no thanks! I live in South Dakota and haven't worn a mask since the school system I work in lifted the mask mandate at the start of July, and before that I only wore it in the lobby of my building. everything's going great here! the bottom floors of my building are a YMCA daycare and I get to smile at and greet many unmasked small children every day, it gives me a tiny bit of joy coming and going from work. I appreciate the unsolicited instruction though, and the kids will in fact be fine.
I was on the phone with them getting a demo of Enterprise Managed Users at the time and the demo was failing too, ha. So we looked at the status page together and saw all yellow.
Doesn't matter, I wanted EMUs without the demo anyway. Still was funny to happen when I was talking to an engineer at the time.
Only commenting to say their site makes me mad cause it breaks the browser history. I click the link, go to the fb engineering site, and the back button has no history to go back to HN. Dark Pattern UX -- gross.
Can’t confirm. It works exactly as expected in Firefox (private mode because FB links open in the FB container otherwise), so maybe it’s some extension you have installed? FB Engineering links are usually pretty clean, and they don’t even have a reason to try and keep you there.
If I want to learn a new technology, that's been out a while, I make sure to look for jobs for it first. Just a gut check on how many opportunities are out there for it.
This doesn't work for something brand new of course, but I still do a cursory look through job sites to see what I can see.
Like for instance on Dice.com right now there are 60 jobs available. If I were interested in Clojure today and saw that, I probably wouldn't bother because I know Clojure is mature but there's not a market for it apparently.
Again, this isn't meticulous or scientific at all, just a gut check with a few searches.
Then again, Rust only has 13 jobs listed soooooo.....
I don't want my device sending or receiving any data using my data plan without my knowing. Do apps I have installed send shit constantly? Sure. But those are MY apps -- that's on me for using them. But if someone else has a tag, and I'm near it, my phone shouldn't be used to send/receive data about said tag at all. I definitely don't like this "we created a network of devices and everyone is opted in" setup.
Similar to the hub-bub raised of Alexa devices "sharing" internet connectivity.
Ben Thompson, of Stratechery, had an interesting way of talking about Facebook that might help with a future definition of "social media services."
He (and podcast co-host John Gruber[0]) talked about the idea that Facebook isn't the same site for any two people. Due to the algo, everyone has their own personal version of the site. Therefore, there's no individual snapshot of Facebook at any given time.
I found this an interesting concept to point out. If one needed to distinguish between a website and "social media services," perhaps a law could be drafted such that such a condition was true.
HN, for example, would be a website because commenting and voting is user-based. I suppose that might mean Spotify and Netflix would be swallowed by the definition. The definition would then need additional language about user-submitted content.
Technically Facebook/Twitter are not websites, but "social" applications (web/native). You need to have a user account to see (FB) or post (FB/Twitter) anything.
If the block on my calendar for this is supposed to help stop people contacting me -- well, it doesn't stop them now.
I'm glad this seems to work for some people though.