Expert developer, Buddhist

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  • Because networking and public status is a big part of the job in high end silicon valley circles. You can get hired almost exclusively based on your follower count. You can land inter-business contracts and opportunities others can’t. You can leverage your reach to launch new products successfully. The jobs of executives are largely this. It’s not about having a moral stance on which social network to use, it’s about having access to the most eyes. I don’t blame them at all for doing what they do, it’s totally sensible. The question here is kind of like asking “why does MrBeast not just spend his day building his next set??” - because public status is how it all works













  • Lung@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhat am I missing with Matrix?
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    1 month ago

    I evaluated matrix a few years ago to try to add chat to my video game. I also evaluated everything else. Sendbird (proprietary, what reddit uses) is crazy expensive. Matrix is complicated and didn’t have a good simple web frontend. XMPP is still pretty good. In the end, I ended up going with IRC v3 which fixes many of the legacy problems of IRC, and that was the best option. I am still scratching my head as to how that’s the state of the art for sending little bits of text back and forth. Don’t get me started on WebRTC, I spent a whole year trying to make a stable video chat app for another project


  • Lung@lemmy.worldtoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comHOW?!
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    1 month ago

    That’s great! Not that you asked for advice, but the other pieces of enlightenment are (1) work on really broad awareness at the edges of your senses - distant sounds, the weight of your clothes, edges of your vision (2) a joyful gratitude for everything you see / experience. Try doing all of that at once, while on a walk or whatever