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Olap

@Olap@lemmy.world

Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru

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Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control” (www.eff.org)

The EU Council has now passed a 4th term without passing its controversial message-scanning proposal. The just-concluded Belgian Presidency failed to broker a deal that would push forward this regulation, which has now been debated in the EU for more than two years....

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Only a few steps from your telly listening to you...

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More than double the price. Not sure what it's competing with, but not a pi

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It's systemd+gnu+linux these days

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Amen brother

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Lol, you know this is a meme community?

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https://github.com/uutils/coreutils - I'm waiting for a distro to switch to this, and clang base, and then musl. But glibc compatibility still lacking usually - one day!

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Ahh, woosh

Debian used to be so good. What happened!? (lemmy.world)

Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do...

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Arch is where the cool kids put in the work these days. Their philosophy of downstream packages untouched results in fewer problems and easier maintenance. Why would anyone be a package maintainer for Debian? It's a thankless task, and hard

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What if I told you that typing in software engineering encompasses less than 5% of your day?

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Never pay ransomware. Just write the data off. Learn how to take decent backups

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Fuck SEOs - that is why you are getting downvoted. Organic content creation has been ruined by you AND google. Own your problems, beg forgiveness, stop playing the stupid game where there are no winners

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Worked with more than a few SEOs. Software developer here.

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Yup, blame away, but also recognise lots of good that they have done too. Open Source, the fediverse, medical software, communications software. To name but a few. What good have SEOs ever done?

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Re-read that and ask if any of it has actual value. Gaming Google is a bad way to make a living. Playing by their rules makes you complicit. You are part of a cabal of rogues that extort businesses into better results and if they don't play then they are relegated to oblivion. The world would be a better place without SEOs. All those examples are because other SEOs have broken the system. The world would be a better place without Google at this stage. Do you bother with any other search engine? Do you try to make things better instead of trying to exploit a dying service that only maintains it's monopoly through anti-competitive business practices.

Seriously: fuck SEOs. Go take your good skills and intelligence and go do something worthwhile

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Most directories were free actually. You could buy an advert if you wanted a bigger listing, far more transparent and helpful than whatever snakeoil SEO peddles. And SEOs taking credit for accessibility is akin to serial killers controlling the excess population. And you are grumpy about AI causing you long term search problems? Dare I say a loss of revenue and oblivion? Well cry me a fucking river. Welcome to the party, maybe now you'll realise you are as unwanted as LLM search results

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The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
- Paul Muad'Dib

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Am I taking crazy pills? Discord and Slack suck just as much imo. They are all a shitty web app repackaged for the desktop. And they are all fine, barely anything to chose betweem them. Teams is probably the best as the calendar integration with outlook and hosting ad-hoc drop in meetings in a room is good, no really, the virtual office is fantastic for pairing and team work.

IM peaked with IRC though, the simplicity was excellent, Matrix the closest thing to it imo. I do wish more stuff integrated with it to offer the same business experience as teams

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There is shame in claiming that they did it though. It's called a lie. It others the workers you did pay for. And it denigrates their expertise and experience. Instead say you got someone to do it for you. Or you hired someone. Or you got the experts in. Don't lie - that's shameful

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And yet, you still didn't lift a hammer or a paint brush, or any tool. The pen and chequebook are not the same, and if you say you did something: you better have actually done more than sign for it in my book. Taking ownership of others' creations is fine, we aren't communists, but to deny workers respect shows your snobbery. Be in solidarity with your fellow workers, pay them their worth, champion their abilities, and tell others that you got someone else to do it.

Do not be embarassed by not having the time or expertise to do it, we can't all know how to do everything. Do not be embarassed by having enough money to pay for someone else to do it, it's why you have a job also, it's called the economy. Do not take credit for others' work.

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LXQT wants a word

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I'd apt remove these

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UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

If a stamp have a barcode, why not just let people who have printers at home to print it on the envelope directly? This eliminates the need to buy physical stamp, thus the probability of buying counterfeit stamps.

