joeross
Re:Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:33AM (#48092859)
HR and school admin are the same in that many mistakenly think they are there to help the employee or the student. That is not true. They are there to protect the institution, to manage and mitigate risk and liability. Any assistance to employees or students is a side effect of that work.
Re:Three-Em Dash
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:29PM (#48051360)
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Re:Show HN: Hallucinopedia
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:06PM (#48044167)
This is wonderful. I just spat out the first phrase that came to my mind and boom:
Re:POSSE – Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
on Monday March 23, 2026 @10:50AM (#47490324)
Disagree that it’s hard to automate. There are services and tools that make it easy. I use micro.blog which can cross-post to as many or few socials as you want. (I’m not affiliated, just a happy user.)
And I’m not sure it’s about traffic rather than about, well, being active in multiple different communities. You cross-post where you don’t mind participating, and ignore the rest.
Re:Digg is gone again
on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:59PM (#47372528)
Lemmy has the same energy as ice: a bunch of rejects from other mod communities showing up to render their version of justice upon federated folks
Re:Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
on Friday February 27, 2026 @09:54PM (#47189620)
Hegseth is so pathetic.
Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere
on Saturday January 03, 2026 @12:51AM (#46473173)
It’s the easiest out of the box way to embrace POSSE.
Re:Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:27PM (#45218395)
“collective wisdom” is basically a polite euphemism for groupthink and given that c level folks are all taking the same mba/sigma/cthulu worship courses it’s not surprising.
Re:A Map of British Dialects
on Sunday April 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#43741910)
I agree, it’s very sattening
Re:The Largest Sofa You Can Move Around a Corner
on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:12PM (#43054841)
Replace sofa with refrigerator and somewhere a Siracusa will get its wings.
Re:Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
on Saturday January 04, 2025 @08:15AM (#42594512)
lol “optimal sauce” is such an HN approach to describing good food
Re:RIP botsin.space
on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:08AM (#41992273)
+1 for omg.lol, it’s a great community.
Re:Making Castro's Feeds Update Faster the Lazy Way
on Monday October 21, 2024 @08:01PM (#41909828)
> The Castro app is so much better, it's like comparing iOS to Windows Mobile.
lol respectfully, this is a wildly bad take. yes you’re entitled to your own opinion, but you aren’t entitled to your own window mobile comparisons.
Re:ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives
on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @09:54PM (#41865717)
I have no programming skill at all and I don’t know a ton about ArchiveBox except I set it up and ran it for myself for a while, so I’m asking as an innocent, ignorant and curious geek, but is this something that could be adapted to peer to peer distribution or some other means of making it simultaneously as private and local as you want it and as distributed and bulletproof, uptime wise, as possible?
Re:Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin
on Wednesday October 16, 2024 @10:59AM (#41859848)
For a while it’s my experience that 1Password doesn’t play nicely with… anything. I’ve had issues on Orion, Firefox, Chrome, Brave, Edge and Safari across MacOS and Windows machines.
Re:Why Don't We Use Awnings Anymore
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @08:08PM (#41854360)
Re:Play 3.0 mini – A lightweight, reliable, cost-efficient Multilingua...
on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @04:59AM (#41846510)
I still use FF, for now anyway, so I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we’re talking less than 4% market share, so it’s hard to fault a small team for prioritizing the 82% they get with Chrome+Safari
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-mo...
Re:Spotify is increasing US prices again
on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @02:34AM (#40571337)
At this price point, I'll use the YouTube Music sub I already have as a side-effect of having YouTube Premium, and for the same price
Re:Daft Social, the Anti-Social Social Network for Minimalists
on Friday January 26, 2024 @01:32AM (#39139510)
The Posterous founders started Posthaven after Posterous shut down, and Posthaven – by all appearances essentially a Posterous clone – is still going (and promises at least for now to stay that way): https://www.posthaven.com/features
One of those cofounders is probably familiar to YC nerds: https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me
Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @01:27AM (#38638440)
Oof. I don’t think I e come across any of those people at omg but then again maybe I’ve been catpilled so I just didn’t notice.
It's a nice place to hang out because there aren’t many folks… misusing words like pretentious and claiming literally anyone is policing their life except, you know, the police.
Re:Omg.lol: An Oasis on the Internet
on Monday December 11, 2023 @01:07AM (#38598076)
> I’d like to see which accounts are using the services for a better community
It’s more like after you use it for a little while you look up and suddenly realize you’re in a new but familiar feeling community. It definitely skews developer/blogger/liberal, is openly inclusive and mindful of accessibility (not perfect, but always trying), there's a lot of overlap with various micro.blog/IndieWeb/fediverse communities, a lot of folks with active GitHub accounts doing interesting stuff, a strong photographer contingent, an overarching “positive vibe” as the kids say, and a clear sense that you don’t have to remind the kind of folks who enjoy using omg.lol that there’s a person on the other side of the keyboard.
Maybe that still doesn’t make much sense to you, but while I’m happy to pay for cool stuff people make on the internet, I’m paid up with omg.lol through 2030, which just isn’t something I would do anywhere else.
Re:Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk...
on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:22AM (#38080259)
I haven't trusted the spam button or unsubscribe functions for a long time. It never felt like it worked. I've been making filters to auto delete stuff instead and it just works.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:27PM (#36607390)
https://blog.joeross.me
The latest in a long line of blogs spanning back to 2005ish.
Re:Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout
on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:43AM (#36306425)
I don't see any damage control... they're still committed to the "Apollo sucks" line:
> Mr. Rathschmidt added that some apps are more efficient and require significantly fewer A.P.I. calls and that “Apollo is notably less efficient than other third-party apps.”