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3 votes
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r/antiwork seems to be back (was it really gone?)
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?). I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year"...
tl;dr IDK what happened before, but r/antiwork is public now (again?).
I just stumbled across this tildes thread from 2 weeks ago [EDIT: crap ... 1 year and 2 weeks ago; mixed up my "current year" setting] ... which is right on the border between "keep posting in that thread" and "it's too old, start a new one" ... so here we are.
I'm familiar with the ideas, but never heard of that specific subreddit before. Looking through the Fox interview, I must be missing something, because I don't understand what all the fuss was about. What "mistake" did the mod make in the interview? Why did everyone suddenly hate her? etc. Seemed perfectly innocuous to me (apart from, why even bother with Fox).
But that aside, the previous thread indicates that r/antiwork was effectively bullied into going private. Looking at it this morning, it is not private. I am assuming that they just recently de-privatized it?
On a side-note, top comment on the thread is about not supporting r/cringetopia ... which ... that subreddit is private. Is that also new? It had me confused for quite awhile this morning, trying to figure out which subreddit was actually under controversy and forced to go private.
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SolarWinds and market incentives
8 votes -
UK proposes making the sale and possession of encrypted phones illegal
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Lost and found: Codebreakers decipher 50+ letters of Mary, Queen of Scots
7 votes -
Twitter restricted in Türkiye in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes -
What we learned from building GovSlack
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FOSDEM 2023: Glad to be back
3 votes -
Sam Denby on how well negativity works on YouTube
@Sam (from Wendover): One thing I hate is just how well negativity works. Of our top 10 performers over the past year, eight (in my view) include direct or indirect negativity in the title/thumbnail. (A🧵) pic.twitter.com/tqIz9v6CTh
10 votes -
Google announces Bard, a ChatGPT competitor based on LaMDA
11 votes -
What happened to Google Search?
13 votes -
Shipping graphing calculator
3 votes -
OpenAssistant - ChatGPT's Open Alternative
11 votes -
Kagi's web page summarizer
8 votes -
Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'
5 votes -
The robot lawyer was a super dumb idea
5 votes -
Anker finally comes clean about its Eufy security cameras
23 votes -
Apple Maps privacy bug may have allowed apps to collect location data without permission
9 votes -
Ecommerce and corporate websites need to adopt some minimalism and de-clutter
3 votes -
Hatepedia's guide to online hate
7 votes -
Triple screen portable computer build
4 votes -
NeevaAI, a ChatGPT powered search engine
10 votes -
Tiktok's enshittification
18 votes -
Project Code Rush - The Beginnings of Netscape (2000)
4 votes -
Have you ever been hacked?
If so, how did it happen, how did it impact you, and what did you do differently?
17 votes -
AI versus copyright (legal review)
8 votes -
BuzzFeed says it will use AI to help create content, stock jumps 150%
8 votes -
Why are TV cameras still huge and expensive?
7 votes -
GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal starting February 23rd
8 votes -
Ad spending on Twitter falls by over 70% in Dec - data
10 votes -
Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content
14 votes -
Signal removing support for SMS in Android
20 votes -
Five days in class with ChatGPT
13 votes -
Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia's old look was much better than the new one
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect. But having said that, I feel...
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect.
But having said that, I feel the aesthetics of the old site was much better than the new one. But then again, I'm from the old-school world who also prefers old reddit to the new one in browsing experience, so my opinion could be biased! But even considering the modern web design, don't you think the black icons on the top right have a somewhat odd look? And the "21 languages" feels a bit verbose, the I10N icon already conveys what that dropdown is about? And finally, that scrollable sidebar on the left looks a tad ugly?
I just hope this is just a beta stage or something of Wikipedia's new version and a better one will evolve soon! But that's just one humble unpopular opinion, me thinks!
15 votes -
The five best mobile scanner apps in 2023
4 votes -
No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks
5 votes -
The lights have been on at a Massachusetts school for over a year because no one can turn them off
17 votes -
Twitter cuts off access for popular third party clients
Starting on Thursday night, Twitter cut off API access for some of the biggest third party clients. From The Verge: It’s hard to tell whether the third-party client outage is due to the API....
