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douglasg14b , 1 day ago

"unfortunately your In-Flight Engagement Actions ™️ did not meet the requirements to qualify you for in flight perks such as entertainment and meals"

"Please ensure you are looking directly at the screen while ads are playing to accumulate In-Flight Engagement Actions ™️"

Coming soon to an airline near you.

douglasg14b , 1 day ago

Super glue seems appropriate 🤔

douglasg14b , 1 day ago

Naw, they'll find some way to "incentivize" (punish you for not) viewing ads and enforce it with eye tracking.

douglasg14b , 5 days ago

It's very likely that as a sole developer you are actually practicing agile as it's intended and not corporate "agile".

There isn't a problem with agile there's a problem with it being mislabeled and misused as a corporate & marketing tool for things that have nothing to do with agile.

douglasg14b , 6 days ago

If it was local only, and more security focused I would 100%.

My ADHD. brain needs an AI assistant.

douglasg14b , 8 days ago

You.... Are kidding right?

You would have to be living under a proverbial rock to have no inkling that Spotify is a product still in use, or be willfully ignorant.

It's like saying:

• People still use Google?
• People still drive cars?
• People still use Windows?
• People still go to churches?

...etc

Not that I agree that we should use Spotify. But playing pretend that they are small, irrelevant, and have no effect on the industry they are in isn't doing us any favors when it comes to pushing back against it.

douglasg14b , 6 days ago

Most people tend to be triggered by ignorance paraded as knowledge and petulant personal attacks due to an inability to engage like an adult.

To be fair.

douglasg14b , 6 days ago

fails to see reality

Reality is shown to them

Doubles down on their ignorance of reality

This thread is a textbook example of:

Don't argue with morons. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Instead of actually arguing the topic at hand you are trying to drag all repliers down to your level, act in bad faith, and beat them with personal attacks 🤣

Classic.

douglasg14b , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Where can one get a hold of these documents?

This appears to be the original blog post, but I'm not finding a way to download this. https://sparktoro.com/blog/an-anonymous-source-shared-thousands-of-leaked-google-search-api-documents-with-me-everyone-in-seo-should-see-them/

Is this not leaked past this one person?

Edit 2: No, these appear to be normal public docs.

Edit: seems these are the docs? https://hexdocs.pm/google_api_content_warehouse/0.4.0/GoogleApi.ContentWarehouse.V1.Model.QualityNavboostCrapsCrapsData.html

douglasg14b , 12 days ago

Wait why is that commit still up if this is a data leak?

douglasg14b , 12 days ago

Internal documentation leaking is still a data leak, it's just a subset of a data leak.

If it was sensitive information that commit would have been purged by now. The original PR (on the Google Clients repo) has no mention of problems, and there are no issues of discussions around rewriting the git history on that item.

This makes me think this isn't actually a problem.

My org is less practiced on operational security than Google and we would purge that information within minutes of any of us hearing about it. And this has been on blog posts for a while now.

douglasg14b , 15 days ago

Give it time.

douglasg14b , 15 days ago

I'm not entirely sure why you think it shouldn't?

Just because it sucks at one-shotting programming problems doesn't mean it's not useful for programming.

Using AI tools as co-pilots to augment knowledge and break into areas of discipline that you're unfamiliar with is great.

Is it useful to kean on as if you were a junior developer? No, absolutely not. Is it a useful tool that can augment your knowledge and capabilities as a senior developer? Yes, very much so.

douglasg14b , 17 days ago

Why the no?

It's local only, and actually used to improve the product as opposed to being another shitty chatbot.

This is how it should be done.

douglasg14b , 17 days ago

Mozilla actually had a project for that: https://memorycache.ai//

They just suck at naming things, and unfortunately it's not getting much of the necessary dev time it needs to get out of the POC stage.

The biggest thing I want is local only models that use my activity & browsing history as a way for me to recall or contextualize events and information.

douglasg14b , 19 days ago

Same. I have 5G off because it's just so bloody slow and unreliable.

