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corsicanguppy

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corsicanguppy ,

If you didn't put Google's name in there I would've assumed a different company facepalming. Hint: it's the one whose name sounds like 'unsure'.

corsicanguppy ,

Yes. And yes, kinda.

corsicanguppy ,

minor error

It was a the comma splice, wasn't it? Depending on Bob's cohort, he may never notice.

.. and if I was receiving notes and questions about a role, an error like "emails" would earn relegation for sure; so be careful which error you leave in.

corsicanguppy ,

? Ugh.

corsicanguppy ,

Only until you vote in better people. Then it's a periodic duty to pick the course of your country.

Like we could do too if we got rid of the bathroom fixation and all the anti-science pro-oil blowhards and hillbillies.

corsicanguppy ,

Incomplete sentence.

corsicanguppy ,

Not the free world; just America as a mostly-free state.

corsicanguppy ,

But you're not wrong. It's a sampling bias.

I only know like 2 dozen cops. One's an absolute blowhard, but the rest are decent people. I don't expect them all to be nice, because I've seen reports on TV otherwise; it'd be foolish.

The cherry-picking starts with US newsmedia. I'm glad our cops are different, at least.

corsicanguppy ,

Careful with the distance ones. A girl I worked with left her spouse and took her kids to AUS to be with her dream partner; who only forgot to disclose the fact that he was a high level drug dealer. Sometimes you miss out on important details like that, so just be careful.

corsicanguppy ,

I hoped people would learn from the bust after Y2K.

Companies were turfing staff, and often their seniors. Mentorships and peer oversight crashed in quality. The new mentors came from the ranks who had no mentoring themselves, and missed out on fundamentals, and passed their lack onward.

And that's how we got systemd.

corsicanguppy ,

in most states they didn’t “have” to pay severance in the first place. That’s really more reliant on the employment offer or contract

99% of the world lives outside America.

Deep breaths. You'll be fine, but it may be a bit traumatic to learn.

corsicanguppy ,

I worry that people who can get onto the internet find fractions a challenge.

maegul , (edited ) to Fediverse
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a substitute and that’s a problem?

Just an impression: All the pieces seem to be there. But what’s required is a team, with devs, PMs and coordinators, dedicated to making a particular place in the .

That’s resources and decently sized financial and organisational demands, especially to get a critical mass of users.

Is the fediverse up to that challenge? If not, is it an issue worth addressing?

@fediverse

corsicanguppy ,

I'd opt into targeted ads for a federated S-O service, personally. The site is a huge database and needs safe-keeping, and that's not free or even cheap. Tastefully placed ads that don't pop over or ruin the printed copy I'd totally go for.

corsicanguppy ,

THE BELOW MESSAGE

No, it's "the message below" or "the following message". Pick a lane.

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

corsicanguppy ,

Just to be clear, this is the same Dell who fucked up and leaked a bunch of personal info.

.. the number-one cause of which is usually missed patching, which is caused by people just.not.caring.

I can see this going very well for them.

corsicanguppy ,

You know who doesn't have medical debt?

Every other G7 country.

corsicanguppy ,

But will it show up?

In the last 30 days we're 50-50 that something will even arrive -- at the local drop point, at the secure package receipt on the ground floor, at the local post office; 50-50 across the board.

I threw a RAID disk but prime said "4 days" so I bit. 2 weeks later it's still in the wind but "out for delivery". By then I bought one local, but got COVID on the way home from the shops. I've almost recovered.

corsicanguppy ,

OnStar never knows where you are. It only knows where YOUR CAR is.

Think about it and decide whether your car's privacy is worth the cost.

corsicanguppy ,

Atleast

Grounds for divorce.

corsicanguppy ,

aswell

Not a word.

corsicanguppy ,

Still not a word.

corsicanguppy ,

Does ChatGPT can

That makes no sense.

corsicanguppy ,

No no. He was laughing on the way to hard, which is obviously a city, maybe a home-town, with no schooling system.

corsicanguppy ,

Former Unix security chief.

Do not use snaps. Risky as hell.

corsicanguppy ,

do we need an Enshittification@lemmy.world group to crosspost to?

corsicanguppy ,

The backlash is generally against all enshitification.

Or, as we call it, the principle of the thing.

If people are thinking "I don't care, I got mine", they need to learn why that elitism is wrong.

corsicanguppy ,

they want, it is

Yes, but, like comma splices, we get to judge them.

All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week (arstechnica.com)

Below is a look at the most exasperating news from streaming services from this week. The scale of this article demonstrates how fast and frequently disappointing streaming news arises. Coincidentally, as we wrote this article, another price hike was announced....

corsicanguppy ,

I've really been thinking about that.

  • what kind of lineup do you get?

  • reception: clear? (And, only generally, tell me about your environment and population density? Eg 'wooded rural, hilly, just me and bigfoot')

  • outages?

  • is it easy to find what's on? Is it accurate?

  • commercials, right? Good ones?

