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Cake day: March 6th, 2024

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  • I’ve seen this over and over in corporate environments.

    Suit A has a terrible idea but enough fawning bootlickers to get the process moving.

    Worker A, an employee, knows this is a terrible idea but doesn’t say anything because they wanna keep their job.

    Contractor B, obv a contractor, is there to make money and hopefully turn their stint into something more, so they speak up. And get canned.

    What is it about Suits that they can’t listen to literally anyone but their own echo chambers? Oh yeah, they’re angling to jump into a bigger echo chamber. The 1%.





  • Been traditionally trying to use Linux Mint but am at my wits end so I’m willing to try anything. As far as what I’m looking for, just step by step to get Steam and Heroic installed and working. Any game I’ve found that has a launcher is simply a no go, never works.

    Now we’ve got flatpaks out and people swear by them but I usually get something working one day and the next it quits. I admit it, I need more experience at this; but I can’t quit Windows until I understand what the hell is going wrong and how to fix it.



  • I believe they call that out in the article… the parentheses look like a late addition though?

    On Halloween 2006, just 16 months after they founded the company, Huffman and Ohanian sold Reddit to Condé Nast in a deal worth $10 million and agreed to stay on as leaders for at least three years. (Condé Nast, which is owned by Advance Magazine Publishers, is the publisher of WIRED). Condé viewed Reddit as a place to experiment and where the magazine company could build out new ideas online.

    But by 2009, according to users, Reddit’s website was as bare-bones as before the sale. Ohanian and another person familiar with the corporate politics say the site’s growth was stymied by Condé Nast’s uncertain desires for the property and Ohanian’s self-­acknowledged mismanagement. Reddit was awash in half-baked pursuits—including a short-lived iPhone app, iReddit—and a path to sustainable revenue wasn’t yet evident. After the cofounders’ three-year contracts expired on Halloween 2009, Huffman and Ohanian left for new pursuits.

    Slowe and the handful of other staffers left behind at Reddit—now contending with the fallout from a global recession—stumbled through experiments with selling ads and subscriptions. Neither Condé execs nor users were pleased. But they managed to keep the website alive. Anyone could now open a subreddit, and by January 2011, Reddit had 57,000 of them. That year the company began operating as a subsidiary of Condé Nast’s parent, Advance, which let it function more like a startup. (Advance still owns a roughly 30 percent stake.) Amid the changes, Ohanian came back via a seat on Reddit’s board.