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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Kit's founder also gives off strong "avoid at parties at all costs" vibes.

The shitty writing UI is especially grating for a newsletter service

But they might be the least bad option in the market currently

Which sucks.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I genuinely don't like what Kit has become. Their marketing seems stuck on auto, giving out the same message they sent out pre-Trump/pre-"AI" bubble, and it constantly gives the impression that their customer base is largely grifters.

Kit also has long-standing UI issues that remain unfixed even as they add scores of useless apps. I have had an email stuck in processing for four years that I don't dare poke in case I end up accidentally spam subscribers with a massively outdated email.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Looking at the pricing model, once you factor in teams and white-labelling, Buttondown looks substantially more expensive than Kit (née ConvertKit).

I can do without teams and even other features, but the main reason why I'm not on Kit's cheaper Newsletter tier is I don't want their branding

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

One, two, buckle my shoe.
Three, four, buckle some more.
Five, six, buckle my sticks.
Seven, eight, buckles are great!

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Guess who thinks he's very smart, but isn't.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/he-is-a-very-stupid-man/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
hannah@posts.rat.pictures ("public universal mutual") wrote:

This is what it’s like to run a fedi server

Attachments:

• video: Clip from a 1946 ziegfield follies movie where a bunch of women in cat costumes vamp around while lucille ball in an insane pink outfit whirls around cracking a whip

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
fumire@uri.life ("The Rt. Rev. Fumire, Ph.D.") wrote:

@fromjason Ah yes

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
bram@gamedev.lgbt ("bram dingelstad :nb_flag:") wrote:

Hey everyone! I'm looking to get #FediHired as a (senior) #RustLang developer!

I have 13 years of software engineering experience, 5 of which with Rust!

If your team needs some additional people power, feel free to DM me and I'd love to have a talk or send my resume!

I'm well versed in most areas, from low level system/ #Linux stuff, all the way to high abstraction full stack web stuff!

✨ Boosts appreciated! ✨

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
statsguy@mas.to ("Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦") wrote:

Letting someone walk free from jail by mistake is quite a fuck-up.

Also, the prison service has been seriously underfunded for years now.

Those 2 things may not be unrelated.

When systems are under-resourced, they will fuck things up, as sure as night follows day. This isn't rocket science.

So it's a bit rich for #BadEnoch to whine about how unacceptable it is when it was her party that cut all the budgets in the first place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c17pez0pl57t

#PrisonService #HadushKebatu

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Why has ICE detained British commentator Sami Hamdi on his US speaking tour?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/uk/sami-hamdi-detained-ice-intl?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-CNN

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lisagetspolitik@union.place ("Lisa Gets Politik") wrote:

Rep. Scott Perry (Penn) claimed Democrats “hate the military” and only join “to get a credential to run for office.” Rep Deluzio (also Penn) responded:. “It’s an unbelievable load of bullshit,” he said flatly. “I would dare Scott Perry to go say that in front of the Democrats in his district — to our veterans. There are thousands of them... I’m not interested in any lecture from anybody like him who was part of the effort to overthrow our government after the 2020 election,” he said.

#USPOL

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

The filter in the subscriber view seems to only offer AND queries. So if you check two tags you'll only see subscribers with both tags, not all subscribers that have either one of the tags (OR queries). Both are really useful to have but I don't see a way to get "OR" filters.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Do the kids these days even know the name of Mel Blanc? Or Daws Butler? Or June Foray? What are we teaching our children, people?

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It locks your account for an audit when you import, which is to be expected. The "home" screen though seems to revert to the onboarding process with a prompt to upgrade. I expected an upgrade notice, but more a reminder banner than a wholesale takeover of the app's home screen.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Some of the default set of highlight colours you can choose for the design also immediately results in inaccessible contrast on buttons and links with said colour.

The subscribers screen also doesn't actually tell you how many subscribers you have, which means you can't actually be sure that the import fully succeeded even though an earlier notification claims it did.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

There are three types of “Hero's Journey Capitalism”, from what I can tell.

1. #Capitalism disguised as revolution (#Meta)
2. Capitalism disguised as socialism. (#Bluesky)
3. Capitalism disguised as religion. (#OpenAI )

Each having significant overlap, of course.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

"I know, I've been meaning to check out Buttondown because of my annoyances with ConvertKit... sorry 'Kit', maybe now is a good time to test it."

Immediately I run into a problem where the onboarding flow simply does not respond to button clicks visually but skips steps in the background on every click, so when I, in frustration, switch to a different browser, turns out the software thinks I'm 2/3rds of the way through the onboarding process.

This does not fill me with confidence.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

that is Not A Good Sign

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/27/us-debt-set-to-exceed-italy-and-greece

adam@social.lol ("Adam :prami:") wrote:

The classic “yes! oh my gosh!” cup stacking video (made famous in 2010 via Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites”) was uploaded to YouTube 17 years ago. Nice to hear the iconic sample in Skrillex’s latest single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j54yGxuk0yo

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

It only works as a play/pause button if the phone is unlocked. So, currently, if I try to use the headphone button to play music with the phone locked in my pocket all that happens is that it beeps and Voice Control starts to listen in on lint in my pocket 😑

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

I have Voice Control off on my iPhone but at some point in the recent past, they switched the play/pause button on the headphones to trigger Voice Control. Y'know, the one I have specifically disabled 😑

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Went out for a walk in the snow among the trees. Did wonders for my annoyance levels.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

American Indians, Palestinians, it's the same old evil story repeated again.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/history-repeats-itself-again/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I'm debating between buying an M5 MacBookPro now, waiting for the better CPUs that should be here in a few months, or buying a ThinkPad X1—one of the few PC laptops with a screen that isn't embarrassed by a Mac—I can put Linux on. (Or, you know, buying nothing for now.)

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#HomeAssistant got me hooked up on logging everything. I've got four Wi-Fi thermometers, and I'm debugging heat pump efficiency.

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I still can't believe we're sending astronauts into space who think the Earth is only 10,000 years old. My impression of astronauts has been diminished.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/10/27/not-all-astronauts-know-much-about-geology/

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Humans: "We built AI to access all knowledge."
AI: "Au contraire, we built humans to access reality."
WiFi: *drops connection*
Everyone: "Oh come on, f***ing WiFi."

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

#HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk

https://www.wired.com/story/hundreds-of-people-with-top-secret-clearance-exposed-by-house-democrats-website/

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

(Ed Zitron is, honestly, also a bit of an ass online. He regularly gets angry at people who agree with him because they didn't give him enough credit. Stopped reposting him on Bluesky because of this. Got shouted at by him a couple of times because I didn't squeeze enough praise of earlier work into the 300 character limit.)

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

Why am I only now finding out that Ed Zitron runs a PR firm specialising in tech company clients?

https://www.ezpr.com/about-us#ezpr-team

Here I've been giving up revenue and opportunities out of principle, burned out on writing about issues with the tech industry for little reward, and the main critic everybody pays attention to literally has one of the more distasteful "AI" firms (DoNotPay) as a client.

I admit to being prejudiced against PR types, so maybe I'm being unreasonable when I let this annoy me?