[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Thats pretty reasonable. I'm sure there are a ton of orphan accounts just lingering out there. Including accounts that other people may like to have.

All of these companies are tightening their belts. Those interest rates going up are sure making companies reassess their business models.

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This is incredibly impressive. The level of talent here is humbling.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Because fuck that bot in particular!

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I want to throw AntennaPod out there for anyone looking for a solid android podcast app. Its FOSS as well for those that care about that sorta thing.

https://antennapod.org/

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Look at what they are doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Their big PR campaign to show him as a mans man. Posting that he did the Murph challenge, talking about ju jit su, and accepting Elon's ridiculous challenge for a cage match.

There is this fairly obvious PR campaign to make him seem less like a emotionless robot.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That combined with the lack of capitalization is off-putting for some reason. It grates on me and I can't put my finger on why.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Most companies that are going back to the office are STILL HAVING VIRTUAL MEETINGS. The hybrid environments ABSOLUTELY are. So you are getting all of the shitty aspects of going into the office and all of the downsides of not-in-person collaboration. It's the worst of both worlds.

When you ask an employee to wake up an hour earlier, spend an hour in traffic, to pay for parking, to sit in a 'hotel cube', to get on a virtual meeting that they could have done at home...you are absolutely going to have people leave your company.

The data on people equating lack of flexibility with a 2-3% paycut seems incredible low to me.

I think its a much more significant impact than that. I know people who have basically taken a 20% paycut (lost their cost-of-living adjustment) to move to a different state--doing the same job remotely. That's basically a way of saying flexibility/remote work is work 20% to them.

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Its Time to Subsidize E-bikes (clivethompson.medium.com)
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Its an interesting article about subsidizing ebikes.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You cherry picked one line of my post and didn't address the entire context or intent of it. Im not defending companies or businesses using discord as a drop in replacement for forums or support pages. Imo that's a mis use of the tech.

I think that's stupid.

But discord isn't designed for that. It's a chat app (voice and text). I don't want my chats with friends publicly searchable on the internet. That's dumb. Having my emails publically searchable on the internet is dumb too.

If a company started using Signal or Whatsapp for support, would you be clamoring for all signal and Whatsapp messages to be searchable on the internet?

That doesn't make any sense. You seem more upset that companies are misusing Discord than mad at Discord.

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[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

They are called pavement princesses and mall crawlers.

Lifted trucks and jeeps that have never even seen a gravel road

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Ironically pedestrian crumple zone requirements mean biggers hoods.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Then apply that logic to Facebook and relax.

Everyone is losing their minds over this.

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

Pop!_OS for life!

[-] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

100% but I believe these are typically locked down to one domain, and in this case its not.

At least thats how I understand it. So I guess the article is a little misleading in that sense, but the net effect is the same. You have carte blanche access to the web, via android system webview, thats acting as a de-facto out-of-band browser. So its misconfigured or not locked down, which means you can use it effectively as a "hidden" browser.

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A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.

This is a pretty exciting "extra feature", Google!

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It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

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I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private.

All event data will be de-identified and processed in aggregate before it’s used for analysis. "

It sounds like they plan on releasing the technical details in the coming days/weeks. I'm curious how its de-identified and processed.

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