I will let you down.

This should be taught honestly.

What OTHER way would it be taught? Dishonestly? Sneakily?

Criticizing Ubuntu is hivemind? Wow. Now do Systemd critics.

sold on the idea that billionaire philanthropy is somehow a good and positive thing for regular people.

He’s not wrong, but he’s judging occasional donations to particular issues as neither ineffective, incomplete, nor completely toxic to direction of research, because he judges them in a vacuum and/or against a fake goal-post of ‘no research funding’ instead of 'broad research funding based on income tax that rich fucks would have paid in a world before Reagan dropped the bottom out '.

The mating habits of cannabis-injected left-handed greater eastern blue potter’s snails will get no money from rich fucks, DESPITE its follow-on application to cancer cure research based on the secretion rate inprovement and or testing options derived from massive population explosions with a kill switch.

Yes. He is not a an-i-mal.

Hate is fun?

“The Taliban do not see women as human beings.”

Not many do.

Now what?

It makes everyone sound American. This is sometimes okay.

Yous.

what has meta done that was good

Facebook Portal TV. What a great device: “call mom” and it calls on her TV where she can see whom it is instead of her tiny phone screen. The cam was good, it panned and zoomed to focus on the speaker really well, and the sound was great. It’s a small unit that also does zoom and prime and Netflix and Plex. The M assistant is good, but it basically leverages a built-in Alexa for external control.

Then Cambridge analytica. Every new review is like “this is an amazing device, but don’t get it because fuck Facebook.”

Now it’s been orphaned: voice control is busted. No apps updated or installed. But if you had the apps installed they still work. TV calling still works if my mom can find and figure the remote.

And there’s been no replacement tech, which makes this unit that much better than everything else since it’s peerless.

There ya go. We bought 1 and then 3 more for family just before COVID.

And remember the docco kicks around forever. Indemnification until retirement is impossible to ensure.

And, as our RedHat TAM rediscovers, we can bring that shit out of the archive to prove a point … or to heckle about overblown systemd promises, but that’s PTSD for another venue.

JIRA, and Atlassian

Since one makes the other, it’s like saying “Rav4 and Toyota”. I’m assuming you mean Confluence (aka Flatulence; or Confluenza for the stress-based sickness from watching the spinning please-wait-web-loading symbol too much).

using salesforce, JIRA, and [Confluence]

Quit it.

No one uses those tools; they get used by the tools. They’re slow, cloud-based, usually under-budgeted for the great gobby java blob-wrangling clown shows they are.

If you’re asking deadline-driven engineers to use a slow cloud app like that, with their caffeine levels, and invite real feedback without fear of penalty, you’re going to get some interesting opinions. Please, try to find something more usable for the non-deadline-helping work-tangents like documentation; which are important, but not on-fire-important like every other bloody thing on the list.

Tracking down why all that junk exists and if its still required can take a staggering amount of time. Trying to juggle that with your day to day is…not practical.

Yes. Please deep-dive into it all and then schedule a long, slow sit-down, regarding the Morton mod, but also be prepared to justify why the Penske Project is behind the arbitrary and impossible schedule some DeVry grad has already set for you.

(I suspect OP will find a lot of “in what fucking time?!?” concerns when it comes to knowledge ‘synch’ or documenting, since neither of those are billable endeavours and no one wants a deadline for the next project crushed because of the prep and meetings justifying the time over-run for the last project)

Are you really saying “we the developers are going to build this however we see fit, and you the user can go fuck yourself, or else learn how to code and build it yourself”? Is that really the dynamic you’re trying to cultivate here? Seems very welcoming and productive.

Nope.

People will volunteer their time how they want, and you don’t get to tell them how to, unless you pay and also say please.

Your choice, when faced with devs spending their free time not helping your particular goals, is between

• pay someone to work on your stuff
• work on it yourself
• stay on Facebook to get facebook but suffer their dev decisions and be the product they’re selling to advertisers while you do
• go to another similar setup and hope the features are closer to what you want to trade yourself for.

None of this should be surprising, given the fediverse is very largely supported by great people donating a lot of time. And remember, they’re not doing it for you specifically, and they’re usually doing it for their own interest or goals.

You’re going to have to spend some time or money making your particular goals happen; or else suffer someone else’s goals, or be the product they sell, or both.

I hope you realize it’s not someone denying you stuff; that it’s someone doing what they want with their free time, and it’s only accidental that it impacts you badly.

Make it better.

5 min early. If you’re not 5 min early, you’re late.

Honestly, usually it’s 4-5 min early: I’ll pop in and noodle about prepping whatever, documenting something or just staring out the window a sec to clear my head. I’m usually very satisfied I’m not late by normie standards because being on-time shows a modicum of respect to others. If it’s a shit meeting, that’s an exception. I have one where I’m noticeably barely-on-time, and everyone points it out.

I’d encourage meetings to lock at the start time if I could, so late joiners wait in the lobby until someone opens the door, and then we’ll know whom to heckle.

I do. I will. Sorry it triggers ya.

Except, I won’t wait for an answer. In my job it just means a wall of text is incoming, so come back in like a minute.

workweek

It’s okay to write it with the hyphen still in-place. If you’re going for English, it’s correct to do so.

It’s great to use an editor designed and built when vietnam and leaded gas were all the rage.

It always weirded me out how people just repeated Russian propaganda.

The mean girls won.