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DaleTrexel

@DaleTrexel@drupal.community

Drupal developer & site manager from Minnesota. Enjoy outdoor adventures with my 2 huskies whenever not behind a computer.

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baldur, to random
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“Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h”

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

> but when they start "urgently" needing to talk to you you're probably not going to get out until you have a juicy custom contract with them

On the one hand, the company in question is a casino and, honestly, fuck casinos

But OTOH, Cloudflare is clearly running a protection racket so fuck them too

DaleTrexel,
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@baldur Ironic that they're complaining about an ethically-dubious tech platform by blogging about it on another ethically-dubious tech platform.

mikemccaffrey, to drupal
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I'm not sure why folks in the community are confused about how regular people and small organizations are finding the product hard to use after years and years and years of Dries pushing the project to be "enterprise-level".

Maybe instead of , we should call it where we try to correct the gigantic mistakes that we made in the past.

DaleTrexel,
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@mikemccaffrey OMG this!

Especially the bit where they were telling people to move simple D7 sites to something else instead of migrating to D8+. This seems to be a complete 180 from that.

DaleTrexel,
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@jurgenhaas @mikemccaffrey I'm sorry I don't have the source bookmarked and indexed for easy retrieval, but I distinctly remember communication about upgrading from Drupal 7 that suggested moving to something other than Drupal for simple sites.

It was because it was "official" that it was memorable.

It was around the same time as the "Drupal is for ambitious websites" slogan, which further reinforced that Drupal isn't for simple sites.

mikemccaffrey, to drupal
@mikemccaffrey@drupal.community avatar

: We're building a distribution but not calling it a distribution, including initiatives that we were doing anyway, to make it easier for users to do things quickly, but we don't know exactly what those things will be or how they will be implemented, but it can all be done in 8 months, because we are going to solve our governance problems by bypassing our usual governance process.

DaleTrexel,
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@phenaproxima @mikemccaffrey That's one of the biggest problems with this. Surprise! We have a major initiative that's been in the works, in private! Go on a scavenger hunt if you want to participate!

Where is the communication plan to help people learn about what is going on and how to contribute? There's a lot of people who've been disillusioned with Drupal's corporate focus. How do you plan to draw them back?

mandclu, to random
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The 2024 Drupal Developer Survey results just dropped. Some interesting insights! https://www.ironstar.io/devsurvey24/

DaleTrexel,
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@mandclu Interesting quote:

"The data which surprised me most was the adoption of AI. Only half of us are using AI at work, and only 3% of us are incorporating AI into our Drupal sites. I personally feel like this is a huge missed opportunity. Like or loathe it, the genie is out of the bottle and I think we all have to adapt."

Why is it that AI Evangelicals so often fall back to the fallacy of inevitability to justify the superiority of their enthusiasm?

DaleTrexel, to random
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LB: Yet another interesting, worrying and infuriating article about the state of the internet as it games Google search rankings.

"If Google keeps rewarding useless overly-optimized SEO content written by AI published on big media sites while punishing little sites because they wrote articles trying to answer a question readers have, then fuck Google."

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

DaleTrexel,
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Do love their attitude of not backing down and being creative to fight back!

"We will be relentless on YouTube, Reddit, X, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, our newsletter, and every other platform where it makes sense for us to be.

"We will keep Google busy crawling our name and our content again and again and again and again and again. And again.

"Because even if Google decided to virtually erase HouseFresh from its search results, we still exist on the open web."

https://housefresh.com/how-google-decimated-housefresh/

mattferrell, to random
@mattferrell@mastodon.social avatar

What’s a cascading heat pump? And are our homes ready for them?

Check out our video on it, here: https://youtu.be/wSgv5NwtByk

Or check out the page on our website, here: https://undecidedmf.com/how-this-new-heat-pump-is-genius/

DaleTrexel,
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@mattferrell @neverbeaten I've had similar thoughts: it seems so inefficient to have the fridge pumping out heat, making the surrounding air warmer, and our hybrid water heater sucking the heat in, but a different part of the house, making that region colder. There ought to be some way (even just forced air transfer) to move heat around more efficiently than whole-house convection. And you get more even overall air temp in the house to boot.

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