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Clients are learning to open doors^W^Wwrite slop themselves. Cheaper, same pile of shit at the end of the process.
Re:Dave Farber has died on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:02PM (#46939509)
His mailing list was public. No harm in sending the link to the meeting for last week, I guess. You can find the Zoom meeting coordinates there; they were reused every time. https://ip.topicbox.com/groups/ip/T2c0d41d801eaa76c-Mbdfe983...
Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @02:13PM (#45891479)
Could be AI-knitted. They lost an opportunity right there.
"By AI Content Team"

Would be nice to start flagging these articles so we don't lose time on slop.

> RTO in a nutshell.

I saw this a while ago on Mastodon and it's on point (https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/114027906524929311):

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In today’s “terminology matters”:

Return To Office policy: middle-management language that assumes “office” is a neutral position, we’re somehow “returning to”. This term has been carefully crafted by corporate strategists to sound as palatable as possible.

Mandatory Commute policy: centers the outcome for workers - spending hours each day on an unpaid commute to and from the office just so we can be on video calls all day.

We don’t just have to accept hostile framing.

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He can share them before you do and get more likes.
Is that the codename for Windows 11?
Re:In Response to Google on Friday April 26, 2024 @06:43AM (#40167763)
You mean this is the way to write comments now? I might join, sounds like a good idea?
Re:In Response to Google on Friday April 26, 2024 @02:09AM (#40166366)
The title should be changed to "In response to Google?" to keep up to date with the latest practices around here.
Re:Bad property debt exceeds reserves at largest US banks on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @08:55AM (#39441264)
I told you you should all go back to the office for the culture and the interpersonal relationships. Now you got this.
As a user of the PPA packages (https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa), now I'm confused. Are these the same packages? Should I switch? I'd have appreciated at least a mention in the article.
Matt Levine's "slightly annotated diagram" in one of his latest newsletters tells the story quite well, I think: https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/42469
Re:Iknowwhatyoudownload.com – Torrent Activity Checker on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:32AM (#38175629)
This made me remember one anecdote written in one of the books about how Amazon became what it is today (it could be "The everything store", but I'm not sure.)

If my memory serves me well, the book mentions that, for a while, Amazon had "the most read books in your zip code", until someone realized some corporations were so large a zip code was basically just them. So that became "the most read books at Intel's research department", and the entire thing was scrapped.

Re:Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @12:40PM (#38100889)
Register.ing sunsett.ing and redirect.ing it to google.com.
Re:Thunderbird 115.4.0 on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:29PM (#38004138)
mutt does both things. I've been using it for years. The learning curve is certainly steep, and being in the terminal all the time might throw people off, but it does what you're asking for.
Re:Announcing the Pollen API on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:58AM (#37308047)
"Quick! Use this in your app before we shut it down!"
Re:Police Raid Worldcoin Warehouse in Nairobi on Monday August 07, 2023 @12:20PM (#37036537)
This is good for Bitcoin.
It's an amazingly fun book.
The Financial Times (well, Alphaville, a kind of blog inside the main journal) ran a very short-lived experiment for a few months: https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788e...
Re:Google Sidewiki on Sunday July 02, 2023 @09:37AM (#36561379)
I was going to say "what is this new thing, will they close it soon?"

But I was wrong, it isn't new.

Re:The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved [pdf] on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:03PM (#36314114)
Oh, damn, I really thought it was published :-(
Re:The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved [pdf] on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @09:50AM (#36310212)
If you have a chance, read the selection of HST letters that are published. I've read the first two volumes and can't wait to get my hands on the third one https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/the-fear-and-loathing-let...

He was a very prolific letter writer and kept carbon copies of almost everything he sent. This is the one he sent to Anthony Burgess when he was editor of Rolling Stone: https://www.openculture.com/2016/05/hunter-s-thompson-writes...

Re: on Monday May 08, 2023 @03:01PM (#35865701)
I keep this article in my bookmarks re: how to write a proper complaint letter. It talks specifically about credit reporting agencies, but a lot of what he says can be applied anywhere else: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r...
Re:US CFTC Sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:44AM (#35328154)
This is good for Bitcoin.
Re:The tech downturn seen through Hacker News comments on Thursday March 02, 2023 @01:46PM (#34999964)
Yes, you're right. However, the trend during the last months is very clear.
Re:The tech downturn seen through Hacker News comments on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:44PM (#34999048)
Here it is: https://paquita.masto.host/@rinze/109954928934842396. My "toots" auto-expire in a month, so if anyone wants to keep these plots, make a local copy.

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