those are the people who haven’t moderated a subreddit, weren’t there when old. was the default, and that I’m fine with leaving behind- the commenters who might as well be spambots.