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ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider [they/them]

@ ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider @hexbear.net

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  • Why? Are we not doing enough?

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  • We also experienced an initial explosion followed by a major drop and then steady growth. It’s healthy growth because it shows we’re keeping genuine daily users to compete with natural user churn.

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  • What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?

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  • I think that most core frameworks put a ton of effort into backwards compatibility. Maintainers of smaller libraries and glue packages, however…

  • What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?

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  • Worker ownership of tech firms

  • For sixth year, Pentagon fails to account for over $3T

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  • That’s $385 for every person on earth

  • Metal music with Linux?

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  • It’s good to know amp sims and VSTs on Linux have come far! The drums still aren’t where I’d like them to be to switch and I’ve tried several times to get Steven Slate Drums and Superior Drummer working with a VST bridge in Ubuntu Studio, with no luck. Still sticking with Apple for now, but at least I finally have Windows out of my house.

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  • Why? I don’t understand what it is

  • Is it too late to date for me?

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  • That last one is really common. If people can ambiently hang out and form community in a space, it tends to be an unprofitable use of those spaces, so they keep disappearing.

  • Google.com tests a news-filled homepage, just like Bing and Yahoo

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  • They used to let you set up a custom page with comic strips and weather and shit. Return to tradition and let me fill my google search bar with Calvin and Hobbes comics

  • Can we defederate from rdq2.net?

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  • You get to decide. Is this instance not democratic when it comes to federation instance decisions? Hexbear admins give us a vote on a per-instance basis.

  • Tech jobs be like

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  • The inflated sense of self is an important way to phrase it. I’ve known execs who weren’t excessively self-confident, but I’ve never met one who didn’t massively overestimate how fucked the company would be if they left.

  • Things that don't exist

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  • The risk of running a business? It’s not like owning a company makes you responsible for that company’s loans if the business goes under or something.

  • So long... I'll not be returning

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  • I think you are correct. I didn’t know the exact numbers but I was aware of general reasoning. The economic forces that push unethical design decisions range from mildly annoying to horrifying depending on which decision you’re talking about. Facebook using A/B testing with neural imaging tech to minimize users’ opportunities to disengage from the platform is probably on the more extreme end. Regardless, I don’t think the decisions being objectively correct when optimizing for the continuation of capitalist firms makes them any less morally onerous.

  • So long... I'll not be returning

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  • I have held a vendetta against YouTube Premium for nearly a decade. I will never use it. I don’t give a shit how cheap it is or how many features they take away. I will stop watching YouTube entirely before I pay a single cent for Premium.

    You used to be able to lock your phone on iOS and continue listening to YouTube. I always had audio playing, but I was still connected to my environment. They took that away just so they could add it back in as a feature in Premium. Maybe it seems overly petty to be this upset about it 9 years later, but I don’t care. I’m a treat addict and they fucked with the product. I let go of most things when it comes to enshitification because the alternative is to drive yourself mad. But this is a hill I will die on every time forever.

    Fuck YouTube Premium.

  • Why do I write more on my days with work rather than my days off?

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  • You have ADHD? Because this is a pretty common thing for people with ADHD. Resting opens you up to getting locked in by executive dysfunction, but keeping busy and being able to bounce between things that you’re motivated to do lets you hyperfocus through a bunch of shit.

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    I've found a couple of these. What is my best shot at displaying text on them?

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  • If you can identify the LCD itself, alibaba may have replacement driver boards for cheap

  • Unpopular Opinion

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  • Those of us who work in tech need to have a serious reckoning about our contributions to this sort of dynamic and the sort of social environment it incentivizes us to gravitate towards, maintain, and create.

    There also needs to be some discussion of class in tech and how the bull pen tech support grunts are going to have very different incentives from the senior technician making 7 figures on top of mad stock options.

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    How do I block all of Hexbear from All?

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  • I can be smarter I promise

  • Its sad. .

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  • To the tune of We Didn’t Start The Fire