@james@strangeobject.space THIS is why I resent any type of "productivity measurement".
If I as the person responsible for their (professional and sometimes very rarely personal) situation don't know how and what they feel and are working on, I should quit my job.
I sometimes hear "but we need abstract measurements to hand up to executive management". No, you don't. Have a talk with them and tell them about the people you are working with. If they don't like this, this is not a good place to be.
And regarding 'productivity': some people have a constant outfit of achievements or in software development tickets. That's productivity.
But some people 'produce' less individual results, but removing them from the team would lower everyone's productivity. That's generativity. I don't know many colleagues taking this into account or even noticing it exists.
You'll be seeing lots of posts from people saying/boasting what they achieved in 2023.
In case anyone needs to hear it... it's ok if all you did this year was get through it... You made it, good job.
ONE WEIRD TRICK TO MAKE SURE YOU NEVER INCORRECTLY CONNECT YOUR USB 2/3
Throw the computer in the bin. Now you have no failed attempts, as you have no USB slots.
Happy to help. 💜
"CoPilot writes code that's almost as good as the code I write myself" is certainly making a powerful point.
It's just, well, I don't think it's making quite the point you think it is.
If ever there was an argument against Intelligent Design it's the annual year release process. I mean, zero QA, no pre-release checks. They just YOLO whatever random crap got merged into the next year and don't care.
It's all very simple, you see. You're just confusing the entity named Mozilla with one of the four other entities it set up, all of which are also named Mozilla
The cognitive dissonance of people eschewing Mozilla cos of AI and big salaries and a problematic CEO
And suggesting people move to Brave
The crypto browser that also does AI
The browser who is available through Epic Games Store
Taking some share of ad revenue for itself instead of giving it to who it’s supposed to
Suggesting affiliate links in the address bar
The browser that’s installing pay to use software on Windows machines without asking for consent
Helmed by Brendan Eich
You know, the JavaScript creator
Oh but he’s also the guy ousted as Mozilla’s CEO for donating to anti lgtbq propositions
the same guy who seems to hold Covid conspiracy theories in his head
Please use a fucking search engine some time
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If you are unhappy with using Firefox OR Chrome, there is a perfectly also-problematic-as-hell browser owned by a homophobe, crypto-twat, and Covid denier right there waiting. You're welcome.
As someone coming off a decade of working there, I can tell you with some confidence that “you should use Firefox despite Mozilla’s leadership” is far more true and has been true far longer than you realize.
But you should also understand that original market-share vs ceo salary meme is a creation of Brendan Eich, presumably born of a grudge, and notably elided his tenure as CTO, during which the worst of that decline happened.
You should still use Firefox though.
Can’t believe they’re going to roll 2024 out to Production late on a Sunday, right before a public holiday, without testing it in Staging, and without fixing any of the bugs in 2023.
Own your own website. Own your mailing list. Own your newsletter. Own your blog and prioritise your RSS feed.
This is the stuff that works in the long term.
Chasing virality on every new shiny platform is a waste of time.
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#Mozilla asks for donations to reach half of their CEO's yearly salary, while people are getting laid off. Seems to me that the solution is simple.
It's really inspiring to hear about massive tech companies that started as two guys in a garage. Just think: all you'd need is a time machine and a bug bomb
welcome to the week after Christmas, the date is sometime between Tuesday and August, a handful of cheese at 4pm counts as a meal, Irish Cream can be consumed between 6am and January and putting on your high school band shirt from your parents’ closet counts as “getting dressed”
@april@macaw.social "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product" is such a quaint thought in 2023; they're going to make you product even if you pay. Capitalism doesn't leave money on the table.
If a cisgender person gets upsetti spaghetti because you used the Latin prefix cis- to describe them, I think the best thing to do is comply with their request and use the Greek synonyms homo- (same) and hetero- (different) instead.
Problemo solved, my homogender buddy.
Bring back self-hosted blogs, reinstall a feed reader, make your feed icon prominent on your blog. Blogs + Atom/RSS is the best decentralized social media system we've ever had!
And yes I am saying that as co-author of ActivityPub: self hosted blogs is the best decentralized social networking we've had
1000 richest people are approched. "The end of the world is here. Time to go to your doomsday bunker", they are told. The billionaires nodded. They knew this was coming. They were prepared.
So they gathered their loved ones and locked themselves in luxury bunkers. No contact to outside world.
10 years later they emerge. The world has healed. The air is breathable, people are happy. "What was the catastrophy?" they ask the first person they meet.
She screams: "THEY GOT OUT!!!"
#microfiction
When straight men say that they are feeling uncomfortable in the presence of gay men (because they assume the gays will be ogling them or chatting them up, even if the gays don't do anything remotely like that), the only thing I can think is this:
The straight guys are basically assuming that gays will behave in exactly the same creepy and unacceptable ways in which they themselves tend to behave towards women (or people they think are women).
But in my experience, the gays usually do not. So, sorry, straight guys, you still have the monopoly on creepiness 😜
Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Anything.
They don't owe you tiptoeing around your "concerns" about women in restrooms or girls in sports or women's prisons or trans kids who might detransition or someone "having it too easy".
They don't owe you dressing or performing their gender in any particular way. Not masculinity nor femininity nor androgyny.
They don't owe you "passing" or information about their bodies or surgeries or stories about what signs there were when they were young.
They don't owe you being courteous and graciously accepting your apologies when you hurt them by misgendering them or deadnaming them.
They don't owe you gratitude for "being so understanding".
Trans. People. Don't. Owe. You. Jack. Shit.
Multifactor auth factors:
* something you are
* something you have
* something you know
* something you feel
* something that has been revealed to you
* something always known, but not by the conscious mind
* something hidden in the space between moments
* something dreamed about, unremembered
*"no one ever got fired for choosing React"* is, AFAICT, not true today, and never has been.
I've witnessed entire teams get flushed and VPs get unceremoniously booted on the other side of grand React redesigns tanking revenue and conversions.
None of those folks talk publicly about how it went down because doing so would simultaneously devalue the thing they've invested in and hurt their own employability within that world. And so we bumble on, omerta in tact.
Hi. Can I have a word?
When you use a #Hashtag could you capitalise each word please? That way, people using screen readers will hear each individual word, which means they'll get more useful context as a result.
When you don't capitalise hashtags the words string together and make no sense.
For example #ThisIsHow would read as "This Is How" while #thisishow would sound something like "thissy show". A small change for you but a game changer for many people.
Be nice; get good karma. Thanks.
If you want to become rich and powerful you’re part of the problem.
The problem isn’t that some other people are rich and powerful and you’re not. The problem is we have a system where some people are rich and powerful while others are denied even basic human dignity.