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"Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately, but here we are, with Threads federation with the ActivityPub-based fediverse ecosystem an increasingly vivid reality."

Four people who experience different types of migraine symptoms, with short videos showing the kinds of distortions they see.
The first one with the moving, glowing zigzags and blind spot is a perfect rendition of what I tend to get.

On poll reports vs. showing up to vote: "Don't listen to the polls, they're trying to manipulate you, trying to make you confidently hopeful so you'll stay home because you believe the job is done, or trying to make you depressed and defeated so you'll stay home because the job isn't worth doing."

Bug in Nextcloud 27: Switch to multipart uploading to support larger files breaks rename/move/copy on files in some S3 providers. (Linode is one of them)

Buying from Amazon: 3 Steps to Find What You Need and Avoid Fake Reviews | The Saturday Evening Post

Engineer and former Amazon VP-turned-critic Tim Bray: "I have no real interest in giving the company, specifically, a hard time. I’m mad at the structure of 21st-century capitalism; the fabric of society is in danger of breaking.... Because the problem is so big that any of them, even Amazon, is rounding error."
I still like the idea of separating AWS from the retail business as a first step for Amazon specifically.

"Here’s a rusty knife.
Here’s a video I saw on YouTube once. Here are some instructions I read on Quora… Okay, how hard can it be?"