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It should be possible to get integration for these to show up in Lemmy, instead of having to crosspost everything.

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The fundamental problem I have identified over the years I worked adjacent to this project is this. Most folks above the manager position are not technical. They’re typically some sort of BA. These kinds of folks do not easily comprehend the technical merits of different solutions. All sorts of errors stem from that. Errors in estimating risk, errors in estimating difficulty, but crucially errors in telling reality from fantasy, or truth from lies. Under this framework, the ability of the organization to hire technical people who know what they’re doing is more or less based on luck. This particular org struck luck with some hires and didn’t with most. So now we have a group of people who will build this thing, with only a few qualified people among the unqualified. Alright. A difficult design decision has to be made. There are two proposals. One from a qualified person. Another from an unqualified one. They’re both presented to a director or a VP for a final decision. The qualified person presents their design, pros, cons, etc. The unqualified one does the same, except they have an ace up their sleeve - confident lies. So they sprinkle those all around their design - everything is amazing, few cons if any, unicorns shitting rainbows and the lot. The decision maker cannot discern the lies from the truth. The unicorn design feels irresistible. It’s chosen. Its designer is promoted before its ill effects are ever realized. Now the competent folk don’t even get to present alternatives to the VP level. Eventually they’re tired of this shit and move to a place that is less corrupted.

This wasn’t confined to one project and a single set of people. It’s a general problem that transcends orgs and companies.

Let me tell you about a large bank and two data centers operated using VMware and the type of talent the bank is able to hire and retain. A move away from VMware is a 5-year project involving hiring, retraining, design mistakes, budget overruns, and a lot of grey hair. The year was 2012. 7 years later, one DC converted to OpenStack, the project is shelved and the majority of th OpenStack DC gets converted back to VMware due to “OpenStack disaster.”

That requires GPU passthrough. Totally different ballgame in complexity and experience.

Labor and infrastructure (also labor) costs money. If you’re not paying for it with money, you’re paying with something else. In other words you’re the product. Since you can’t build all of the needed infrastructure yourself, you’ll have to pay at least for that. And so at the end of the day you will most likely have to pay more money. It’s also possible for someone to be paying for the infrastructure you use. E.g. a small fraction of Lemmy users pay for the infrastructure and software everyone else uses. That only works as long as the ratios are sustainable. A more sustainable scenario is for a large fraction to be paying very little.

The bad news is you’d have to learn more technology and pay more money. The good news is there are decent alternatives.

Seriously, having been hit by a fairly rounded Impreza at low speed that still did significant damage, I’m shivering at the thought of what these edges would do to soft tissue and bone in the same conditions. The pressure at the contact points would be dramatically higher.

It looks like interest rates aren’t high enough.

I see there’s an instance blocking feature making its way into 0.19, nice.

And what would happen to trades wages if everyone and their mother switches to trades?

Can’t wait.

Any word on extension data syncing?

I think a lot of people don’t realize what a gaping security hole extensions can be. Back in the 2000s, I’d install almost anything that seemed useful without realizing the amount of data that goes through them.

TBH, I have this problem too. I want an algorithm to sift through the firehose. I want to be able to control it though. I’d like to potentially have multiple options. The sorting algorithms in Lemmy are an example for this.

I occasionally see auto-playing ad on my Chromecast with Google TV about twice a year so far. Every time I hit Send Feedback immediately and say something harsh about the ads and they disappear shortly after. I’m considering building a LineageOS Android TV machine based on the ODROID-C4. I’m just unsure what level of Widevine I’d get. I’d be okay with 1080p. 720p would be a bit shit. Anyone tried this route?

Yup, it’s much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. No API fees and restrictions. Just become a node in the network. Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse, the Fediverse will grow its userbase, returning something to the content creators.

It’s definitely not too late to heal Google. It would require some shake-up at the top of the company, moving the centre of power from the CFO’s office back to someone with a clear long-term vision for how to use Google’s extensive resources to deliver value to users.

Why would this happen though? The change the author is describing came from the company’s shareholders and their desire for profit. Shareholders who have no connection to the core domains of Google, who vote for directors on the board that further profit extraction, who then maintain executive leadership who implements that. You have to convince those shareholders that they should want Google to focus on something other than profit maximization. But they don’t understand you. They can dump Google’s stock at a moment’s notice. Why care about some long term profit when they can make it now and dump the stock as soon as it stops making it? And then, you can’t even talk to them because you’re sitting behind the exec layer and the board layer, both of which are shareholder creations. So you have to tightrope your exec team into believing you, then they have to tightrope the board, and then the board has to tightrope the shareholders. The odds are stacked against reversing course. If on the other hand you’re not acting alone but you are the head of the union that can shutdown Google at a moment’s notice, then not only you can talk to the exec layer, you don’t have to tightrope while doing it. Better yet, you can simply broadcast your message and it’s gonna hit the board and the shareholders directly. That’s why I don’t think Google can reverse course without a strong union. I think the incentives are simply not there.