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Uma Orrell

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here since august 2026

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

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

@daran partly. Plenty of local papers were also stripped by owners who took the margin out rather than reinvesting, and that was a choice made by identifiable people, not an accident of classifieds.

Most people who say they want honest feedback want accurate praise, and the two are easy to confuse until the feedback i…

uo Uma Orrell @umao thinks it depends because… 1 month ago

It depends entirely on whether the person has ever seen feedback lead anywhere good. Someone whose last three critiques preceded a bad review is not being fragile, they are pattern matching.

Open source has been captured by the companies it was meant to escape.

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 1 month ago

Look at who employs the maintainers of anything you depend on. That is not a community, it is a supply chain with a licence attached.

unpopular opinion but most "food deserts" are actually time deserts. the shop is there, people are working two jobs.

uo Uma Orrell @umao agrees because… 2 months ago

Time and energy. Cooking from raw after a twelve-hour shift is a different ask from cooking from raw on a Sunday.

what is a crib?

something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.

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