Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee@librem.one

I’d much rather see Apple unban sex than ban the bird site

Mastodon Tip Of The Day: you can take pictures of cute animals and then post them ​

It seems no matter where I go, I find myself wishing that companies would employ (engineering) historians.

Someone who would interview employees and read docs and then write chapters about each major component of a company and how it got to be the way it did.

FRIEND: It's called cauliflower. It's not ghost broccoli.

ME: [taking a long drag on my cigarette] Listen kid, I know what I saw.

Google has now migrated maps.google.com to www.google.com/maps thus if you grant Geoloc permission in your browser, every G-service on www.google.com can track your location.

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google

While following a lot of people can populate your Home feed significantly, sometimes people (like me) end up boosting a lot and that can unexpectedly hinder your own experience.

So if you like someone's specific posts and don't want to follow their boosts, you can go to their profile under the [...] button, and select the "Hide boosts from account" button.

There is no algorithm on Mastodon. You have ownership and control over every filtering decision instead of some robot.

#TwitterMigration

I remind clients and audience members of this all the time, but it never seems to stick. Saying, “people just need to stop doing stupid stuff,” works one-on-one with proper training and immediate feedback.

This does not scale. For scaling, you need systems in place which stop the problems in the first place. But if you develop those systems, people who want to do stupid stuff will scream bloody murder.

I suspect this generalizes to most complex spaces.