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No shit Sherlock. Next they'll find that water is wet, full-length feature film (provided free with ads) at eleven.

At least this article gave me the opportunity to join their newsletter after scrolling down the tiniest bit on their page, making that ask a full-page feature for my convenience.:-|

(Funny b/c in this pic, corps are the ones who are dicks:-P)

Bold of you to think that they even think of us at all.

I actually mean that seriously: we continue seeing, over and over, that no, quite often they do NOT expect people to NOT do that, they quite simply DGAF. They pirate us, we pirate them, it becomes just another "cost of doing business", until they are strong enough to eventually crack down further. See ad blocking & Chrome recently, after multiple decades of internet ads pushing the limits.

It's like a zombie nom noming your brains - after like 2 bites it'll get bored and wander off, and it literally doesn't even need to "eat", it simply is so fucking DUMB that it doesn't know what else to do with itself. It is truly horrifying b/c while your entrails may be strewn about on the floor, or in the throats of tens of zombies, they in turn... don't even have the decency to be aware that you've died!?

Lower-level managers sell ideas to higher-level managers, and "logic" has little to do with those conversations, compared to the amount of emo-stroking that goes on "oh, you will become so rich, and powerful, and handsome, and brave, and precious" (from here:-P) - and so long as enough people play along, that happens!

Our world is just so fucking STUPID.

That said, what they do is on them, while what we do is on us. Find a way to live - hopefully by finding a way to contribute, if/where you can.

Yikes!? Though never fail to underestimate the stupidity of... yeah okay I see your username, you already know that:-P.

It's like why didn't peasants rise up and overthrow their royalty long so, as those in the USA & France eventually did? Bc there was always a tiny handful of people who benefited from the status quo, and were willing to defend it with their very lives.

Or bc it's Lemmy, it could also just be a pure Troll:-P.

Most tier lists use a tabular format, often horizontal. This one looks like a table organized vertically. Except it's neither and instead uses color, but isn't R/G colorblindness the most common form? Anyway, I'm saying that I found it confusing.

Then again, you posted infinitely more to Lemmy today than I did (at zero:-P), so there is no need at all to listen to my whining if you aren't interested in such feedback on presentation style:-D.

I just saw something similar on DuckDuckGo, and Firefox too - it's f-ing everywhere.:-(

Okay so not my best work (it's not nearly offensive enough), but then again, it wasn't Google's either:-(.

Yikes that is a scary thought... but not inaccurate:-(.

He said in the talk that "people are working ridiculous hours without needing to", but I think it's a bit naive to think that that was not the point all along. It's like every movie ever when someone dies, follow the money and whoever just put out a high dollar life insurance policy on the victim is almost always the guilty party.

There's likely more to it that - e.g. someone read a book somewhere and decided to increase their feelings of control, but ultimately someone wrote that book. And the managers always say like "we'll just put this for now and adjust later if we need to", but then make it enormously difficult to change it whenever that would be needed. They act shocked every time - shocked I tell you, shocked!:-P - whenever their estimate based on not knowing the first thing about what they are talking about ends up being wrong (how could this be!?).

I am comforted by having watched Star Trek TOS and seen engineering estimates treated the same way. So apparently this style of management predates AGILE, and even PCs:-P.

And the same with updates on tickets: meaningless if they must be made daily, or else the good stuff gets lost amidst those.

So... just like real news sources then, like certain ah... "fair & balanced" ones? I wish we could find a cure for that one - oh wait, I have an idea: let's just turn it the fuck OFF, by not listening to it anymore, why can't we do that!? :-P

The first beginning sentence, after the cursive intro, I think tells the story. i.e., this is a book review, intended to generate additional interest in that book, and expand upon what that book said, but for the sake of the book.

Not that that is fundamentally bad, just... yes I agree with what you said so much. We have yet to be truly challenged, e.g. if Reddit sues Lemmy instances in court for some made-up reason(s), so that regardless of the truth the legal fees alone would bankrupt it (the same that happened to emulator software, and that Donald Trump has done to just about anyone that has ever worked for him ever).

It is all well and good to simply say "well if that ever happens then I will simply move to another instance" - but really, will that REALLY happen? How much effort are most people willing to put forth for their "social media", if they had to pursue it on the high seas? How many people even left Twitter for Mastodon, or Reddit for Lemmy? For Mastodon users in particular, whose literal livelihoods can depend somewhat on being able to connect with clients/customers (especially I am thinking of artists), the potential for copycats and lost revenue from such a move seem disastrous.

It could be that we are all doing something that will forever remain niche. Which I am okay with actually:-P, but then as you said, this article gets a bit ahead of itself in talking about such things as if they are inevitable, when in reality it may be highly questionable, at least on a scale that equates our little experiment here with the Web 2.0 (and it did not escape my notice how it was placed vertically higher, and graphically cleaner e.g. Chrome and Facebook and such did not exist even as a remnant, and then goes even further to the Collective Web).

I suppose it is okay to dream, but better than either optimism or pessimism imho is realism. And I think at best we might be the moss that grows in the cracks between the humongous trees, and it would be okay if we allow ourselves to accept that - b/c while we might not have it in us to reform the entire world, at the very least we can clean up our little corner of it, and that's enough:-).