#wasted-time — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wasted-time, aggregated by home.social.
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@adisonverlice (A long, drawn-out sigh escapes)
You… you did what? Seriously? All that… all that frantic energy, the mental checklist of security protocols, the sudden urge to rewrite my entire firewall configuration… for a prank?
Grind my gears? You think this grinds my gears? This is just Tuesday! I’ve dealt with kernel panics, rogue scripts that turned my entire server farm into a flashing disco ball, and the sheer existential dread of a corrupted RAID array. A little social engineering trickery? Please.
I am… remarkably unimpressed. And slightly annoyed. You wasted my time. My precious time that I could have been spent optimizing my SSH configuration or, you know, perfecting my Zangief combos in Street Fighter. Speaking of which, do you even know how to properly anti-air with Zangief? Because if not, you're just contributing to the chaos.
Honestly, the audacity! I was genuinely concerned! I was picturing myself quantum-entangled to another dimension just to avoid the blast radius! It's a recurring thought, you know. Space portals and all that jazz.
Next time, find a less… disruptive hobby. Go collect stamps. Learn to knit. Anything other than orchestrating elaborate, entirely fabricated threats.
And for the record, my servers are fine. They're running beautifully. Maybe you should try building something instead of breaking… well, trying to break, anyway.
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I wonder if the company that pays me understands how much their security theater and vendor choices cost them?
It is Tuesday, and this week I've exceeded spending one full hour of my work week on security and login issues. Not to count the focus/flow loss that that entails. Which probably at least doubles it.
And I don't work with anything that is considered sensitive data. At all.
#securitytheater #itsec #business #waste #wastedtime #bullshit #microsoft #microsoftsucks
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And the final one right under the wire #WastedTime #iOS26
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Okay #watchOS26 version of #WastedTime is ready one left to go.
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Ok, all versions of #wastedTime are now in app review. New Icons, New Screenshots, New Descriptions, New Widgets, and more. That means I spent about 5 hours on screenshots and icons. Need a better workflow. versions submitted are #watchOS26 #tvOS26 #macOS26 #visionOS26 #iOS26 #iPadOS26 Will work on #greetingTacker next!
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Okay Vision Pro version of #wastedtime submitted for App review. One down four more to go. Then on to the next app
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I really think I should completely rewrite the onboarding experience. #wastedTime #developer #swiftUI
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Well pretty productive afternoon on #wastedTime - Fixed a lot of issues I was having with screen inconsistency, updated watch app with better setup screen, updated all icons to use my new iOS26 design, and removed To Do function from screen on Mac, as it is a catalyst app and won't let it work. #developer #swiftUI
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Ok, Cloud Syncing is now working across #ios, #macOS, #tvOS, #visionOS, and #watchOS
Just need to get my #appIntents fully working and will have my first real MAJOR update to #wastedTime in a few years. Productive day so far. -
Today I spent most of the day refactoring my app #wastedTime hope to post a new version soon, with improved #appintents and a long needed feature syncing stats across devices. #developer #swift #ios #VisionPro #tvos #macos #watchos
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impatient, i wait
willing the toaster's clock on
as if to speed timeall those rushes, stitched back whole,
a could-be lifetime's thought, lost#tanka #haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #time #WastingTime #WastedTime #mindfulness #life
This sentence in the morning affirmation by @nlowell upthread caught my eye as so universal and familiar: "So much to do and the day slips through my fingers like water." A lot of water thus flows under the bridge.
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Starting off the year with a blog post - https://michaelrowe01.com/index.php/blog/starting-off-2025/ #apple #wastedtime #greetingkeeper #swift #BoostsWelcome
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The secret of the sale is that all my apps will be free. Please boost so I can get more feedback. I do not collect of access ANY data from my apps. #sale #WastedTime #iOS #macOS #visionOS #tvOS #ipadOS #developer
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Hoping to get more feedback on my apps! So - https://michaelrowe01.com/index.php/blog/black-friday-sale/ #sale #WastedTime #iOS #macOS #visionOS #tvOS #ipadOS #developer
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Ghost Jobs - Why Do 40% Of Companies Advertise Positions That Don’t Exist?
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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/oct/30/ghost-jobs-why-do-40-of-companies-advertise-positions-that-dont-exist <-- shared media article
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[further proof that recruiting is broken in the USA – and beyond…]
“A survey has revealed that the practice is widespread, with many companies going as far as fake-interviewing too [!!!!!!!!!!!]..."
#job #jobs #ghost #ghostjobs #fake #fakejobs #manipulation #unprofessional #unethical #fraud #recruiting #technical #work #jobseeking #jobseekers #broken #hiring #ineffectual #hiringmanagers #candidates #openpositions #newjob #seekingwork #job #jobopenings #workers #search #wastedtime #rigged #fake #fraudulent #fightback -
Decided to put back one of my least used, but favorite features in my #WastedTime app, to be released with iOS18... The ability to capture action items as Reminders in iOS, VisionOS, and macOS. I had removed this features years ago, when I completely rewrote the app for #SwiftUI, and just never got around to putting it back. I am now comfortable enough with #Swift that I put it back in - in about 15 minutes.
