Bummer, I loved this spot.
Following a vegan diet, the chef-owner said, is no longer enough to combat climate change, so the new iteration of Sage will focus on sourcing and proselytizing regenerative farming practices. That, along with years of post-pandemic financial losses, moved Engelhart to introduce beef, bison, cheese and eggs from regenerative farms into her Echo Park, Culver City and Pasadena restaurants.
Look, do what you have to do to survive. I'm fine with that. But don't try and claim you're serving animal products to help climate change.
https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2024-04-24/sage-vegan-bistro-no-longer-vegan-backlash
#vegan #losangeles
offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).
Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it
The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.
Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.
Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.
So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.
I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.
And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.
That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.
(#automattic #google #tumblr #wordpress #enshittification)
@knapjack @az NGL, this is legit.
Reddit has to be the most unreliable of all the major social network type sites.
25ish years of writing software and I still can't write HTML/CSS to save my life.
Right now seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first impeachment was for withholding military aid from Ukraine until he could extort its president for dirt on Joe Biden to sabotage our election.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇸🇺🇦
Can I ask you do to me a tiny favor. I need to get some analytics for a screenshot for a new (open source) product we're wrapping up and I'd like to use real data versus fuzzed. Just click this link (I promise it only redirects to my personal website):
https://netlandi.sh/AnalyticsTest1
The image is what it currently looks like but I want to fill it out a bit. Thanks!
(Please boost, I wanna put the backend tasks to work).
#help #please
“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”
https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/
I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.
(So, do we finally have your attention?)🤞
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Meta
God I f'n hate when I have to use Windows.
@drewdevault @khm @mntmn Also unsolicited but I've used Axiom Print for years. It's family business and a bit more manual process but the quality is excellent and pricing is fair.
@robin @philn Thankfully I've never used it.
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers - Or why using Discord for FOSS projects is a bad idea...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/11/24127545/discord-suyu-sudachi-server-shutdown-account-ban
Closing week stats:
Squat: 355lbs
Bench: 235lbs
Deadlift: 425lbs
1015 lbs total.
#oldfatandkindastrong #powerlifting
@crft I love Sourcehut personally but if you're tied into the make account on forge+fork repo+clone+change+push+file PR/MR workflow, it won't be for you.
If your into clone repo + make change + run git send-email then you'll love it :)
NSO's Pegasus is available on the deep web. Might be a good time to reevaluate your threatmodel and opsec, folks!
@tedu @meena @misty You can also create a filter for a date range and mark it to send to Trash, run against existing emails, then empty trash. That's how I used to do it before just paying the $20/yr (but not for gmail, for photos)
Hah, totally forgot that as of today I'm officially back in the 1000lb club (1005lbs baby!)
Our Sourcehut instance migrated to Alpine and finally resolved the final issue we had this morning.
Also got Honk updated and blobs extracted.
Barca is currently beating PSG.
So far it's been a good day.
@tedu lmfao!
dz: 3 body problem
dz: 3 body problem
@icy Honestly you could be right haha. I don't remember but the purpose of cancer guy (in the end) was definitely in the book. Same with weed guy. In the book I don't remember them being a group of friends like this but it's been like 5 years since I've read them so, I could be wrong too.
My photo of the eclipse today.
dz: 3 body problem
dz: 3 body problem
@icy I thought you read the books? Cancer dude has a purpose. As does weed dude, which also sets in motion in the final episode but it's years until he really comes into form.
@tedu Yea, I swore I'd give up heavy deads when I hurt myself but I couldn't stay away. It's a risky exercise honestly and not necessary but safe when done correctly. Just easy to lose focus and screw it up but I just love doing them.
Holy shit, after today's lifts I just realized I'm only 5 pounds away from the 1000lb club, which I haven't been in for over a decade. I could toss that 5lbs on the squat or dead lift bar and be done with it.
10 years after really f'n my back up doing deadlifts I never thought I'd be back to lifting this heavy (heavy for me anyway) in my mid 40's.
Stats this week:
Squat: 345lbs
Deadlift: 415lbs
Bench: 235lbs
Let's see what coach has programmed for next week.
#powerlifting
I'm still laughing 😂 yet still very incensed..
#privacy #googlechrome #security #memes
@pronto Hey. You're alive. That's a relief.
@tedu 25+ years later and I still get the arg order wrong with ln like 50% of the time.
@icy @knapjack I also have issues adding new ppl there. Or using xzone on a post from there.
