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@simon @ThePSF Let's see how HN is handling this topic today!
Random commenter who's been on the site three years: "Men are inherently smarter and more talented."
...Stay classy, HN.
@qbe @JohnDal @erkhyan A lot of things in Linux feel downright primitive compared to the options I have on a Windows system. There's totally reasonable reasons for that, mind you.
A finely-tuned Windows 10 install can be *a thing of elegance*, and it can run on a potato from a decade ago. But you had to have an enterprise license agreement to get rid of half the junk. I hope 11 gets back there, but there is some real jank with rough perf costs.
@JohnDal @erkhyan iOS has very minimal advertising *currently* (though rumors are Apple is looking at adding ads to Maps, which is gross).
What's really frustrating in Windows case, is that it is probably the *best engineered* operating system, that then has so much garbage lopped on top it performs close to second-worst.
Windows 10 Mobile ran *smooth as glass* on incredibly modest hardware, the problem is *entirely* garbage on top.
@box464 They made the perfect cookie like a hundred years ago, now all they have to do is go home.
Watched #Thunderbolts and I understand the reason for the chosen "alternate title", but I also think "Therapy: The Movie" would've been a decent choice. ;) The movie's villain speaks basically in gaslighting everyone, and the threat is conquered through developing a healthy support network of human relations.
@cmconseils I don't have any brilliant fortune cookie insights, but time heals and it's worth seeing what comes next. From a random person half a world away, wishing you well.
jaredwhite.com By the end of this Canada will lose one thing: Their reputation for being the ones always apologizing.
@mos_8502 Heh over in the IT world we've always been well aware we are basically technology janitors. Network admins are like plumbers, making sure all your pipes flow well.
@ojensen I would make sure to have a suitably convincing-sounding definition of that acronym too. I absolutely ask people for details about things they claim to know about.
@Karlitschek I've always found it amazing how the industry accepts obviously insane directions as "the right way" because everyone else is doing it. It's clear a big part of that is suppressing people discussing the reasonable but less profitable ways.
@mos_8502 That doesn't address the environmental concerns, the intellectual property concerns, or the fact corporations are trying to replace real engineers with it right now. But I can see an area it could fill.
@mos_8502 I think AI programming may fill an Excel-style niche in letting nontechnical users do automated tasks. Not to the skill or degree of an actual engineer but it may enable people who otherwise would have no solution.
@heidilifeldman I bet these guys feel *real cool* with all their *cool guy gear*. If like five of them work together they can take down one landscaper, but they still gotta call for backup if they need to deal with a roofing crew.
What a shame. One of the radio stations I listened to broadcast ICE propaganda ads encouraging people to contact the DHS with tips. Guess I won't be listening to them anymore. Absolutely surreal, it sounded exactly like I would've expected the Nazis to ask us to call in if we see any Jews in our neighborhood.
So I have @Kotaku in my RSS reader and whoever runs their deals thing now is annoying as heck. I keep getting posts with headlines about things being "Almost Free" (20% off), "For Pennies" (well over $100), etc.
@iMeddles Yep, that's it! Microsoft hates me way too much to actually make it possible to just domain join on setup, so I'm confident this way to fail out to local account setup will never go away.
@OtterMatic @notjustbikes As a driver I really love diverging diamond interchanges, but I think they probably give most other "pedestrian unfriendly" patterns a run for their money.
One of the things I find really funny about articles about installing Windows 11 with a local account is that they'll focus on two or three "exploits" and whether or not Microsoft has broken them, and not a single article ever mentions the Pro edition still has a path right in the official UI to do it still today. #windows #windows11
@jbcrawford It doesn't feel to me like a 22-year-old ship should look that dated!
@nolan Glad to hear from you again. Sorry about the family, that is always rough.
I was today years old when I realized the name of WhatsApp is a play on "what's up".
@ill_logic The only way to then actually make the ransom payments go away is to make it illegal to pay them. But right now in a lot of cases our economy would be significantly more damaged if we couldn't.
@ill_logic Security and backup management needs to get drastically better industry-wide, to limit the scope and impact of a breach, and companies not doing enough need to be fundamentally uninsurable.
@ill_logic Cyber insurance is usually what pays the ransom! The issue is the frequency is too high and the losses are too great for any meaningful insurance provider to have a business model if they have to cover the whole impact. There's a limit to liability/maximum payout but it's way less than just paying the ransom.
@Lana Regardless of the source or mechanism I think it's fair to question the likelihood he didn't know it was right behind him. Everyone looks at how they appear on video calls.
@Lana I certainly don't discount the possibility! I just think it's an intriguing claim especially if they're saying other offices received and discarded it. I'm wondering if it could even like a simple lenticular thing. It doesn't look shiny enough in the picture, but I could imagine someone *making* a lenticular to do this effect.
@clacke I kinda buy into the theory that the change of the millennium disrupted our societal dialogue around decades and keep us from meaningfully understanding what was part of the 00s, 10s, and 20s in our culture.
@clacke I am very uncomfortable with how many mid-2000s movies I think of as "recent", which is apparently twenty years ago now.
@WarnerCrocker I just hope Trump's current goons are looking at this and realizing they're next.
@Lana I know some things appear distorted on camera, could someone have made something that looks like different sections are colored differently on camera then when viewed directly? Seems like a very specific thing to randomly ship to a bunch of Congressional offices though.
@hipsterelectron Google fundamentally does not understand how security works at an organizational level.
@Wolf @jalefkowit Heh, I was about to say a department at work included that in their voice attendant on our new phone system. We are not, in fact, experiencing unusually high call volume.
