What’s so good about this particular acquisition failure is that Figma is actually a really good product, and Adobe would most certainly have fucked it up.
The title of the article is “Twitch quickly reverses policy that “went too far” allowing nudity — Twitch confirmed its policy banning nudity was sexist.”
Obsidian user with self-maintained vault sync across MacOS, Android and Linux, reporting for duty! 🙄
Gave up on Google Drive, MacOS and Android worked perfectly, Linux was a complete pain and never got it working properly. Screw you, Google, get your shit together and support Linux, already! 😡
i got sick again so the financial update and also this thread are late. i’ll get the financial update up at a later point, or i might just combine it with january since there’s not that much to report as far as i can tell
Haven’t found a good use for Mastodon yet, but then again I don’t really miss Xhitter so it probably isn’t for me, anyway.
I usually just stick to Subs and Local on Lemmy, and since that means Beehaw, a tiny Danish instance and a board game community, I generally find that people are quite lovely.
The bad experiences don’t really come out of the woodwork unless I start browsing Everything.
For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don’t understand?...
Swiping all the way to the bank. I cannot wrap my head around people who tap out each letter. It’s like people standing in line at the supermarket instead of using the scan-it-yourself-and-self-checkout app. Why???
While I don’t have any specific org or board recommendations, I wanted to point out that your post — for me at least — was very difficult to parse.
You’re clearly skilled at writing, but what you’ve written doesn’t necessarily read as “skilled at communicating”. As you’re looking for work writing non-prose, I’m not sure you’re applying your flex correctly.
I asked cGPT to simplify your text a bit. It’s not perfect by any stretch, but it gets your point across, and does it succinctly:
Living in a van has made me realize I want a paid advocacy role using my persuasive writing skills. I’m interested in green energy and climate causes. I’m not good at self-promotion, so I’m looking for organizations that need news analysis. I have experience as a copyeditor and want fair compensation to clear my debts in a few years. Any recommendations for organizations or job boards for someone with my skills?
And please don’t take offense; this is coming from someone who is often verbose, and generelt has a very difficult time with being succinct, to the point where emails end up so long that potential clients just ghost me. It’s just that it’s a lot easier to see it in the writing of others than in your own, and I want you to succeed ❤️
Sorry for the slow response, and thanks for taking the time to flesh out your thoughts and goals 😃
Agreed, the shortened version was missing stuff, and I didn’t do anything to rectify that; it was just intended to create an obvious contrast.
You should definitely do you, and you seem to have gotten the point of my perspective (remember your audience, avoid alienation-by-vocabulary-flaunting), so there’s nothing left but for me to wish you the best of luck in you endeavor 😊🤘
“Meta” had been registered as a trademark in the United States in 2018 (after an initial filing in 2015) for marketing, advertising, and computer services, by a Canadian company that provided big data analysis of scientific literature. This company was acquired in 2017 by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), a foundation established by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and became one of their projects. Following the rebranding announcement, CZI announced that it had already decided to deprioritize the earlier Meta project, that it would be transferring its rights to the name to Meta Platforms, and that the project would end in 2022.
So, they bought it through their (non-profit?) foundation and killed it to harvest the name?
I hadn’t heard about Oniverse before, thank you for the tip! Looks super interesting, I’m going to go through the rules and see if something fits or sparks new ideas =D
Thank you! These are great suggestions, and I’ve put them on my research list! For Northwood! has a PNP version from the author, looking forward to testing it out, and there seems to be some good mechanics in Puzzle Dungeon and Regiside that I’ll look into =D
A Babylonian tablet from around 1770 BC uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem, suggesting ancient Babylonians discovered it centuries before the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras for whom it’s named.
Brave has proved time and again that they’re only trustworthy as long as whatever scheme they’re working on isn’t found out, and I can’t imagine that there is any chance their search engine is any better.
If someone recommends Brave to you, you should ignore them, because they are wrong. Brave Browser is a mess of a software project, and the company building it is even worse.
Danish restaurants have won World’s Best Restaurant 6 times in the past 13 years (with an additional 5 placements in 2nd and 3rd place, combined, since 2009), but granted, that doesn’t say much about Danish cuisine in general 😓
With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services....
