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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 ,

Ah so Google has gone from NapRoom to full Mainstream now.

corsicanguppy ,

Is 250k the average wage or just the superstars?

corsicanguppy ,

The labour situation is one that people don't want to risk it. Even 150k jobs are fucking good right now.

My BSc+MSc+BEng degree-holder buddy with a rich resume laden with FAANGs is still challenged to land a permanent role after a year. He'd DEFINITELY not give a fuck while he can feed his family.

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I'm looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

corsicanguppy ,

I'm not sure if you noticed this, but Matrix is newer. And, as Barney Stinson will tell you, "Newer is always hotter".

STD: Shiny Things Disease.

They'll find something newer soon. And, if it uses some loose install method with performance or security concerns but installs with a negligent curl|sh, they'll be all over it.

corsicanguppy ,

You may be underestimating the length of the legal process involved.

corsicanguppy ,

u

Saved two letters, Skippy. Your efficiency makes up for the news that we're not worth 2 letters.

corsicanguppy ,

Well, it was. It's not the reliable, stable OS it was only a few years ago. It has really pushed the envelope for stupid since its first foray into Dumb for EL6.

corsicanguppy ,

prevent many people of

This actually stuck out more than the comma splices.

corsicanguppy ,

This is how Uni kids get drunk on $4 in 1995.

corsicanguppy ,

Punctuation: you think of it as optional spice, but the rest of us think of it as required fencing.

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    corsicanguppy ,

    fucken

    Ah. Short for "fuckeng", but I think they renamed it Balljang a few decades ago.

    I thought that was short for "fucking", but "en" isn't how we do that.

    corsicanguppy ,

    however, nothing stops you from moving all the stuff you frequently use to a ramdisk.

    mount /dev/vg-ssd/lv-usr /usr

    But do it during install or you have to go behind and remove the eclipsed install stuff after.

    And don't do it on systemd-afflicted systems as lennart's cancer makes that harder because he couldn't figure out why a /usr directory was useful and he ditched it. Dunning-kruger says what?

    corsicanguppy ,

    TR actually endorsed JC's performance.

    They're both great. JC's needs the backstory to really feel the feels. But it's all there.

    corsicanguppy ,

    Nah dude. Metaphor.

    corsicanguppy ,

    LOVE MrSelfDestruct. But, in the right mood, hurt is an atom bomb.

    corsicanguppy ,

    (Sorry for the edits, accidentally pressed post before I was done.)

    A thousand edits is better than none at all; especially if the bit above needs a colon.

    corsicanguppy ,

    USDoJ: How about no.

    Oh, right. This isn't 1992 when the DoJ had balls and a constitution.

    corsicanguppy ,

    Buy a condo in a concrete building.

    • quiet as fuck if you also get triple-pane windows
    • neighbors are a rare part of your day if at all
    • in the right area, no cars to drive, park, or recover from impound (you need a city with a subway though or forget about it)
    • things will be nearby
    • the rooftop is nice
    • no lawn to mow
    • no roof to repair yourself
    • usually decent Internet options
    • with some forethought, a high vantage and a good view.

    We're stoked but I hope yours works out also.

    corsicanguppy ,

    Microsoft have actually been decent stewards of GitHub

    Ah. That's the "embrace" phase.

    Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)

    Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing.  ...

    corsicanguppy ,

    partake aswell

    "Aswell" isn't a word. Are you using to suggest someone's riding a swell, like on the water? Are you saying something's inflamed?

    corsicanguppy ,

    The industry has made us accept a lot of sub-par configurations, and we need to stop this.

    1. no more wifi. If you like it, put a cable on it. ACLs get simpler and spooky radio issues become a distant, comical memory.

    2. Whether it's PDF or something better, find the body pushing for a common format and give them eyeballs and money. Make printers interchangeable again.

    corsicanguppy ,

    a dumb appliance

    This is the goal. Printing is a solved problem, so we should avoid anything overcomplicating it for profit reasons.

    corsicanguppy ,

    People need to let "internet privacy" go.

    "Too hard; give up"? No thanks.

    corsicanguppy ,

    Fundraise your essentials services

    Ha ha ha. I think fundraising is the only income less reliable than usage fees.

    corsicanguppy ,

    Welp, killed the account.

    Honestly, I wasn't getting much value out of it, so it made sense.

    corsicanguppy ,

    1500R? So, like, you need to sit 4.5 feet away for the curve to make sense?

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