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bishbosh··on Stop Using Discord
Doesn't Element tackle all these with communities, and jitsi room integration?
bishbosh··on The Collapse Is Coming? Will Humanity Adapt?
I feel like you don't need to be a search engine to remember some buzz words. Seems to me you just can't justify your point.
bishbosh··on The Collapse Is Coming? Will Humanity Adapt?
They are talking about carbon sequestration at meaningful scales.
bishbosh··on The Collapse Is Coming? Will Humanity Adapt?
I think both your examples speak to why we shouldn't be flippant about claims of climate collapse.

The Doomsday Clock is not a valid representation of scientific consensus, and is completely incomparable to the current conversation. It largely reflects the political interpretation of one non-profit. In contrast the concerns over climate change are not posted in PR briefs, but in a plethora of scientific papers, in various fields, that repeatedly show we are in or past a worse case prediction.

The ozone layer is more analogous, but the problem had the advantage of being a specific problem, with a soon found and cost efficient solution. In comparison, climate change is also 100% true, but rather than a particular aerosol that can be swapped out, it is literally the foundation of the entirety of human industrialization.

bishbosh··on Careers site Indeed to lay off 1k workers
> Indeed says it will lay off about 1,000 employees — about 8% of its workforce

I suppose I don't know all of what Indeed does, but I would not be surprised if they found fat to cut with that employee count.

bishbosh··on GameStop rockets, as 'Roaring Kitty' returns; shares halted
Mind walking me through that process? I'm genuinely interested in doing so.
bishbosh··on GameStop shares soar 110% and are halted as trader 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces
How much of that net-positivity is a result of a 110% jump because a man posted a meme of a guy leaning forward?
bishbosh··on Biden set to levy 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs this week
Well anti-China protectionism legislation can easily pass through congress, something that undermines the value of the petrodollar can't.
bishbosh··on GameStop shares soar 110% and are halted as trader 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces
Is there a calendar date at which you will concede to the claim that the base idea is simply false?
bishbosh··on GameStop shares soar 110% and are halted as trader 'Roaring Kitty' resurfaces
How would crypto help this? Robinhood could accept crypto as payment and still turn off the buy button.
bishbosh··on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking
Did you happen to have a source? Not that I think this is at all unlikely, just curious about it!
bishbosh··on Wayland and X (2013) [pdf]
I am really interested in this conversation, but man is this a near impossible way to digest this information.
bishbosh··on Jack Dorsey says that he's not on the Bluesky board anymore
How does it tackle things like replies? Like if I am not following someone and they reply to my post.
bishbosh··on Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices
They are correct in saying it's a reliable floor. From AP: >HOW DOES THE MINISTRY ARRIVE AT A DEATH TOLL?

>Gaza’s most widely quoted source on casualties is Health Ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qidra. From an office at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, al-Qidra receives a constant flow of data from every hospital in the strip.

>Hospital administrators say they keep records of every wounded person occupying a bed and every dead body arriving at a morgue. They enter this data into a computerized system shared with al-Qidra and colleagues. According to screenshots hospital directors sent to AP, the system looks like a color-coded spreadsheet divided into categories: name, ID number, date of hospital entry, type of injury, condition.

Given this, it is entirely possible that there are additional dead that otherwise do not make it to the hospital morgue, those lost in rubble, those left behind, or cases were the violence was so great there is no body to note. To your question Hamas has made a point to be conservative and validate the death tolls, meaning that there are likely a great number of dead that don't reach these standards and are not counted.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-health-mini...

bishbosh··on It's Not Just Gaza: Student Protesters See Links to a Global Struggle
>Indeed, many of the protestors are simply violent, uneducated, unsophisticated and weak (easily emotionally manipulated) thugs

Care to justify that claim?

bishbosh··on Don't Lie in Interviews
I think the high minded philosophizing about the morality of a world littered with endless lies falls in the face of the reality of many people's lives. We are already knee deep in bullshit. Jobs will lie about compensation, requirements, duties, advancement, and culture, but what a sickened world we would suddenly occupy if one lies to meet the false requirements.
bishbosh··on Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions
The complexities of societal issues are not really parsable at the level of day to day observation. I could say the same about my culture being one that celebrates corruption and buffoonery, but I don't base my my assumptions about society on my daily experience, I base it on sociology and history.
bishbosh··on Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions
Assuming all resources can be found everywhere is simply false. Beyond that, those that are common have externalities in extraction and processing, as well as huge labor costs. These are complex issues, and claiming simple math can dismiss the history of colonialism that built the current context, is flawed.

I don't follow your point with the second sentence.

bishbosh··on Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions
I don't think history supports this conclusion, and I don't think the effects of colonialism and neo-colonialism can be dismissed with 'voting for fools'.
bishbosh··on Bill comes due for money-losing tech companies that borrowed billions
In fairness, the wasteful levels of wealth in the US come from exploiting the global south.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
This is certainly approaching murder investigation levels of effort by law enforcement, but I don't think it's ridiculous to imagine a POS system being used that keeps transaction records for a year or two.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Interesting. My understanding was that IMEI could be traced to what vendor it was sold to, then they could pull the purchases and either see the card used to buy it, or find the video when the transaction occurred. Guess it depends on whether there is a method to pin which the exact phone without needing to scrub the purchases records.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Well now we can put the speculation to rest, exactly how many CIA agents visited to shut down your radical operation??
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Sometimes honest and brave things are illegal.
bishbosh··on Scientists harness the wind as a tool to move objects
Damn, that title really undersells the work lol.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Even then, most burner phones have serial numbers they can track to the sale.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Do you know of any projects that tried to advertise how much it helps? Obviously quite a limited set of projects that would even have a budget to advertise, but I wonder if there is data on how much it helps to show folks there are other options.
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
Has it?! That's distressing...
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
I would think that a meshnet only over contacts would have too many holes to really be helpful in the hypothetical protest setting that's being described. Definitely a cool way to do it! Do you happen to know if it's XMPP or something, or it's own protocol?
bishbosh··on FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
That seems very likely. My point wasn't to say that they were looking to make a revolutionary tool to fight a state, more that it makes me sad that the ones that catch on are rarely open source ones that have existed.
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