@glyph Did you quote post something?

[alpha@hey.kejadlen.dev]

@jacob @ancoghlan @glyph I remember hearing of a company that allowed employees to use some (reasonably large) percentage of unused per diem for future travel expenses, although I can't remember for the life of me where I heard this, so maybe it was just a fever dream.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph This. A wiki at *best* pushes responsibility for organizing information onto individual contributors who are not generally experts in organization.

That sometimes even works thanks to someone doing the thankless job of keeping internal docs up to date (it's worth, as an aside, reflecting on who does that work and at what cost to professional advancement).

Institutions *need* librarians, not to push system problems onto developers.

[jsled@mstdn.io]

@glyph I've believed this for a decade, and have been thinking about making a skills/career change into making it happen. Only downside is I know most companies will never hire for this (very important!) role. :(

[sassdawe@infosec.exchange]

@jsled @glyph from my SharePoint consultant days building intranets for customers I know that the consept of Information Architecture used to be a hot topic. Now that I need to use Confluence I die a little every day. Wikis were not meant for this.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@glyph It's just endlessly rich that after years and years of the RIAA and MPAA pushing shit like the DMCA and DRM down our throats, copyright apparently means... nothing? If you're Google? Like, what?

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph unfortunately, I doubt it. This seems like open-and-shut transformative (bad kind) to me.

[rachelplusplus@tech.lgbt]

@glyph "Users can only read 4 words" - Google apparently???

[funkybob@chaos.social]

@xgranade @glyph I think your problem here is... google has really _really_ deep pockets.

[fxchip@hachyderm.io]

@xgranade @glyph I would laugh if I were not scream-crying with bitter rage

[snoopj@hachyderm.io]

@glyph inshallah

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph "Windows is the gaming operating system" doesn't really even hold up anymore with all the work on Proton, the only remaining hold out are games with kernel-level anticheat and.... good riddance?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos I have a better understanding these days of why anti-cheat is such a big deal (games without it, like TF2, do tend to turn into absolutely intolerable cesspits of botted cheating) but the answer to KLAC _must_ be "no, figure out another way"

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@glyph here in Olympia, WA.. i've been known as "that computer guy who will make your laptop run 100x faster for free"

I do it by installing #nixbook , a Linux distro. It's WILD to see people's reactions.. like they were about to toss their computer in the trash, and then they're like omg, how is it is so fast

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@codemonkeymike that's awesome. what is your support load like for that? how many people have successfully stuck with it, and how do you migrate their data?

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos (the monkey's paw curls and a developer reading this thinks to themselves "I guess we could use AI for it instead")

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph Oh gods don't give them ideas!

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos why not, just put a random number generator in charge of consequential real-life punishment and resource-allocation decisions, what could go wrong

[cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev]

@glyph I feel like this is already happening in a bunch of places, like "Automate your performance reviews!"

[alys@selfy.army]

@glyph will be interesting to see whether the spiking memory and hard drive costs boost Linux as well.

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@cthos I did already mention in the thread above that the Cool Zone is mostly _not_ good