@kongk@GrimmReality you will find you don’t miss it. Although I still like the feel of a paper in my hands as I drink my coffee I am not willing to support any more right wing rags. Full stop
"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."
@jake4480@sarajw@cory The weird thing is that people are willing to put up with a lot of abuse if it means getting content they want. I think the real tipping point comes when Stop the Madness-type blockers start becoming OS-level features that are on by default.
Like—my parents don't know how to install adblocking plugins, but they absolutely appreciate having them.
When sites that rely on this trash have to either find ethical sources of income or fail, that's when we'll see change.
@csilverman@jake4480@sarajw it's awful and I wonder how much of it is simply not knowing adblockers and such are an option. My parents have them installed and I've got nextDNS running on their home network but, to your point, it’ll have the greatest impact if and when it becomes a default.
Something I tell my software students a lot when they’re looking for jobs is to remember that a shockingly large number of job descriptions are written by people in HR who have next to zero understanding of the industry, the specific team, or the business need.
All they’ve got to work with is fragments they’ve heard without comprehension, coming to them through a terrible game of corporate telephone.
@grimalkina@inthehands We should invite you for a talk or something. Honestly we do way better than most large industry organizations.
And we write (and optimize) our own job descriptions. I never would a non-technical person let do that. Results are terrible and it's unfair to the HR people.
The way HR works in all companies where I've been a hiring manager is that I do a lot of the actual "work" and get an HR assistant to do legal stuff etc. for me.
Writing posts is my job. Talking to candidates is, too. Working on the process is and I expect HR to follow up with what I tell them I need.
Choosing a travel backpack is really hard, and I still haven't found one I love, so mostly for my own reference I wrote a long post with thoughts on pretty much every travel backpack out there https://christianselig.com/2024/04/choosing-a-backpack-is-hard/
So - Sternwarte ist wieder staub- und vor allem spinnenfrei!
Aber auch der Staub hat sich die letzten Wochen durch jede Ritze gezogen :-(
Und ich muss mir dringend was zu meinem Kabelmanagement einfallen lassen. Das ist eine Never-ending Story 🙄
Hab da irgendwie überhaupt kein Talent für.
@2ndStar Hast du etwa vor 46P/Wirtanen nächsten Sonntag vor die Linse zu bekommen? Falls ja sag unbedingt Bescheid und/oder schick Bilder, am Besten wie das hier drunter, rum!1-11 😃
@justinmwhitaker I've also got two or three shopping malls within a 15 minute walk, and another 3-5 within a one hour bus ride of my front door. (Buses pass here every 15 minutes throughout the day.)
Okay, its a terrible picture and its not ironed cause its way too hot to iron. The pattern is straight, fabric is just bundled up under it.
#DeathByCrossStitch by #LongDogSamplers. Stitched on white 16ct aida fabric, using approx 370 metres of black DMC thread, 6 needles used. Final stitched area is - 55cm wide and 69cm high.
This was a labour of love, a challenge, a reward to myself, part of my #MentalHealth journey.
@DoubleTreble@crossstitch Our local charity shops don't tend to have really big frames in. I'm tempted just to buy a length of wood and make my own frame....with my absolute zero woodwork skills 😂
Debian Users - Be aware the maintainer of the KeePassXC package for Debian has unilaterally decided to remove ALL features from it. You will need to switch to keepassxc-full to maintain capabilities once this lands outside of testing/sid.
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
@GottaLaff I remember back in 1997, we were interviewing for a third roommate, and one guy came over during The Simpsons. That guy was out. I know you have to show the house, but who wants to see a house during the trial hours?
🤣🤣🤣
"Randomized trials cannot address all causal questions of importance in medicine and health policy and may have limited generalizability; thus, investigators may need to use observational studies as a source of evidence to address causal questions. The challenge, then, is to balance the importance of addressing the causal questions for which observational studies are needed with caution regarding the reliance on strong assumptions to support causal conclusions."
@grimalkina I agree outsourcing sounds like a terrible model. I more had in mind the “balanced team” approach we used at Pivotal Labs where engineers, designers and product managers worked together daily—often pairing across disciplines—in service of the project. I’m more interested in the things a scientist doesn’t find in the data (because they find the stats painful and want to get back to “the science”) than the p-hacking to get the result they thought they should.
@grimalkina I suppose it’s Sturgeon’s Law, 90% of everything is crap like any other field. Once in a while you get a team who fights against the overwhelming external incentives and engineers themselves an environment where everyone is respected and valued and they can do great work.