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
My wife and I actually met on OkCupid, happily married for 8 years now, and dated a few years before that, so safe to say I haven’t been there in 10+ years.
Sad to hear it’s gone down the drain, it seemed the least vile of the available options 😓
Now if only we could have a cut of Donnie Darko that has the extra scenes from the Director’s Cut, but leaves Echo & The Bunnymen’s glorious “The Killing Moon” in the opening scene, right the fuck where it belongs. What was Richard Kelly thinking? INXS?? It boggles the mind 😓
All the time I have people come in to work wearing a mask, which is fine normally, good for them, but they are wearing them on their chin, chin diaper style. Not covering up anything. Or at best just their mouth, sometimes. Nobody is making these people wear a mask anymore, so why are they doing it at all if they are just going...
I think you’ve misunderstood my meaning. I wasn’t bragging, looking down my nose at the rest of the world who still has to deal with Covid. I was trying to convey:
How messed up it is to live in a place where something like “cancelling Covid” can become a political decision, and
How adept the human mind is at blocking out trauma.
A ridiculously high percentage of the population here was vaccinated, so at least that vector is dampened.
Personally, I do my best to still stay at home if I’m sick, keep my kids home if they’ve got the sniffles, and if we’re feeling particularly unwell, we get a Covid test, unlike the vast majority of the country. We haven’t tested positive in the past 2+ years.
There isn’t much else we can do. It’s not like we’re fighting a rag-tag group of anti-vaxx retards here. It’s the entire country. Almost everyone vaccinated, no masks or restrictions in sight for a year and a half. There’s no fight to be had.
I understand completely that being compromised sucks tremendously, which is one of the reasons we (my wife and I) took the restrictions extremely seriously, to the point where both our families rolled their eyes at us. And we didn’t give a fuck, we did our best to do what we thought was right, and we kept doing that for as long as it was doable.
I have no idea what the numbers are today, if people here are still dying. I doubt it, because people would talk about that, but I don’t know for sure. I was trying to convey what it’s like living in a post-pandemic society, even if it is so by choice.
Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma (arstechnica.com)
Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....
Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)
Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
Adam Mosseri:...
Probably an oldie, but thought some of you might get a laugh out of this one... (beehaw.org)
Sorry if it’s too off-topic 😅
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
Ukraine's SBU killed fugitive Ukrainian lawmaker in Russia - source (www.reuters.com)
how's your week going, Beehaw
i got sick again so the financial update and also this thread are late. i’ll get the financial update up at a later point, or i might just combine it with january since there’s not that much to report as far as i can tell
Why does Gboard replace spaces with characters I add between words?
For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don’t understand?...
Do you have a preferred artist or band that isn't widely recognized in the mainstream?
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
At a certain point in living in a van, grousing about the state of things gives way to "wait a tick, persuasive researched prose is my wheelhouse; how do I find a paid advocacy role?"
And one runs into the sorts of search shenanigans that bedevils any job query....
Reddit appears to be blocking VPNs (unverified) (beehaw.org)
I’m on iOS 17.1.1 using Safari. I also have Proton VPN enabled in the states but if I try to visit any page on the website I see this:...
Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)
Suggestions for solitaire / tarot / choose your own adventure card game mashup research? (beehaw.org)
Hi all,...
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
From article:...
Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it? (arstechnica.com)
Spend money replacing? No, DIY! (discuss.tchncs.de)
Yes, now it looks like frankenshelf. Adds character. What do you think?
Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
A Babylonian tablet from around 1770 BC uses principles of the Pythagorean theorem, suggesting ancient Babylonians discovered it centuries before the famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras for whom it’s named.
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from !google...
4 ways to divide Europe (i.imgur.com)
Are you cancelling streaming services?
With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services....
Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)
If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....
What is your favorite movie?? Why??
Please answer the why part. Why should I watch your favorite movie?
They Literally Don't make Things Like They Used To - SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)
(Sorry if this is the wrong community to post this)
Why are you still wearing a mask...wrong?
All the time I have people come in to work wearing a mask, which is fine normally, good for them, but they are wearing them on their chin, chin diaper style. Not covering up anything. Or at best just their mouth, sometimes. Nobody is making these people wear a mask anymore, so why are they doing it at all if they are just going...