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Bing... X... Facebook... Bing... Google...

Not an Ecosia, Searx, Mastodon, Lemmy, or even DuckDuckGo to be seen. Just dreck.

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Have you heard of Holocracy? It's one of the more popular of set of flat, self-organizing management structures; it's been tried at a few big name companies, with limited success. I think failures at this point are easily attributed to sheer novelty and lack of experience, and good guidelines for avoiding pitfalls, more than a fundamental flaw in the concept. One of the big issues I see needing to be addressed is ego; we will never get rid of self-proclaimed alpha types, and extroverts will always have an advantage in rising in the ranks regardless of competency. These sorts of issues can sabotage - even without malicious intent! - these flat structures. Some people will simply tend to accrue influence and power. But another issue is overcoming the tendency to bikeshed. Companies who've tried, and failed, to execute Holocracy, Sociocracy, Matrix Management, and Lean Management (there are a few of these styles) have been pretty good at documenting the weak areas that causes struggles and failures.

Anyway, I'm quite keen on these approaches; companies employing them are just hard to find.

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Brown people.

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Maybe because not every system is Debian, and Plasma has to work on systems that either don't have /usr/share/i18n/supported or put is somewhere else?

I manage a project that encounters this sort of thing regularly; my biggest problem is terminfo entries. Not all distributions contain all of the same terminfos. It is one of the biggest source of bug reports my project gets. I've been considering just embedding all of the terminfos in my project, just so I know they'll all be there on every system it's installed.

I don't know this is Plasma's reason for including their own list, but it could easily be. It could also be because those are the locales Plasma supports, and it may not support every locale that might be in the distro system list.

Jeff Bezos revealed his secret to Amazon’s success 25 years ago: ‘I asked everyone around here to wake up terrified every morning, their sheets drenched in sweat’ ( www.cnbc.com )

Back in the 90s, Jeff Bezos went on record as hoping his employees would wake up on the wrong side of the bed—for the greater good, or for the customer at the very least....

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sigh. I literally know people who will take this to heart, who already mostly believe this is how companies should operate, and don't need much more
" proof" like this.

Yes: if you beat your slaves, they will work harder until they die, at which point you can replace them. It's true. You can be successful this way.

It bugs me to no end that we've created an economic model that measures success by exactly one metric: profit. It's such a shitty situation with a disastrous, unsustainable end; it's just taking a long time for it to play out.

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Block the poster, or the whole magazine?

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Dude, I will literally run interference.

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CBS Chief Says Star Trek Remains A Priority For Paramount, Answers Why ‘Legacy’ Has Not Been Greenlit

Some interesting quotes herein.

https://trekmovie.com/2024/03/18/cbs-chief-says-star-trek-remains-a-priority-for-paramount-answers-why-legacy-has-not-been-greenlit/

@startrek

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Strange New Worlds is “filling in a timeline” that we absolutely know how it works out - even the characters do! It’s part of the plotline - but it’s a decent show. Sure, I have plenty of objections to the episode authors and character details, but after Abrams it’s almost refreshing. I don’t think knowing the future renders making an enjoyable series impossible, do you?

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more ( apnews.com )

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....

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I don’t know if taxi companies have upped their online game, but Uber and Lyft’s huge advantage used to be that the customer could see what the ride would cost them, when their ride would arrive, and pay online. Those of us old enough can remember days when you’d worry about whether a taxi driver was going to take the scenic route, whether you’d have enough cash, whether they’d accept a credit card, whether they’d add some surcharge to credit card transactions, and then having to trust your credit card to yet another random stranger. Having to use taxis used to be a reliable source of stress when traveling; Uber utterly removed that (if you were male; I know women have additional sources of angst when getting into cars with strangers).

If Taxi companies have gotten their online shit together, where I can see the entire transaction - times and costs - in advance, then yeah, I’ll agree with you. But originally, Uber and Lyft were huge game changers for customers.

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You’ve convinced me. I’ll never take Uber or Lyft again.

Tell me one thing: if I’m visit some city, whether in the US or elsewhere, is there a reliable taxi app that works pretty much everywhere, or do I have to search for a local one?