Let's not even talk about the problems where periodically I can't make any outbound calls and no one can call me. Which has been a problem for at least the last 5 years, for both me and my wife.

douglasg14b , 22 days ago

How does taxing revenue from digital technology where it's generated work?

Can you explain what that means for me.

douglasg14b , 22 days ago

If north America & Australia's biggest exports start having effect they will be very pro-regulation. Just pro-regulatory-capture.

douglasg14b , 23 days ago

Yep, and Google does the same shit.

On Pixel phones you have the search bar at the bottom, which you cannot remove, replace, resize, or configure.

In the EU you can configure it to change your default search engine. In North America you cannot, and are forced to use Google.

And on Google forums anyone who complains gets attacked by a wave of simps saying "Then just don't buy a pixel then, go somewhere else if you don't like it".

So tired of this shit.

douglasg14b , 15 days ago

Butt hurt much

Please go back to Facebook, YouTube comments, or even Reddit with this petulant behavior.

No one here wants this sort of low quality, personally, attacking, bratty behavior in their discussions.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Can you list some of those, I'm curious.

douglasg14b , 29 days ago

I mean, that's not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.

The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.

They could OSS their server side code ofc, that'd be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don't really blame them on that one tbh.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

For real, we need unions. It's a slow boil now, knowledge workers are the next factory workers.

Soon to be displaced as corporations gobble up another chunk of worker wealth.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

It's really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don't exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

I'm a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

Especially when I'm doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

Enough that I decided to pay for the service. I'm happy with it and want to share that happiness with others.
Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can't seem to get anywhere else I'm now the bad guy? Because I like something and want to share it with others, that's bad?

Is the alternative that you might prefer to be corporate astroturfing instead of organic discussion and growth? Like, really, seriously, what's the alternative here if people talking about and sharing something they like is not acceptable?

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

... Contacting someone makes you an: "unhinged fucking freak who does not respect personal boundaries"?

More people need to go touch grass, this is insane.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

I'm in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that's 70 years old.

And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of "too short".

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it's built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

The US has an ideal, chosen, location for long-term mass storage.

Unfortunately State politics and news fear mongering are preventing it from being developed and utilized.

Just more footgunning.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

That's.... Not how internet infrastructure works.

And cables are not in straight lines between you and the destination.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It's easier to just hand wave it away as someone else's problem than to actually consider it...

When a problem becomes systematic it's now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn't working so it's now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That's how almost everything works

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Imagine not realizing that people have to work for a living... Or that adult mental health is at an all time low. Or that social media manipulation affects people who are parents as well as their kids.

Similarly just kicking the problem down the road like you're doing doesn't actually solve it. It just inhibits solutions and contributes to the problem.

So in this instance people that think like your comment states actually are indirectly part of the problem. Which is ironic.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Most enterprise software has to meet constantly shifting goals requirements certifications and regulations.

In most cases it's complicated because it has to be and because it's been driven to be complicated over time to meet the complex needs of the business.

The software will represent the business, if the business is too complicated then the software will be too complicated. It's impossible to separate the software complication from the business in that sense.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

It's not even "banning tik-tok". It's "separate your interests, or we block your product".

Which isn't exactly something that we haven't seen before in the U.S. and it for sure isn't anything new in China where plenty of services, games....etc are blocked with "Chinese only" versions of those services.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Isn't that something like what this product is solving for? https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX-3

You can get your smart speaker and wake words with this. Integration with a voice recognition model and home assistant and you're golden.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

It's a rhetorical question, you're missing the entire rhetoric of it...

Which is that not everyone is technically inclined, actually most aren't, so the majority of everyone is not going to be capable of operating a technically demanding system.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Thank god, governments (local and larger) should not be using Facebook as a sole/primary means of communication.

It's infinitely frustrating that my own municipality makes announcements and shares public information on a platform that is not always accessible to the residents that constitute that municipality.

