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> so that automation makes things cost less instead of siphoning the money into the coffers of megacorps I cannot trust any company with any modicum of success not to immediately e…

One-to-one calls won't work on web Teams for me using Firefox, but group calls will, for some reason.

I mean, it's the only meaningful way of punishing the company/site. It becomes unusable, people don't contribute anything further because it stops being a hub/valuable site, and ev…

The incentive to contribute is based on the potential return of social currency (prestige, togetherness, etc). If it's evident that you won't generate enough currency to outweigh e…

Canada has neither, though. My parents and their parents assimilated quickly from Eastern Europe, forgot their language, and then set up a system where they pulled up a ladder behi…

I go to a Dollar Store fairly frequently in my city, and it's just a nightmare due to self-checkout: one physical cashier open with anyone over 50 lining up to use, and another ove…

Would love if I could self-host this with Docker.

>I sometimes wonder what western historians will think when they study this era 100 years from now? I sometimes find myself wanting aliens to find us and make contact, just so we c…

My benchmark is how much social capital one stands to lose by admitting to be a member. If you're still admitting to be a Juggalo despite knowing what's associated with it, and how…

I feel like the Internet where forums thrived is very different from the present Internet. Forums won't make a comeback because they're much harder to make money or clout from, and…

The past tense of "bias" is "biased." "Gemini isn't biased because of the training data, it's biased because Google chooses to make it biased by hijacking your prompt."

Isn't it wondrous what lobbying can do?

It's always uncomfortable with a new therapist because they lack the context to know what you're going through, for how long, and the factors that are affecting it. I've seen mine …

This is similar to what people found when they went back to World of Warcraft after it introduced an automated "dungeon finder" that matched you with people doing the same content …

It's a US election year /tinfoil

Learning how to import bulbs into HomeAssistant, or learning how to flash different firmware onto bulbs has been a difficult (yet kinda fun?) way to give myself peace of mind about…

>It's unfortunate that bitcoin became a hoarding/speculation thing, rather than a useful thing. Brave tried to do this with their Basic Attention Token, but they seem to be focused…

Learning how to self-host things on Docker and a NAS has been a lifesaver for me. Almost every SAAS I've wanted to use at a consumer level has an open-source equivalent on Docker t…

>I wonder if Threads and Bluesky will eventually be as nasty as old Twitter of if they'll manage to foster better discussions somehow. Both of those places seem to have gotten thei…

>FB is still surprisingly strong in growing markets. In a lot of those growing markets, Facebook is the main (or only) way of having a web presence for their business. WhatsApp is …

I'm glad that the consultants and people who stage photo ops get a decent payday, at least.

I've had two family doctors over the last four years, and they've both closed their practice to become specialists; much better paying, much easier work. I've been going to walk-in…

>Pick a smaller town In Canada, good luck getting non-dialup if you move too far out. Getting decent Internet service is harder when you go remote.

This site is a bunch of ex-Gawker, ex-Vox and ex-Vice people submitting articles en masse to places like Reddit and HN. Why would it have anything of substance?

"Now, potions are traditionally a good way of getting healing in RPGs. Potions were first introduced in..."