Not only women, but yes that is how they see it

My dad has been that guy! We sure ate a lottt of Silver Wok during that time 😋

Yeah if investors can’t make cartoonish returns for doing literally nothing what’s even the point of gouging customers??

People will be laid off
Spoils will be enjoyed
This great economy… it will endure
The working class will survive!

I think people miss an important point in these selloffs. It’s not just the raw text that’s valuable, but the minute interactions between networks of users people.

Like the timings between replies and how vote counts affect not just engagement, but the tone of replies, and their conversion rate.

I’ve could imagine a sort of “script” running for months, haunting your every move across the internet, constantly running personalised little a/b tests, until a tactic is found to part you from your money.

I mean this tech exists now, but it’s fairly “dumb.” But it’s not hard to see how AI will make it much more pernicious.

Are you a Vulcan? O_o

Either way you have my thanks. Greatest utility value as well as greatest hilarity value!

Oh my god someone finally fell for it! Please don’t edit your comment, you just made my day

neovim on kiTTY

Hey that’s my combi too!

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I’d probably use my own niche text editor

Man I’d be so mad if I’d built up a sweet severance, only to have to quit for better work

Hell yeah. I think it was Spyro – anyway, some psx game – that had to literally go through the source code and declare integers like i outside of loops, so they could be reused. All so the game would fit on disc.

Fairphone looks really cool, but I feel like too big for my weak little hands

I’d probably just refurb an old old Android phone. Would love to buy hardware that is more ethically sourced though

I’m legitimately curious about their takes on this…

And yet you continue to order them

The connection is that they both require workers, but don’t want to pay them

Agreed those scare quotes confuse things. I read it as emphasis

And they’re sticking with that name? … huh

This is called the “network effect,” so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It’s what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so “sticky.” It’s what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.

This is giving me CICS interface flashbacks. Anyone who worked retail or call centre or adjacent 20+ years ago probably remembers getting really good at using these kind of bespoke CMS front-ends (Bell folks might “fondly” remember ARICS and BCRIS).