David Blue ※

Self-Described Software Historian and COMPAQ ride or die, Writing In Public, consulting from the bilge, and here to help.

𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺

David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

"There are reportedly more than five hundred full-time employees working in Facebook’s P.R. department."

FIVE HUNDRED PEOPLE. a standalone PR company with 500 employees would be considered gargantuan. what the fuck are they doing??

October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

obviously, there's a ton to say about this, but I've tried to wait a few days before speaking up. newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10

October 19, 2020
DavidBlue shared a status by nightietime
Nightie
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October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

@nightietime this is gorgeous dang!

October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

@minkiu a good idea. but in practice? surely that'd be hard to make not clunky.

October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

American Exceptionalism:

-biggest tire treads
-most COVID cases
-largest scale ongoing imperialism
-most corn

October 19, 2020
DavidBlue shared a status by rysiek
Rysiekúr (old account)
rysiek@mastodon.social
google, privacy, e-mail, from :birdsite:

Google started editing people's e-mails in GSuite, replacing links with a link through google.com:
mobile.twitter.com/sneakdotber
twitter.com/tblodt/status/1317

This means that Google will track a click on a link *in e-mail* even if you're using an external client.

I am *guessing* this is under the pretext of phishing protection, but it actually *creates* additional phishing risk for text-only clients, since now all links are google.com links.

October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

Windows Explorer is kindof a bad file manager. yet there aren't really up-to-date alternatives for Windows anymore? at least that I could find with a quick search.

October 19, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

the result of Spreadsheet Coyboyism, I suppose. wired.co.uk/article/spreadshee

October 18, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

DO favorite me.

October 18, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

do not like me. do not respect me.

RT @TimTebow@twitter.com

Would you rather be respected or liked?

Imagine if we didn’t have “Like” buttons, but instead, we had “Respect” buttons. Would you rather have 110 Likes or 34 Respects?

🐦🔗: twitter.com/TimTebow/status/13

October 18, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

idk what it says about me but I've been hanging out in the office channel of the official Microsoft Community Discord and having fun.

October 18, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

losing my mind at "Spreadsheet Cowboys."

October 15, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

as in... we have arrived.

October 15, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social
October 15, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

OH MY GOD. The Uplifting Social Content Creator MS Word template is even better once you actually open it... documentcloud.adobe.com/link/r

October 15, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

@pizza_pal I could swear that's a microwave oven.

October 15, 2020
David Blue ※
DavidBlue@mastodon.social

I'm assuming that's what the disposition property is... idk.

October 15, 2020