I didn't realize a big part of the #writersstrike was about companies shedding a lot of informal practices that made worker-friendly productions and quality TV possible.
They want to formalize those informal things everyone used to be on the same page about.
As always, @adamconover is worth a follow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYt8iYnUfyY
Google keeps sending me these emails telling me it's time to upgrade to Google Analytics 4.
So here's the thing: I tried to figure it out.
GA has escalated in complexity and confusion for years, but it's finally beyond me. I did everything it said to do, and no data came through.
And it made me rethink whether I actually need that data. I just kind of set it up out of habit for over a decade at this point and never thought about what those graphs were doing for me.
The truth is they don't tell me anything I don't already know. And with ad blocking catching on, the few people who actually load the tracker aren't representative.
I could barely figure out how to get to the graphs I wanted anyway. And in GA4, I just can't. They don't seem to exist even as something I can build from scratch from variables. Maybe it'd make more sense if any data made its way through.
Oh well. Another de-googled part of my life.
A thing with online discussions: some people think you should ignore the tone someone uses and focus on points, but tone is a strong indicator of what kind of interaction someone wants.
Most of the time, trying to treat someone who starts off aggro as someone who wants to have a conversation just leads to frustration.
If they have an actual good reason for the tone (every marginalized person has a good reason), they're probably venting, and the best you can do is ignore unless you actually know them. (try not to vent at strangers)
If they just have a hostile disposition generally, then you probably won't find the words to converse without making them more hostile.
Remember how Twitter started out as one big firehose on the main page? Anyway, here's #Bluesky https://firesky.tv/
Expect horrors
✋Portrait mode monitor for documents
👉Portrait mode monitor for the entire Arturia Modular V interface #moog #musicproduction
"No one's doing anything interesting with VR"
Did you know there's a regular #VRChat convention put on by furries?
Did you know it's paid and still drew almost 12,000 people to the last one? The biggest in-person furry convention just barely beats it.
https://furality.org/ - @furality
It's put on by people with real convention running experience with a high level of polish. Compare to just about anything you've seen that's made you cynical about #VR and you'll see the difference.
You can't look at half-assed efforts like whatever Meta is doing and declare it DOA.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFeIkH7rnnyAtHXvSUya55cS908ldIvxb
I think people are so used to being disappointed by open source organizations that they forget to temper their criticisms of Mastodon with the fact that it was running on fumes with a burnt out developer less than six months ago.
That's when things spiked, and the project suddenly had enough income to hire more developers and UX people.
This isn't Mozilla taking almost half a billion from Google while Firefox continues to fall behind, or the FSF that can only lecture people while people look for and build alternatives to GNU tools.
