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thesmokingman

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  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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  • I agree with everything you’ve said. What I think you’re missing is that some people don’t want to be the best in class. Some people don’t take their work home with them and because employers are not required to give time to grow skills some people will just work the line. If your assumption about labor requires labor to spend their whole life working to be better at getting exploited, you have a lot to learn about the majority of labor.

  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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  • This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.

    A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.

    Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.

  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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    1. Why?
    2. Are employers legally required to give employees time to grow their skills?
    3. If there is no regulated time for employees to grow their skills, should employees spend their free time growing their work skills?

    You’re using lemmy.world. How much time did you spend deciding that was the place to be? Why did you pick Lemmy over the *bins? How much time have you put into your posting and commenting workflow? How much do you actually know about how ActivityPub works? What tools have you written?

  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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  • I really hate it when people blame consumers for problems instead of producers. Let’s go ahead and examine your hypothesis.

    • someone wants to learn how to be a designer
    • they spend time and money being taught Adobe products in a bootcamp or school
    • since they aren’t defined by their job, they do literally anything else in their free time rather than bringing school home with them
    • occasionally they see other stuff like Affinity or GIMP but the interface is radically different from what they’re learning or an important feature requires more time to figure out than they can budget
    • they get a job that requires Adobe
    • years later, when they have purchasing authority, they’re told they need to cut costs and decide maybe researching is a good idea
    • the first results for Adobe alternatives are just a bunch of Lemmy threads calling them lazy

    Can you point out where in this process our hypothetical user should have done something different? And more importantly why it’s this person’s fault they’ve been vendor-locked their whole career? Note that a critical assumption I’m making here is that not everyone is a power user because, unsurprisingly, not everyone is a power user.

  • BeReal - The Privacy Nightmare

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  • OSINT off stuff like this includes

    • IP addresses unless you’re using a VPN and periodically changing it up
    • textual analysis if you ever comment
    • interests if you ever subscribe or even regularly visit the same communities regularly (which opens a lot of doors)
    • other accounts if you aren’t using single-purpose emails and handles

    Privacy and social media are mutually exclusive. Find me a security expert that disagrees and I might change my mind. Right now you’re a random person on the internet, I’m a random person on the internet, and OSINT is real.

  • BeReal - The Privacy Nightmare

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  • Privacy and social media are mutually exclusive. The ones you have linked are no exception. DD requires a phone number so I didn’t get any further. Minutiae has you taking photos and sending them to a centralized service. That’s not private. I don’t understand why you’d say that no is concerned about privacy with the implication that’s a bad thing then immediately recommend something as bad.

  • How can I switch to Linux Mint with a clean install and keep my 300GB of data (with metadata) safe?

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  • AFAIK you are correct, which is why I called out wonky timestamps. This blogpost goes into some interesting ways to mess with timestamps. I think it’s probably more effort than it’s worth unless we get more context on why timestamps are important.

  • Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court

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  • Fair point.

  • Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court

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  • I think everyone focused on birth tourism is missing the fucking point. If being born in the US is no longer a necessary and sufficient qualification for citizenship, how does the child of two lawful citizens born on US soil become a citizen? Before you come at me with “it’s obvious” ask yourself which children the Trump admin or future GOP leaders would come after next and ask yourself, really fucking ask yourself, if it’s still obvious.

  • Once you know Bootstrap's CSS you can't unsee it

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  • Strange; the page is shilling for a product that doesn’t use raw HTML for its site.

  • How can I switch to Linux Mint with a clean install and keep my 300GB of data (with metadata) safe?

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  • You most likely aren’t going to be able to retain timestamps unless you permanently keep a Windows partition. Linux uses a different drive format and permission scheme. Structure, absolutely; timestamp and owners and other little Windows things, not realistic.

    Also unless you back stuff up you run a risk of losing it. No way around that period.

    The gist of what you’ll do is resize your Windows partition, create a new partition for a Linux install, and mount your Windows partition in Linux until you’re able to move data over. You probably want to dual boot at least until you’re sure Linux can properly access the data you need.

    Useful links

  • Stellar, a very convincing vision of how we can move towards a Solar Punk world.

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  • I came up with something that I called the Seba Technology Disruption Framework, which says that technology disruptions happen because of a combination, so a convergence of technology cost curves, business modelling innovation and product innovation, of which are enabled by this convergence of technologies

    Essentially what I forecast as you know in Clean Disruption, was there were four technologies and one business model; solar, batteries, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and ride hailing that were disruptive in their own way, but combined would disrupt all of energy and transportation, that the disruption would be over by about 2030.

    After that I decided to start a think tank called ReThinkX, because it turns out that my disruption framework does work, and it does work not just for energy and transportation, but also across the board. One of my hypotheses was that every single industry bar none, every single industry is going to be disrupted by this combination of technologies, and business modelling innovation and product innovation

    We made the prediction that it was the convergence of autonomous electric and on demand transportation that would disrupt all of transportation, and the tipping point was going to be 2021. Essentially on the day that level 4 autonomous vehicles are approved and ready, which we assume will be 2021, the cost per mile of transportation will be 1/10th, 10 x cheaper than the cost of owning a car.

    as the years went by and my numbers for solar, for batteries, for PVs and so-on, have proven to be right then they’re paying more attention. Essentially that has changed the whole narrative about how quickly this disruption is going to happen, that this is not an energy transition, that this is a disruption both energy and transportation

    A really stupid fucking interview seven years ago

    Don’t let a bunch of VC-bought, Silicon Valley capitalists ruin an ideology antithetical to their goals. Stay away from this “disruptive” bullshit.

  • Alexis Ohanian says robotics will soon level the parental playing field between men and women

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  • If you didn’t care about what idiotic bullshit he spouted when he was making the Reddit podcast all about himself, you don’t need to care what idiotic bullshit he’s spouting now. He has a degree in history so he might have informed opinions there.

  • Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation serves cease & desist letter to Danielle Smith

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  • ISO 8601

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  • 2013-02-27 is also unambiguous unless you’re aware of a country that uses year day month, is not?

  • ISO 8601

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  • There are several people in the comments saying they have to use 27 Feb 2013 because they work with people all over the world. I’m really confused - what does that solve that 2013-02-13 does not? I know that not every language spells months the English way so “Dec” or “May” aren’t universal. Is there some country that regularly puts year day month that would break using ISO 8601 or RFC 3339?

  • ISO 8601

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  • I’d be curious to see a sorting algorithm that doesn’t handle YYYYY-MM-DD with YYYY-MM-DD properly. If you drop the dashes you still get a proper numeric order. If you sort by component, you still get the proper order. Maybe a string sort wouldn’t? Off the top of my head the languages I’m thinking either put longer strings later, giving us the proper order, or could put 1YYYY- ahead of 1YYY-M so maybe string sorting is the only one that’s out.

  • The Accountant's Revenge

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  • I do a lot of con/fair/vendor stuff and support. I have heard (but never done because that’s illegal) that among friends it’s very common to not check that flag to save those friends some headache. It’s also a really good way to get scammed if you do it for strangers on the internet.

    I suspect that platforms push it down to the users to reduce their compliance burden. Why make life better for your end users by spending some money when you can just make life more complicated for small businesses by having them own everything even the things they don’t know about?

  • The Accountant's Revenge

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  • Not quite. The meme is referencing a new law that targets platforms when the money is sent as a payment. So, for example, if you Venmo your roommate 2k over a year for utilities, your roommate is fine unless you mark it as for a vendor (there’s a little toggle whose exact text I forget). This meme is making that joke.