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Hi, I'm Curt. I work in the Cloud. I like Linux, Cloudy stuffs, theme parks, reading, movies/tv shows. I have a bunch of kids, and have no social life. he/him

šŸ“ A request to tech writers & devs:

Let's make docs more accessible by avoiding placeholder terms like "foo", "bar", and "baz". These terms:

- Create unnecessary barriers for newcomers to tech
- Make documentation harder to understand and remember
- Miss opportunities to demo real-world use cases

Musk’s Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2024: $454.1 billion

Bezos’ Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2024: $242.3 billion

Zuckerberg’s Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2024: $210.1 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2024: $7.25

It’s not the start of an oligarchy. We’re in the thick of it.

My colleague Julius

My colleague Julius par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

It's a Christmas miracle because I burnt my tortilla and the face of Skeletor magically appeared!

Please boost for visibility so the news outlets will pick up on this great story.

Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad [SATIRE] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/heres-why-a-second-death-star-wont-be-that-bad
Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad

Our 20th most-read article of 2024. - - -ā€œMr. Trump’s first term was better than expected… the authoritarian rule that Democrats and the press pre...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency
With great power comes great maximization of stockholder value through enshittification and cost externalization. šŸ“ˆ

This #cauturday is brought to you by: Toe Beans ā¤ļø

#CatsOfMastodon #cats

So, Amazon wants everyone to return to the office. Does that mean they also want us to return to the mall and supporting small local businesses?

AI is coming to #Google search. As a #DuckDuckGo user, I couldn't care less.

#GoogleIO should be called #GoogleAIO

ā€œIt is a truth universally acknowledged that searching for products on Amazon has become … really dumb. You get 10,000 options, most drop-shipped from China, and neither their gibberish brand names nor astroturfed ratings really distinguish them.ā€ https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/why-does-it-feel-like-amazon-is-making-itself-worse.html