Mastodawn

So TD won't email or text you that your card got blocked "because there are too many scams" so here's an idea: just send an email or text. Without links. Just go "log into the website or use the app" and then make the website or app show that the card is, indeed, blocked.

Hey know what the TD website and app don't show btw?

"we're hoping to have that soon" - "so how am I supposed to learn my card is blocks?" - "um, well... it just won't work?"

It's twenty fucking twentysix.

Pomax 2d ago

javi 2d ago

I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.

Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.

And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.

Let me repeat this:

The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!

edit: Bradwood has been promoted to Chief Business Officer of the Mozilla Corporation, not Chief Financial Officer, my bad

edit2: as @[email protected] pointed out, even if Graham Mudd's title is "SVP of Product", the bio in his page talks about him as the SVP of Product for the Mozilla Ads division specifically. So it may be the case that he hasn't been promoted and he's just on top of the ad division. That being said, Mozilla doesn't have a Chief Product Officer anymore, and that makes Mudd the most senior product person in the entire Mozilla organization, outranking the VP that seems to be org-wide.

Mozilla Leadership

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Pomax 4d ago

This same grocery store had giant bins of ancho, chipotle, and new mexicana. So like... Yeah, I am buying all the things?

Pomax 4d ago

<me> how much for the guanciale?
<supermarket attendant> oh. It's per 100 grams, so i-
<me> no, that's dumb. How much for the whole thing?
<supermarket attendant> O_o uhh... It's...uhh... $50?
<me> that's a decent price. I'll take it.
<supermarket attendant> O_O;; okay!

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Pomax 6d ago

And let's be clear version 2: Are they learning? Yeah, they are. Are they learning everything? No, of course not, that's never been how learning happened. They are (re)learning things like "oh yeah, I can just set a class on this HTML element" and "oh right, I can just <fill in anything here>".

AI isn't a silver bullet, but yes: people learn from using AI. The *way* they learn has changed, and those who want to be, or are (I'm so sorry) teachers need to adapt to that.

Learning changed.

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Pomax 6d ago

Let me be clear: AI assisted coding is fucking awesome for making people feel empowered to just make something they would never have been able to make without that help.

Is the code "production level"? Who the fuck cares, it's their personal project, fuck off with your gatekeeping.

Does it work? Cool. Did they remember to ask the AI to check for security issues? Even better.

They're not trying to create the next Google. But even if they were: do you even know how Google started? It was jank.

Pomax 6d ago

maybe OH:
<her> I'll go do something else after I finish up this AI coding thing
<me> five hours later, "wait how is it so late?"
<her> lol
--five hours later--
<her> omg you were right T_T

Pomax 6d ago

"Oh hey, a Netherlands update for MSFS 2024! Let me.. uh... hmm.. let me spend the next entire day running updates before I can try it =_="

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Pomax 6d ago

Shall we add the "entirely optional" columns "is_black", "uses_pronouns", "votes_democrat", "watches_furry_porn", "opposes_gun_ownership", etc. too? After all, they're completely optional, we can just put them in for when people may want to use them. No biggie.

Pomax 6d ago

If the linux kernel isn't political, why is systemd adding a way to track user age in response to and clear acceptance of international authoritarianism?

If folks want to track user age, or literally ANY metadata, they can already do so in myriad ways, why is systemd bending over backwards to make it a built-in? Because the argument that "it is optional" is literally self defeating: if it's optional, you never would have added it in the first place. Who requested it?