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petebrown, 22 days ago to random

🔗 Microsoft Recall – Pixel Envy:

"Recall is the kind of feature I have always wanted but I am not sure I would ever enable. Setting aside Microsoft’s recent high-profile security problems, it seems like there is a new risk in keeping track of everything you see on your computer — bank accounts, a list of passwords, messages, work documents and other things sent by a third-party which they expect to be confidential, credit ... https://explodingcomma.com/2024/05/23/microsoft-recall-pixel.html

Daojoan, 28 days ago to random

The business book Industrial Complex would have us believe that the keys to success are hiding in plain sight. For just $29.95, we can unlock the secrets of billionaire CEOs and visionary founders. But the truth is, most of these books offer little more than survivorship bias masquerading as insight.

If you want to understand the forces that shape industries that make or break companies, you're better off looking to the past.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/dont-believe-the-airport-books

jake4480, 3 months ago to Metal

Just heard that hometown boys GATECREEPER from right in my backyard here in Arizona are going to announce their highly awaited new record soon, potentially this week. Gatecreeper rip. Even Corpsegrinder says so. Here's their last one from 2021.

https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album/an-unexpected-reality

#metal #DeathMetal #Gatecreeper

jake4480, 4 months ago to Metal

Sometimes you have to wade Through the Burial Bog

https://bog-body.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-burial-bog

#metal #DeathMetal #BogBody #ThroughTheBurialBog

petebrown, 4 months ago to random

No one should have to be selling themselves all the time. It’s a miserable way to live.: https://explodingcomma.com/2024/02/04/no-one-should.html

petebrown, 4 months ago to random

🔗 How Tech Outstayed Its Welcome:

"I am not sure how the tech industry changes its course, as doing so would be walking back a decade of growth-at-all-costs business strategies that make user experiences subordinate to showing Wall Street you grew 11% in a quarter. Tech companies have walked away from consumers, treating them like crops to be harvested rather than living creatures experiencing a world that has become ... https://explodingcomma.com/2024/01/30/how-tech-outstayed.html

petebrown, 4 months ago to random

A workplace behavior that really bugs the crap out of me is the person in a meeting who keeps getting distracted by IMs on their laptop or phone and says “Sorry, keeps pinging me.” In my org, we refer to these as a “y/t?”

Sometimes I feel like it’s the person receiving the messages trying to show how important and/or busy they are—and that’s annoying—but I actually don’t think that is the real problem. I think the real ... https://explodingcomma.com/2024/01/22/a-workplace-behavior.html

jake4480, 4 months ago to Metal

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petebrown, 5 months ago to random

So wait—NameCheap is bad now and we’re supposed to use… what? Porkbun? Something else?

petebrown, 5 months ago to random

Goddamnit, Ulysses—this is getting tiresome.

petebrown, 5 months ago to random

🔗 It’s All Bullshit | JS Tan

"If capitalism is supposed to be efficient and, guided by the invisible hand of the market, eliminate inefficiencies, how is it that the tech industry, the purported cradle of innovation, has become a redoubt of waste and unproductivity?"

Umm… maybe it’s capitalism that is the problem? https://thebaffler.com/latest/its-all-bullshit-tan

petebrown, 5 months ago to random

While I personally tend to prefer sci-fi as a genre over fantasy, I find this idea that faster-than-light engines, energy weapons, and all the other plot contrivances upon which sci-fi depends are somehow less magical than dragons, amulets, books of spells to be pretty ridiculous. I think it is pretty much all fantasy but people want to find some reason to claim that their favored subgenre is somehow more grounded or true.

petebrown, 5 months ago to random

Masks and noses, four years later: https://explodingcomma.com/2023/12/16/masks-and-noses.html

petebrown, 6 months ago to random

I keep getting older, but the music stays the same age.: https://explodingcomma.com/2023/12/06/i-keep-getting.html

petebrown, 7 months ago to random

OH MY GOD I just want to eat my lunch in peace but the couple at the table right next to mine has decided that an airport pub is the right place to have a fight. They have been going at it for the entire time I’ve been sitting here.

petebrown, 7 months ago to random

In which I resist the urge to be the person who replies-all to the never ending email thread saying PLEASE REMOVE ME

petebrown, 7 months ago to random

Dear Apple Fitness: While I appreciate
the encouragement, there are no circumstances under which I ever want to hear that I am “crushing it.”

petebrown, 8 months ago to random

Stone by Baroness: https://explodingcomma.com/2023/09/17/stone-by-baroness.html

petebrown, 9 months ago to random

A Mastodon feature that I would find very handy would be “Unfollow user if more than X% of their posts are about Mastodon or “the fediverse.” And to be clear, that is not unique to Mastodon… maybe that’s your bag and that’s fine, but I am generally not any social platform to read a lot about the platform itself.

petebrown, 9 months ago to random

We should be welcoming people who want to come here and finding them places to live, not fretting about a "crisis".: https://explodingcomma.com/2023/09/11/massachusetts-welcomes-migrants.html

baldur, 9 months ago to random

“The room-temperature superconductor that wasn’t | Ars Technica”

Oh, well. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/the-room-temperature-superconductor-that-wasnt/

petebrown, 9 months ago to random

Found an old PC laptop I had forgotten about in the closet, so I am installing Linux for the first time in at least a decade.

As one does.

sarajw, 1 year ago to random

GRAAAARGGLEFLARBLEGRAAGGHAAARGGG