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What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
  • I killed Instagram and Whatsapp recently when Mark started buddying up to Trump.

    Deleted Twitter shortly after Elon took over, which bummed me out since it was a good place for software development information.

    Quit reddit after the API ordeal when I didn't want to use the official client.

    I was a long time user of each platform, and I was bummed when I had to leave each.

    Now I have bluesky, lemmy, mastodon, and some occasional discord servers I hangout on. I miss Instagram as a time waster, but I'll survive without funny dog videos and fitness models.

  • FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding
  • Best case: Put out a warrant for their arrest. Step two, wait for the doj to not do their job. Raise hell about it, hopefully American citizens still care, get Congress to do their job, impeach the president (again)

    That's all predicated on citizens knowing enough about how the government is supposed to work to be outraged.

    They have to try though.

  • The government doesn't use SQL
  • I've worked on projects for the government as a contractor. There is SQL; SQL as far as the eye can see. I'm sure the NSA has some novel solutions to crunching shittons of big data, but day to day, at least in my experience, it is a lot of relational CRUD and reporting queries.

    For the curious, it does clearly exist:

    https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/govcloud-rds.html

  • Votes for billionaires, shocked when billionaires act like billionaires
  • I think we should have empathy for people that were fooled into voting for Trump with the promise of prosperity. Working people should be voting for a party that actually supports the middle class, and Republicans had better (albeit untruthful) messaging there.

    Whatever their reasons, if the voters are seeing the consequences of their actions and reflecting I'm going to forgive them. It sucks that it came to this, but if people are learning from their mistakes, we might be able to push back in a couple of years. I have less empathy for those that haven't changed their minds. I have zero empathy for people that voted for Trump out of hate.

  • Open Source Laptop with Mechanical Keyboard
  • The project sounds neat, but when I saw the thumbnail I was wondering why someone posted about a 1995 Thinkpad. I don't think I could go back to a thick laptop, even if the screen is tiny.

    I'd probably go for a framework laptop with a keyboard in my bookbag, but that's just me.

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