Hey Sundar, here is a free piece of advice:
Announcing your record profits from the past Q will, likely, lead to "fewer layoffs" is not the morale boost you think it is.
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Hey Sundar, here is a free piece of advice: Announcing your record profits from the past Q will, likely, lead to "fewer layoffs" is not the morale boost you think it is. -
Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.They are very easy to find with with a quick Google search. Everything it's all over the mainstream news
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Shit is going down HARD in Eurovision onright now.We are hours from the beginning of the fest and in the last couple of hours:The french artist stopped his song during the dress rehearsal today, gave a speech about peace, and left the stage The Irish o...Shit is going down HARD in Eurovision onright now.We are hours from the beginning of the fest and in the last couple of hours:
The french artist stopped his song during the dress rehearsal today, gave a speech about peace, and left the stage
The Irish ones sent a press release asking the EBU to disqualify Israel for the comments their broadcaster had done about the Irish song
Both Ireland and Greece didn't show up to the festival flag parade that kickstarts the show.
Norway's artist who were going to be the spokesperson of the jury tonight announced she is declining to participate... An hour ago, about 8 hours before she would have to go live
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Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.Fuck, this may very well be the end of Eurovision as a cultural force in Europe.
What's going on:
The Dutch artist have been showing some mild unease at the Israel presence there this year during the past week. The Irish ones have been forced to change their looks because it included the words "ceasefire" and "freedom for Palestine" in ancient gaelic script.
Yesterday, someone from the Israel delegation joked about the dutch artist's father death (the Dutch song is dedicated to him) and there was "an incident" (undisclosed, but the rumor-mill says the Dutch guy may have punched the jokester)
Eurovision have disqualified the Netherlands from today's final.
The Dutch broadcaster association (those who pick who to send to EV) posted this a few hours ago:
There has been protest within the Finnish public broadcaster asking for Finland withdrawal
The head of the political party who is the junior partner in the government of Spain is also calling for our withdrawal.
The Israeli delegation seem to have spent the week literally harassing anyone they perceive as critical, with several complains about their behavior already being published.
The Israeli song is one of the favorites to win, and if they do, next year Eurovision would be organized by them. If that happen, there is no way several countries wouldn't just refuse to take part.
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One: a Nazi promotes her own speech about The Great Replacement (core Nazi doctrine)Two: Musk promotes the post and says the problem with [Nazi doctrine] is that it doesn't center enough in [Nazi historical doctrine]Three: my ex-boss and automattic and...One: a Nazi promotes her own speech about The Great Replacement (core Nazi doctrine)
Two: Musk promotes the post and says the problem with [Nazi doctrine] is that it doesn't center enough in [Nazi historical doctrine]
Three: my ex-boss and automattic and Tumblr CEO jumps in to recommend Elon a book about [Nazi doctrine]
So yeah, my ex-boss seems to be full in the movement.
Now let me remind you about this thing called reality:
US population grew 0.4% last year
EU population grew 0.1% last year
World Population? +0.8%
None of those figures has gone under 0 in the last 50 years (and probably before, I just don't want to look for more data). The population collapse the are talking about is about WHITE population. If someone talks about population decline, they are a white supremacist.
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3rd most active contributor to #nixos drops from the project due to the lack of leadership from the Foundation supposedly backing the project.Everything is fine, I'm sure the arms dealers will compensate the lost contributions. /shttps://github.com/Nix...I think people working for companies like Anduril or Palantir deserve to be shunned and pushed out of any communal space on tech. These are people who willingly choose to work making the killing of other people more efficient and easy. I'm ok, happy even, with them not feeling welcome in FOSS.
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offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much small...offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).
Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it
The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.
Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.
Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.
So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.
I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.
And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.
That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons. -
These people are so fucking dumb. Let me do some quick math. Any given week day, at peak hour, any train from Madrid's metro can be carrying around 500 people. Let's consider that some of them may be traveling together, so let's say that being optimist...again, why is it unrealistic? well, 100% probably is, but 90%? why? it's just a policy matter.
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These people are so fucking dumb. Let me do some quick math. Any given week day, at peak hour, any train from Madrid's metro can be carrying around 500 people. Let's consider that some of them may be traveling together, so let's say that being optimist...These people are so fucking dumb. Let me do some quick math.
Any given week day, at peak hour, any train from Madrid's metro can be carrying around 500 people. Let's consider that some of them may be traveling together, so let's say that being optimistic, they could be divided in 250 robotaxies.
Now, that's one train. At any moment there are between 10 and 20 trains going in that line in that same direction. And as much in the opposite. That makes it between 5k and 10k robotaxies. To cover a single metro line
Madrid has 16 metro lines. That makes it between 80k and 160k robotaxies just they could move the same order of magnitude of people our Metro moves in any given workday. If you want to cover really busy moments, like big sport events, you need twice that amount (the nominal max capacity of metro trains is around 1200 people per train, and believe me, I've seen them so full that you couldn't get in pretty often).
That's just for the subway. Local commuter trains and city buses, combined, are actually carrying more people daily than the subway. So let's double the robotaxies fleet again if they want it to "kill public transport". So you need between 350k and 700k robotaxies just to be able to kill the public transit of a single major city.