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Yes, but the stamps have mostly been bought from the post office, who get it from royal mail. Given how few people even bother with stamps these days, what's more likely? An organised gang infiltrating supply chains with undetectable forgeries, or an IT malfunction that means the codes are not being registered properly in the first place? I know where my money is!

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That's the post office, not royal mail, but really any large company could make this fuckup

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Pretty much all data heavy organisations use excel VERY heavily. And when nobody understands the model within them any more, they need retiring and are usually replaced with... Excel! This time with even more tabs and columns. To replace these things with computer models risks repeating the same problem the original sheet has: bus factors and complexities are hard, more so even in python/r than excel sadly. Maybe one day something will trump it, but that day is not today

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I do this for a living. I've spent basically my whole career (15 years full time professional at this stage) basically trying to kill excel. You can't, or at least I can't. You can add processes to it, you can programmatically read/write from it, but when it comes down to ditching it: every stakeholder is invested in excel. No other piece of office has the staying power that excel has, it will outlast us all

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Supply chain management software exists. Do they meet f1 demands? Doubtful, but this is why you partner with a software company. They add more, you pay less, and give them some good sponsorship

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Yup. And extra extra, excel can be beaten for specific examples with lots of extra tooling. But you know what that tooling will also do? Generate excel reports

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I suspect slightly more useful than a cockroach. Believe it or not, it's actually good at what it does. That's why it's still here. And also why I'm in a job, as there are plenty of things it shouldn't be doing too

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Those at the top are often more tech literate than I give them credit for. I suspect it is actually those armies of analysts that are holding it back

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Yeah, it is a good data dense gui, and is ubiquitous. But now it does python too! What a dreadful decision that was

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Any sort of actual database will let you do it. SQL based the obvious answer, but they are all way harder to use than they should be. SQLite never got anything as good as excel sadly, and parquet still lacks a decent windows client. The WYSIWYG of excel really is so intuitive, nothing I know matches it

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I've witnessed the dilbert principle more

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Markdown file on a shared windows drive enters the chat

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How do the handle version control? I'm yet to actually meet it in the wild

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Python in excel is in git?? Better than I thought

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    Olap ,

    Stay away in general for things that matter, like prod servers, you'll thank me later. Have fun with tinkering with them!

    If you do insist on pushing them out to prod: as part of a container, using your own tightly compiled stuff, try not to link or use the package management

    And if you ignore all this advice, congratulations you either become or already are a C and Linux packaging expert!

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    Someone didn't read the TOS

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    Reddit is almost certainly going to throw your old comments to them if you edit stuff. We're pretty fucked. And if you think Lemmy is any different, guess again. We agreed to send our comments to everyone else in the fediverse, plenty of bad actors and a legal minefield allows LLMs to do what they want essentially. The good news is that LLMs are all crap, and people are slowly realising this

    Opinion: It's Time To Ditch 2.4GHz WI-FI

    2.4GHz wifi is not suitable for two big reasons, interference and low bandwidth. 2.4GHz wifi in any kind of suburban or city environment and sometimes even in rural will be congested with other networks, microwaves, other appliances, etc causing massive speed degradation or fluctuations. The range of 2.4GHz is just too large for...

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    Slightly less crap take: open 2.5Ghz https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/bureau-divisions/broadband-division/broadband-radio-service-education-broadband-service for wifi data usage only, instead of the ffa on 2.4

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    Wifi for rural services should be replaced with cellular connections. Let's pivot

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    Sorta, there's a point to point frequency already were you using 4g+/5g for that previous one? Or was it the 2.5Ghz spectrum that the original doc I listed was using?

    Either way, talk of 6g is already here. Let's reassign 2.5Ghz

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    Tough, more wires for the few homes that do benefit, more wifi for all. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few

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    This is the way

    Firefox mobile works with Jerboa too for web containers

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    you don't have faith in existing monopoly laws? Colour me shocked!

    When do we look to restrict a company's areas of control too? Horizontal integration has to be a dystopian nightmare come true

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    Opinion pieces obviously not fabulous to gist it seems, would not recommend this tldr

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