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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Wow. This was the first Fox article I’ve read in several years. It’s fascinating, but in a really abrasive way somehow. It just feels frustrated.

The article has almost no information at all. It shares the perspectives of a few upset residents, which are great to include, but almost no direct statements about what the mayor actually did. Why did the mayor fly to Las Vegas? What about that trip makes it theft? I certainly want to question the trip… but the article just doesn’t give that info. Similarly, how did the mayor steal from the cancer fund? It sure sounds bad, but we’re only given that statement from the perspective of one upset resident who has cancer. The perspective sure is valid but I can’t make my own evaluation based on the info given. It just feels like I’m not meant to think about what I’m reading. It’s very strange.

Is this normal for articles written by Fox?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is regulated. And there are penalties for violating those regulations. But it’s just not enough. Even a class action lawsuit won’t help the victims. Most of that money goes to lawyers.

Honestly, I don’t expect any of it to change until the penalties are so severe that major companies go under. Aka a corporate death penalty (which the US used to have). But even then, good software security is extremely hard. Almost everyone screws up something.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Professionally, I’ve spent the last year almost entirely focused on o11y, a numeronym for observability. IMO you want to run opentelemetry (aka otel) for a lot of this stuff. It’s a fantastic tool. We tell clients that if they don’t use otel, then they’re probably doing o11y wrong.

You can run it as a collector to scrape log files. If your apps are instrumented, they can emit telemetry via OTLP to otel instead. Then otel can process and export the data to various data backends like Minor (metrics), Loki (logs), and Tempo (traces). Then use Grafana for a UI. That particular set of tools is known as the LGTM stack. if you only want to handle logs, your stack could be simpler: otel, Loki, and Grafana.

A final thought is about a seeming want for metrics generated from logs. Otel can do that for you too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I agree in full!

I’ve thought quite a bit about corporate funding of the fediverse. The only possibility good way that I currently see is if there’s a not-for-profit acting as a middle man to dispense the funds. And that not-for-profit can’t voice opinions on how the fediverse is developed. Even this is wishful thinking.

I’ve actually given thought to creating this non-for-profit but I don’t really know how to get started or get attention for significant donations.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Ah I’m not in love with the other comments so far. Those commenters are all complaining class based wealth and wage disparity. That’s 100% a problem. A really big one! But the actress’s statement is about gender discrimination. And that is also a big problem.

We should never use the existence one problem to diminish or ignore others.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Well this confuses me. I’m only aware of upvotes and downvotes. What do the 4 colors mean? And what do the left and right arrows mean? Arrow size?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well that’s an interesting take! What aspects are you opposed to?

IANAL but I did read through the patents agreement that you linked. It basically says do whatever you want with Go as long as it different infringe on Google patents. Which is pretty much backed by US law anyways and I assume other countries as well. The sketchy part is that your license is revoked as soon as they file a lawsuit rather than win it. Honestly, I’d be surprised if Google ever used this in a legal dispute because there would be a huge community backlash.

That also only applies to Go developers. You would only be a user for a tool written on Go. How does your using a tool written in Go translate to support for Google and its bad practices? Do you not use any software written in Go?

Sorry if this is sounding argumentative! I’m generally a big fan of Go and definitely opposed to Google and using its products. This is a topic that I haven’t considered before so my questions represent my sincere curiosity.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The admins just launched a bunch of new services, including Blocks. I’m not sure if it checks all of your boxes. But it’s an obvious choice to look into

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

TST = Tree Style Tabs STG = Simple Tab Groups

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sidebery provides this functionality as well. Don’t get me wrong. If you like TST and STG, then enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Sidebery And userchrome.css to hide the default tab bar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Gotta check out Sidebery. It’s a big upgrade from TST

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