Starting on Thursday night, Twitter cut off API access for some of the biggest third party clients.
It’s hard to tell whether the third-party client outage is due to the API. Attempting certain calls from my individual Twitter developer account seemed to work, while Twitter’s own API explorer tool is currently broken.
It definitely seems like it is on purpose. For it to last this long without any update definitely makes it feel like it was done on purpose. Many developers' apps have started showing up as "suspended". In looking at my own account, I can see that both Tweetbot and Fenix are gone from my list of connected apps.
The Icon Factory (makers of Twitteriffic) have a blog post about it as well.
The complete silence from Twitter is completely baffling. Burning more than a decade of working with developers overnight seems incredibly stupid. As Paul Hadad, one of the makers of Tweetbot said:
Even during the darkest Twitter 1.0 days they were pretty open about what they were doing. I remember getting a call prior to the 4 quadrants token limit where they explained what was going to happen and answered questions. I wasn't happy but at least felt there was respect.
27 votes -
Adventures in Mastoland: A retrospective on Searchtodon
8 votes -
The Apple TV expects you to have an iPhone in order to accept new iCloud terms and conditions
3 votes -
Wi-Fi routers used to detect human locations, poses within a room
8 votes -
Atlas gets a grip
5 votes -
Forty years of PCMag: An illustrated guide
6 votes -
To use Disqus or Giscus (Github Discussions) for comments is the conundrum
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely...
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely on external services like Disqus for comment hosting.
So far, Disqus was the only fellow in town who allowed us to host comments on a free plan. Though there were some issues (bloat, adware, etc.), people seemed to be generally happy with it so far.
But now, a new fellow named giscus commenting system has entered the town, it's basically powered by github. Since I already host my blog on github pages, this should be a natural choice for me, right? Many bloggers seem to be migrating to this new system and I might too soon. The downsides however are as follows:
- It won't allow me to export existing comments from the old disqus system. Understandable to an extent as those exact author usernames may not be on the Github platform?
- Disqus interface seems to have improved all of a sudden in last few days! There no longer seem to be any ad and even the comment interface seems to be less heavy or cluttered now. It might sound a bit conspiratorial in nature but could this be the result of rising competition in the form of Giscus!
I'm a lazy status-quoist by nature and might well end up retaining disqus if they don't deviate too much from where they are now. But I'll keep an eye out on Giscus too and its progress. What do you guys suggest?
5 votes -
How a single developer dropped AWS costs by 90%, then disappeared
16 votes -
CES: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen. 1: The...
the It Could Happen Here podcast did a 3-part series on this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas, and I thought it was some of the most nuanced and interesting coverage I've seen.
1: The dead future of Big Tech - host Robert Evans got his start in journalism doing tech reporting more than a decade ago, including covering CES. he reflects on how the show, and the tech industry as a whole, has changed over that time.
2: The good parts of our future tech dystopia - Robert and co-host Garrison talk about the good / promising parts of what they saw at the show
3: We visit the tech industry's scary vision for the future - discussion of the creepy / less good stuff they saw at CES, including lots of surveillance cameras & robots
8 votes -
The inner beauty of basic electronics
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What are some of the best blogs, journals, e-magazines, etc. about programming or software development in general?
I'm a solo freelance programmer who codes on small to medium sized projects, and I realize that I can upskill myself a lot by keeping up with the industry trends, by listening to what the best in...
I'm a solo freelance programmer who codes on small to medium sized projects, and I realize that I can upskill myself a lot by keeping up with the industry trends, by listening to what the best in this field have to say. The problem is that there is just so much information overload everywhere, just so many youtube videos and articles that it seems overwhelming to differentiate the wheat from the chaff!
Since reading is my preferred medium of instruction, I want to know what are the blogs, journals, etc. on this topic with some street cred? And preferably individual experts and blogs, not companies. Company or corporate sites and blogs seem to be more hype than substance these days.
Which ones do you refer for keeping up to date?
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Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 2
Part 2. Previous one here.
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ChatGPT mostly breaks the parts of the internet that are already broken
15 votes