[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 23 points 8 months ago

Market share. Basic permissions model.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 25 points 9 months ago

Totally agree. Open Letter to Hobbyists will be his legacy. Embrace Extend Extinguish will be his legacy.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Unfortunately true. It’s disturbing to see the non-policy-related causes from that page:

Police discrimination (a crime)

Vandalism (a crime)

Discriminatory housing practices (currently a crime)

Gentrification (a market effect)

Supplemented with actual policy change. They don’t need the help.

In this age of ubiquitous phone cameras and instant social judgement, I look forward to the backlash as racists reveal themselves.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 25 points 11 months ago

Companies share info about their customers sometimes. That shared info gets added to data products for marketing. Sometimes spammers buy or steal those data products.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised I’m the first comment saying this, but all I see is a user who needs help expressing their needs but who is not getting that help. Sure they don’t have our experience with decomposing problems and anticipating technical issues, but that’s normal and expected.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

I don’t think they meant to bite at anyone. I feel compassion for anyone who has been beaten down by our system and doesn’t have any fight left. I still have a little, and I take that statement as encouragement to keep fighting. Despair and depression are brutal and I’ll keep fighting for both of us.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago

In a general sense, you are discussing a way to control other people and organizations, and to make them stop talking about you. (Communicating and storing your information) This isn’t always possible or practical.

If you pay a merchant with your payment card, that merchant is allowed to know your payment card number. If you call a toll free number, the recipient of your call is allowed to know your phone number.

If they decide to share what they learn about you, and they do so legally, there’s not a whole lot you can do to stop them. I’m not saying this to antagonize or hurt you. I invite you to think differently about what you can control and what is worth worrying about.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Looking closer at the image, I’m going with “in this house we use single sideband.” (But, as a Plex user, I love yours too.)

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 26 points 2 years ago

God that sounds awful in headline form.

Pride month is absolutely not an excuse to say “current homophobes will never get better, so they all need to blah blah”. Their current behavior is intolerable, but through continued exposure and humanizing influences, the people can be reached. It’ll go from hatred to extreme discomfort to mild discomfort to … something more normal.

Unfortunately I’m a crappy communicator and I can’t figure out a way to reduce that to a headline without making it some kind of division-promoting reductionist garbage. Sigh.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago

I think crucially it has the potential to show moderate voters that President Biden is not one to abuse the legal system for his own personal gain. If the outcome is supported by evidence and precedent, obviously some won’t be convinced by even that. But some will be.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago

Agreed. Use your experience to shape the direction your teammates are moving in. Be an architect, and let them handle your light work.

[-] mspencer712@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago

Do you keep a shopping list? A personal to-do or reminders list? You should stop because that’s a ritual and rituals are clearly bad.

I mean, no, you should keep the rituals that help you work better and discard the rest. Which is what successful agile teams are already doing.

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