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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/212-million-contract-will-finally-get-san-francisco-trains-off-floppy-disks/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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NFL player illegally streams his own team’s game, garners mostly sympathy
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/nfl-player-illegally-streams-his-own-teams-game-garners-mostly-sympathy/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@mathowie This whole shitshow from the other week was caused by something like this. I just think Threads is bad for society but I also feel like after this incident I need to care about it.
https://tedium.co/2024/10/15/journalism-gatekeeping-writing-criticism/
‘It was a good choice: This US couple say their living costs dropped by nearly $3,000 a month when they moved to Italy
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/21/travel/this-us-couple-moved-to-italy-for-a-more-affordable-retirement?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into GLORIOUS EXPAT LIFE @glorious-expat-life-JanetteSpeyer
Huge! A Roman Engineering Marvel Reaching Across a Spanish City
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/huge-roman-segovia-aqueduct-2556224?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into GLORIOUS HISTORICAL TRAVEL @glorious-historical-travel-JanetteSpeyer
Read at @mohu ‘s hilarious post as he points out the best job positions for Donald Trump’s posse
Posted into DECENTRALIZED CONVERSATIONS EDU @decentralized-conversations-edu-JanetteSpeyer
Off the Beaten Path: Portugal's Undiscovered Treasures
https://flipboard.com/@sidewalksafari/off-the-beaten-path-portugal-s-undiscovered-treasures-ccpig8mqr48lvp98?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into ON MY WAY TO PORTUGAL @on-my-way-to-portugal-JanetteSpeyer
@mathowie I find people seem super-pissed when they get any pushback on Threads whatsoever.
I used to be bummed that Mastodon was only a slice of my friends that used to follow me on Twitter, too many old friends were missing out.
They're mostly on Bluesky, but there's so much politics there it feels like 2012 Twitter.
A few misguided friends only use Threads, and I still don't understand why. They're trying to build the giant public square at Threads and if Twitter has taught us anything it's that smaller communities work better than one giant feed pile for the entire world.
I spent the past week using Croissant to post identical toots to Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all at once.
Summary:
1. Mastodon: works as is—friends laugh at my dumb stuff, a few randos painfully explain my joke back to me
2. Bluesky: you get 2 likes or 200, no in-between.
3. Threads: my posts got 5 views or 5,000 views, no in-between. Also: context collapse as bad as 2018 Twitter with dozens of randos screaming at me how I'm wrong and I'm an asshole. Humorless.