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I’ve only used my GL.iNet router with Mullvad, and I assume you’re going through the manual configuration for WireGuard part of the UI? Have you found the scan qr/upload config/manual input config part? From as far as I’ve tried it, it’s like setting up any WireGuard endpoint - you have to give it the same sort of config file you’d give wg-quick, including subnet, hosts, etc - the same place you’d put your pk.

Generate the config file on a different computer and upload it through the UI.

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You’re right. I will add that there are far more GTK apps with no Gnome dependancies, then there are Qt apps with no KDE dependencies.

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Your local co-op?

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Nesting? TA also says the mouse was stockpiling seed the guy was leaving out for the birds.

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Ryan would make a funny president. I would love to see him in a debate with Trump.

I'm looking for recommendations for a cheap, and basic OpenWRT router

I used to use an old Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 router for the purpose of testing homelab setups, but I have recently found that, as of 2022, it is unsupported by OpenWRT. So, I am now looking for a router to replace my old one. I don’t need anything fancy – I just need a router with WiFi connectivity (2.4GHz is fine, but 5GHz is,...

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“Cheap” being relative, I think GL.iNet products are reasonably priced, and their software is OpenWRT with a customized web interface. $40 for their small, portable WiFi 5 Opal; $95 for their WiFi 6 “home” router; $130 for the WiFi 6 Opal. The Opals work fine for covering a 1br apartment, but have 2 eth ports. The bigger one (Flint?) has 4.

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I’m so close to blocking their mail servers; so much spam comes through their servers, and they don’t honor unsubscriptions.

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I take a quick trip to Switzerland

That’s where you get the really weird stuff.

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I love these GL.iNet products (their portable models are fantastic, too). Runs OpenWRT, built in support for Mullvad (both OpenVPN and Wireguard), reasonably priced; fantastic kit.

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You know, I have no idea about flashing ability.

I missed the “ethernet only” part, sorry! I just buy Netgear routers, but they’re all unmamaged so relatively dumb.

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You’ve never shopped for housing in California, have you? $95k doesn’t give you rent for a room in a quad.

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Completely agree. I had the same logic, only since it was CA I figured they fat-finger-dropped a “2” in front of the first number.

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An allowance sounds more like something added to their paycheck, rather than something they expensed. If that was the case, and they got to take home the allowance… well, heck. Ten bucks is ten bucks.

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This is the way. Exim is far easier to config than Postfix, which is what I’m using now. I’d run Exim before for years, but thought I’d try Postfix since it’s the popular kid. It was a mistake, but everything is running and stable, and… well, sunk costs is keeping me from reconfiguring my set-up.

It’s a bit of effort to get everything configured correctly in any case, because of the number of moving parts. SPF and DMARC on the DNS entries, dovecot, Postfix or Exim, and a spam manager. Spam management consumes a huge amount of resources.

It really is the only way, though.

Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox

I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use....

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I don’t know about “shouldn’t use USB for storage;” it’s perfectly fine. However, if you can use a SATA interface, I would. You’ll get better performance in general from it, and that’s what the port is there for.

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xfs. ext4 doesn’t have a comparable feature set, and nobody is going to use those others as their main filesystems on Linux. bcachefs will be a contender, once it’s included in the kernel, or if you’re the sort who compiles their own kernels.

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Yeah, zfs is what I meant. Or yfs, as in “Y-use anything but btr-FS?”

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Companies are beginning to realize there’s literally nothing stopping them from advertising on Lemmy.

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I have only had positive experiences with B2; I don’t even keep an eye on competitor prices any longer. I hope their employees are getting decent raises out of it.

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I wish only that she wouldn’t attack members of her own party that aren’t in full alignment on all of her hot-button issues. There are Dems holding seats in districts where they are barely beating their Republican rival, and may not have AOC’s luxury of being full-throated on all of the issues. I’m not asking her to defend pedophiles in her ranks (as the Republican party does), but just… not try to tear them down and allow their Republican rival to beat them.

Her inability to work with moderates in the party - at least in the press - is not a strength.

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I use it on one machine because it’s the only thing available there. I frequently have problems with web sites that refuse to work because my “web browser is out of date.” Google, in particular, is bad about it, and even seems to actively user agent mocking from working. I know that’s not FF’s problem, but it is a severe issue that makes me wish I could update to a newer version.

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