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SmudgeTheInsultCat, 1 month ago to random

cibomahto, 1 month ago to random

Late night #caturday

sylvia_ritter, 1 month ago to art

✨ 20 years of Ubuntu✨ . Happy Birthday! This also means I've painted - 40 artworks - inspired by Ubuntu releases. What a journey! Let's see how it goes on :blobcat: . https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/gallery/59957223/ubuntu-animals #art #mastoart #fediart

Disco Dingo artwork inspired by Ubuntu release name 19.04 which is scheduled for release in April 2019. A psychedelic, colorful, and trippy portrait of a Dingo behind the decks. Ready to amaze you. https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Disco-Dingo-786327017
A colorful Quetzal portrait. It's sitting on a tree branch with intricate patterns. Surrounded by an ancient bird calendar in the background. Inspired by Ubuntu release 12.10 :). https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Quantal-Quetzal-609390302
The Hiruste Hippo illustration was inspired by Ubuntu release name 21.04, https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Hirsute-Hippo-869076072. - A portrait with a hippo and its little one swimming through the water. Surrounded by their hirsute hairstyle. In flow with nature.

dgar, 1 month ago to random

I’m so modern that rather than walking into a room and forgetting why I went there, I open Google and forget what I was looking for.

ChrisHolladay, 1 month ago to Cats

Awwwwwww Dad , I think I wubs you.......psych!!
#cats
#caturday
#CatsOfMastodon
#catsoffediverse

Resister, 1 month ago to random

Happy #caturday you bunch of cool cats 🐱

KnittedMushroom, 1 month ago to Cats

Ergonomic split keyboards allow for better cat approved workdays. Moully says there's a bug in the payroll module I need to fix. 🧐
#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#caturday
#catsoffediverse

Mojeek, 1 month ago to Cats

when we say "mojeek's crawler looks for pages" this is what we mean 😼

#cats #caturday #catsofmastodon

_boucledor, 1 month ago to random French

#caturday on est d'accord que si je me lève, la spa me fait un procès ?

18+ the1goit, 1 month ago to animals

Got games on your phone?

#Caturday #CatsOfFedi #CatsOfFediverse #BlackCat #BlackCats

johnmacintosh, 1 month ago to random German

“Here we see, in its natural habitat, the precursor to the modern wheel. We can see in this early form the beginning of the evolutionary pressures that selected the more streamlined species”

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter

*🤭😉

steffo, 1 month ago to dota2

#Dota2 #AbilityDraft: Well, that’s an useful upgrade 😆

EricIndiana, 1 month ago to animals

#heterochromia #catsofmastodon

18+ marsden, 1 month ago to animals

Sleepy morning #blep

#CatsOfMastodon #BlackCat hashtag Every Day is #Caturday

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BZBrainz, 1 month ago to Autism

@actuallyautistic

Tweet shared to the FB group Feral Neurodivergent Raging Meme Posting and now here with you. I’ve been down and this was the first thing that made me laugh today. I hope it makes you laugh too. #actuallyautistic #autism #autistic

GossiTheDog, 1 month ago to random

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max213, 1 month ago to random

Companies drop support for software and kill it for good. Even if you "bought" it. Sign this petition to bring it to the attention of Parliament. Please share this message with as many Australians as possible.
https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN6080/

cheryanne, 1 month ago to Podcast

Are Drummers Musicians?

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/are-drummers-musicians/

#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #Music #MusicInterviews #PerformingMusic #Drummers

javi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

bunchancat10, 1 month ago to Cat Japanese

メッシ！ #cat

Galehawk, 1 month ago to science

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mapping-brain-pathways-visual-memorability-0423 #Science #brain (Mapping the brain pathways of visual memorability.)

Galehawk, 1 month ago to science

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/brain-food-diet-grey-matter-b2533809.html #Science #brain (Brain foods: Study finds what to eat to make you smarter.)

voided, 1 month ago to random

Don’t be a dick in GitHub comments

vinceknight, 1 month ago to random

Moved in to our building 3 years ago.

I have never been able to clean my whiteboard.

I have been for 3 years, trying every single internet tip and trick. Buying cleaning products etc…

Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and emailed our maintenance staff to say that: “I need a new whiteboard, I've essentially tried everything and now there's just no white space left".

About an hour later, someone turned up and with kindness slowly removed the protective film I’ve been writing on for 3 years…