aramis87

@aramis87@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Psst, hey, got a handy hint for you: you can actually raise wages at your business without it being mandated by minimum wage laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm trying out a few, though I'll have more time to explore them and figure out what I like and don't like over the weekend.

  I've signed up for discuit, and am looking back at tumblr, which I'd left for a while but still has good community.

  I've signed up for imgpile, but there's some problem with the confirmation; I don't know if that's on me or them. And I've joined the waiting list for imgcat. I looked at imgchest. but there's too many ads and some AI stuff, so I'm skipping that for now.

  I've added in a couple discord channels (Ellie and BSV); even if I don't think discord is a good replacement for imgur, it'll let me follow things for a while.

  I'm not sure what to do with with two cat accounts I followed on imgur (KittensForDays and SigridRides); both post on YouTube went other social media, but I didn't use yt much, nor other social media, so ....

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My writing laptop just died⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask your friends and family as well. Someone has an old laptop/desktop from school or an old job stuck in a closet. A lot of people give up when their machines become too slow, but they don't bother with basic maintenance to see if that will speed it up: virus checks, uninstalling un-needed programs, clearing caches, defragging the hard drive, etc. I have one friend ditched a PC because it ran too slowly and when I checked it out they had two antivirus programs competing with each other, making it impossible to do anything else. Other people take the fact that the battery or charging cable died as a signal to get a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My writing laptop just died⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask your friends if they have an old laptop (or desktop, if that's acceptable) lying around. It's surprising how much old tech people have stuck away in their closets these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who created imgur sold it to MediaLab. ML had been struggling with bills in general, and they lost a couple lawsuits regarding content. In a completely unrelated move, they banned NSFW content, fired the community moderators and local development teams and replaced them with AI and overseas workers, resulting in unequal rules enforcement and broken infrastructure. Videos wouldn't upload, wouldn't play, or freeze partway through. Uploads would disappear without notice. A barely-nsfw post would be deleted and the user warned, while other more NSFW posts made it to the front page. Etc, etc. In short, there's been a lot of simmering discontent with the platform for a while now.

  So, you remember that video/gif of Nazi Richard Spencer that's been circulating for a few years now? Back when that first came out, naturally some people posted it to imgur - and the content teams deleted the posts and warned the users, who promptly posted screenshots of the warnings, causing even more users to upload Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. They got deleted/warned, pretty much just causing a cascade of Nazi-punching content, until literally the entire popular feed was just Nazis getting punched.

  Well, later last week, notifications failed on imgur for some reason - no notifications when you got a reply, or your post reached the front page or got an award, or the people you were following posted something - just dead silence. We were patient, but it started to annoy people. A couple people uploaded images complaining about the lack of notifications, only to have their posts deleted or hidden and in a couple cases they got warned. And it's pretty much spiralled exactly like the punching Nazis meme: notifications remained down, posts complaining about it got taken down, posts complaining about MediaLab's censorship got taken down, and then the entire front page became this.

  Notifications are back on now, though they seem less frequent than normal, and new content is starting to reach the front page but users are still pissed. There have been repeated discussions about moving elsewhere, but no consensus has emerged yet. PixelFed doesn't scratch the same itch, a bunch of people moved to discord but others don't want to, some people just disappeared or stopped posting. And that's where we are, as of this morning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A time traveler's survival guide. The vertical green bars are the only times in Earth's history with enough oxygen to breathe (hypoxia) and low enough to avoid oxygen toxicity (hyperoxia):

  https://fedia.io/media/cache/resolve/entry_thumb/fa/a9/faa97017c09ebf7d9543fece447951844e5cfbdaa9f491c95763102e987ffc59.jpg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Last month Musk said that he has had “enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.”

  Are the roving gangs of violent drug addicts in the room with us now? Or do they go to a different school?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine hating your own daughter that much. We need more people like Tennant, less people like Musk and Rowling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UPS has started charging for pickups even if you have a prepaid label⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  UPS, not USPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When diarrhea hits so hard u need to hold on⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The top handle is for someone stepping into or out of the tub. The lower handle is for someone trying to stand from a shower chair, or pulling themselves up from the floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm seconding Simon Tatham's puzzle collection, Nonograms Katana, and Stardew Valley, all of which are in regular rotation and fill different niches in my soul.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “The crackdown on women [...] also stems from growing anxieties many evangelicals have about what they see as swiftly changing norms around gender and sexuality in America.”

  "Swiftly changing"? This stuff changed in the 70's!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study finds 1/4 of bosses hoped Return to Office would make staff quit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a friend who made a point of "needing" to go into the office an average of one day every week during the pandemic. His logic was that, if his job could be done entirely from the comfort of his living room in the suburbs, eventually the bosses would realize that it could also be done entirely from the comfort of someone else's living room in the Philippines or India.