angrylittlekitty

my sleep 8 heading/cooling bed last year. was tired of sleeping crappy, had tried just about everything from supplements to saunas, exhausted all other ideas ... out of desperation decided to throw down for it.

seriously life changing. no matter what temp the room is at the bed is always perfect. takes a while for the auto pilot to learn your likes but when it does ... oh man.

much love for my smart mattress ❤️

not at all. i fell into computing in my mid 20s. somehow i managed to learn enough to get myself hired at one of the largest technology companies in the world where i've now been over 20 years.

has it been easy? definitely not. without that classic computer science degree my peers have i've had to be scrappier and move faster to be on top of emerging tech where the playing field is a little more equal. i can this "surfing" the tech.

since i started i've participated in the birth of the internet, mobile, public cloud, big data, startups and now ai.

if you love it you can make it happen - just be realistic and stay scrappy ❤️

this ^^. even if we peel off 5% in a relatively even scrape across all the interests that's enough content for me to scratch the itch daily.

awesome- very exciting and thank you 😊

fwiw i work with a bunch of former ibmers.

super super nice people who are crazy smart.

but think something in their brains got wired differently when they worked there - they just build all sorts of amazing stuff without thinking about the strategy for it. who will use it, in what scenarios, how will it be supported once interest surpasses cycles of the creator.

not all indicative of the companies history or current reputation but interesting to see at the micro level

here's a question, wouldn't it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they're doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is "Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community"

funny but admit that even with less users and less content here my dopamine hit actually happens faster in lemmy.

thank you all for great content ❤️

all attention to this mess is good imho. also remember chat gpt was trained on reddit data i until fall 2021 so should be able to pull on archived zeitgeist for a quick and dirty answer

i just broke my own rule and posted to reddit modcoord using a burner account. will react and burn it in 24 hrs.

my message to them was this: unfortunately human mods will be the next to go - they've shown their power to reddit and once this ipo happens they move from becoming a thorn in spez' side to a risk to shareholder value that needs to be "mitigated."

spez wants control. control of the apis. control of the app. control over the platform . he can get there first two but then mods prevent the last. he needs control if the ad revenue is to happen so he can exit with his golden parachute. health of the communities or platforms be damned.

i suspect at some point he'll not only demod all of the human mods in favor of botmod + ftes but may also go the extra step to delete the mod accounts entirely -- he'll justify the killing of their handlers with some bs policy.

this will leave mods demodded; powerless with no voice or identity - consider... how can u/newname prove they're really u/ex-mod without revealing personal info that might doxx themselves?

recommended they establish an alternate means of communication with their community here or on discord.

we should also consider standing up an mod coord here so they have a place they can freely speak and plan without sock puppet spez accounts or bots courting the conversation.

wonder if regular carpet bombing the open subs with a black "Reddit is killing third-party app (and itself)" might be effective? gives the mods an "out" because it's not against TOS - and if it were widespread enough eventually a few of them will hit front page

not my drama but a friends.. her mom has uncontrolled diabetes along with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

a couple of months ago she got and at home manicure from some shady outfit. ended up with an fungus which when asked to recount how this could have happened she kept lying and saying she didn't know.

she didn't keep up with the care on it so it became infected and they needed to do surgery to remove her nail. during the surgery they discovered it had infected the bone and the tip of the finger needed to be amputated.

they do this and send her home. my friend settles her in after surgery, went i guess to use the bathroom before leaving only to find her mom gathering her purse with keys in hand.

as you might expect my friend was appalled and asked her where she was going. mom replies.." well your aunt asked me to drive her to the airport today "

friend looks out the window and yes, there's auntie "waiting on the street with her purple suitcase" 🤣

apparently mom knew this and said nothing to aunt or my friend.

so when you're dealing with your drama, send thanks into the electrons that it could be much worse ☺️