hardly_ted

tantramar, 13 days ago to DoctorWho

I’ve really tried to get into Doctor Who. It’s never stuck. Even Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant — bags of charm, both of them — couldn’t pull me in. Matt Smith seemed fun, too. Ncuti Gatwa was good in his small role in Masters of the Air, and he more than held his own alongside Tennant, but I think I’m resigned to the fact that the Doctor just isn’t my bag. It’s the stories. They just aren’t aimed at me. #DoctorWho

jann, 1 month ago to random

OMFG! #westworld!!! 👏@Verso @lisamelton 2 Years After It Was Cancelled, HBO’s Wildest Sci-Fi Show Could Come Back From the Dead - Inverse
https://apple.news/AKvWDDs9bSGi2cKqCobG4ow

hardly_ted, 3 months ago to random

Can’t believe they didn’t even mention @jamesthomson once! https://overcast.fm/+IPMYag1JE

glennf, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

About 99.9% of corporate management or business owners tell unionizing employees, “a union would wipe out the ’flexible and open-door atmosphere we have tried to foster.’” When pressed for specifics, these bozos never have an answer. Unions have specific ones: wages, sudden scheduling changes, understaffing, work conditions, sick leave policies, etc. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/nyregion/board-game-cafe-workers-union-nyc.html?searchResultPosition=2

Seattle legislated a lot of this. Our regional (not just Seattle) unemployment rate is 3.9%. https://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.wa_seattle_md.htm#eag_wa_seattle_md.f.1

hardly_ted, 5 months ago to random

@jamesthomson so, did you also ignore the guys responding to our conversation on LLMs this morning? They dribbled in today and I was wondering if you deal with that regularly?

TechConnectify, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Oh my gosh I just figured it out.

Okay, all you open source evangelist people: your knee-jerk reaction to come at people who are talking about a problem with whatever commercial software they use and suggest Your Favorite Alternatives™ is exactly like saying "why don't you just buy a house?" to someone complaining about their landlord.

EDIT: There's more than one post here. Pick apart the analogy if you will but... beware you'll be proving the point.

twostraws, 6 months ago to random

When your laptop says it has 10% battery remaining, do you:

a) Plug it in immediately
or
b) Think "I'd better plug it in soon" then wonder why it switches off an hour later, like I do basically every time.

glennf, 6 months ago to random

Do you own, run, or work at a restaurant? I have a question for you about automated calls you might receive.

lisamelton, 7 months ago to random

I'm a little sad today. Not just for remembering the passing of Steve Jobs. But after almost a year of being here, I'm finally having to block trolls on Mastodon. Dammit.

These assholes should realize that I spent a decade working for Steve. So, this girl doesn't get intimidated.

And I almost pity the poor motherfuckers who try to mansplain Web browsers or video transcoding to me. Almost.

glennf, 10 months ago to random

Hilton has this check-in system now where you don't have to interact with people. While it's more efficient, it's a weird thing to make part of your brand.

hardly_ted, 10 months ago to random

Seeing people say they’re trying bluesky and threads, it makes me wonder if the lack of an algorithm here (👋 @lisamelton ) is part of what makes some people prefer the other networks. It’s largely, at least in the people I see commenting about trying these other networks, the same people every time a new one launches. Algo can make it easy to be lazy and get fed junk, where here you need to work to build your community. No idea if it’s true, just a small pattern I am seeing.

beaveinflow, 10 months ago to random

Was on Threads for 35 seconds. No drafts, no DMs, a bunch of people I don’t want to follow are populating my home feed, so basically it’s a crappier Instagram with a repost function.