prole

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worst of the worst. in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

libs are going to be more intolerable than ever with their "harm reduction" shit

Got invited to a party by my brother-in-law and me and my sister are the only non-Spanish speakers here. in c/chat@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

It's a really fun word to say

US regulator bans imports of new foreign-made routers, citing security concerns in c/technology@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This feels really familiar. Did they already do this at some point? Maybe during the first round of trump?

Jim Cramer Slop King™ in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure doing the opposite of what he says about stocks is a meme and historically profitable

California could be attacked by drones because of Iran war, memo warns. Officials downplay threat in c/slop@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

I imagine Iran would launch drones from a ship and the Pacific is much easier for them to access than the Atlantic.

The grim choice facing the Trump administration: Economic or naval collapse? in c/news@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Inshallah

Interesting in c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

fake and gay

P R O J E C T I O N

Anti-ICE Democrat Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh outed as supporter of US interventionism in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

This is what no anti-imperialism does to a motherfucker

Madeline Pendleton has been streaming 5 days a week on twitch for the past 2 months in c/videos@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They have 1.6M followers on TikTok and as far as I can tell most of their content is discussing communism, imperialism, etc.

An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity. in c/technology@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So is it realistic for these to work in remote areas? Like would I need a node every 10 miles or something for it to work? I'm pretty far away from even a smallish city, but I live on a mountain that's about 1000 feet higher than the surrounding areas.

I don't really need it, but it sounds neat and it would be cool to set one up

Anti-ICE Democrat Congress candidate Kat Abughazaleh outed as supporter of US interventionism in c/electoralism@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I swear USAian "progressives" live in a vibes based reality. Zero consistency between their domestic and foreign policy positions.

Chuds: "Make your own games instead of trying to ruin ours." | *Does that.* | Chuds: "Not like that!" in c/games@hexbear.net
[–] prole@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

I went to look and got damn it's a nightmare

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Being a manager (hexbear.net)
 

Ok so, somehow I ended up being a manager at work. Mostly I just don't bother anyone and protect them from the bosses when I can. However, I'm a software dev and they had me make a bunch of scripts and such to measure productivity. I didn't really want to because fuck that, but as I was working on it I realized none of the bosses will ever look at this code or question the output.

I ended up padding the stats quite a bit in "honest" ways by doing things like excluding weekends and holidays. I also round everything up to the nearest whole number. But then I decided to just add extra values here and there as well. Instead of starting the count at 0, I start at 1.

The bosses asked for a monthly report, so I give them 28 days (and don't count the weekends). I drop the lowest count days if there are more than 28 days in the month and present all of the stats as monthly.

Anyway, just remember there are lots of ways to help your coworkers and you don't actually have to do any managing if everyone understands what's up. Just be really careful and try to always give yourself plausible deniability. LLMs are a great excuse to shift blame right now even if you aren't using one

Anyone else have ideas or things they've done?

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Do you even bother? (hexbear.net)
 

Recently I've had some frustrating conversations with people. Someone said Oregon is "deeply red", which sounds like an absolutely unhinged thing to say when you consider all branches of government in OR are controlled by Dems.

I'm sure I was rude to the person, but I tried to explain how ridiculous that is. If Oregon is deeply red then what is Alabama? Just because the rural areas are conservative? I spent way too long on this one.

Anyway how do you handle this kind of nonsense in the world? I usually just say what I'm thinking to people these days, but more and more it's feeling like I should just stfu and let people believe whatever

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Software development cooperatives? (hexbear.net)
 

I've looked at a few lists here and there, but it seems like there just aren't many co-ops that recruit strangers online. Anyone have any experience working for a co-op as a dev? It seems like it would be an awesome way to structure a small web/app dev team. Part of me wants to try to start one myself, but it's hard to imagine maintaining the motivation needed for a task like that when I can barely function as it is.

Anyway, what's up with the lack of cooperatives? Sorry if this is the wrong comm, seemed like the best place

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