Notices by shanen (shanen@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica

Filing such frivolous lawsuits needs to be vastly more expensive, even punitively expensive.

Why is any decent person still touching the cesspool formerly known as Twitter? In its best days it was mostly nauseating.

#twitter reeks like the big dog's m0e

@arstechnica
Surprised that the story didn't involve the JWST.

@libreoffice

I may not understand Patreon well enough, but I think the idea of blanket payment for ongoing work is too hard to track. It also attracts gold rushers trying to strike it rich.

My idea of the #CSB is to pay for the work that is done. Each project should be sized as accurately as possible (with the help of the CSB) and the developers would be agreeing to do a certain amount of work for a certain amount of pay. (The CSB would also help assess the results of the projects.)

@libreoffice

I don't have the motivation and skills to contribute that way, but I do have a little money. Why can't I donate to support some of those projects so those skilled people don't have to donate free time, but can be paid for their valuable work?

As I imagine this option (under the #CSB tag), my reward would only be a mention on the page of donors who supported that feature. Yeah, I would get to use the results, too, but so would everyone else.

Interested in your better idea, but...

@arstechnica

If that causes the batteries to wear out faster, then I call it a net loss. Personal example is my new smartphone, but it's too early to say if Samsung's 85%-charge-limit option is a good or bad thing from that perspective...

@arstechnica

How many other people are calling BS on Musk?

And how many people want the website formerly known as Twitter to die already?

#DieAlready #Twitter

@arstechnica

Please die already.

That's my only reaction to any story about the website formerly known as #Twitter. It was a cesspool at it's peak, but Musk has only dug a bigger and cessier pool under the first one.

And I've never seen any evidence that Elon has learning anything from any of his mistakes. He's just been lucky enough to keep failing sideways or even upwards.

But let's see if he can eat all of a $40-billion loss now!

Die already!

#DeathToTwitter #TwitterQuitter

@arstechnica

YouTube is a sewer, but it's a dominant sewer and no serious competition is allowed against first movers these years. Some "precious" VCs might get hurt!

But I'm glad the criminal enterprise known as YouTube continues to fail. Supporting criminals should not be profitable, and I think that's most of what's still driving YouTube. Or haven't you noticed the zombot recruiting?

@arstechnica
Hasn't shown up for my update yet. Maybe my source server is delayed?

But I can't say I'm following it too closely. Didn't even know the beast of the release. Nor the adjective. I doubt it's "Mellow Minator".

As regards security, less is generally more. OS bloat is probably the main security threat of our age...

@arstechnica
Hasn't shown up for my update yet. Maybe my source server is delayed?

But I can't say I'm following it too closely. Didn't even know the beast of the release. Nor the adjective. I doubt it's "Mellow Minotaur".

As regards security, less is generally more. OS bloat is probably the main security threat of our age...

@arstechnica

My only reaction to the website formerly known as Twitter is "Please die already."

Hey, Musk can afford to lose the ENTIRE $40+ billion. Too bad I don't think he is capable of learning anything from his biggest and "bestest" mistakes. But Twitter was a sewer before I left and from all reports has only become worse and more harmful since.