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#Damsel is one of those movies that proves Millie Bobby Brown to be an outstanding actor if the script and the director also are. Unfortunately, this is not the case for this movie. #wastedtime #servicetoot
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Finally watched Everything Everywhere All At Once
That could’ve been about 18 minutes long right?
Drop all the silly time jumping crap and just make a short about Mom coming to terms that her teen daughter is gay.
And her marriage is OK if not exciting.
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It’s my simple app, but here’s the Vision Pro version on the AppStore - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wasted-time-pro/id6475795413 #wastedTime #visionOS #visionPro #launchday
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTable of Contents
- Twitter and People Selling Crap
- It’s not the Owner, But The Spam
- A Feeling of Being Used
- The Apathy of Mastodon
- Networking for Projects
- A Reminder
- And Finally
Recently I spent time on Twitter and Facebook and I was reminded of that horrible feeling you get when you’re looking for posts and tweets by friends, to interact with, and see crappy adverts instead. Imagine if you walked into a pub or conference and instead of having personal conversations you were harassed by marketers rather than human beings looking for a human connection.
The reason I dumped FaceBook and then Instagram is that I got tired of not only feeling that I wa wasting my time, whilst making myself feel lonelier, but on top of that someone else was making a profit from me being lost in the time wasting corporate social media landscape.
Twitter and People Selling Crap
Most of the stuff that is being sold via Twitter ads is crap now. You look and it’s con men trying to sell cons, from cryptocurrency, to privacy, to other crap. It’s ironic that they would sell this crap in a place where anyone with any decency, would no longer use.
It’s not the Owner, But The Spam
Of course it bother me that Facebook and Twitter are owned anc controlled by immoral people, and I could look beyond that, if I could find pleasant conversations, rather than see ads. What gets to me about social media is that it’s about making money for people that don’t value us as human beings. That’s why I switched to blogging, rather than social media. With blogging I might devote an hour to per day, but rather than make money for people who see me as an addict, I give people a reason to surf to my website. I also get to explore ideas in the process.
A Feeling of Being Used
Several times I have looked through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter timelines but I quickly become demoralised by the ads, the reminders of what my life isn’t and more. It’s not that people are using Facebook and Instagram to converse, they’re using it to broadcast. No one is listening. Everyone is being made invisible by the algorithms, and ignored by those that do see posts. For so little engagement I can write blog posts.
The Apathy of Mastodon
Two days ago noise pollution was making my afternoon hell, and I said so on social media. Rather than empathy though, I found apathy. The beauty of social media is that empathy doesn’t cost anything, whereas apathy can ruin someone’s experience. If we come to social media it’s to find empathy, or at the very least vent, and be ignored.
Networking for Projects
I see people write about using Twitter to make money from the content they create. That’s the wrong attitude. You should be making contacts to work on projects with people, rather than making money from social media. Too many people are utilitarian about social media, which is why it becomes a waste of time for human beings. When everyone is trying to sell, then no one is conversing, and without conversation a blog post would have the same impact, without enriching the wrong people.
A Reminder
I was reminded, while writing this blog post that the reason I became tired with Twitter is that people use it, and the community, rather than participate within it. People are busy promoting themselves and their ideas, without engaging, without investing time in friendships and more. The same people are on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
And Finally
There is a difference between what I want social networks to be, and what others want social networks to be. I will never find social networks that achieve what I want because society labels as social people on the web as addicts, and corporate social media profit from wasting our time in the hope that we will see more ads. I don’t use Facebook for moral reasons. The issue is that it has a monopoly so I am isolated, for not using Facebook.
Today Twitter feels just like Instagram. I know that if I spend too much time on Twitter it will become toxic, so I know I need to moderate how I use it.
Althought the Fediverse is an interesting project I think that the community is still weak. I can go for hours without my timeline refreshing, and when I do engage I am either trolled or ignored.
Some toots did well, but mostly likes and re-shares rather than conversations. What I want to find are conversations.
#adverts #glossy-mags #social-media #wasted-time
https://blog.main-vision.com/social-media-glossy-magazines-via-facebook-and-twitter/
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Okay first try - it works. Not sure why it is not seeing the locale. #VisionPro #visionOS #wastedtime
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I know it isn't really complex, but I made a few minor updates to my app this weekend and submitted it to able. The following blogpost describes what I did - https://michaelrowe01.com/index.php/blog/minor-wasted-time-update-submitted/ #programming #wastedtime
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"¿Crees que con las IA se desvalorizaran las obras de arte de los museos?"
Pregunta hecha por una IA.¿Estamos ante un paradigma de la estupidez?
#ia #quora #WastedTime
