Yeah I used to upgrade immediately but there were always just a few bugs. Now I wait a couple months before taking the plunge

Why religious people think atheists are bad. Because if there isn’t a big reward then why would you ever be good? I don’t know, empathy? Which they clearly show they don’t have much of if they need to be rewarded for doing things as simple as not judging others

In the fediverse? Same as outside. It’s a solution looking for a problem. We generate our own content here, everyone is here because of the rest of the automated bots everywhere else. Look at lemmit online, it’s an instance dedicated to mirroring reddit subs for us here, but it’s a ghost town because we all pretty quickly realized it was boring interacting with bots.

A bot has to have a good purpose here. Like an auto archive bot so people click a better link, or bots like wikibot. I’m not saying AI is useless here, but I haven’t seen a good actual use case for it here yet

This

Number one rule is don’t be a dick. If I notice tone is going more towards personal attacks or being mean rather than honest arguments that’s where my line is. If you can’t get your argument out without resulting to insulting someone then it wasn’t a very good argument.

The meanest people I have ever known were church people. My dad left us when I was young, my mom was left a single parent. Seeking refuge in the church, we started attending regularly. In that time I felt things from others, ranging from genuine kindness all the way to pity. However, as things progressed and my mother became more involved with the church, the more people started to talk. From casual mentions, to annoyance that she would show up, to talking behind her back.

Was she super pleasant to be around? No, I think she can be awkward and has a hard time making friends - and those people picked up on that and ran with it. It wasn’t so long until she was excluded from certain events, that there were more “special” bible studies that she would her invite would be “forgotten”. She wanted so much to be included, but she didn’t fit their paradigm of… I don’t even know what.

Oh they preach of acceptance and forgiveness, of not judging, but they are some of the most hurtful people out there. I don’t know what I believe personally, but I’ll avoid going into a church for as long as I can.

I’m always surprised at myself how much more productive I am during 4 day weeks. If I have a 3 day weekend and I only had to work 4 days I get so much more stuff done than even if I had the full 5 days.

Oh my god I had to re-read that. Fuuuuuck that. Seriously fuck that. All those FAANG companies are like that now. Laying off hundreds/thousands and now are trying to squeeze their employees. Nope, I do 40 hours a week and I’m content with it.

I didn’t think I can answer this without being crushed under the irony

Me? Yes, but I am an outlier, and it’s not because I’m doing “well”. It’s more because my parents were both horrible with money. 2 mortgages on the house, multiple car loans, mom was part of an MLM, and we were a family of 4 on a government worker’s salary. One of my dad’s complaints was that he couldn’t go out to eat once a week with coworkers because we couldn’t afford it. In addition they were horrible with credit and loans, took out as much as they could and then paid off things routinely late. I have no idea where they are now but last time I checked their credit score (for them, because they don’t know how), it was in the low 400s.

We grew up poor. Well, I hesitate to say poor because I know there are those who had it worse, and I do blame them for their choices for a good chunk of it too.

I think that’s wise, just stay frosty my friend.

Idk man, at this point I see the hope, but after watching a few videos today of deep dives into their leadership - I don’t have much hope for them anymore. Most of them come from data brokers and ad agencies, Meta, and other big tech. If it’s not today, it’ll happen tomorrow when the dust does settle.

Looking at the PR where they literally removed “We will never sell your data” was pretty much the final nail in the coffin for me.

Right? The license literally says they have a right to everything - everything we do in Firefox, and that we grant them full access to it. The shit is that? I don’t need a law degree to read and understand that.

No, Mozilla, you don’t have permission to see everything I write and type. You don’t have permission to see the images I upload or even as far as I’m concerned you don’t have the rights to see what webpages I visit. The most you get is when I (used to) submit a bug report.

The browser is the fundamental most basic access to the internet. I get that there’s potential for data brokering profit, but it is a slap in the face to everyone who used firefox for privacy reasons.

They’re trying to backpedal now:

Friday’s post additionally provides some context about why the company has “stepped away from making blanket claims that ‘We never sell your data.’” Mozilla says that “in some places, the LEGAL definition of ‘sale of data’ is broad and evolving,”and that “the competing interpretations of do-not-sell requirements does leave many businesses uncertain about their exact obligations and whether or not they’re considered to be ‘selling data.’”

See, you don’t need to ever sell my data - like ever. There is zero reason for a browser to sell my data. I don’t care about the backpedaling.

I spent 20 years on Firefox. Through the good years and the bad, when it was slow and clunky compared to the new shiny chrome through the bad PR. This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. For now I’m on Librewolf - then who knows.

This is completely accurate, and people don’t know how non anonymous it is.

Your hair one for example. Who cares, say you even have brunette hair, something generic. Okay, then let’s add on that you’re using an iPhone. How narrow is the search now? What state you’re in? Who owns a specific model of TV?

I would argue that with only just a few data points you could be identified.

And now they are taking everything you put into your browser and everything you take out. Add some AI pizazz and they’ll be able to build a pretty accurate profile about you.

No one disagreed that it’s a bad thing. (Go ahead, reread it) But it’s an understandable thing. That’s the point you’re not getting.

People have families to feed. How long are you willing to go without income before you consider Amazon or Meta? How long do your morals hold up before you’re facing eviction. It’s super easy to hold to them and judge others when you’re fully employed, but buddy I gotta tell you, I’ve been laid off twice in 3 years, and I stared down losing my house or taking a job at big tech. I was lucky that a smaller company came in last second and I landed there, but I hold zero ill will to those who work there.

Most of them have no assumptions to what they do, but individuals need to feed their families, to provide a roof over their heads, they have kids who need college paid for or medical insurance. You judge them, but I question what you would do in the same position. If you were facing losing your home and you had Amazon sitting there offering more money then you’ve ever made - how long would you hold onto those morals?

I don’t even expect an answer. I don’t expect it to be truthful.

Ah the tolerance paradox rears it’s head again. “You won’t let me be intolerant so obviously you hate free speech!” Nope, fuck off with hate.

You’re right to swing your fist ends when it hits someone else’s face. You can talk about anything you want, but the second it is hateful to someone else you lost your right.

No matter where you are in an organization, unless you’re csuite, you’re nothing. Always remember that. You do not get a say, your opinion is tolerated at best. I’ve known people at MSFT for decades and they think they’re opinion matters. It doesn’t. Tomorrow some exec will come in and stomp on you. Work to live, don’t live to work. Them saying this is good, but I like to remind people that they won’t care. Money talks.

Bingo, more children to them is simply more consumers. Economy to up up up

I love Jenny, she has some of the best long forms!