Sure, this is great if your biggest concern is password security vs. password breaches. No one using pen & paper is creating new passwords for every site they register for, so they're probably just reusing the same few passwords (or, maybe, with small variations) between sites. Which means they're constantly putting themselves in a position to be hacked, regardless, since breaches expose all your other accounts when you have just one email address.
I'm not going to bother reading this because it's obviously click-bait, but I just want to relate that when I was in high school in the 90s, I remember being in a class where a guest speaker gave a talk and tried to convince us all that artificial sweeteners would "rot our brains" and give us alzheimers. For years, I avoided them because of that – until it became clear that real sugar was destroying my health and putting me on the path for diabetes. Since then, I've not only tried to minimize sugar in my diet, but also tried to sparingly use artificial sweeteners (specifically Stevia, whenever i can) to offset when possible.
Point being: Don't listen to this shrill health BS that purports to have new revelations about what's good for you or not, since this health advice comes in cycles. We saw the same thing with butter/margarine. First butter was good, then it was the devil and margarine was the only way to go. Then margarine was the devil and butter was the only way to go.
Very small anecdotal experience, but I was in Montessori school for grades 2-3 (in the late 80s) and it ruined my math education. When I should have been learning the standard ways to do basic math, they were teaching me nonsense like "skip counting" with rhymes. Despite coming from a family of people very good at math (which also put a focus on math education at an early age), I fell behind and never caught up.
Mastodon was not made for the moment when Twitter collapsed. It was made as an alternative to (a fully working) Twitter for people who hated the toxic environment. So all of their marketing materials and onboarding process are geared toward helping the kinds of people who transition off Twitter to understand the benefits.
Now that Mastodon is being portrayed by the media as the escape hatch from Twitter for a broader audience, they'll probably start focusing more on making the onboarding process clearer and their marketing less techy-focused.
Sure, but even still – there's limited space on my resume. Imagine I've brainstormed 20 short "responsibilities and accomplishments" statements I can list for my last job. Of course I'm not going to list them all, but I am going to pick out the top four that make sense for the employer I'm applying to. I might put a different four on LinkedIn.
The interesting thing to me about this, and many other responses here, is that it's so blind to the reality beyond the tech space about how hiring actually operates for a job seeker. If you're in a position like, say, "software engineer," your skills are clear and unambiguous. You can list the same skills for every job application and eventually find what you want. But many – if not most – job seekers don't actually have that kind of experience. There's a ton of experience that needs to be tailored to the employer. I'm in the nonprofit operations space and there's about 10 different ways I can spin my experience based on what's being asked in the job listing. I don't WANT to copy & paste my LinkedIn because that's not going to get me the job – it reflects what my previous employer wanted, not what my new one might want.
The comments on this post do not pass the vibe check. There's absolutely nothing wrong with a company taking extra care during a layoff to make sure that under-represented minorities are not the hardest hit by it. Throwing around the word "woke" and acting like this is oppression against white people is just performative nonsense.
> If I were a full on Nazi I would get the same treatment as I would if expressed that I'm glad my son doesn't want to be a girl.
If that were true, either no one would be on social media except perfectly politically correct people, or everyone would be desperately trying to be perfectly politically correct. But instead, social media is filled with racist, homophobic, sexist jerks who constantly say things that hurt other people and reinforce stereotypes. So...
Not to mention they also cause accidents. People who see a red-light camera flash often hit the brakes, causing people behind them to rear-end them. There were a number of red-light cameras removed in the U.S. once it became clear they were snarling traffic on a weekly basis because of that.
I won't presume to speak for the owner of this newsletter, but I do receive it, and I'd just say: "I don't want to see messy spaces." The whole point of seeing other people's workspaces is for inspiration – what are ways I could organize my desk, what are some neat things I might want to add, what tech is out there I could purchase to make me like my workspace better. My workspace sometimes look messy, but I always clean up before people come over, so it's kinda the same thing here? I'm sure lots of these folks let their workspaces look lived-in normally, but that's not what we're here for.
The biggest problem with these services is they never last. It's easy to set up something like this, but there are so many of these services and so few non-technical people understand the need/purpose of them, they don't get the traction required to be viable and disappear, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle for the overall "disposable email" sector as folks realize that you can't trust any of these services to stick around...
Incredibly bizarre to me that the press release doesn't include a link to the product. Especially considering that Cron is already a ubiquitous name for something else entirely.
