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I didn't realize a big part of the #writersstrike was about companies shedding a lot of informal practices that made worker-friendly...

I didn't realize a big part of the #writersstrike was about companies shedding a lot of informal practices that made worker-friendly productions and quality TV possible.

They want to formalize those informal things everyone used to be on the same page about.

As always, @adamconover is worth a follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYt8iYnUfyY

People in the know about #AI and LLMs: is there an upper limit to what's possible with an #LLM, or can you just keep throwing more compute...

People in the know about #AI and LLMs: is there an upper limit to what's possible with an #LLM, or can you just keep throwing more compute power at training to make them better?

There are a lot of variables in power dynamics. Only considering one axis leads to mistaking victims for culprits, and culprits for victims,...

There are a lot of variables in power dynamics. Only considering one axis leads to mistaking victims for culprits, and culprits for victims, and often failing to see that one person can be both in a situation.

Google keeps sending me these emails telling me it's time to upgrade to Google Analytics 4.So here's the thing: I tried to figure it out.GA...

Google keeps sending me these emails telling me it's time to upgrade to Google Analytics 4.

So here's the thing: I tried to figure it out.

GA has escalated in complexity and confusion for years, but it's finally beyond me. I did everything it said to do, and no data came through.

And it made me rethink whether I actually need that data. I just kind of set it up out of habit for over a decade at this point and never thought about what those graphs were doing for me.

The truth is they don't tell me anything I don't already know. And with ad blocking catching on, the few people who actually load the tracker aren't representative.

I could barely figure out how to get to the graphs I wanted anyway. And in GA4, I just can't. They don't seem to exist even as something I can build from scratch from variables. Maybe it'd make more sense if any data made its way through.

Oh well. Another de-googled part of my life.

A thing with online discussions: some people think you should ignore the tone someone uses and focus on points, but tone is a strong...

A thing with online discussions: some people think you should ignore the tone someone uses and focus on points, but tone is a strong indicator of what kind of interaction someone wants.

Most of the time, trying to treat someone who starts off aggro as someone who wants to have a conversation just leads to frustration.

If they have an actual good reason for the tone (every marginalized person has a good reason), they're probably venting, and the best you can do is ignore unless you actually know them. (try not to vent at strangers)

If they just have a hostile disposition generally, then you probably won't find the words to converse without making them more hostile.

Remember how Twitter started out as one big firehose on the main page? Anyway, here's #Bluesky https://firesky.tv/Expect horrors

Remember how Twitter started out as one big firehose on the main page? Anyway, here's #Bluesky https://firesky.tv/

Expect horrors

✋​Portrait mode monitor for documents👉​Portrait mode monitor for the entire Arturia Modular V interface #moog #musicproduction

✋​Portrait mode monitor for documents

👉​Portrait mode monitor for the entire Arturia Modular V interface #moog #musicproduction

Trying to research the 2007-2008 #WritersStrike even with highly specific details to look up just shows how bad 2023 #Google is.

Trying to research the 2007-2008 #WritersStrike even with highly specific details to look up just shows how bad 2023 #Google is.

"No one's doing anything interesting with VR"Did you know there's a regular #VRChat convention put on by furries?Did you know it's paid and...

"No one's doing anything interesting with VR"

Did you know there's a regular #VRChat convention put on by furries?

Did you know it's paid and still drew almost 12,000 people to the last one? The biggest in-person furry convention just barely beats it.

https://furality.org/ - @furality

It's put on by people with real convention running experience with a high level of polish. Compare to just about anything you've seen that's made you cynical about #VR and you'll see the difference.

You can't look at half-assed efforts like whatever Meta is doing and declare it DOA.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeIkH7rnnyAtHXvSUya55cS908ldIvxb

I think people are so used to being disappointed by open source organizations that they forget to temper their criticisms of Mastodon with...

I think people are so used to being disappointed by open source organizations that they forget to temper their criticisms of Mastodon with the fact that it was running on fumes with a burnt out developer less than six months ago.

That's when things spiked, and the project suddenly had enough income to hire more developers and UX people.

This isn't Mozilla taking almost half a billion from Google while Firefox continues to fall behind, or the FSF that can only lecture people while people look for and build alternatives to GNU tools.

I've been using Phind to produce working #Rust code for the things I want to learn.This has the benefit over the old way, which was: try to...

I've been using Phind to produce working #Rust code for the things I want to learn.

This has the benefit over the old way, which was: try to piece together working code from all the arguing on Stack Overflow non-answers.

The new way: have an actual working, compiling, running answer so I have some basis for understanding all the arguing in the cited pages and deciding which ones are relevant to me.

Right now I'm looking at different web frameworks. It's all very abstract if you don't have a running example in front of you.

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