Mastodawn

Of course, the bigger step is just no longer having the Google account, but 16 years of using it both personally and professionally (rookie mistake) makes that kinda hard to undo. That's a lot of other accounts that have been associated with the Gmail address to move over.

nm 7h ago

Google has been nagging me about using most of my storage for Drive, Gmail, etc. for a while now. Decided to clear it out today, and a significant amount of that storage was used by email attachments from PR spam that I thought I'd deleted but had actually only archived. As if I needed another reason to be annoyed about the hundreds of emails I still receive from these people.

nm 8h ago

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦8h ago

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter — folks in tech would be wise to take heed of this advice by @iris_meredith

I fear these absolutely essential & foundaational skills are not being developed well (or, at all) by younger folks in tech, and we old codgers aren't going to be around to fix or build things when they are truly needed.

nm 19h ago

I distinctly remember reading a short(-ish?) story that was basically “reflections on trusting trust but make it fiction” and it is fucking impossible to search for now.

I should have just saved every web page I ever visited so I could run local searches on it, but the one trend of the last decade I haven’t seen coming was “it’s going to be impossible to search the web.” (At least the way I did it.)

So yeah if you know what I’m talking about—and, if it helps, I believe I read it from a mailing list archive?—please let me know.

nm 20h ago

got a library book due in nine days, and another one ready for pickup. but i am also halfway through the second “dungeon crawler carl” book—which… well, let’s leave it at “doesn’t have a return date”—so obviously i’m not gonna drop that to read something else now.

don’t worry, i have the powers of dopamine-regulating medication and cortisol on my side

nm 20h ago

Natasha

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"Thanks humans"

Poster from the Thomas House bar in Dublin 🇮🇪. All AI posters and flyers are not accepted. Love it!

#AI #Ireland #IE

nm 20h ago

feels bad when the time from “that dude’s an asshole” to “oh, wait, he is clearly unwell” is “reading the replies to just one mastodon thread”

nm 23h ago

I am so fucking sick of getting caught up by anti-scraping tools. Something in mobile Safari (or some combination of mobile Safari and the extensions I use) has made it so I can’t reliably make it past either Anubis or go-away on my iPhone or iPad when I visit Codeberg (Anubis) or Sourcehut (go-away) and it’s so frustrating.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t updated to either of the 26 releases for iOS or iPadOS. Maybe it’s because my IP ends up being associated with a fuckton of different user-agents because I use the iPhone, iPad, Chimera Linux, OpenBSD, and GrapheneOS, all with various browsers, because ~I am unwell~ I have to, to some extent, just to go about my normal activities.

Thank you, Sam Altman!

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nm 1d ago

If you, as a viewer, can afford it, pay for the human-made version when you can. If a writer, an engineer, a designer, a musician is doing the work, and there is a way to give them money that does not pass through three instances of platform extraction, do it! The economics of doing real work in public are bad enough already without the further insult of zero direct support.

I think the start of publications like Defector, Aftermath, etc. has showed that this is possible…

… just in time for a bunch of pedophilic fascists to increase the cost of living so much that many people simply can’t afford to spend the money required to keep such publications afloat.

nm 1d ago

I think a lot of the cynicism, exhaustion, and quiet bitterness that has crept into professional life over the last years is downstream of this problem. I don’t believe that people no longer want to do good work, but I think that doing good work has stopped paying the way it used to, while doing bad work loudly has started paying significantly better, so people notice and they adjust.

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-rise-of-the-bullshittery/

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The Rise of the Bullshittery

A few thoughts on how the modern economy has stopped rewarding people who know what they are doing, and started rewarding people who know how to look like they do.

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