Our shit setup at work, where I am now using two browsers and two email programs because our Jira and Confluence can’t be arsed to decently support web standards/Firefox and because Outlook is shit but Exchange has stuff I need Outlook for.

Today was the first time, after yet again something not working - issues on confluence and Jira ticket can’t be closed, endless load on Firefox - where I genuinely felt relieved that a very different website for file transfer simply worked. I could open it, click download, and download the file.

It’s absurd that I feel this way.

Atlassian is shit for forcing us into the expensive cloud for a shit product. Our Jira and Confluence have plugins, and we pay admin company to integrate more customizations, and it just makes everything worse. The “changes only happen at night” I read from Atlassian is pointless because without notice or announcement stuff breaks anyway, and I have no idea who makes changes and when and what, because nothing is being communicated. Today was the third time we weren’t able to add work time to tickets. Let’s see when the next time will be.

It’s a constant annoyance and stumbling over shit tools.

I have various CSS hacks in place to make Jira and Confluence more usable, but it’s still shit. And man their HTML DOM is absolutely horrendous with only generated classes. Most of my CSS hacks use test ID attributes.

Shit Atlassian, shit Jira and Confluence, shit customizations. Annoying Outlook and Exchange.

Man this became a long text and rant lol

Unfortunately, they’re not useless but apparently necessary. I don’t see us ever moving away from them.

The German Dreckstool website (meaning shit tool) hosts a hitlist of shitty tools/software. I don’t think it’s that popular, but the top/high-scored of the list may be indicative of some of the worst.

When one roll is empty, have you considered rolling half of a new roll onto it?

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black-box feed shaping algorithms

Recent EU legislation already requires insight into feed algorithms. They’re not allowed to be black-box on huge platforms.

Back-doors is another issue, but depending on the kind of personal data, EU legislation already requires separation and different levels of protection.

If data being sent to the US can not be considered safe, it can not be transferred without explicit and informed consent. US firms create EU firms to have regional legal entities. They can store private data locally, within the EU.

No, because regulation works; or can work. We can require them to follow our laws because they’re invested in our market too.

There are regular fines for GDPR violations for example; it just feels like our checks and fines need to happen faster and harder.

China regulates their platforms like TikTok differently in their own country than outside. We can require the same.

Life is self-emerging. There is no higher or predefined purpose. You can live without one, or define your own, which may or may not change over time.

Regarding death as the ultimate conclusion; you can make of it what you want. You can consider what you leave behind. You can see life itself as worthwhile, without a need for an end-goal that follows after.

Cashew - Feature rich financial app

How does Cashew compare to GnuCash?

Linking for anyone else interested; Zim

I’m very interested and involved in the free software space. I wouldn’t say I’m surprised by any being free.

There’s some powerhouses of great or big or powerful free software, but I know that and know why they are or can be free.

Usefulness does not correlate with price.

You say that you believe most people can differentiate between good and bad, but note that people often think they are doing good while doing evil deeds. The human mind is exceptional at reasoning even against logic or facts when it is to preserve a positive self-image. You mention being brainwashed; often, people “brainwashed” themselves.

Defaulting to tolerance, goodwill, and expecting good is a good start, but tolerance must end somewhere. Excessive tolerance will inevitably lead to it being used/exploited. At various costs.

Flexible morals make sense. Different contexts require different adaptions. Considering them flexible or not may also be a matter of not including enough data points/context that sources moral conclusions.

What you need… is a lawyer

Publish what you have the right to publish. Is you question what you have the rights to? About the technical hosting or distributing? Referencing or quoting other works? Whether you need a legal entity or author disclosure?

Experts in the field may be more knowledgeable, but there seem to be multiple attack vectors to me:

• Fight and advocate to reduce social injustice; people who feel powerless or left out vote right [even against their own interest]
• Support quality education that critically explores fascism and history, that improves media literacy, and logical fallacies etc
• Support social programs that help people in the scene get out
• Support social programs that prevent people from drifting into that scene
• Be a voice in criticism and watchdogging media, orgs, and [public] people

Is this a reference to something?

To touch grass I open https://quwhack.itch.io/touch-grass-simulator