There’s clearly a value and a route toward companies hosting their own federated comms. It’s like how email became self-hosted in the '90s: first the bitnets and aols, and unis and orgs, and finally, thanks to Outlook tasting email on the way in, email viruses.

The same progression will probably repeat for Lemmy and mastodon. Consolidation and self-archiving and all that are valuable, and once HPe finds out how to link ChatGPT to a Lemmy or mastodon, they’ll be all in with something suiting their current quality trend.

Ideally we’ll have gone crypto by then for private messaging, and go farther for privacy than email and fbchat seems to be able, and that’ll be nice.

many offices have already been converted

The plural of anecdote isn’t data.

If it was, we’d not have smoke detectors. After all, most people have gone through 12,000 days without a house fire, so there’s no value.

work with headphones in. So I wouldn’t contribute to the collaboration that is claimed to take place.

In the new cramped environment with low visual privacy and especially no audio privacy, we all just end up with earpods in. We need the noise isolation to f’n THINK!

So the boss oozes his way over and ‘hums’ and ‘haws’ trying to get our attention before waving and doing that “hey pull out your earbuds so I can talk” gesture that resembles yokels trying to pick up someone in an elevator or on the bus and not.getting.it .

Because he doesn’t.

So that is the life of people I left at the old job, and it’s repeated a thousand times over.

Learn to also say on the phone “this environment has no audio privacy. Can you book meeting and a conference room? Thanks”, if you get too many desk calls.

… and HVAC and power with the internal wall change and sound-insulation.

I seriously wonder why I even have to go to the office the other three days.

You don’t; and you know this already.

I quit my union job when the new hotshot manager started mandating RTO into a newly compressed, hot, bright, loud environment; being able to actually see asses in chairs was his jam, despite the work impact. What a tool.

Found a job with another unionized IT shop, paid for it with a 3% pay cut but got an extra week of vacation (net loss: 3 days pay/yr) and a really great crew and 100% remote written into the contract. Thanks, ya tool.

We were always going to pay for their failures; this one, or the next.

Sure. Okay. No argument.

Stallman is also his own worst enemy. Feet-picking aside, coat-tailing Linux with this whiny “but ack-shually, gnu is a big part of it so we want equal billing” is just weak and arrogant and has been for decades.

… and if stallman can’t see that without Linux he’d be just a hippie with other issues, he begs for the same trivialization of his own role.

Call it Torvalds/tridgell/baumel/Bourne/Ritchie/Linux before GNU/Linux or gtfo. And if we call it gnu/Linux, we should say chisel/David or Mussolini/UN because, like GNU, they were in the right place at the right time to have a completely fungible sidecar role in what actually happened to catalyze actual work.

Stallman made emacs. Cool. I use it daily. GNU is great but not vital. Without Edison, we’d have a Marconi somewhere.

They surrender their passport on arriving.

They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.

They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.

They die.

God bot, but fix that comma-splice.

When you’re screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they’ve given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

– randy pausch, the last lecture

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/430312-when-you-re-screwing-up-and-nobody-says-anything-to-you

ALL of it is good. Go watch. Maybe laugh a bit. Maybe cry near the end. Come away changed.

https://youtu.be/j7zzQpvoYcQ

Please don’t humour stallman any more than necessary.

Soon as I see the ‘literally’ I usually predict how it’s going to go.

While the Texas grid does have issues related heat waves, it’s not alone in that regard. Basically every southwestern state does, including California.

There are stark differences between 49 other states and Texas.

• Texas power grid has been systematically gutted
• regulation and inspections are defunded, as Texas refuses the inspections required to join the nations power exchange as a peer.

And the big one

• now they’re not exchanging power, they have to buy from their rich constituents, at a premium, and they gut the bank accounts of your tax money

They’re set up for failure and occasionally they succeed.

Kinda orthogonal but I will say it’s weird that we can still vote with our wallets.

the data only goes back to 1979 and has not yet been verified by NOAA which has data going back to 1880.

There’s a whole hot world outside of America who don’t need to wait for its underfunded organizations to get around to validating the data.

But I get it. The news is dire. It’s neat to cling to uncertainty in times like this unless you lived in Lytton

Yes. Our 12% will really make a difference vs corporations’ 80%. And we can get to that 12% if so 8 billion of us work together. I’m doing my 0.0000001% part!

Thanks. I’m sorry it’s yet another science project, though.

I’m plenty technical, with a few C contributions to projects in the web and VPN space. But with two jobs and three ageing parents, I’m tapped out!

Sister’s vet office is now offline again for COVID. Docs sick, most of the tech staff, most of the admin staff. When it hits, it runs through like a forest fire. One vet left because F the angry pet owners who think it’s a personal insult they can’t get special treatment, and he replaced one of the two who killed themselves (stress) last year.

They may institute a mask mandate again

• to keep the remaining staff healthy on return
• to filter their customers further because of high correlation of shitbaggery
• because docs are always masked so lower risk is now a work perq for them.

Me, I quit my job when they mandated return to work and I joined a union shop with 100% remote in the contract. I should mask up when I go to the store but I’m a dumb boy and always forget. I’m so vaxed it’s like a bad hangover, but I don’t have time for even that mess.

Making reddit go back only shows they have the motive, means, and now another opportunity to try again.

Kill it. Leave their corpse at the gates so others know not to alienate all the cattle.

I found keepassium for the work phone and I was in love that I could keep a separate db with my OTPs under a password and backed up.

Then I left that job and had to split my OTPs. Vanilla keepass for droid will gives me the OTP values for gitlab etc, so it’s good there, but Vanilla keepassium for Android has no camera/QR->OTP input that I have yet, one that works like keepassium does and is all compatible down the line. I’d love to keep using it to maintain the existing separate keepass OTP db I have.

Do you (or anyone) know of a good combo for droid that gets

• keepass
• backup to box/gdoc/etc
• qr for OTP

In one final package? Does XC do it in a way we think may be compatible?