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nehal3m ,

Casio gang report in!

nehal3m ,

Yeah, that's easy to miss since Apple removed the super helpful tutorial shorts in the touchpad settings. The new menu is less clear imo.

nehal3m ,

...what? A meme is an interpretation of a template by definition.

Resistance is rule (what is this ruleshid Microsoft?) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

Description: Microsoft ad with a man on the right doing a hand sign associated with star trek and wearing a white t-shirt and black glasses with thick borders. On the left the text reads white on black " Resistance is futile - get AI-ready with Azure" Blue button says "learn more".

nehal3m ,

That's just AL, and he's sick and tired of being confused with AI due to the lower case L.

nehal3m OP ,

If you can clear the roads for cars you can do the same for bikes.

nehal3m OP ,

See, the way you're phrasing it is a legitimate question. I notice you didn't give a smug description of what a road is for and you didn't continue to point out that bicycles don't fit all use cases.

To answer the question, there's a few ways. Some furniture stores rent out cargo bicycles (like IKEA) and inner cities do allow traffic specifically for delivery of goods in a lot of places.

nehal3m ,

If you work remote, just don't. That's what I don't. Works great.

nehal3m ,

It's this one, listed under 'Equipment used' in the description!

nehal3m ,

Throttle growth? But then how will we create believable bullshit generators? We have to stick an AI label on useless crap to sell damnit!

nehal3m ,

For bullshit like spinning rims or golf clubs that wouldn't surprise me but it's not like I can just choose not to eat. I HAVE to buy food.

nehal3m ,

Did you google Vim or Emacs?

nehal3m ,

Oh no, it sounds like you're experiencing some challenges with your Meta advertising. Our advanced AI tools are designed to optimize your campaigns automatically. Sometimes, adjustments in strategy can help improve performance. Have you considered exploring different audience targeting options or ad formats? Feel free to experiment with different settings to find what works best for you! If you have further questions, our support team is not here to assist you.

nehal3m ,

Here you go. Grab your soldering iron.

https://hackaday.com/2022/12/16/foot-pedal-ups-vim-productivity-brings-ergonomic-benefits/

nehal3m ,

I'd imagine setting this up should not be impossible:
https://www.amazon.com.au/LEKATO-Bluetooth-Rechargeable-Wireless-Tablets/dp/B09CP8HLG4

nehal3m ,

There's also compatibility mismatch between certain versions of clients and servers. That almost cost me a bunch of files. Thank RMS I had a local copy through syncthing.

nehal3m ,

If you don't care about 3.5mm a FairPhone comes pretty close to that description.

nehal3m ,

Good bot

nehal3m ,

Funny, that's my exact reaction when I see the requirement for a cover letter. Beep boop, fuck you and your job.

nehal3m ,

That’s one way of looking at it, I am indeed unmotivated to deal with bullshit.

nehal3m ,

There's a few types of bullshit when it comes to employment. It's either necessary, in which case I will deal with it, or it's not, in which case I will find a way to either not (have to) do it, or spend as little effort as humanly possible on it.

Making up bullshit cover letter requirements is squarely in the latter camp so noooo thank you. If an employer is going to START with requiring bullshit I'll be glad to dodge that bullet.

nehal3m ,

I’ve found Syncthing a better way to handle file sync than NextCloud. Much more set and forget and not a single point of failure. It also syncs a notes directory in flat .md format, so anything can edit them, in a simple directory hierarchy.

nehal3m ,

I'll have to defer to your experience; I've set it up on a PC, a NAS and a phone. The phone was connected to an ethernet-equipped dock at the time of setup so the sync was quick and painless.

I don't see a hit on battery life on a Fairphone 4 running /e/OS after initial sync has completed.

nehal3m ,

You could simply sync select subdirectories.

nehal3m ,

No they won’t. The whole point of a platform like Discord is to bind its users to it. At first because the platform itself offers good value, and second because of network effects. Once you’re good and hogtied the bullshit barrage begins.

It’s the default enshittification playbook.

nehal3m ,

Yeah that's true, and I agree trying to regulate enshittification out of existence will probably have some heavy handed implications. However I do think it's worth rethinking how network effects as extreme as Discord implements them relate to monopoly.

nehal3m ,

You should be proud that the link is not purple.

nehal3m ,

The difference is one hop. I think that’s how ISP’s measure it anyway. I’ll bet spoofing that number would bypass the restriction.