COLD FUCKING PALMER!!!!!! 
#chelsea
@icy Yea, it's odd because on other sites (who use Mastodon) the extension seems to work. Maybe @tvler has some ideas?
@icy Interesting. Still not working for me. Even when browsing your site. I'm using FF on Alpine Linux, maybe the FF extension has an issue. I don't even see the webfinger request coming in (at least the log statement isn't running). I'll toy around with this a bit later.
@icy Gotcha. Thought maybe I missed something.
@icy IG account natureismetal is pretty awesome.
@tedu @icy hahaha bare*
@icy did you ever get the StreetPass stuff working in honk? I merged your patch but the extension doesn't recognize my setup (or yours when I tried).
@icy @ptd @tedu Wonky, the federated wiki. I smell Ted's new AP project.
@icy I'm not one of these vegans that shames others, etc. I do my thing, it gets people to ask me a lot of questions (especially here in Latin America) and I answer honestly. Ie, I never went vegan for the animals, I did it to shut my daughter up (who's been vegan forever) and committed to 30 days. I felt so good I did another 30, then another. After 6mo, I decided I wasn't going back.
Then it slowly turned into compassion for the animals as well. So even at times when I see a In-n-Out double double or some bomb looking tacos and my mouth starts to water I remind myself about that compassion and set my cravings aside.
One thing I often get is "just like a lion eats an antelope, we eat animals too" - which I love to answer with, can you go kill a cow with your bear hands and mouth? If so, can you chew it up with your jaw and teeth? Can you eat it without cooking it and not get sick? I mean the argument is so dumb.
@ptd @tedu @icy We need a wiki for #honk terms
DZ: World Central Kitchen
DZ: World Central Kitchen
While the nytimes and WaPo are describing IDF's killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers as a single strike, Haaretz (a left-leaning Israeli newspaper) is reporting there were three strikes, separated enough that personnel had time to move the injured between vehicles.
"At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile.
Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two cars. They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car.
The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike – in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them. All seven World Central Kitchen volunteers were killed in the strike."
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-02/ty-article/.premium/idf-bombed-wck-aid-convoy-3-times-targeting-armed-hamas-member-who-wasnt-there/0000018e-9e75-d764-adff-9eff29360000
I copied/pasted this because I couldn't xzone it for some reason, though no doubt it's an issue on the Mastodon side. Original toot:
https://kolektiva.social/@mattbagg/112202164267369636
My family of 4 ate at Olive Garden for the first time, and our $150 meal felt like an excellent value
Oh Business Insider, your selling out has been tough to watch but schilling Olive Garden is a new low.
@knapjack I'm digging it.
I often hear about state actors. I don't hear as much about state actresses. We can do better.
Finished 3 Body Problem. I really enjoyed it and thought they did a good job with it. The deviations actually helped the story telling (in TV format anyway) so they didn't annoy me too much.
Now the long wait for S2 :(
#netflix #3bodyproblem
@knapjack I really like PocketCasts. Also like that I can listen on my car and it syncs up where I left off so if I want, from my desk, I can continue listening via their web app. I think I paid like $20/lifetime membership or something like that. It was a few years ago though so that may no longer be an option.
@drewdevault Explains the question I had about why it's not hosted on SourceHut as well. Nice write up.
@icy Ugh!
@icy Really? I liked how quirky it was. The following books are better I think but I didn't have an issue with book one.
3 Body Problem E1 was not bad. I was expecting to be disappointed but I liked the episode. Some slight deviations but nothing crazy (also it's been so long since I've read the books I may be forgetting some things).
Looking forward to the series.
#netflix #3bodyproblem
@penalbatoday You're confusing raw food (harvested) with diet (prepared food). If you don't understand the difference then there's nothing else to discuss.
So you understand, you can also have a very unhealthy vegan diet. French fries, processed foods, also lots of fried foods. These vegan burgers and "chicken" nuggets, etc. are terrible for you but people still eat them, myself included occasionally.
You said something dumb about offering more dietary options means gentrification and I simply said I didn't think it meant that. It's hilarious you're so upset that I called the typical nica diet unhealthy. I don't know a single nica (and all my friend group here is nica) who would disagree with that.
Hell my domestic employee just resigned for health reasons, caused solely by terrible diet (her doctors words, not mine). She's 24 years old and is starting the road into diabetes. All sugar, all oil, all fried, all sodas. We've tried to help her but she admits she can't stop eating that way. It's how she's always eaten.