Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@tasket @tomw You are the one that made it sound like firing a bunch of tech people was an obvious response to this. Backing away from it like, "Well people do stuff for random reasons" doesn't really seem like strong evidence considering your initial claim at least appeared to rest on the idea that getting rid of your tech staff is a natural and rational response to advances in AI.

@marcbrooker @norootcause "Giving Birth" is on there at least 3 times with very different values.

> "For a while now, people have been asking us for a Discord server. Now for those who don't know, this has nothing to do with being unhappy..."

Speak for yourself...

@Greg Also zero problem going with the path of least resistance. I also have young kids, free time to futz around with this kind of thing is pretty precious.

Since the development philosophy of `audio-feeder` has been "make something that works for my personal workflow", I would not be surprised to find that it would not work for you or any other non-me person. I'm not offended in the least that you didn't try it, and I would definitely not have been unhappy if you tried it and found you didn't like it.

@Greg FWIW audio-feeder also has a docker container: https://github.com/pganssle/audio_feeder_docker

@astrojuanlu But I suspect I'll still have a bunch of other problems when they eventually bring fiber internet to Somerville.

@astrojuanlu I think NextCloud is already a project disrupting OwnCloud, right?

My biggest problem is usually that I don't have a symmetrical connection, so I send people stuff and I''m like, "Just wait a while because I have to upload these 3GB videos of your kids at like 1MB/s, but at least I'm not uploading them to someone's cloud."

@Greg Oh, hm.. It looks like it would require me to completely refactor how I store my audiobooks.

Not that audio-feeder is any less opinionated about directory structure (though I'd be OK with adding a mode that supports the other structure).

@Greg Did you end up trying out audio-feeder? I recall you saying you were going to look into it. If you did, how does it compare to audiobookshelf? I think I'd be happy to not continue maintaining my own solution to this indefinitely... 😛

FedEx picked up my shipment from GNC on January 24th. The "Two Day Shipping" package is now estimated to be delivered... February 3rd.

It's like FedEx doesn't even care if I'm swole. 😤

@mahmoud To be fair, most business books already fit into the genre of "management fiction". 😉

More seriously, I don't think that really leads to conspiracy thinking, but there certainly are interesting parallels...

Is it any wonder that so many people believe in conspiracy theories when they grow up with every adult around them (including, apparently, the police) conspiring to *make up a person with magic powers*, just because they think it's fun?

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/22/1150596852/girl-asks-police-to-run-dna-test-on-christmas-cookie-for-evidence-of-santa-claus

If you get so far as to collect a DNA sample, you should get to know the secret,, not have the police send you fake evidence.

@glyph I mean that from the point of view of a person running a corporation, the outcome of their decisions is always massive criticism. At some point they will learn that nothing they do satisfies the public and they will stop trying.

I think maybe a norm of thoughtfulness and charity would make legitimate concerns more actionable to decision-makers. Obviously all of "the public" won't adopt this change, but I don't think it hurts to model this behavior.

(And to be clear, your own writings are often very nuanced and thoughtful and I believe that we'd be on the right track if more people were like you, so this is not a personal criticism of you)