Yeah, I did not mean to imply that postal banking would just be for high-risk customers. There are no postal banking plans where that's a restriction – everyone would have access to it, including many who are too far from a bank to have regular access. The post office is the government's widest reaching physical presence in this country with more locations than any other part of government, so it makes sense that this would be an inroad into banking for lots of people.
Postal banking would be a good solution. It would allow the post office to offer basic banking services for folks like this that can't access it at commercial institutions.
I was on reddit and someone called bitcoin a "useful savings account" and I was like, "NO, STOP. Do not tell people this stuff is for savings!" I was downvoted to hell and people were like "lmao noob." Got into a back and forth where I was trying to delineate an investment and savings and people just kept replying stuff like, "it goes up, that means you beat inflation, do you not understand how this works???"
The Netherlands begins education about sex and sexuality in primary school and it's not only been shown to lower the incidence of sexual abuse – as children can identify it when it happens to them and are more able to communicate with others to get help – but it also lowers the rate of teen pregnancy and STI infection. The idea that anyone would be against age-appropriate education of children about body autonomy, their anatomy, and their sexuality is mystifying to me.
There are a myriad of news sources stating that Disney did, in fact, donate to multiple legislators who voted in favor of the "Don't Say Gay" bill – that was how all this started: They refused to speak out against the bill at first, but had donated to these legislators, and workers were calling it hypocritical for Disney to pretend to support LGBTQ workers while donating to Republicans and refusing to speak out against the bill. https://www.newsweek.com/disney-gave-least-250k-senators-tha...
That was my first thought! The concept works fine for a bathroom with multiple people if they're all trying to go at once. But if you're using this at home, the best place for it is actually outside the single-user bathroom.
I run an online club with about 20-something email addresses. We're almost certainly moving to Migadu (which doesn't charge per account and seems reputable, according to lots of folks here) and then downgrading our account to the "Google Workspace Essentials" so our Google Docs don't go anywhere.
I live in the Bay Area and it's fascinating to me how BART is just a miserable piece of shit when it comes to noise. Head to Oakland and visit any of the areas where BART is above ground, particularly in East Oakland, and stand there for 10 minutes. The sound of this train that runs dozens of times a day is all-encompassing when you're within a few hundred feet, but can be heard over two miles away.
And that's not even considering the sound BELOW ground. They've improved it, but ride BART around the Fruitvale switch, or anywhere it turns underground really, and the screaming and screeching noise becomes your whole world for a minute or two – impossible to escape.
God that shit infuriates me. I used to live downtown in a city and only realized after moving into my apartment that I was close enough to hear a crosswalk beeper nearby. Now, I know that it needs to be there for blind accessibility, but I'll never understand why it needed to beep EVERY cycle (basically every minute it would beep for 30 seconds) instead of just when someone pushed the button. It's like, how did no one who set this thing up think about all the people living nearby who'd have to listen to this incessant beeping from 6am to 10pm???
People will still be hobbyists with loud cars and motorcycles, though (at least in the US). We literally just need to legislate a package of laws that says people can't make loud noise with their vehicle, repeated offenses result in the vehicle being taken away, and anyone that modifies vehicles to make loud noise will be fined heavily.
Yes. Are you trying to imply that the Great Resignation was not the result of the outside influence I mentioned – in this case government intervention (lockdowns, unemployment insurance expansion), and a global pandemic that removed hundreds of thousands of people from the workforce and changed priorities for companies and employees?
Because there's really no reason to question whether government should reasonably limit standard business practices – we've seen, in spades, how business practices are driven entirely and only by concerns of profit while the labor market has very little flexibility that would allow workers to "vote with their feet" and move to "better" employers without outside influence.
Put another way: Of course it's a good thing to force businesses to make work more humane and sustainable for the humans who have to do it.
Like others below have said, this seems like the absolute wrong conclusions to come to. Someone else mentioned he didn't have enough runway and that's what it feels like to me, too. Someone close to me has terrible migraines and has spent years trying to figure out how to treat them to no avail. If this tool could have shown me data that would have helped the person I love, I would have paid a lot of money for it.
I have no idea what kind of marketing he did and for exactly how long, but it feels like there's a lot of people, organizations, and companies that could have been interested here beyond a few doctors in SF. Like, not to put too fine a point on it, but how many disabled people did he talk to? How many industry groups (American Lung Association, etc.)?