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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-23 at 16:45

@leo @jeffjarvis I get into this argument constantly with my brother (who works at a big cloud company) that if you can't moderate at scale, then you shouldn't operate at scale. The only reason they don't moderate is because it would be unprofitable. Just letting everyone say what they want at scale is a great business model, but it's a net negative for humanity.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-23 at 15:33

I've been a Linux user since 1997, and I still will never understand how awk works.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-22 at 19:19

Based on the ads I hear on my podcasts, we apparently all have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. Not a great sign.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-20 at 15:47

Whoever invented the javascript tech that causes a "subscribe" popup to happen when your mouse leaves the browser window should have one of their pinky fingers chopped off.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-17 at 18:06

Here in western NY I've had to run my snow blower every single day this week, in addition to having my neighbor plow out our driveway on Monday, and this isn't normal. Stop calling it weather, and just say what it is.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-17 at 18:04

JUST SAY FUCKING CLIMATE CHANGE!

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-inauguration-moving-indoors-due-weather-sources/story?id=117792480

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-16 at 16:39

RIP to a real one. Always loved Bob Euecher growing up.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-15 at 20:16

I almost fell out of my chair listening to Better Offline (https://www.betteroffline.com/) having heard @jeffjarvis respond to my comment about Jensen Huang's boob signing incident. My wife tire's of me saying "be the change you want to see in the world" but Jeff's comment makes me feel good. We can do hard things.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-14 at 21:22

Ok, so, I fell victim to a fake screenshot that indicated that the CEO of ProtonMail was a Trumper. He is not, and I would like to retract what I said.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-14 at 17:41

I tire of yelling into the void, but JFC, I tried for the last few years to de-google my life and now @andyyen the CEO of ProtonMail has done a right turn shit heel move. Is there any other email service/cloud storage provider that doesn't lick the boot?

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-14 at 15:44

He looks so sweaty. I'm not judging as a recovering alcoholic, but I also wouldn't put myself in charge of americas military.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-14 at 15:43

Pete Hegseth is definitely hungover, right?

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-13 at 19:19

Just dropping this here for no apparent reason.

https://pixelfed.social/benpocalypse

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-13 at 17:16

As a website user, I want more and more ads and popovers to load as I attempt to scroll down so that I can increase shareholder value.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-13 at 16:12

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Dial up internet in 1996. The squelch of an analog modem. I watched the rise and fall of MySpace. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-11 at 22:37

Just got charged for my kids annual subscription to be able to play PlayStation and Nintendo Switch games online. Shout out to Microsoft for starting this awful enshittified trend back during the OG Xbox era.

Thanks for taking from us what quake admins would gladly have done for free.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-09 at 13:41

@jeffjarvis @leo This is the guy you think is really impressive? Jensen Huang, signing a girls boob.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-09 at 13:02

Is https://itch.io down for anyone else or just me?

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-08 at 17:21

I'm seeing tons of folks saying that they can't delete their Meta accounts for reasons x, y, or z. But guess what? There is only a single reason and it's called the network effect.

If you make your living via one of those platforms, I totally get it. But if you're just keeping your Meta account open for convenience because "that's how I stay in touch" I don't consider that a valid reason. If one person leaves, that does nothing. If many leave, that's a called a start.

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Written by Ben Foote on 2025-01-01 at 17:45

I love when people say "That new Indiana Jones game has a stupid name." Like...have you read the title of ANY of the movies? Not even the new ones...all of them. They all have terrible sounding names.

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