Notices by danjac (danjac@masto.ai), page 2

@baldur the MBA curse: the belief that all companies are fungible and you can just parachute in to a random organization and start running things.

A lesson you would think business would have learned since John Sculley jumped from Pepsi to Apple, but MBAs have a vested interest in not learning it.

@suricrasia some years ago there were mysterious stickers all around our town with the Illuminati eye-in-pyramid symbol and the word "Nassau".

No idea who put them there, or what they were for, but someone kept putting them up for years. Nothing on the internet. Then suddenly they were gone.

@forensicgarlic @luckytran "should" yes. But if your local health centre doesn't offer COVID vaccines unless you are at a certain age or have certain health conditions then you are kind of stuck.

@forensicgarlic @luckytran I continuously hear "get your COVID vaccine updates" from people who fail to realise that in many countries you simply cannot get that update unless you meet certain criteria - even if you inquire through a private health provider.

@carnage4life so if a manager screws up a product launch he just needs to fire a few underlings. Got it.

And wait what is Block? Another Dorsey startup? That man has the attention span of a hummingbird on speed.

I thought we would face an apocalypse of slow or fast zombies not Facebook or TikTok zombies

It's interesting *why* the VCs are becoming ever more right wing and "anti-woke". Partially it's because they live in a bubble and breathe each others' farts, but it's also the realisation that the easy gains of the early 2000s internet are gone, the easy money is no longer there, and they need an authoritarian government to enforce the monopolisation, surveillance, tax avoidance and regulatory capture to keep them rich in perpetuity.

@moh_kohn BBC journalists probably were duped. You don't get to become a BBC journalist by being smart, you just have to go to the right schools.

@cstross which is why Sam Altman, in the most revealing self-own, said we are all stochastic parrots.

@cstross @maxleibman "the Rapture for Nerds": @cstross was that your quote or Cory Doctorow's?

@emilygorcenski honestly even if you have a voice on paper this legislation will get passed regardless of how you vote.

@emilygorcenski and go where? You think the US, UK and other countries aren't going to roll out the same legislation, or even more restrictive laws?

The root cause are ignorant and corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, along with a media that promotes fear over understanding. Those problems aren't isolated to the EU.

@selzero in the UK Margaret Thatcher believed that the path to a permanent Conservative hegemony was an enlarged middle class of property owners.

So you might be a 21 year old socialist firebrand, but once you have your 2 bedroom house and share portfolio, you're a Tory voter.

However we now have people in their 30s and 40s with no hope of a home - so that Conservative pipeline is broken.

@aral @heydon I remember the shitty tracking apps the PMs made us add to a site.

I thought we had good perf metrics but then I switched off Ublock...

@aral so enshittification is when the chocolate starts to taste a bit nutty?

Fixing an issue with a React component whose job it is to handle the cookie consent banner. It's 3rd party so I'm looking at the implementation source code.

It's like dozens - I'm not joking - dozens of modules in package after package, including storybooks and test suites and whatnot.

I implemented a cookie consent banner in my side project in about 10 lines of Python code using HTMX, not including the HTML snippet.

This industry has become a joke.

#webdev

@petergleick the tragedy of the past century is treating economics as a serious social science rather than a flaky and ill-disciplined branch of political philosophy.

@aral it's "price dumping" that in practice is rarely enforced although is often illegal.

For example in the UK maybe 20 years ago supermarkets would pretty much charge pennies for bread to put local bakeries out of business, then jack up the prices once the competition was wiped out.

@cstross fusion is the only way big container ships make any economic and environmental sense in a post-fossil economy. Otherwise why not just make more stuff locally and just ship the raw materials you absolutely need?

@cstross the thing about "fleeing fascism" when fascism is on the rise everywhere, is you have to keep a packed suitcase in the cupboard at all times.

I mean I thought my adopted country was an island of common social-democratic sense until this year...