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  • I received two packages today. They sat on my porch for three hours and neither was stolen.

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  • My wife is the self-designated glass recycler for our neighborhood. Everyone leaves their glass jars and bottles on our porch and periodically she drives them up to the collection bin.

    Picture quality is low, but that’s three or four glass jars all next to each other.

  • I received two packages today. They sat on my porch for three hours and neither was stolen.

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  • No, never.

  • I received two packages today. They sat on my porch for three hours and neither was stolen.

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  • I can’t take credit for it. It was the picture in the delivery notification email from UPS.

  • What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

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  • “Online communities” are great, but how do you stop them from being infiltrated by corporate astroturfers within five minutes of creation? Doesn’t every major brand have a low-overhead keyboard farm posting social media and forum comments to make them look good?

  • What If We Made Advertising Illegal?

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  • I’m anti-advertising, but this simply isn’t true. Customers don’t show up out of thin air. They don’t care. Anyone who’s built or created anything knows that feeling invisible is the rule, not the exception.

    A lot of us here on Lemmy are part of the software industry. Have you ever tried to make money by building a great app and waiting for users to trickle in? It doesn’t work. You might as well declare bankruptcy before you start. Selling anything at all, let alone software, is like pulling teeth—and software is more often a luxury than a necessity, making it even harder.

    (Granted, advertising has made the situation worse by training people to ignore any and all attempts to get their attention or communicate information.)

    Approximately every successful software business has talented and hardworking salespeople behind the scenes. I’ve learned this the hard way: you need sales experts or you won’t sell a damn thing.

    Maybe someday we can find a way to get by without ads. But let’s not pretend it’s as easy as “if you build it, they will come.”

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  • As a professional dev (okay, okay, forgot where I was, aren’t we all) I approve of this reasoning

  • Donald Trump Jr. has been boosting MAGA-related startups

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  • For anyone on the “invest in the complete opposite of whatever Don Jr. is doing” plan, there are lots of good ESG’s you can put your money in. Firms like Calvert are gonna perform slightly worse than VTSAX, but it’s typically not more than “slightly,” and at least your money isn’t funding oil cartels, Meta, Amazon et al.

  • Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

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  • The Microsoft store app that nobody uses? Oh god, anything but that

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  • It’s all hallucinations. It’s just that some of them happen to be right

  • Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

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  • Or!—hear me out—one woman whose 8 co-gestators were just laid off by someone who doesn’t understand what their job was

  • Should we have a day where we, as a community, go out of our way and thank our maintainers?

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  • There’s a handful of us that do 50 for FOSS: https://50forfoss.org/

    tl;dr: on the first Friday of the month we each pick a FOSS (free/open-source) project and give the maintainer $50.

    Thanks and encouragement is great too. As a small-time open source maintainer, it seems awareness has been spreading over the last few years and people are going out of their way to be kind and respectful when they raise issues; it really makes a difference. But financial sustainability and community ownership are separate and arguably more essential issues if we want FOSS to survive over the long term.

    I did have one maintainer turn down the $50 and ask me to donate it to UNICEF. It’s all the same to me as long as it makes the work more sustainable for them.

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  • This is why email never caught on. Who wants to choose between Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Proton, and Comcast? A successful email service would be one where you can only communicate with users of the same email service. /s

  • I work my puzzles during the commercials

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  • Not OP, but I highly recommend Cryptograms as a word puzzle you can do on paper if you’re trying to get off your phone for a while (I bought a book of 500 and it’s been great). The learning curve isn’t too intense, and each puzzle is different enough from the last that they don’t lose their challenge over time.

    I’m also the creator of an app called Sootly, if you’re looking for a deeply stressful game of word guessing and deductive logic. It’s a free app with no ads, for the record, so no motive of financial gain here.

  • Good guy clippy

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  • Is Unreal worse than Unity? I’ve only ever heard people complain about the latter

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • I wish you would be friends with me instead

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • You got me. Mastercard: the credit card for neurodivergents, assholes, and everything in between

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • Hey that’s valid! A good friend of mine has the exact same thing. He’s up front about it, he apologizes when it’s excessive, and he’s more than happy to explain why it’s difficult for him. It’s just a thing, and if I’m going to be his friend, that means accepting it about him.

    In other words, he’s done his best to help me understand him. Now it’s my turn to not be an asshole.

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • I think (hope) most people can tell the difference between symptoms of atypical neurology (lateness, awkwardness, forgetfulness, zoning out et al) and hurtful/abusive/controlling behavior. And if they can’t, they’re just not our people. That’s a whole different Venn diagram though

  • If I had a nickel for every time someone says "this person's being a huge jerk to me but I think they might be neurodivergent"

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  • Well said and point well taken.

    I always encourage people to communicate, gently and clearly, what the other person did that was hurtful. I have so much empathy for people who are clueless (hi, hello, it’s me). But no empathy at all for people who callously, intentionally harass and hurt others.