Technology

59377 readers

3960 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

758

X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum (www.engadget.com)

submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 195 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just noticed that I like posts with "X ordered to do..." sooo much better than posts with "Elon says..."

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 61 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I prefer the latter, because it's so much easier to filter out posts about Elon than it is to filter out posts about X (without creating a ton of false positives).

[–] Nima@leminal.space 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

exactly this. i have a filter on certain keywords. his name is in there but there's nothing I can do to avoid posts about the platform.

it's super irritating.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon had a cunning plan

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Plan? Sure. Cunning? Eh....

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Does your filter recognize whitespace? Including a space before and/or after X should catch the posts about the platform while not filtering out posts that just have an X inside a word somewhere. X isn't going to be a single letter surrounded by space unless it's referring to the platform.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i have tried with various formats and unfortunately none of them work, or they just ignore the attempt.

i appreciate you trying to help, though. i honestly just kinda wish it would change names again so it'd be easier to somehow block. lol

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Ah, fair enough. I'm almost certain some sort of regex wizardry would be able to solve this problem, but I'm not nearly enough of a wizard to tell you what the proper spell would be. And that's assuming your filter even supports regex.

Best of luck dodging headlines, I guess.

[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 0 points 3 months ago

Honestly, between these obsession posts and all the other non-tech news that gets posted here, I just unsubscribed this morning. The signal to noise ratio in this community is just not worth it to me.