Or I’m hopelessly out of date.

nehal3m ,

The article says Redis is the latest one to pull this shit. Well, today the Linux foundation announced Valkey. If I ran Redis in production I'd go all hands to switch today.

nehal3m ,

Yeah you're right.

I was righteously angry and hyperbolic. That said, sure, you'll want to look at support if you want to externalise responsibility as a legitimate business strategy. That doesn't always mean you want to go that way though. I've been in situations where support for commercial firewall appliances was like pulling teeth and a simpler open source solution that a few people can grok would've been the better option.

YMMV I guess, but this type of commercially backed FOSS rug pull should definitely factor into the decision and right now it usually doesn't.

nehal3m , (edited )

I think you are very much over-valuing how much companies care about FOSS in production.

I'm not. I specifically mentioned externalising responsibility is a legitimate business strategy. I corrected the statement I made in anger and the thrust of the follow up's point is that if you decide to go with commercially backed FOSS the possibility of a rug pull should factor into the financial prospects of whatever you're doing in the long term.

I develop the infrastructure part of a product for a living and the product as a whole is expected to be supported by us for up to 10 years. If a vendor decides to switch up licensing half way through that lifecycle I'd be weary to continue business. VMware is a great example, they switched from perpetual to subscription after the Broadcom sale went through. We are looking at alternatives.

edit: Also, using FOSS as part of your solution doesn't necessarily imply you have to take up it's development. Depending on a community is also an option (although ethically I'd say it'd be nice to push improvements back).

nehal3m ,

The only obvious ad I’ve ever clicked on was for a “free” IQ test. I figured I’d never done one cause they’re fake, but I had time to kill, so I clicked through.

That click should have lead you to a page that says 'you failed'. 😂

nehal3m ,

Hey congrats dude. Hope it will improve your life and that you'll have fun with it.

nehal3m , (edited )

That is some grade A armchair micro architecture design you got going there.

Apple completely switched their lineup to the obvious next big thing in processing in less than two years, improving efficiency and performance by leaps and bounds. It has had astounding improvements in terms of generating heat and preserving battery life in traditional computing and they did it without outright breaking backward compatibility.

But oh, it turns out three years later someone found an exploit. Guess the whole thing is shit then.

edit: oh yeah and traditional x86 manufacturers have had the same type of exploit while still running hot

edit2: This is not to say Apple is our holy Jesus lord and saviour, they're plenty full of shit, but the switch to ARM isn't one of those things

nehal3m ,

Well, this is Lemmy. What were YOU expecting?

Questioning my expectations for pointing out bullshit is... bullshit.

nehal3m ,

It’s a calculation popularized by fintech bro’s in the late oughties.

It’s called pulling an FYGM, a fuck you got mine, colloquially known as a rug pull.

nehal3m ,

Okay so hear me out. I have this pet theory that might explain some of the divide between genders, but also political parties, causing paralysis which ultimately might lead to humanity's extinction. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious.

I'm going to set up two axioms to arrive at an extrapolated conclusion.

One: Human psychology tends to ascribe more weight to negative things than positive things in the short term. In the long term this generally balances out, but in the short term it's more prudent in a biological sense to pay attention to the rustling in the bushes than the berries you might pick from them. This is known as the negativity bias.

Two: The modern gatekeepers of social interaction, Big Tech, employ blind algorithms that attempt to steer your attention towards spending more time on their platforms. These companies are the arbiters of the content we experience daily and what you do and don't see is mostly at their discretion. The techniques they employ, in simple terms, are designed to provoke what they call 'engagement'. They do this because at the end of the day FAANG have not only a financial interest, but a fiduciary duty to sell advertisements at the behest of their shareholders. The more they can engage you, the more ads they can sell. They employ live A-B testing, divide people into cohorts and poke and prod them with psychological techniques to try and glue your eyeballs to their ads.

Extrapolated conclusion:
These companies have a financial and legally binding interest to divide the population against itself, obstructing politics and social interaction to the point where we might not be able to achieve any of the goals that we need to reach to prevent oblivion.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

nehal3m ,

Exactly. Allowing (edit: promoting, even!) that kind of content is in the interest of businesses that need your attention. Fear, anger and outrage drive engagement like nothing else.

nehal3m ,

That is an interesting factor I hadn't even considered. Thanks for pointing it out.

nehal3m ,

Awesome, I'll be sure to check that out. Thanks for the tip!

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

nehal3m ,

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.devicelock

There you go. Just so you know, you could've Googled this instead of making a pedantic ass of yourself.

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