Meta lost $77bn on VR? I guess it just didn't have legs.

GO MAINE! @DoomsdaysCW https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/112055636928799044

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users. We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few […]

Hey, #UX #ui#uxpeople: if I have cascading list boxes i.e. where the values for box 2 depend on what is chosen for box 1 - and for some values of box1 there is ONLY one value for box2.. is there some design principle that would suggest defaulting to a null value for box2 is preferable to […]

lol. Im in a key stakeholder review meeting for a new hardware variant that we are due to ship out to a beta customer on Friday. They're still arguing over the technical specs that are the "requirements".

ICE agents getting absolutely swarmed and harassed on the street in Minneapolis until they flee! "Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon." from jan 12th from https://bsky.app/profile/wedge.live/post/3mcb6afwogs2b #ice #minneapolis

Another #year, another #PerformanceReview#year, another solid `Meets Expectations`. Im 27 yrs into my career, they get what they pay me for, but the years of busting my hump for pizza parties and token appreciation at the expense of work/life balance are over.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115883311391995330 Do you remember when companies made money by a) making things that people wanted and b) selling those things to people at prices they could afford? You know, instead of buying each other up and litigating each other into oblivion. Yeah […]

Soon-Tzu Speechley wrote this in 2020, ‘what if we write about American food the way they write about us’ “In a nation torn by racial conflict, one unlikely food unites. To those accustomed to chopsticks, the greasy parcel known as a ‘burger,’ a sort of split bao, is crude and messy. Yet it […]

I'm in that weird weekend afternoon state where I'm hungry but I don't feel like eating. Wish I could photosynthesis.

I've been sleeping on #jessewelles; there has been some comparison to #dylan and I'm starting to see that could be true. Join ICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGHf7OvglM and in response to yesterday's shooting of Renee Good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0CLduLgew #protest #folk #ice

Large corporate division town hall this morning. Big reorg/restructuring and a rebranding.. The number of buzz words omg. I've already filled my Bullshit Bingo card several times over. `Accelerate! Synergies! ALignment! Innovate, Innovate, Innovate!` Just tell me if I have to prepare for […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115860072439977180 wow. we need more of this.

So I hear #beatport has a streaming service. Great, I haven't perused Beatport in a few years, tho I used to purchase a shit ton of EDM from them. Hurh. This streaming service is only to integrate with DJ software. Well THAT sucks. I was expecting to be able to stream say the current Top 100 […]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CanadianPolling/115849491716799970 Where's the option "Poor - but because they're not doing anything, but still better than a Conservative government would have been so my regret is mixed."

Fuck off #Adobe #AdobeAcrobat#adobe Its an API specification overview. _Its ONLY NINE PAGES_. Also what the crap is a "PDF Space" - keep your space germs away from my PDF.

So... is the field named `Client Name` actually Client Name or is it really Client ID (which is a GUID)? _Oh, you have to put Client ID in there otherwise it won't work_ Um.... so why isn't the field labelled `Client ID` then? _Client ID was too confusing._ (despite this being what its […]

Zelenskyy has appointed Canada's Chrystia Freeland as Ukraine's Special Advisor on Economic Development. This places one of the most experienced Western economic & geopolitical operators directly into Ukraine’s reconstruction and long term development strategy. #cdnpoli 🧵

Dear #web #html #javascript #framework#javascript#html#webthors: if your code writes HTML or script code to client side, is it too much to ask for you to put in some gol'danged carrage returns every once in a while? I can pretty-print if need be, but sheesh. Seriously, i want to get a list of values out of a […]

So I email our sales rep for a SaaS platform we use about getting a quote to add a feature we now need, "Oh, you have <tier x>, you should already have that feature." What? Turns out, we signed on to a pilot program where we paid $x/yr for _some_ features, but […] [Original post on mas.to]

Know what's fun? When your #bank or #creditcard rewards you for accidentally spending more #money than is actually in your account with a $50 #fee#money#creditcard#bankNo humans were involved in that. It literally would cost _nothing_ to just simply reject/deny/claw back your last charge and freeze your account […]

/2 You can measure the spine of a Democrat by whether the ritual denunciation of Maduro comes in the first paragraph or the second or third.

