we really care!

This is a bad take, which dismisses the amount of labor involved in maintaining widely used software projects.

too real

Blender. It’s been almost 20 years now since I started working with it, and the time I spent learning it was worth every minute. It is an incredibly powerful tool.

faster != better

In fact,

faster != good

What makes you feel valued?

…and is that something that can be delivered remotely, through a screen?

I ask this not because I necessarily want or expect a specific answer, but because everyone who reads my comment should stop and spend a few minutes considering what the answer is for them personally.

And then think about what you think the answer might be for other people in your life, and what makes them feel valued.

What can you do, to make that happen more often for yourself, and for others? Personally, I think nothing is quite as rewarding as making someone else feel valued.

Talk to your family. Talk to your friends. They want to hear from you, even if they’re busy.

The folks at NIST know what they’re talking about. The US government directed them to develop security policy for government information systems in 2002 (FISMA) - they’ve been thinking about how to do this properly for 24 years.

If you happen to work for a US government agency of any kind, you can basically tell your boss “NIST guidance says we should do X” and compliance is technically required by law (within the context of security policies that apply to your agency’s work area). If you work for a company that does business with the US government, there are similar compliance policies also published by NIST that you should be following (and your company could lose its contracts if it is not compliant).

I’ve had success directing people to the NIST password policy guidance.

We carve arcane patterns:

into specially prepared pieces of rock:

then apply energy and imbue them with instructions in specific, obscure languages to perform tasks for us. If you make any mistakes while uttering the instructions, the task fails.

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If you were assuming this was a rickroll… you would be wrong.

It’s worse than that. And yet, also better.

you asked for it

I assume we’re enemies now.

…blue, dark blue

Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?

Somewhere in a box in your childhood home, a Tamagotchi is slowly dying…

Have you felt the touch of His noodly appendage?

I find it difficult to see removing down votes as anything other than suppressing dissent.

I think the point of view described in the reddiquette is the most beneficial for good communities:

Vote. If you think something contributes to conversation, upvote it. If you think it doesn’t contribute to the community it’s posted in or is off-topic in a particular community, downvote it.

(Yes the link goes to reddit’s website and I understand people are avoiding it, just keep in mind there was a time before everything went wrong and the reddiquette dates back to the early years)

So I don’t upvote what other people say just because I agree with their opinion, or downvote because I disagree, but rather based on whether they’re contributing to the conversation in a useful way. I frequently upvote people that argue with me, as long as they’re addressing what I wrote in good faith.

This idea goes back further too - back when Digg was the most popular such website, the idea was that you “digg up” things that you think should be more visible (things that you think are worthwhile for other people to see), and “digg down” (bury) things that aren’t.

For example, if I upvote an article about genocide, it’s not because I approve of genocide, but because I think it’s important for other people to see the article.

The answer to this question depends on a lot of factors. For instance, if the internet service you’re using is slow, nothing you do to your laptop will make any difference.

Before you put time, effort or money into anything else, run a speed test: https://openspeedtest.com/

Would it? I’ve seen some videos here of people absolutely harassing lone ICE agents in cars sitting in parking lots, and those guys just drove off as fast as they could manage.

If you have a crowd of 20+ people around the car, not doing anything directed at the occupant, just kind of hanging around the outside, plus cameras taking video and actively posting it to social media because, hey, flash mob!.. what then?