dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
Developer at Meta.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
d.sb
Mastodon: @dan@d.sb
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 6 days ago:
The healthcare system in the US isn’t great, but you do get a decent experience if you have an employer that offers good insurance. My employer pays most of the cost of my health insurance. I pay around $200/month for my wife and I, but that’s pre-tax money, and the plan is great for US standards. $15 for doctor visits and $100 maximum for ER visits.
In Australia we pay a 1.5% tax to fund the public health care system, so for a $60k salary that’s $900/year.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 6 days ago:
An important note missing from this article (but included in others) is that Jeff Atwood, the founder of Stack Overflow, donated $2.5 million to Mastodon. That’s likely what the $1 million came from.
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 6 days ago:
Why don’t you like people being paid for their work?
- Comment on Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sigh 6 days ago:
us software salaries are insanely high compared to the rest of the world, because the cost of living in SV is insanely high.
I moved from Australia to the San Francisco Bay Area. My starting income was maybe 3x what I was getting paid in Australia, but the cost of living definitely wasn’t 3x higher. Some things (like electronics and food) were cheaper too, at least until inflation and tariffs made everything go up.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 1 week ago:
Are they all from the same sender? I wonder if they just have Outlook configured to set the importance to high for every email.
- Comment on Ordinary americans are facing huge electricity bills because of AI Data centers owned by Amazon, Google, Microsoft 1 week ago:
make them pay for the cost of adding the additional capacity that they require
Isn’t this what they’re attempting to do, at least partially? Most of the big tech companies are funding development of nuclear power plants.
- Comment on Epstein’s brother Mark asking Steve Bannon if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba” - or Bill Clinton to the rest of us. 1 week ago:
Importance: High
- Comment on I'm coming for you 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t familiar with the YouTuber since this was the only video of his I’ve ever seen. It came up in my recommendations one day.
- Comment on TPU v7, Google's answer to Nvidia's Blackwell is nearly here 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if Google will ever release a new version of the Coral, with some of the newer TPU tech.
(yes, I know Google handed that off to Asus…)
- Comment on I'm coming for you 2 weeks ago:
I remember watching a long YouTube video about someone trying to find the origin of this picture, but I can’t find it any more.
- Comment on natural environment conditions 2 weeks ago:
this is a quality post.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 3 weeks ago:
I’m 95% sure the settlement with the publishers would have included a clause requiring the Internet Archive to delete all “infringing” material in their possession.
- Comment on Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost 3 weeks ago:
I have mixed feelings. I’m glad they survived the lawsuits, and now they can spend their funding on their actual goals rather than it going towards lawyers, but it’s also really sad that they had to delete so much of their archive - over half a million books, and a bunch of recordings from their Great 78 Project (which was archiving 300k+ music albums released between ~1900 and 1950).
- Comment on "I just want to say, once more, for the record, that this whole good/bad system is bullshirt." 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 weeks ago:
This is a great post that I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for the link!
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 weeks ago:
I feel the same about software development. For personal projects, I’ll often use a technology stack I’m very familiar with, like C# and MySQL on a Debian Linux server. Maybe not the fanciest, but they’re proven, reliable technologies that have been around for a long time, and will likely still be around a long time from now.
New frameworks, libraries, and languages pop up all the time, but some of the ecosystems move way too quickly. I have some Node.js sites I built years ago that I can’t even run any more without major changes.
Relevant: expatsoftware.com/…/happiness-is-a-boring-stack.h…
- Comment on AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea 4 weeks ago:
I wish there was a law stipulating that smart devices must allow for local control. That’d never happen in the USA (since companies couldn’t make as much money selling the data, and we can’t hurt the poor companies’ revenue streams), but maybe it’s happen in Europe one day.
- Comment on Daylight savings starts this weekend 1 month ago:
Daylight saving, not savings.
- Comment on my back hurts so bad 1 month ago:
Make sure you’ve got a good mattress. You spend around 1/3 of your life in bed so it’s worth getting a good one. I recently got a Tempur-pedic from Costco and it’s a lot better than my old one.
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 2 months ago:
I wonder if it could be fooled with video clips.
- Comment on Time to send a message 2 months ago:
The rate limit was only client-side, so you could patch it with Messenger Plus and spam the button to keep sending nudges over and over.
- Comment on Time to send a message 2 months ago:
Practically everyone in Australia used MSN Messenger. Once it died, most people switched to Google Talk, then to Facebook Messenger. Messenger is still the most popular by far - last I checked, it had around 2x the number of users as the second most popular (which I think was WhatsApp).
- Comment on Time to send a message 2 months ago:
I was on Linux so I used an MSN Messenger clone called aMSN. It was a decent enough experience, although the UI looked pretty dated since it used Tk. I learnt basic Tcl (programming language) so I could implement new features myself.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
unless microsoft finally realizes rootkits are a bad thing.
Isn’t that what happened after the CrowdStrike issue? theverge.com/…/microsoft-windows-changes-crowdstr…
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
I was one of those cool 90’s kids who hated Clippy, and I am still just as immature.
I always liked the red ball and the wizard more than Clippy anyways.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 2 months ago:
Isn’t the IoT version missing some features?
The real fix is to switch to Linux.
Also, what’s wrong with Clippy?
- Comment on 0°mg 2 months ago:
Oo
- Comment on The Million-Dollar Website That Sold Nothing But Pixels 3 months ago:
Wow I completely forgot about the Million Dollar Site. That was only a few years after I got internet access for the first time.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 months ago:
When we start decent seeing vehicles at a decent price again
These exist, they’re just not in the USA. Look at what companies like BYD and Xiaomi are doing in practically every developed country except the USA. The entry-level BYD Dolphin is just under AU$30k (US$19k) in Australia. Xiaomi have a sports car for around US$40k.
- Comment on sponsored by raycon 3 months ago:
Bluetooss