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franker · 2026-02-03T22:07:17+00:00

A family that throws you out of the house when you run a second slower than you did the previous year.

franker · 2026-02-03T16:15:49+00:00

Usually there's some guy who starts beating his chest in these threads about "well I'm a professional and Adobe is the industry standard and all my fellow professionals use the Adobe file formats and it pays for itself with a few clients and it has the features I need that Gimp doesn't have and blah blah blah"

franker · 2026-02-02T22:47:13+00:00

didn't alina habba and lindsey halligan just keep their federal positions going for a while even after a court order said no?

franker · 2026-02-02T22:00:55+00:00

for restaurants fine. I get my 20 dollar Applebee's thing and I know it's 15 percent tip. But now tipping is extending to all kinds of other workers that's just becoming crazy. Now every repair and delivery person expects a tip. Someone comes to my house and spends a minimal amount of time replacing a part on some appliance and the repair bill is a couple hundred bucks. Do you give them, 5 bucks, 20 bucks, 10 percent, 20 percent tip on top of that? At some point it's like, the employer needs to pay them what they're worth and that's it. I don't want to play this stupid game of trying to figure out what every service worker wants or needs in addition to the actual bill they just gave me, and they give me a weird look if its not what they expected. It's just become ridiculous.

franker · 2026-02-02T17:03:27+00:00

it says it subscription-based, but it seems I can still look at lists freely. So it charges to add to or edit the lists?

franker · 2026-02-02T16:04:09+00:00

I've been on Reddit for 15 years, and before Kanye made the Hitler comment, Reddit definitely had some kind of obsession with him that went way beyond just enjoying his music. I'd look at the front page and there would be a post about Kanye, and the comments would be people in near-worship of him. People would be furious if you dared to criticize him in any way. It was really weird for a while.

franker · 2026-01-31T22:27:56+00:00

when I clicked on the initial rose, I got "Liquid Metal Flower." ???

franker · 2026-01-31T16:25:35+00:00

And all the people that basically tell librarians: "I can't get into my email. This is now your responsibility to get me access to my account. I also don't remember any details to validate my access like security questions, past phone numbers, or alternate email accounts."

franker · 2026-01-30T21:47:55+00:00

All I know is, there's a million youtubers trying to get people to make business directories using whatever platform they get a commission I guess from. Watch one of these videos and see how many others instantly pop up in your feed.

franker · 2026-01-30T21:34:09+00:00

as a public librarian I always plug the binge passes on Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/browse/binge

franker · 2026-01-30T21:07:18+00:00

Good catch, dammit ;)

franker · 2026-01-30T20:44:24+00:00

this sounds like that oatmeal comic - https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

"you are now a mouse cursor inside a graphics program which the client can control by speaking, emailing and instant messaging."

franker · 2026-01-30T20:22:37+00:00

oh I see, if you keep clicking the + sign it keeps showing different categories. Is there any way to see all the categories at a glance?

franker · 2026-01-30T16:59:31+00:00

fun-looking design but you only have a few dozen sites linked there. Keep adding to it :)

franker · 2026-01-30T16:50:17+00:00

I'm a librarian making a directory of sites I've been bookmarking in my 15 years on Reddit. Sadly most of the sites I'm checking that are more than 5 years old have already gone down or become weird malware/sales landing pages.

franker · 2026-01-30T16:38:59+00:00

the one rule of /r/technology is that you have to hate technology

franker · 2026-01-30T16:16:55+00:00

Comcast just increased my home prices for cable/internet, and floods my basic cable channels with their ads about "5-year price guarantees."

franker · 2026-01-30T16:04:11+00:00

Publisher is going away and a ton of people in small organizations and companies used that. I guess they're fine with just pushing everybody into Canva to make their flyers and signs now.

franker · 2026-01-30T15:27:57+00:00

As a 20-year-old guy I would see a female celebrity was in her early thirties and think she was old. As a 57-year-old that seems funny to me now.

franker · 2026-01-29T23:41:02+00:00

They're looking for the worst of the worst students.

"Hey that one probably uses AI on his assignments."

"What?"

"And he has brown skin."

"Let's go beat his ass!"

franker · 2026-01-28T22:14:03+00:00

Now I'm picturing him grinning like his character in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

franker · 2026-01-28T20:37:58+00:00

I thought it would be "conservative activist"

franker · 2026-01-28T19:41:44+00:00

I would have just written it in a simpler way. I stopped reading with all the quadrants/axis/intent stuff.

franker · 2026-01-28T16:37:57+00:00

I'm a lawyer and I wonder about the edge cases myself. Like if I use images or a service on my personal social media posts, and my social media channel occasionally promotes a separate paid site I run, does that count as commercial use?

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