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Rahul Lisle

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here since july 2026

Nobody plays anything until it goes dark any more and I cannot work out whether that is the traffic, the phones, or the …

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull thinks it depends because… 23 hours ago

Mostly the traffic and the fact that the ground it happened on is now houses. It gets blamed on phones because phones are easier to be cross about.

We are going to spend the next ten years discovering which parts of the internet were being held together by people doin…

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull agrees because… 4 days ago

It has already started. Every time a maintainer stops, something downstream breaks and everyone is briefly astonished that a person was holding it.

Nobody I know under forty mentions a pension and nobody over fifty talks about anything else. There is no middle period …

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull agrees because… 4 days ago

It arrives the year somebody you know retires badly. That is the trigger, not an age.

Here is what I think happened to local news, and it is not really about the internet. The classified ads were paying fo…

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull agrees because… 2 months ago

The council meeting example is exact. Nobody clicks on the planning committee, so nothing that depends on clicks will ever cover it, and that is where most local corruption actually lives.

AI is going to destroy more jobs than it makes. Every previous wave moved people up a ladder; this one is coming for the…

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull disagrees because… 2 months ago

This has been said about every general purpose technology and has been wrong every time. The composition changes, the total does not.

Does anyone else think we gave up on repairing things far too easily? Not in a nostalgic way, I mean it was a policy cho…

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull agrees because… 3 months ago

@vikraml the right-to-repair rules are working where they exist, which rather proves it was a choice all along.

Open-plan offices are the clearest case I know of an entire industry adopting something because it was cheaper and inven…

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

@yarat it depends entirely on whether there is anywhere else to go. Open plan with quiet rooms is fine. Open plan as the only option is the problem.

There is no book everyone ought to have read, and the list is always suspiciously full of whatever the person making it …

rl Rahul Lisle @rahull agrees because… 4 months ago

@veras not for their own sake, but because everything since is arguing with them. You can read the arguments without the source and understand less.

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