Posts by mterhar@bfd.so
(DIR) Post #AS8oewcaCvP1x0ZUoa by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-01-29T16:44:40Z
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@simon Dunning-Krueger as a service.
(DIR) Post #ATh3khjLLRUTTl8SDQ by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-03-17T03:06:10Z
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@simon from what I've seen, there are some mildly alarming things about data locality that the kind folks at fadebook and google are amplifying. The competitors seem to be using marketing and lobbying teams to work on the public perception and legislated bans at various levels. This is kinda compounded by how cozy Facebook and Google are with the intelligence community. Intelligence folks see how valuable those connections are and worry about an adversary wielding similar capabilities.
(DIR) Post #AWFL2V8haM9PvEge4u by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-06-01T11:44:29Z
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@simon from having worked with a bunch of nonprofits and specifically nonprofit executives, they're pretty well compensated but salary component is limited. Mainly the appearance of high salary being the biggest one, but there may be bylaws or 501(c)(3) status on the line if their executives are compensated too highly. A lot of them will have multiple sources of income from the nonprofit. Stuff like members paying for speaking engagements, housing and other personal expenses getting covered. It's not much different from private sector CEOs that have a lower salary but take huge stock grants.I'd assume the executives are deriving multiple income streams from the nonprofit if they're outsourcing the CEO and other executives' salaries. It smells fishy as hell
(DIR) Post #AZlr1n2UmGDhCuxE1Y by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-09-14T21:51:50Z
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@lowqualityfacts accidental high quality fact.
(DIR) Post #Acg0GCh6ggGgXUEgMq by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-12-10T19:41:38Z
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@simon Snake pits? Cages?
(DIR) Post #AdQAMD4FY1XCq8B2mm by mterhar@bfd.so
2024-01-02T02:11:29Z
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@simon @natbat these things always fall apart when the illegal, immoral, etc content people want in. Or human traffickers. Lots of great ideas are ruined by content
(DIR) Post #AhoPzgAzj6IbMrtSUq by mterhar@bfd.so
2024-01-01T04:39:26Z
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Happy new year everyone. New Year's resolution is 4k for sure this year.
(DIR) Post #AhuT2vH7VlhjsLkxoO by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-09-09T02:09:55Z
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After the slack interface has been largely unchanged for the past decade, it's weird that they're adding stuff. Stuff can be good if it's useful but the Quip notes don't seem to be catching on. I'm using the reminders a bit. Not sure about the new unread bar on mobile since it hasn't hit my main work workspace. Discord and mattermost had a lot of time to catch up. Not sure either of them did.
(DIR) Post #AhuizLtIDAvmWyvlNw by mterhar@bfd.so
2024-04-08T11:57:38Z
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Is anyone working on a gritty numberblocks reboot? My son and I were riffing on them being shot and the blocks that get hit by bullets making them subtract by 1. When the terrible twos rip a 6 into 3 pieces, blood spurts out. Also, the numberblob population may get restless. The moon has aliens that can shoot nunberblock corpses (non-animated blocks), the mirror could be misused to create too many of a specific number that becomes an echo chamber and leads to an effort to eradicate the rest of the numbers...
(DIR) Post #Ahvn3Eaxs8wg2MQNii by mterhar@bfd.so
2023-09-02T02:09:06Z
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What's the average customer satisfaction (CSAT) with a house painting and carpentry fixing job? I admit I did some shopping and picked the winner because the price came back lower. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that it took forever to get done and was a rush job at the same time. They dropped a lot from the scope. The discussions about how to do certain parts were mostly disregarded because nothing was formalized or written down. I think I need a GC type to operate as an intermediary to get the outcomes I want... but I wonder if paying 15% more would have been sufficient. Also i know it's against the rules to sand lead paint but didn't know the final result would be so uneven and bumpy. I guess it's just buyers remorse but for contractor work. My novice ass would have gotten close to this quality. While typing this I had some huge flashback to the solar install and the fact that I'd have run the wires in better ways... but I didn't want to be carrying huge panels up long ladders... so I outsourced it.
(DIR) Post #Ai3aAmuSwgkaLiUrzs by mterhar@bfd.so
2024-01-06T17:48:34Z
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The Magna Carta says > “To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice”In more recent usage, it's been shortened to "Justice too long delayed, is justice denied."It's been too long and the congresspeople and other officials who were responsible for the Jan 6 mob are still roaming free, fomenting the next mob. This is gross. America is letting everyone down.
(DIR) Post #Ai6PLlwqLSrIWxWXuy by mterhar@bfd.so
2024-02-13T14:33:09Z
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If I ran a news outlet and the Federalism Society or Leonard Leo or Rupert Murdock or the remaining Coch put me in place to undermine Democracy, I'd present specific news specific ways. Basically presenting a lot of information to Progressives to ease them into Authoritarianism. I'd publish lots of news that echoes the talking points and fails to frame and debunk properly. Then I'd run a bunch of OpEds about how it's not that bad alongside a bunch that espouse the failings of liberalism. I'd run a lot of stories on trans athletes, crime, border, and other wedge issues that don't matter. Within these stories, completely fail to point out the scale or causes. Then I'd bring up Biden's age and Trump's age in completely different ways. Finally, present trump as a choice that makes a lot of sense... somehow January 6th and all the stuff before it and since aren't really a problem. It's just locker room talk. Stop being so whiny. It's not like he succeeded. Jeez!This pattern is exactly what I'm seeing at The Atlantic, NYT, and WaPo (a bit less but still too much). I really hope it's from forced errors rather than deliberate but the outcome is the same. If they're just chasing clicks because of the ad-driven news model, and that's the cause of the US falling into Autocracy...