There has been a lot of Bluesky shilling on social and legacy media over the last week. It almost seems intentional.
It is not the panacea they expect it to be. Most of these people don't even know what they're running from. Case in point, the histrionics in the very first sentence.
It's reminiscent of the Jonestown cult exiling themselves to Guyana.
A quick trip to the Bluesky homepage showed its feed promoting some of the very same political 'influencer' accounts that spew some of the most toxic and divisive content on X.
Folks packing up and running from X because their 'friends' are, unknowingly are bringing the cockroaches with them in their luggage.
If Reddit has taught me anything it’s that the huge number of new subscribers is probably a large amount of bot owner accounts trying to make accounts to age for later use. They just like to say “x million accounts created” with no due diligence behind the accounts.
For me, it's the environment where all the boosted replies are all calling you a fag or doing Protocols-style antisemitism? I saw too much about "the Jews".
Do you really think the Jew-bots aren't going to follow to BlueSky if whoever is operating them sees an incentive to further their goals? That it's going to be some country club paradise?
These new accounts are not all organic users hopping over there for chill conversations and good vibes.
My personal theory - and I have no hard evidence - is these bot farms are operated by foreign threat actors trying to sow discord among the English-speaking populace. The venue where this happens is irrelevant.
Comparing it to Jonestown is ludicrous. Most of America didn't pack up and follow them out.
A more similar comparison would be the flight from MySpace or Digg. One day those places just weren't it, and everyone was talking about how much better the new place is. Some folks stayed behind, most of us moved, and some folks used it as a chance to get off the ride.
There's nothing conspiratorial here, everyone can see musk is a divisive figure. And I think everyone can see Twitter has changed. People look at blue sky and see something of the old Twitter and go, "I like it here, I should tell the people I know it's nice here."
But like Digg and MySpace, some people will stay behind, many will move, and some will use it to exit the game entirely.
Depreciating old "features" like supporting legacy OS versions which is infuriating. Firefox is an inadequate substitute because too many sites only work in Chrome.
I blame lazy developers for this mess all around, which had caused a perfect storm of shit on the nouveau web.
Maybe in the future in lieu of additional testing, the development team should just check in with you, and if you declare it sunshine and rainbows, ship it.
As a person on a front-end development team that has a “Chrome = success” mandate, it’s not always our decision as to when something ships or for which platforms we are to target. We work on Chrome first and then hope for the time to get things to work elsewhere.
I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.
Microsoft stopped developing IE when the government sued them for simply including IE with Windows, the same thing Apple does with Safari. But Apple is far more abusive and forbids any other browser engine on iOS, all browsers on iOS are forced to use Safari under the hood.
> Microsoft stopped developing IE when the government sued them for simply including IE with Windows
They weren't sued for simply including IE with Windows (bundling IE and business arrangements to prevent OEMs from replacing was one of several means of leveraging the Windows desktop OS monopoly to monopolize other markets in the antitrust suit), and they didn't stop developing IE when that suit was initiated.
> But Apple is far more abusive and forbids any other browser engine on iOS
Bundling wasn't the offense, illegally leveraging the desktop OS monopoly to monopolize other markets was the offense. Bundling was part of the means but the means itself want illegal, the ends to which the means were employed were.
> "The central issue was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its IE web browser software with its Windows operating system."
> "the DOJ built upon the allegation that Microsoft forced computer makers to include its Internet browser as a part of the installation of Windows software."
It's the same exact situation with MacOS/iOS and Safari, but it's actually far worse with Apple and iOS Safari because people have no choice to install another web browser on iOS, all web browsers on iOS are Safari.
Now, finally, the DOJ is rightly going after Apple for doing this, and many, many other abusive business practices.
Commercial aircraft need continual software updates to operate. They are, in a sense, living, breathing machines. Things like navigation and terrain databases are updated inside of 30 days.
Adding a scheduled reboot is one more item on a checklist that was already being run through.
It's counterintuitive, but performing a reboot as a scheduled maintenance item is far more risk averse than going in and touching code that has been otherwise thoroughly tested and signed off by regulatory authorities.
