In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it’s not easy to find people you don’t know in order to follow them, and vice versa.

In my lifetime we’ve gone from ‘there’s no water on Mars’ to ‘there’s tons of water all over the equator, evaporating into the atmosphere daily then freezing on the surface at night’. Which is pretty cool.

I’m surprised not to see Yogi on the list.

He wore a tie, collar and a hat.

When Yogi said he was ‘smarter than the average bear’, everyone thought it was a joke, but he spoke English to humans, wore a hat and tie, and Ranger Smith complained that ‘keeping a secret from Yogi is like hiding Lake Michigan from a duck’.

So Yogi is smarter than the average bear, and it’s not even close.

Or we could just work remotely, which is far more productive.

Speed, for one. 5 minutes vs 30 minutes to an hour to be fully charged. Makes a big difference for road trips where you need to recharge on the way.

Anyone have knowledge of Nio and the long term viability? Are they targeting the US, or just China and Europe?

EDIT: found some info that Nio is targeting selling in the US in 2025.

There’s no science behind the head garb that Sultan Ahmed al Jaber wears, but he does it anyway.

Maybe he doesn’t understand science, or maybe he’s just trying to lie for money, who’s to say?

Me. I’ll say he’s just lying for money.

Oh stop, this is just more propaganda. All of the data shows remote work is more productive and wildly popular.

100%, those idiots will last less than a day. Meanwhile, the rest of the world may collapse, but a society will survive and rebuild. Those rich morons will be some of the first casualties, and they are setting their own doom traps themselves.

You really shouldn’t answer questions you clearly don’t know the answer to. There a dozens of ways for apps to report your license status. Most people just don’t know about it.

You can look at a MS Word doc someone sends you and detect the license. Apps can phone home all the time to report your status. Just because you’ve never noticed ot or no one ever caught you doesn’t mean there’s ‘no way’.

I honestly am baffled when people take time to type this type of crap out and post it. You clearly do not know, but you posted it anyway AS IF IT WAS FACT, despite it being provably false.

On top of giving poor recommendations. Nobody who uses Photoshop and GIMP professionally would think GIMP is a suitable replacement for Photoshop.

ITT: People who don’t realize this has been a gift to the US: They can wage war against Russia, the largest nuclear US adversary, on the cheap, without risk to American lives or running afoul of the UN or NATO.

Apparently, I’ve debugged your code.

I know that a large number of brands and news organizations have reported that their Twitter engagement has completely disappeared, which tells us far more than Twitter’s press releases ever would. It’s dead.

I’m not sure what app you are thinking of, but WeChat is used in China (Northern hemisphere) and was backed by the Chinese government in order to be established.

There are 1.2 billion WeChat users, over 1 billion of them are in China.

I like Daniel’s constant work to improve/add features to PixelFed, but he also tends to rush stuff out and then have to fix it later. So personally, I would wait until he’s had time to figure out any flaws and bugs.

I really enjoyed the video, although I didn’t make the same leap in logic that the reason Bosworth spent so much on his tombstone was simply that he ‘didn’t realize how much his estate was worth’.

If he spent one-sixth of his entire estate on a tombstone, and with it being so much research just to find out the details of that, we don’t know what his will did with the rest - he could have spent it all in equally eccentric ways just to piss everyone off, which apparently he was already quite good at while he was alive.

Well, to be fair, Zelle sucks, but point taken.

If you have two devs pair programming, at least one of them is being slowed tremendously. It should be used very sparingly and only in junior/senior mentoring attempts. Putting two senior devs on pair programming is nearly always just slashing your dev productivity.

I’ve seen devs take 3 days to write code in pair programming that either one could’ve completed on their own in 4 hours or so.

Yes, this will kill off what’s left of local news and a lot of other sites if enacted. It’s incredibly stupid and the fact that the lobby group News Media Canada working for newspapers and digital publishers are trying to do this just shows that even 25 and 30 years after the internet became truly mainstream, these publishers still don’t understand how any of it works or how to survive.