A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.
Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.
Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life’s too short. Walked away.
Once they get Threads support, their target audience will be the non-Twitter universe. This would make it easier for businesses, governments, journalists, and non-technical folks like influencers and celebrities to switch out. That’s how you get mass adoption.
I just tried it last week. Good start. Lots of promise.
I actually like it when these code helpers guess from one line what the rest should be and suggest it. It’s even more fun when it keeps guessing and the suggestions get progressively more whacky. Then they just start making completely unrelated shit up.
Once you say no, it goes back to the beginning and meekly repeats the very first suggestion, like a scolded puppy.
She was the co-author of the second edition of Bunnie Huang’s New Essential Guide to Electronics, for those looking to make hardware in Shenzhen: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/a-new-essential-guide-to-electronics-by-naomi-wu-details-a-different-shenzen/
Flashback to 5pm (a lifetime ago), and everyone at work switching to playing Marathon for next 30-60m to unwind before heading home.
Translation (as near as I could figure out):
“Inexpensive PASGT (Personnel Armour System for Ground Troops) helmet with dyed, surplus camouflage cover and a used Yukon Gen1 Night Vision Goggle held on with GoPro parts (likely the curved attachment and maybe even the overhead clips), and an extra mount.”
Definitely a case of: “if you have to ask, you don’t want it.”
Also, the Yukon Gen 1 seems to be discontinued (most of the reviews are 12+ years old) but new units run $2-5K.
Not everyone has a github account and can comment or vote there.
But, agree. Don’t think any good will come from making votes public. Any pro/con should be measured against who it benefits. If it’s mods or devs, there are always alternatives
If it’s end-users, consider the edge-cases and the repercussions of malicious actors having access to those individual preferences.
Runs the margarita blender in the cockpit.
Most discovery is via hashtags since you can subscribe to one (for example #press gets you lots of news).
Also, following and blocking individual accounts, as appropriate. You’re not going to get the sort of random exposure to strangers that algorithmic boosting gets you on other social media.
Before podcasts, there used to be RSS readers. They let you quickly subscribe and scan a lot of blogs and catch up on latest posts. Flipboard started as a fancy mobile app version, with access to articles from mainstream news providers.
It’s grown and changed a lot, but it’s essentially a quick way to scan for interesting daily news.
They’ve now added ways to subscribe and catch up on Fediverse sources like Mastodon (and soon, Lemmy).
The CEO has a podcast called Dot Social where he talks to people about how this Fediverse stuff all fits together: https://dot-social.simplecast.com/
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Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has an original, captured WW-II U-505 submarine: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/
Being near a lake, they had a slightly shorter distance to travel over land. Here’s a time-lapse of them moving it into place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUuQIpVuhCg
Rode in a car with a full tinted glass roof once. Everybody’s brains were boiling.
Looking at that picture, all I see is sunburn, heatstroke, and headache.
ESPN video of her story: https://youtu.be/U6CoScOIK_I