My very first official post for 2026: Fuck fascism! I'll fight it and them who adore it even harden in this year

I wrote that paper after I had moved from AT&T Labs to U. Penn. The Penn locksmith went totally apoplectic, and wrote regular angry letters to the dean and to the head of campus security warning about what an irresponsible, dangerous menace I am. But for whatever reason, his efforts were […]

One of the most important example of #Trump #censorship to date: "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing." https://archive.ph/Ow3FE Thanks as always to the #waybackmachine for preserving a copy […]

I bought a thing a month ago from a local retailer. I bought online and picked it up in person. To this day, they keep sending me emails like "Be sure to rate your experience!" or "Tell us how we did!".. DAILY. Mitch Hedberg in my head is going "I do not NEED to rate my experience. I gave you […]

Holy crap #soundcloud I don't know how a #website#soundcloudcan be more off-putting. I just wanted to listen to a music clip.

Opinion | This is the floor crossing Canada needs https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/this-is-the-floor-crossing-canada-needs/article_63e3ff29-392c-417c-8353-6c02c81004cc.html "Since we’ve all been talking about floor crossing, here’s my question: why doesn’t Liberal MP, and now […]

Good website #uber guys... I needed to update my password. Then I couldn't go back (yes yes, outside of my browser's back button)

I recently wrote a piece on how China's oil demand would be dropping more than the big analysis groups are forecasting and one big reason was the electrification of trucking. "China’s rapid electrification of heavy-duty trucks — potentially reducing diesel demand by up to ~2 Mb/d.." read this!

Sometimes I just get an idea and it won't go away

me: So, how was Christmas 1 at your mom's? (she fucks off to the carribean for the holidays so the kids get early Christmas Part 1) son: oh, it was mostly fine. Towards the end she got into her cups and started rambling about how when #ZohranMamdani is mayor of #nyc#zohranmamdani all the muslims will start […]

Facebook Messenger’s desktop app is no more https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/facebook-messengers-desktop-app-is-no-more/

You better believe it's butter! #baking

"This is BULLSHIT!" #ungulate #thoughts #moresnow #snow #winter #deer #humor #humour

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/115707837146600329 @Lazarou WOW, that's a hot take omg. Arguing that labor solidarity trumps being racist assholes. > That job at the shopping mall may be the bare minimum she needs to support herself. You can still not be a racist asshole. And as someone […]

As the U.N. Seeks Next Secretary-General, a Woman This Time? https://www.justsecurity.org/126730/next-un-secretary-general-woman/

omg someone rapped an entire children's book and it is GOOD https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DcZUz_Q3xpM #music

Quick, what do you tell a coworker who is about to be laid off? (like literally has a meeting w/ HR in 10 minutes and they've been laying off ppl all morning). Happy trails? Bon voyage? Light the place on fire? I want to be supportive here.

Some of the folks from Centre 507 who we often donate to and support in any way we can just paid us a visit. Centre 507 is a low barrier soup kitchen and winter warming centre a couple doors down from us, next to the church. They asked us if we had a bargain bin of mitts and gloves, because […]

<as I log an #it #helpdesk#itticket> p.s. whatever ticket submission sw you use is terrible. I can't change/edit the details of my ticket after I submit it, and I can't even specify a summary as it is taken from the first line of the body submission. In which none of the whitespace or formatting […]

Deirdre has a great analysis yet again. >>> "I realize that our sovereignty remains under grave threat and that Danielle Smith, as the pickme girl who wants to be the first domino to fall to a hostile foreign power, doesn’t care for the rights and freedoms granted to Canadians by our Charter […]