yeah, this.

Remember that photo from the G20 conference. Everybody was standing, 'networking', talking to each other in small groups set to do negotiations with other groups, as these things should be.

And Trump just sat there, alone, at the conference table, nobody in any interest to talking to him, and him having nothing to offer anybody else.

The entire tariff attack is in order to make sure people HAVE to talk to him, corporate or governments, he's flaunting this power just to get people to talk to him at all.

FreeRSS (php based) is starting to get my attention currently.

Been on Feedly since Google killed Reader as well. I do own a domain for an intended app (would have been php/mysql) called "feedmixer", but Feedly came along and addressed all my needs before I could get around to actually building it. So hey, my first true vaporware project.

Which is still often set as a 'kids' setting (no comments, no playlists). So will it decide that I'm 10 years old, or will it realize I'm in my 50s and just waxing nostalgic at a show's better days...

I mean, yeah, no burnout is good. Employee health is good.

but at the same time, 'productivity' does still matter. are they getting the same amount of work done in 32 hours that they used to get done in 40? If not, then this is a bad comparison because yeah, everybody does better if nobody works as much...except the company.

somewhere there's a balance. labor found it at 40 hours and 5 days (2 days off) decades ago. if that's not the right value, fine...but just giving employees the time off without giving the corporations something of at least equal value (they aren't going to value the cost of rehiring others after burnout kicks in, and anybody who denies that is an idiot). If the balance needs to shift, both sides need to see the advantage of the shift, or it will never happen on scale.

I love that the advertisement I'm seeing on this page right now is for a browser extension (from Microsoft)

I guess the fact that this can win a prize just tells me it was good that I never bothered to enter any 'hacking' contests in my entire 35 (+ education) year career.

I'm having flashbacks to that sequence in Real Genius (the 1980s movie with Val Kilmer) where over time, tape recorders have replaced not only all the students in a lecture hall (except for Mitch), but also the professor.

FB is bad enough for those who dislike the current US government to be constantly seeing things shared.

BlueSky is that times a thousand. While there are other topics discussed, the political posts overwhelm the feeds, and 'bleed' into the other topics you might have tried to make special feeds for. Disney, National Parks, Muppets, Science, Star Trek - everything has a political angle that somebody is going to bring up.

So I quit (or rather, stopped visiting). I can't live with outrage-generation 24-7, but BlueSky has turned into that (and Threads is pretty full, too).

they're the late adopters, yes...but also the biggest financiers. They may be the late adopters but very much drive the current directions.

The term 'design language' has been in use for decades now. It isn't "bullshit", it is just the term that is used within the industry.

I mean, this site only got any attention at all SOLELY because it was "AI everything". Otherwise, who would have even really gone to the site in the first place given how many hundreds of other recipe sites are out there?

and the thing about AI marketing is that, well, that's pretty damn obvious when you see it currently, for the text and images (never mind the copyright concerns), and then require more money to actually get out there in advertising.

or you had to figure out how to get code written for an Apple ][ to work on an Atari 400/800 (and hope there weren't any peeks and pokes in the graphics sections as those were pretty much untranslatable without an assembly guide to the graphics renderer).

Granted, that skill became VERY useful into college and adulthood needing to get C(++) code written for BSD/SunOS 4 to work in SystemV systems, back before "./configure" was a common thing in open source packages.

Java, and more so J2EE, just sucks the brains out.

Case in point, outside of Apache projects and JBoss (which try to implement J2EE standards as free things to avoid buying IBM's proprietary packages that implement the "standards" that IBM intentionally shoved into the standard in order to get people to buy IBM's "solutions"), who codes in Java open source anymore?

Back in the plain Java/Swing days, yeah, and I really loved being in THAT version of MVC and was really closing to writing a book for it...

but when IBM took over J2EE web dev architecture and that became the 'norm'? f' it. I had no brains left, every cell was being used to just get my work code to work.

and that didn't change, for me, or for anybody else. Outside of the Apache/JBoss services there was no open source community, no 'hacking', no...anything. because just doing the job sucked your brains out. I once had to explain, as I was leaving my prior company in 2010, that any "feature" they asked for required me, on a "full-stack", to mentally think and write in 12 different languages, once you realized that each XML configuration was really a different language from any other.

There's reasons the react, node, and general JS "stack" has so many packages and components available to it...it is because the typescript/javascript realm doesn't suck your brains out.

Yeah, it got me through 15 years of my 30 year career...but I'll never miss it.

I have been using Pocket (Read It Later) since 2009 at least. It got even more use when it was integrated into Feedly which I started using for RSS after Google killed Reader. (as another post said, there's always /somebody/)

However, I never use Firefox (their PWA support has always been second-class) and so I have no idea what pocket's "integration" with Firefox was like.

I'll figure something out. Having cloud bookmarks easily referenced was always useful - bookmark on my desktop mac, then read later on my tablet before zonking out, tagging anything if I feel like social media sharing the next day.