That's about 1/6th of every Tesla ever made. Just. For. One. City.
The current Madrid taxi fleet? 15k cars.
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Btw, if someone who already is in the Fedi, is familiar with Tumblr, and want to take a look at what we are doing with goblin, just let me know and I'll send you an invite for my serverBtw, if someone who already is in the Fedi, is familiar with Tumblr, and want to take a look at what we are doing with goblin, just let me know and I'll send you an invite for my server
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@[email protected] @[email protected]%While working on my own project, I've found myself spending more time on thinking about how to work around the limitations of mastodon so I can keep compatibility while adding new features than on thi...@[email protected] @[email protected]
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While working on my own project, I've found myself spending more time on thinking about how to work around the limitations of mastodon so I can keep compatibility while adding new features than on this new features on its own.
As the biggest project in the Fedi, mastodon gravity well is huge, but we need to find the way to scape it. We have the chance to build a new social internet apart from the corporate-lead platforms, it would be a shame if we ended with just a bunch of flavors of Twitter clones.
Btw, this is how this conversation looks in Goblin. Hooray for long posts, and also for chained conversations :
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World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.…Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit…This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitaria...This is not even went first time Israel bombs clearly labeled vehicles from humanitarian orgs: early this year they bombed a convoy of doctors without borders cars that were evacuating people to the safe zone defined by the IDF. And then a tank fired at the DWB offices
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Somehow I've managed to convince @[email protected] to make a illustration for Goblin's 'not found' page. Look at this beauty! And since we are at it, look at @javier's drawings page over here: https://javier.computer/drawings(I'm super stoked...Somehow I've managed to convince @[email protected] to make a illustration for Goblin's 'not found' page. Look at this beauty!
And since we are at it, look at @javier's drawings page over here: https://javier.computer/drawings
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Yesterday I activated #ActivityPub on my #Threads account: @[email protected] Reading the official announcement by #Meta… Threads has entered the #fediverse https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fedivers...Yeah, basically, as Darnell said: I'm trying to replicate some of the specific functionalities that make tumblr 'weird' compared to other social networks on a fediverse platform. Things like reblog trails, rich text, inline media within the posts, etc. At this point there are 2 servers online (mine and https://kobold.page) and maybe... 15 active users? (both servers are still invite-only).
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Actually, let me use this as an example of how everything has gone wrong with web development in the last decade or so.Dan Abramov is a very brilliant guy who is part of the Facebook's React team. He has been the most important name in the team working...Actually, let me use this as an example of how everything has gone wrong with web development in the last decade or so.
Dan Abramov is a very brilliant guy who is part of the Facebook's React team. He has been the most important name in the team working on React for years. And now, they are pushing for changes in React that would make it consume streams of data that updates the UI before the entire data request is completed, instead of just requesting the data and then 'painting' it once they get the reply for that request.
This is nuts. This is a micro optimization. 95% of the users won't ever notice, and those who do (people using extremely bad connections) would be much better if the site wasn't using React at all. At the same time, I'm sure half of the websites in the World who currently uses react will jump to implement this, making their code way more complex, brittle, sucking their productivity down, and in the long term, being worse for the users. Just for absolutely not even a short-term gain at all in their products.
Then why these kind of things keep happening? Because Facebook is too big. And somehow they ended being the ones in control of the most popular web-app framework used by most of the sites nowadays.
The state of the current Javascript ecosystem is what happens when you get companies with hundreds, thousands of engineers, to build sites that 15 years ago would have been built by 1/10th of that number of people. What you get is a lot of people working on a product that's actually mature already, and whose job end being going after that extra 1%, that last micro optimization that could make your site better in a very narrow set of cases. And they don't care about the complexity, because they are part of an engineering organization with literally thousands of hands to throw at any problem. Setting up your code bundler now takes hundreds of lines of code that need constant maintenance to achieve just a 5% improvement over gzipped plain JavaScript? No big deal, they have 6 people working full time on that. React switching to a different programming paradigm each two versions? Nice, now the 900 devs working in the web version has something to do for a few months.
But then small to medium teams adopt these tools. And suddenly you have a 5, 20, 50 devs team having to do the same work the Facebook web team does. Without any of the problems Facebook has to solve.
What's worse: a big share of the current JavaScript ecosystem exists just to solve problems introduced by the previous iterations. Think about it from a user perspective: does the web work any better, does Netflix, Facebook, twitter, tumblr, etc load faster, perform better than they did ten years ago? On the contrary, most of us have more powerful computers, phones. We have significantly faster internet connections. But sites are, at best, as fast as they used to ten years ago. In most cases they are even slower.
And from the engineer perspective it's not better: web development is significantly harder, more complex, slower nowadays that what it was ten years ago. Things that were trivial are now complex. Things that were complex still are. Product-wise, we are not doing anything more complex than what we were doing in early to mid 10s. But somehow now everything is harder, involves more code, everything is now orders of magnitude more complex. And it's not even making the web a better experience.
We made this mess. We made the web worse for everyone. We made our jobs harder for ourselves. It's so stupid.
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