It’s been a slog. Don’t get chickenpox as an adult, don’t let your kid get ill right after chickenpox. Oh, and live in a country with decent healthcare, that helps too.
So a few weeks back it’s been officially confirmed I’m being made redundant.
I had a job interview last Friday - late stage. I’m hoping they come back with some positive news. The interview went okay. I think I did well with the Java stuff, but when I was asked about Javascript Event Loops, I was completely befuzzled.
Back at work, and we all have to act like we give a shit. Not too great, I wish I was done with the company overall.
Luckily I have another job interview next week - something to look forward too!
Originally reddit was a niche site with few visitors that was full of knowledge and a strong sense of community.
Then during Gamergate (2014), several organizational subs were created by rancid basement dwelling mysogitrolls that soon found that not only did they not get banned for doxxing and harassing people, that they gathered even more rancid basement dwelling mysogitrolls to their ranks and realized they weren’t as rare as they worried.
Then 2015 rolled around and a SHITTON of alt-right wastes of their own father’s protein came around for the whole trumpfest that reddit became at the time.
And they never left.
On the other hand, a ton of people who created content and supported other users with meaningful replies all decided it wasn’t worth the constant harassment, doxxing, malicious reporting, bigotry, botting and refusal of the admins to address said behaviors.
And we left.
So the only redditors still there are either shitstains or too emotionally invested to leave yet.
And that latter group will get smaller and smaller as the shitstains become louder and more emboldened.
Seriously though, I’ve been using Reddit since probably about 2012. I never really put time into analyzing it’s demise. I didn’t care enough. Thanks for the information. 🙂
I’d like a functional local LLM app for Android. I tried MLCChat, but it just spat out gibberish. I tried installing llamafile on a Linux VM with Termux, but it didn’t work.
Zero. Influencer has a negative connotation to me. I associate it with shock media, cringe, and self-centered hubris. At best it’s a production, meant to create a persona and a market around that.
I don’t want to be influenced, I want to experience art, story, kindness, food, the world all more holistically than through a screen.
I don’t care if the creator is racist, sexist an asshole or whatever. I only care that their vision for the product aligns with what I want from the product.
That’s a general internet thing. The best advice I can give is try to ignore the worst ones, and focus on the rest. Focusing on the negative just drags you down into it.
So far pretty slow. Work has been a slow drip (unsurprising) and everyone is just slowly getting back to normal after the holidays. But hey, I’m caught up on sleep so I’ve got that going for me!
Processional: “She’s the One” by World Party for groom and family, “Book of Love” by Peter Gabriel for bride. It ended up being perfectly timed, because I was able to sing the last verse to my favorite person when I got to him (which is about wanting to give each other wedding rings)
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