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I like the term "adulting" because it implies that you are doing an activity that isn't the default state of a human

Welcome to my new search engine All The Words You Searched For which either returns results that contain all the words you searched for or says that there are no results that contain all the words you searched for.

Current status: trying to work out how to do stemming in different languages reliably despite the frankly shit language coverage in many relevant libraries

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@antiaall3s@chaos.social I would personally probably play along and then at some point become confrontational about it, but then that *is* something that requires a lot of energy to get right, so I wouldn't expect anyone else to do that

"If you block me it means you think I'm right" actually it means you're annoying and I wasn't enjoying our interaction. Life is too short to use my energy on strangers who suck.

bitwarden, enshittification, etc., personal frustration 

@kmeisthax There's a couple news articles about it but basically they're starting to try and insert a proprietary SDK into everything, and also have conveniently hired the developer of another FOSS 'compatible' client

I have extended my tech corp detection to corps in general by also detecting a "Careers" button

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Not happy about the CPU time yet; it's currently clocking somewhere between 15 and 50 milliseconds of CPU time per request, which really isn't acceptable, so that needs much more optimization I think. Profiler time, I guess?

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lmfao, I've implemented a feature that ignores tech company sites effectively by looking for any occurrence of the text 'Pricing' as the sole content of a HTML element

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@rail_ (And Free, by some definition, though that was a bit of a weird special case)

@rail_ For what it's worth, basically every single thoroughly reputable ISP I know of, in any country, started out of spite with the existing industry, after someone concluding pretty much the same thing... so yeah, that sounds like a good plan (assuming you're prepared to deal with the complexity)

@josgeluk @reinoradeboer@mstdn.social Ik heb bij dat soort vragen altijd de neiging om de enquete in te vullen met "betaal je personeel eens fatsoenlijk"

idle thought maybe hot take 

@diedofheartbreak@plush.city Yeah, there's a phenomenon that has been going on for a while, that was commented on elsewhere on fedi, where "fan-made" things are "officially recognized" and this is presented as a good thing

dependencies, hot take, potentially confrontational but honest 

Avoiding dependencies as a matter of course suggests that you believe yourself to be the most qualified expert in every possible aspect of your project, not just the core idea, and makes me trust your judgment of ability a lot less because basically nobody is

@NLNOG @marlies This isn't going to be a perfect solution by a long shot either (and they often have their own diversity issues on other axes), but have you considered visiting various hackerspaces and chatting to the people there, to learn more about what would would interest them (or, conversely, keep them away)?

Seems like there *should* be a fair amount of overlap in terms of technical interests, so I suspect that some answers can be found in the cultural differences.

“You’re so lucky! I wish I could lay around all day.”

No. You don’t. The reason you think laying in bed all day sounds “fun” is because for you it’s a CHOICE.

It’s not fun when you can’t leave your bed. When you’re so sick you can’t watch tv, listen to music or talk to others.

Also don’t get me started on the hypocrisy of non disabled people acting like we’re “lucky” to be housebound/bedbound or that disability is some vacation - when they wailed and screamed about temporary stay at home orders.

When staying home was suddenly NOT a choice - it was the worst thing to ever happen to them and a violation of their freedom.

I can’t get out of bed - but I’m “lucky”. Ok then.

saw a waiter at the coffee shop. he brought me tea and i saw that he had a palestine pendant. i told him "free palestine, my brother" and he smiled.

i am not alone

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