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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I was part of a group of people who got laid off from a small startup a few months ago. Many of us formed a discord group and have been supporting each other through the job hunt.

    One guy who’s been at his job for about a week recently said this:

    Many people have told me you shouldn’t take a job doing something that you love… That’s the main lesson I learned from getting laid off

    You end up pouring all your energy into it. I wanna do something that I hate, and I’ll use that hate and anger to fuel something else 😈

    It feels kinda good to look evil right in the face and put on a fake smile and say “yes I will take money from you to do bullshit work”


  • For anyone wondering how this will “make high earners play by the same rules”:

    Seemingly not everyone will be stoked to see the IRS go totally paperless. The Treasury Department said that combining paperless processing with “an improved data platform” will make it easier for data scientists to extract and analyze data—potentially detecting tax evasion that the IRS has long overlooked due to a lack of resources.

    “When combined with an improved data platform, digitization and data extraction will enable data scientists to implement advanced analytics and pattern recognition methods to pursue cases that can help address the tax gap, including wealthy individuals and large corporations using complex structures to evade taxes they owe,” the Treasury Department said.

    In April, the Treasury Department said that “improving enforcement among high-income and high-wealth individuals, complex partnerships, and large corporations that are not paying the taxes they owe” could end up flagging $160 billion owed but evaded annually.

    “Due to a lack of resources and loss of top talent, audits of the wealthy and large corporations have plummeted over the last decade, and the amount of taxes evaded by the top 1 percent has exploded to $160 billion per year,” the Treasury Department reported in April. “Audit rates for millionaires fell by 77 percent, audit rates for large corporations fell by 44 percent, and audit rates for partnerships fell by 80 percent between 2010 and 2017.”

    Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that updating the IRS technology was crucial to reduce the tax gap and ensure that “high earners play by the same rules as working and middle-class families.”

    Anyone taking bets on Congress shutting this down?






  • I play minecraft on a private server via steam on my htpc with an Xbox One controller. I have minecraft set up as a non-steam game in steam, steam configured with the controller. Minecraft is set up to use the fabric client with a number of client-side mods (the client itself tells me I have 87 or so mods, but that has to be client patches or something, as I only have a dozen or so mods installed). When it works, it’s fantastic, but the problem is that it’s very inconsistent.

    When I open the game from steam, the controller works in the launcher as a rough approximation to a mouse and keyboard - exactly what I want. But when I launch the actual game, it’s a complete toss up whether that configuration will carry over to the game window. More often than not, it won’t, and sessions often begin with me opening and closing the game many times before the configuration will carry over and I can play.

    I’ve tried turning on and off steam’s “allow desktop configuration in launcher” option, which doesn’t seem to have any effect. I’ve tried enabling and disabling the minecraft launcher’s “keep launcher open when games are active” setting, which similarly seems to have no effect. Annoyingly, I’ve noticed that if I alt-tab back to the launcher after starting the game, the controller is still working for the launcher, just not in the game itself.

    At this point, I’ve installed the Controllable mod and Glossi - this configuration “just works”, and is perfectly consistent, but it’s an imperfect substitute for the steam solution that I prefer. But I feel like I’m out of things to try for getting the steam solution to work consistently, or at least often enough to not frustrate me before I even get into the game!

    Any thoughts as to why it behaves this way and other things to try are appreciated.



  • Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”

    What

    What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he’s actually had to deal with in the past?

    And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a “censorship bureau” that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you’re rich and powerful without telling me you’re rich and powerful.

    I would say “humiliation kink confirmed?” but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don’t like, with no one to stop him.





  • I’ve seen a few lemmy discussions on this so far, and honestly the best option I’ve seen is to just ignore Place.

    To participate, even to advertise lemmy, we would have to engage, which is what reddit is looking for. Even then, admins will likely take the reigns and prevent any serious effort from being fruitful. There’s just not that much benefit and plenty of downside.

    It’s attention seeking behavior. Ignoring it and letting the event fall flat (or at least as flat as is in our power) would send so much more of a message than “join lemmy” or “fuck spez”.




  • All credit where credit is due, it’s an impressive project. Just some things where I’m like… “this isn’t going to stand up to significant traffic as-is”. I’ve legit considered starting a clone - not least because I’m just not as familiar with rust, yet - but that would be counterproductive to my goal of improving things.

    As far as improvements, honestly, if you’re just hosting a small instance with a small user count, you’ll probably be fine. If you start getting significant amounts of traffic, that’s where I see problems starting to arise.

    Personally, the instance I’m working on, I’m trying to build to support scaling to multiple geolocated servers (and multiple processes on each server to support traffic) with centralized database and image hosting among them. The docker setup is… not suitable for such 😅 I’d love to see how some of the bigger instances have their architectures set up, to see how much they deviate from the standard.