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  • The Google Pay app is shutting down in the US

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  • To make matters worse, they keep reusing the same names for things. I honestly don't know if I use Google Pay or Google Wallet? I just push the credit card icon on my phone.

  • 'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate

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  • Also, does the point of creating a game have to be making the "most" money? Isn't it enough to make something awesome and a profit?

  • Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal

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  • The people who make up the 2% market share using Firefox overlaps with the people tired of AI - specifically LLMs - being shoved into everything.

    Mozilla just released a LLM-driven website generator a few months ago. Why are we assuming they won't add something similar to Firefox?

    If Mozilla wants to use machine learning, awesome. But how about we treat the techies who support them like adults and say "machine learning" instead of using the AI buzzword which is overloaded.

  • Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers

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  • NewEgg is such a shell of its former self. They went from fighting patent trolls to platforming scammers.

  • Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI

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  • While we resourced mozilla.social heavily to pursue this ambitious idea,

    How many people do you need to administer a Mastodon instance? I'm pretty sure infosec.exchange is like one dude.

  • Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban

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  • I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they're usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.

  • I'm REALLY well read and I have a hard time finding new books to read. I need an audiobook for train ride->plane flight->bus ride tomorrow. Please halp!

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  • The Lock In / Head On and Dispatcher series from Scalzi are pretty good.

    The entire Murderbot Diaries series.

    The first Hell Divers book was good (I haven't read the rest yet)

  • Jeopardy! Boss Breaks Silence on Mayim Bialik Firing, How Ken Jennings ‘Really Won the Job’

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  • Well yeah, if you go on strike when your union says you shouldn't, you're going to lose your job.

  • Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like Coyote vs Acme Should Be a Crime | MZS | Roger Ebert

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  • Yeah it's a scam. They'll claim they lost all the money that went into making the movie because no one would buy it for the price they wanted. If they'd sold it for the highest offer, they'd have lost less.

    How is that any different than burning down my own building and claiming it as a loss in my taxes?

  • How to liven up retrospectives when they've gotten uneventful / unhelpful?

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  • Is it fair to say that your process has stabilized in a good place? It sounds like your team is happy with the current way of doing things.

    I think that's largely true. Not trying to assume intention, but I do think a few more of the junior folks on the team read something in a book or blog and think we have to do it that way. Or that it'll work for us because it worked for Etsy/Netflix/ThoughtWorks/etc.

    Whenever I read about kanban, the author eventually talks about gathering metrics so the team can run experiments and see what happens to the metrics.

    You know, metrics might be a great way to discuss some of these concerns/ideas are coming up. For example, the topic on Jira was related to Cycle Time. If we were concerned about Cycle Time, changing how we use Jira for a few weeks would see what happened to the metrics.

  • How to liven up retrospectives when they've gotten uneventful / unhelpful?

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  • Thanks for helping me reframe my thoughts. I definitely don't want to call anyone's concerns unimportant.

    More specifically, I view retros as a time to talk about improving the team, either through experimentation or doubling down on good practices. To that end, I'd want topics to be problems or shout outs.

    Something like "how do we test credit cards" might be a sign of "our documentation isn't great and it slows me down" but it's talked about as a discreet item. Similarly "I haven't seen Jira used this way before" isn't a problem; maybe the underlying issue is "I don't understand how we use Jira" or "what we're doing causes a lot of paperwork"

  • ‘True Detective: Night Country’ Is One Of The Most Disappointing Mystery Shows Ever Made

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  • I don't understand the writing. The main two characters are garbage people and there's no character exploration to explain it. And if the answer to the mystery isn't supernatural, there's two explanations that have been telegraphed from miles away. But yeah, its not the worst thing ever made.

  • YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

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  • I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.

    I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it's not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.

  • YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

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  • Yeah, as someone who gets good mileage with YouTube Premium, I wish they offered a version just for ads without music. YouTube music sucks hard, but I can't justify paying for another music app on top of it.

  • YouTube now suggests new content by colour

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  • The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    In YouTube Music, when you're building a tuner to create a station, you can't search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.

    Like .. Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00's

  • People who are 30+, what career moves do you regret in your 20s and/or what choices are you happy you made?

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  • I'm glad I worked at a startup without benefits while I still had coverage from my parents. I'm also glad I realized I prefer medium-sized companies before I lost that coverage.

    I regret the mentality that kept me at shitty jobs for five years. Being afraid the grass wouldn't be greener left me in a cycle of getting mad enough to polish my resume and send it out, but then never really following through.

  • Let's be honest, how many hours do you really work per day?

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  • Depends if you count pointless meetings my company requires as work.

    We work 9-5 with an hour lunch. Most of the day is pair programming, so there's not the same tendency to fart around on Reddit I had when working solo. We take breaks, so it's basically 6 hours on no-meeting day.

  • What are some actual good job boards in 2024?

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  • Honestly, it's hard as heck. When I was a hiring manager, it took me forever to find two firms that weren't sleazy and had quality candidates. When I was looking for my new gig, neither of them had great leads for me.

    Robert Half is pretty decent. Jobot and Workbridge are hot garbage.

  • What are some actual good job boards in 2024?

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  • Outside of specific careers, recruiters are paid by the hiring company. If a recruiter tries to charge you for a tech job, run.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 @lemmy.world
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    Ideas for a single class party?

  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Pig kidneys — for the first time — demonstrate “life-sustaining kidney function” in a human

    www.uab.edu /news/health/item/13712-new-study-pig-kidneys-for-the-first-time-demonstrate-life-sustaining-kidney-function-in-a-human
  • DevOps @programming.dev
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    Increase your security governance with CAA - Let's Encrypt

    letsencrypt.org /2023/09/07/caa23.html
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    Introducing ONCE, a new line of software products from 37signals: Pay one time, own forever.

    once.com
  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

    futurism.com /neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent
  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    first major patch for Baldur’s Gate 3, addressing over 1000 bugs, balancing, flow issues and much, much more.

    baldursgate3.game /news/patch-1-now-live_87
  • Science @beehaw.org
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    Plant-Based Filter Removes Up to 99.9% of Microplastics from Water

    www.goodnewsnetwork.org /plant-based-filter-removes-up-to-99-9-of-microplastics-from-water/
  • Food and Cooking @beehaw.org
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    The Best Toppings for Oatmeal

    sporked.com /article/best-toppings-for-oatmeal/
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    Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC

    www.pcgamer.com /escape-simulator-gets-official-portal-dlc/