Any responses - Rufus or anyone else - appreciated.

corsicanguppy ,

they really need a major bodystyle update across the whole line.

Sometimes we judge a book by more than its cover.

corsicanguppy ,

the two big tech companies that showed people how "fun" an office could be. They're now relegated to normal companies...and their output over the last few years show a set of companies with few stand-out winners

  1. Stop making work engaging
  2. The geniuses act less engaged and leave or get salty (the Dead Sea Effect)
  3. "Why would millennials do this to us?"

Seems Google forgot what made it great.

But it's correctable:

  • let the smart people be smart
  • hire and organize worker bees around the hard work of maintenance and code evolution that isn't SRE
  • don't give up on slow starts (ohai Wave)
  • run the old folks home for beloved projects that are just PR wins to keep people happy (ohai gReader, Picasa, and a cast of thousands)

Worker-bees don't need to save the world every quarter. They also don't earn the big bucks, but form the ecosystem to retain culture amid superstar churn.

Build a functional company again. And fire the people thinking quarter by quarter.

corsicanguppy ,

Keep in mind that many Americans don't know Socialism from Communism, as they've been schooled that everything responsible for happy Scandinavians is somehow bad.

corsicanguppy ,

the Berlin Wall

That was fascism.

or why Cuban families

That's kleptocracy.

corsicanguppy ,

The gist of rfc1178 is

  • don't name them incomprehensible shit
  • don't name them indistinguishable shit
  • don't name them unpronounceable shit
  • don't name them after their ephemeral purpose (less an issue now since it's one service per cattle member)

I worked at a shop where it was all ussfllb02 (a Linux load balancer in San Fran) and ukloesto12 (an emc array in London) and that's how they went all over the globe for like 15 DCs.

But then it got hard to keep the numbers straight, and we'd patch boxb10 instead of 01 or something, and the very real issue where humans can't keep abstract glyphs in their head for too long became a problem.

I'll do RedTruck and GreenBoat every time.

corsicanguppy ,

Yep. The years of hoarding greenspace as a private citizen is coming to an end.

corsicanguppy ,

We're picking which laws we break, now? That's gonna go well. Please make sure to youtube it as a warning to others.

corsicanguppy ,

Unleash the downvotes.

They use the same cells for people who stole from assholes as people who stole from saints.

Similarly, insurrectionist assholes don't get a reduced sentence just because they knew in their hearts that Donald was right -- deciding your target is a bad person doesn't change the crime.

Or do we still say "one law" ?

corsicanguppy ,

When I needed them, Crucial bent over backwards for a single sale.

I've given them 100% of my business since for any solid-state stuff.

I'm just one internet dood but please include them in your list of candidates. They have several tiers of speed and resilience, and I'd love to see them get more business.

corsicanguppy ,

MFW proper spelling and comma usage means it's an AI post.

corsicanguppy ,

The public [who] wants TikTok will get TikTok

In my family and peer group, the people who want to use tiktok and the people who could get and use a VPN to access a side-loaded tiktok app, has no intersect group. It's just a bridge too far for all of them.

I'll push them onto the fediverse yet.

corsicanguppy ,

I'm working with an OS with a 26-year support window.

LTS is 10 years. Support the one that RH/Rocky toss into the next release. Anything less than 8 years requires air-quotes around the 'L'.

corsicanguppy ,

softwares

That noun never gets an s at the end. It's like 'mail' and 'traffic'.

corsicanguppy ,

MFW I get downvotes for repeating what used to be considered Enterprise support before the dotcom bust. Sorry to be the voice of the past.

corsicanguppy ,

"emails"

It's like saying "trafficks" or "firmwares".

corsicanguppy ,

It still is.

corsicanguppy ,

"I can artwork that for you" is gibberish.

It is. Compare this fad gibberish:

  • let's action that ask
  • what was the spend on that?
  • 5 trafficks. I mean 4 mails. I mean 2 cattles. I mean 5 emails. Well, all of those.

Halfwits making nouns of verbs and verbs of nouns and plurals from mass nouns isn't a new thing.

France has an organization to prevent this mess. Where's our third-grade teachers when we need them?

corsicanguppy ,

Canada is starting to do that. But it's "we think this is the situation. If that's true, pay and move on. If that's not true, file and pay. And don't lie or we'll mess you up."

I think that's this year. Maybe next.

corsicanguppy ,

Like, what are we even suppose

supposed

to tell “normal people” about security? “Yeah, don’t download files from people you don’t trust and never run executables from the web. How do I install this programming utility? Blindly run code from over 300 people and hope none of them wanted to sneak something malicious in there.”

You're starting to come to an interesting realization about the state of 'modern' programming and the risks we saw coming 20 years ago.

I don’t want to go back to the days [...]

You don't need to trade convenience for safety, but having worked in OS Security I would recommend it.

Pulling in random stuff you haven't validated should feel really uncomfortable as a professional.

corsicanguppy ,

those from Red Hat

Not the enterprise stuff; just the beta mayflies.

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