[-] brianary@startrek.website 31 points 1 week ago

If voters bear no responsibility, do you really believe in democracy, or are you thinking about this as an issue to be solved by authority?

The self-righteousness of this discussion is a problem. Politics requires some humility, which we seem to be short of.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 20 points 1 month ago

None were leftist, and only one got as far as violence.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 29 points 1 month ago

As I've said elsewhere: I wonder what controls Mozilla has in place to prevent gradual takeover of their board by those with an interest in removing Firefox as a competitor. We've watched the sleeper cell in the Supreme Court transform that body into an illegitimate partisan puppet. Mozilla's actions over the last few years would make much more sense if it were being manipulated into self destruction.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 21 points 2 months ago

It's literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I've been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you'll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago

How precise is this translation?

I've also heard "From many, one", which can be taken two ways: the same celebration of the individual (presumably over other individuals), or that the many come together as one, which is a much clearer call to action.

I prefer the Voltron version.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 3 months ago

What's that in Trusses?

[-] brianary@startrek.website 31 points 4 months ago

Like sending a few choice SCOTUS judges to gitmo

[-] brianary@startrek.website 21 points 4 months ago

A job is not a social club. You may need a mix of personality types, but if you lock yourself into a candidate pool from a tight geographic area, that'll be far more constraining.

You can't just make up a percentage based on anecdotal observation and expect anyone to take it seriously.

Generally, my online meetings work great. When there's lag, or for low-priority or asynchronous points, we use the text channel. No interruption. That's not really available in person. It also allows more input from thoughtful introverts, which typically get steamrolled and ignored in person.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 23 points 4 months ago

There is work like construction, transportation, and customer service that can't really be remote.

I'm not sure if there's a good argument for work that can be done remotely to insist on both in person and remote work. It doubles the amount of workstation resources required, or compromises on at least one of them.

Maybe teams benefit from in-person communication? That's probably simpler for some that haven't found comparable online versions of whiteboarding tools or whatever. Good tools do exist, but feel people that haven't adapted to them by now, it'll take some real demand to make it happen. This might not be a characteristic of a highly effective team, though.

Most frequently, hybrid insistence seems do be more about justifying middle management, based on my highly unscientific observations.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 23 points 9 months ago

This company has been caught multiple times going back and changing the location of recorded shots in their system after the fact. I don't know why they're still in business.

[-] brianary@startrek.website 23 points 9 months ago

So do feature testing, not user-agent sniffing! For Pete's sake, it's 2024! That's been the best practice for decades!

[-] brianary@startrek.website 28 points 11 months ago

He's active on Mastodon, too!

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