Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 3

Your LinkedIn should list whatever emojis you added to Slack at your workplace.

I rarely use ride-sharing apps because they're destructive to public infrastructure I care about, but recently I had to use Lyft and YOU CAN'T USE IT ON THE WEB. Their website literally tells you to go get the app, so you can't use a desktop browser at all to access their platform. That is an absolutely *wild* choice, and even more absurd that it goes unnoticed in the current media/tech ecosystem.

Egypt has had malaria for millennia. King Tutankhamen died of malaria.

After a century-long public health effort, Egypt has just been declared malaria-free.

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2024-egypt-is-certified-malaria-free-by-who HT @anildash

@triptych @georgepenney oh I am keenly aware :)

I love this abomination https://me.dm/@wttdotm@mastodon.social/113346842267282464

@leoncowle so great to see you too! Thanks for making the time, and for sharing so much insight.

@cori we’re in cahoots

Proud of everyone at @eff — workers, leadership and community — for coming together on a milestone agreement. Working together so they can do such vitally important work. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-and-ifpte-local-20-attain-labor-contract

Congrats to @molly0xfff who is now impossible to find on Meta Threads.

Is there a name for when people reply to a social media post but they're definitely talking to an imagined audience or a theoretical opponent, instead of to the person and post that they're actually responding to?

@researchbuzz oh that’s cool!

I’ve been thinking about doing a tech advice live stream where I take questions about the tech industry (especially careers, particularly people who are early career) and how it works. Would anybody be interested in watching that, or submitting questions for a test run?

@dmd @SomaFMrusty yeah this is correct, and sorry our systems didn’t catch it before it went up. It should be flagged and deleted now.

@djwudi @gknauss as best I can tell, current ownership is doing everything they can to bury the open source option

@stefan @evan @wendinoakland fwiw I don’t think there’s a credible path of non-engagement as long as hundreds of millions of well-intentioned users are involved. We have to pursue harm reduction for them even as we push to hold meta accountable; if we follow the analogy of email or podcasts, there are absolutely vendors in both those spaces profiteering grom fascism. Yet we need those formats to be open.

Has anybody done a video edit of the iPhone X launch where they talked up the merits of getting rid of the home button vs. the recent iPhone launches where they talk up the merits of having new action and photo buttons?

@courtney @mathowie no please note this was merely descriptive, I would never judge the cousin-fuckers who made these Oreos

@Chris @sembiance classic mastodon “ignore the question, perform for some imagined audience, condescend to the original poster” behvaior lol

Has anybody switched from a standalone 2FA app like Google Authenticator or Authy to Apple’s Passwords app? Looking for folks who have actual experience with it and how it works.

@mathowie @courtney it is indeed very similar to people fucking their first cousins