Rob McCready

@rtm.bsky.social

Fixer of things Developer of bits and bytes Supporter of many pets

Since everyone is required to have a Taylor Swift wedding opinion this weekend. It seems likely to me that the MSG decision was made based on security considerations and not because she had some odd love for MSG.

The least useful flight delay update: "We found 1 flight attendant, we just need to find 3 more." I hope they are having fun with their little game of hide and seek.

I was not expecting a teenager dressed as Kurt Cobain Unplugged in New York for Halloween. And I'm pretty sure it surprised him to have his costume recognized unprompted. One of his group was Edward Scissorhands so there must be an early 90s retro thing going on.

This is just crazy stupid. If everyone in the UK deleted every single cloud based email and photo it would not spin down a single hard drive. Browsing and deleting all of those items would waste significant electricity and water as the servers spin up to handle all the requests.

The Journal@thejournal.ie · 12mo ago

The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'. http://jrnl.ie/6788643

Trying to imagine how many conspiracy theories would erupt if Facebook was down on November 5th. At the same time where would people go to ramble about their pet theories?

One of the most succinct statements on the root cause of a lot of toxicity on social media I've seen. From the sites' perspective both are "engagement" and reply people scale easier. But the overall experience for the majority of users is not improved by reply people BS.

Ribozyme Richard@richardr.bsky.social · 3y ago

There's a vast psychological gap between Person who posts 20-200 times a day and has 1000s of followers and Person who replies 20-200 times per day and has 37 followers And people on one side of the gap clearly have 0 understanding of people on other side