The chances of introducing a new bug when attempting to repair the former presents additional risk to what amounts to a convenience issue.
Mainframes in the late 80s got so good nobody was rebooting them. Then in the 90s someone's mainframe had the powerbackup generators fail in a power outage and the system went down (a once in 500 year event, but with more than 500 mainframes around the world it was statistacally bound to happen). the system didn't boot correctly and it took months to figure out all how to start all the services it was running that the person who started them left without add them to the startup configs. Now everyone reboots a couple times a year so that when things don't restart correctly the person who knows about them still remembers something about it.
> it took months to figure out all how to start all the services it was running
Having had to migrate a 12 year old dying server this weekend, yeah, I was 24/7 strongly cursing the idiot who didn't document anything[0]. On the plus side I did get to update a bunch of stuff to more modern practices.
[0] You will not be surprised to learn that idiot was me.[1]
[1] My other servers are much better - anything that hasn't yet been properly service'd has its own `RUNME.sh` which runs whatever it is in the correct way.
Also in case of emergency, eg after a power loss or whatever, you might have to do a reboot anyway. So you might as well make sure that this code path is well exercised.
I'd rather deal with a ground hog day of the system being for the millionth time in its first day of operation, than dealing for the first time with the system being in its millionth day of operation.
She also lost the popular vote by nearly 3M - more than the entire population of 19 different European countries - and he carried more states than his opponent 4 years ago, and more than Bush did in both 2000 & 2004.
It is by all conventional and accepted definitions a resounding defeat.
It doesn't matter who wins the popular vote. Since you don't get anything for it, the campaigns don't try to increase it. I'm not getting rallies or ads in California.
Truncated headline leaves out "distraught" which really changes the tone of the article. They are distraught about having to go to work? Every company is doing this now, and the rest are following suit. I fully support WFH but have no illusions that it was going to last forever.
The sense of entitlement among Amazon employees is unbelievable, they don't seem to understand how at-will employment works. I attribute this to them likely being in their 20s and never having worked a real job before - and more importantly, never having been fired before. It takes that first firing to truly understand how insignificant on a human level you are to these large companies. You are literally numbers in a spreadsheet.
If they don't like it they can form a union and put it in a contract - but that is fundamentally incompatible with how that roller coaster of a company operates.
I think you're making some assumptions about the people who may have signed this. I don't know if you've read the letter or Amazon's leadership principles that they tout loudly, but the letter was very much in line with that.
I would also not read too much into headlines. When you read op-ed, you must understand that you're reading the author's perspective on things and that might not necessarily align with the subjects' view.
Are you suggesting employees shouldn’t ask for the conditions they want from their employers? Just accept whatever drudgery is thrust upon them because they’re “insignificant”?
Every company is doing this now, and the rest are following suit.
No, they're not.
I recently read that 22% of the adults in my city are full time WFH. There aren't enough empty skyscrapers to absorb all those people if "every" company brought everyone back.
The company I work for remains committed to WFH. It's already sold the headquarters campus, and at least three campuses in other states are currently for sale.
Anyone who doesn't directly interact with clients is hired as WFH. There's no going back.
We're at the point where people are writing HOWTOs so terminally online 45 year old man-children can swap time-wasting service A for time-wasting service B because rocket man bad. The asteroid can't come soon enough.
Maybe it's time Apple admit that maybe next-gen AV has a place on the Mac platform, and not rely on the current model of hope and good vibes to mitigate new attacks. This includes not allowing their community moderators to continue to gaslight customers into thinking all security software is bad and that their OS is invincible with 2000s-era propaganda on their support forums.
It is not the panacea they expect it to be. Most of these people don't even know what they're running from. Case in point, the histrionics in the very first sentence.
It's reminiscent of the Jonestown cult exiling themselves to Guyana.
A quick trip to the Bluesky homepage showed its feed promoting some of the very same political 'influencer' accounts that spew some of the most toxic and divisive content on X.
Folks packing up and running from X because their 'friends' are, unknowingly are bringing the cockroaches with them in their luggage.