FB is bad enough for those who dislike the current US government to be constantly seeing things shared.

BlueSky is that times a thousand. While there are other topics discussed, the political posts overwhelm the feeds, and 'bleed' into the other topics you might have tried to make special feeds for. Disney, National Parks, Muppets, Science, Star Trek - everything has a political angle that somebody is going to bring up.

So I quit (or rather, stopped visiting). I can't live with outrage-generation 24-7, but BlueSky has turned into that (and Threads is pretty full, too).

they're the late adopters, yes...but also the biggest financiers. They may be the late adopters but very much drive the current directions.

The term 'design language' has been in use for decades now. It isn't "bullshit", it is just the term that is used within the industry.

>>It will be filled with another part of the food chain.

when? like overnight? will bat species that live off of mosquitos immediately shift to some other food source or will their populations collapse before they have the time to make that kind of change in the behaviour of the whole-ass species

i mean, that's what a credit card is. you pay with the card and if you pay the balance before finance charges kick in, you don't pay any interest. if not, you get charged.

the perfect container for soup

I mean, this site only got any attention at all SOLELY because it was "AI everything". Otherwise, who would have even really gone to the site in the first place given how many hundreds of other recipe sites are out there?

and the thing about AI marketing is that, well, that's pretty damn obvious when you see it currently, for the text and images (never mind the copyright concerns), and then require more money to actually get out there in advertising.

or you had to figure out how to get code written for an Apple ][ to work on an Atari 400/800 (and hope there weren't any peeks and pokes in the graphics sections as those were pretty much untranslatable without an assembly guide to the graphics renderer).

Granted, that skill became VERY useful into college and adulthood needing to get C(++) code written for BSD/SunOS 4 to work in SystemV systems, back before "./configure" was a common thing in open source packages.

Java, and more so J2EE, just sucks the brains out.

Case in point, outside of Apache projects and JBoss (which try to implement J2EE standards as free things to avoid buying IBM's proprietary packages that implement the "standards" that IBM intentionally shoved into the standard in order to get people to buy IBM's "solutions"), who codes in Java open source anymore?

Back in the plain Java/Swing days, yeah, and I really loved being in THAT version of MVC and was really closing to writing a book for it...

but when IBM took over J2EE web dev architecture and that became the 'norm'? f' it. I had no brains left, every cell was being used to just get my work code to work.

and that didn't change, for me, or for anybody else. Outside of the Apache/JBoss services there was no open source community, no 'hacking', no...anything. because just doing the job sucked your brains out. I once had to explain, as I was leaving my prior company in 2010, that any "feature" they asked for required me, on a "full-stack", to mentally think and write in 12 different languages, once you realized that each XML configuration was really a different language from any other.

There's reasons the react, node, and general JS "stack" has so many packages and components available to it...it is because the typescript/javascript realm doesn't suck your brains out.

Yeah, it got me through 15 years of my 30 year career...but I'll never miss it.

>>and he insulted both of them (he called the female cop "sugartits") but only one of those made the news.

i remember "he called the lady cop 'sugartits'" being all over the news.

cost of making a nickel is more than double the value of it

I have been using Pocket (Read It Later) since 2009 at least. It got even more use when it was integrated into Feedly which I started using for RSS after Google killed Reader. (as another post said, there's always /somebody/)

However, I never use Firefox (their PWA support has always been second-class) and so I have no idea what pocket's "integration" with Firefox was like.

I'll figure something out. Having cloud bookmarks easily referenced was always useful - bookmark on my desktop mac, then read later on my tablet before zonking out, tagging anything if I feel like social media sharing the next day.

>>the universe may end much sooner than previously thought

finally, some good news for once

what do you think happens when an importer can't (or refuses to) cover a tariff at the port? the goods aren't released to the importer, certainly. the goods are held by customs and either returned or, if the exporter won't take them back, auctioned off (or maybe destroyed, depending). the importer maybe gets fined and their business sure as shit suffers cause the exporter won't work with them anymore, but yeah it definitely happens. didn't used to happen much, certainly, but jacking tariff rates up to 150% or so percent out of nowhere makes this shit much more common than it used to be.

like, if i'm a bike manufacturer and i got a 3 million dollar shipment of my bikes coming over and while the boat is in transit i find out trump just jacked tariffs up on my bikes 150%, where the fuck am i gonna find 4.5 million extra dollars to pay the duty 2 days from now when it shows up?

you one of those fools who can't read a comment? i said china's not interested in sending ships full of stuff that are gonna be turned away at port by the american importer because tariffs were jacked up to a level the importer isn't willing to pay while the boat is in transit.