Information should be shared on the official municipality website in the same manner, and copied over to Facebook for ease of access to those who use it.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

In many cases no it is not...

The sheriff's department in my town for example has no information on the public website for the municipality. All of their information is shared on Facebook and only Facebook.

The same thing goes with many other departments and public services.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Kagi!!!

I started using it entirely last month and I'm never going back.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

They state that they obsficate the metadata of chats sent to OpenAI

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

I mean you essentially just highlighted a primary user experience problem with Linux....

Information & advice is fragmented, spread around, highly opinionated, poorly digestible, out of date, and often dangerous.

And then the other part of it is that a large part the Linux community will shit on you for not knowing what you don't know because of some weird cultural elitism...

When you finally ask for help once you realize you don't know what you're doing, you're usually met with derisive comments and criticism instead of help.

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Do you want Linux to be customizable so that users can control it however they want. Or do you want it to be safe so that users don't mess it up? You can't have it both ways, and when you tell users to "go figure it out" and then :suprise_pikachu: that they found the wrong information because they have literally no idea what's good or bad, instead of helping, they get shit on.

It's the biggest thing holding Linux desktop back.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

It turns into a Linux problem when it holds back Linux desktop adoption by creating a difficult or even toxic environment for new, low-technical or non-technical users.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Not trying to start an argument here but I do want to point out that your argument foundations on blaming other competitors instead of looking at what can make the platform you're passionate about more palatable.

There are many, MANY, reasons people will choose Mac and windows on their own accord.

Your argument hand waves that away to make a boogieman out of mac and windows, and erodes the true viability of Linux as a platform by not looking at how it can improve, and instead focusing on how the competition "is bad".

Taking the ego stance that Linux "would be great if it wasn't being held back by the bad guys" doesn't actually help Linux desktop adoption...

douglasg14b , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

That's..... Not how new steel production works.

Coal is a significant component in the production of steel to impregnate it with carbon. It's a fundamental part of how a blast furnace operates. The article literally talks about this...

Even the article about doesn't mention an alternative. An arc furnace relies on scrap it cannot make new steel.

Though, I wonder if we can move more towards charcoals, but even then I wonder if that's just much less effective or if it cannot reach the temperatures or concentrations required for industrial processes.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Making it extremely hard to actually find professional content because Reddit tends to cater to the lowest common denominator and most professional subs tend to corrupt over time.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Damn, that's just cancerous

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

Garlic gross misunderstanding of software development, especially in large organizations.

Ignorant opinions only speedrun.

douglasg14b , 1 month ago

I fail to see the claim that the article is false and misleading?

It sounds like what it states is what it is. Replace the phrase "currently has" with "didn't" and your issue evaporates.

Which seems like unfair criticism given that the present or past tensing of an article's statements are dependent on when it was written and is a rather fluid and interpretable thing. It's a reasonable expectation that readers can understand and adjust their perspective of past vs present tense without failing to understand what the article is conveying...

Especially to such a degree where the confusion from the past tense versus present tense of a statement is great enough to be considered "false and misleading"...

douglasg14b , 2 months ago

Yeah I had literally no idea what you were talking about until you mentioned the actual name in the comments.

NPM almost universally refers to node package manager in any developer or development adjacent conversation in my experience. Given that both the site, the command, the logo, and the binaries are "npm" makes that more appropriate.

Nginix proxy manager is far to niche to be referred to universally by acronym when it's only ever used as an acronym when the context for it's usage has already been defined (ie. In it's documentation).

This becomes much more clear when you Google the acronym.

douglasg14b , 2 months ago

It is, but also it's worrisome since it means support is harder, which means risk of abandonment is higher and community contributions lower. Which means "buying in" is riskier for the time investment.

Not really criticizing, 10/10 points on making something and then putting it out there, nothing wrong with that. Just being a user who's seen too many projects become stale or abandoned, and have noticed that the trend has some correlation to the technology choices those projects made.