@mathowie @jalefkowit Car dealership partnership shows like this are a whole fun thing unto themselves. When I was a kid, the series I was quite fond of catching after school was Viper. Which of course, was entirely sponsored by Dodge, and included various impractical things like a hardtop retractable convertible. (Grappling hooks, missiles, etc. aside...)
@mathowie @jalefkowit My brief Knight Rider fascination was that the pilot for the 2008 reboot was cool. Then the actual 2008 reboot was not cool. :|
Which is to say, the pilot seemed like it wanted to make an at least plausible KITT. And then the series KITT became a transformer that could turn into any Ford-branded vehicle.
@jalefkowit You gotta know your radon reduction system guy around here!
@JessTheUnstill I think there are really cool uses for prototyping, very sandboxed code, simple quick tools, etc. I've been playing with Perplexity personally for this and it's decent-in-some-scenarios.
I think it's important to realize that it will never "replace engineers", but it could, like Excel "enable nontechnical people to create useful functionality". In much the same way AI image generation tools let people with no artistic talent make images. It doesn't surpass skill.
@GossiTheDog Are there any exciting vulnerabilities for ASAs that do not have any VPN enabled?
@jalefkowit We are not a sensible people, if the last decade proves anything.
@jalefkowit I was so confused when I found out what a duvet cover is. Like... they sell you the big fluffy blanket on the picture... but there isn't anything included to actually keep you warm.
Also shouldn't what a duvet cover covers be called a duvet?
@drmakimber @mcc You have to use a Microsoft Account to enroll in ESU but it doesn't have to actually be your login method for your PC and you can remove it after the ESU is activated.
@HerraBRE It's hard to get more metal than tapping volcanoes for heat.
@HerraBRE Plumbing is the scariest trade, screwing up means damage to everything nearby, and they do gas pipes too. Screwing up electrical just means you die.
@jalefkowit I've been fighting a cough for a month. Welcome!
@w7voa He was gonna do it anyways. Zero reason to give this claim credibility.
@teleclimber Any code between PHP 4 and PHP 5.6 barely needed to be touched.
Also, it's important to understand why the TTRSS dev isn't fulfilled by the project: He's a jerk who scares off contributors.
@teleclimber PHP is actually historically great at this, the apps I maintain are from 2010, and have required some minor adjustments in the past fifteen years. Most of them were to handle security issues: Requiring variables be initialized before used, stuff like that. They've only recently started to get a bit more aggressive on breaking changes for security reasons.
Both companies would've given Epic special treatment but he risked his business on what should be the terms for everyone. And now it will be. On iOS or Android, you can pay for stuff the way you want to.
@cthos Wow it's even "an incredible part of our journey". I am not sure @philgyford includes parts of companies' websites, but still excellent.
@alice I am still blown away how much traction just calling them "weird" got. A word most of us would own proudly, but they couldn't handle it.
@effken_von_nebenan @antifaintl It's likely a lot of new ICE agents are known white supremacists and/or insurrectionists who tried to overthrow the government in 2021.
@lightweight Obviously I know you prefer to operate your own... but my point is nobody has an excuse to keep putting up with Google Groups, there are better options.
@lightweight I will say Groups.io is really good for not selfhosted mailing lists. It's the original creator of Yahoo! Groups doing it as a separate standalone company. No wild and exciting growth mandate, and a generous free tier.
@robdaemon I have a good old P2000 sitting under a table at work. Good times. Thing ran with mismatched firmware versions for *years*.
@merlin My favorite is when they didn't rename it but replaced it with a similar but subtly different tool which has a whole different API.
@virtualbri In my headcanon I can accept the Discovery crew decided like... most people who touch computers, they preferred their UI doesn't change, and told it to just emulate the original Discovery controls.
@virtualbri I saw some posts during season 3 about how programmable matter was just kinda a magic thing that maybe did everything, for some reason, somehow. 😅
I think the floating/shifting matter kinda exemplifies "this is the 32nd century", but I can definitely imagine it being very annoying to craft a show with heavy use of for dubious narrative benefit.
@virtualbri Yeah, I definitely understand that. I just was thinking about how Discovery was upgraded with like programmable matter consoles and all... and I don't think we saw anything like that in season 5... at all?
Going into Starfleet Academy and such I am wondering if all of the fancy 32nd century tech from season 3 will be like the Defiant's holo-communicator, used twice then forgotten.
Hey @virtualbri I was thinking about how much Discovery showcased programmable matter in season 3 and realized... I didn't notice it at all in seasons 4 and 5. Was there a distinct "this is expensive effects-wise" thing? Or was it a story choice?
I realized it was one of the reasons late Discovery stopped feeling so much more future-y than other Trek shows.
@flaky I would much rather drag and drop some WinForms than have to script my UI. WinForms was the peak of easy UI design. #FightMe
@whitequark For the second largest email provider, Microsoft appears to be deeply incompetent at handling mail. From my experience Outlook autoresponders from 365 accounts *always* fail DMARC and most annoyingly, Microsoft doesn't handle error messages correctly: Your server sends a standard "message size exceeded" and Microsoft tells the sender it was rejected as spam.
@davidaugust There is a reasonable point that Trump can and will shut down vital government services and fire people illegally anyways, while also doing harm with that same government. Maybe it being shut down is not the worst outcome.
@samlitzinger "Full Force" sounds like someone told him legally he can't announce the military is to use deadly force on American citizens. But that's what's intended.
@eri Even on Android, Google considers the underlying Linux components they have to share source for a liability. Someday Fuchsia will enable truly proprietary surveillance machines.
@zackwhittaker Probably because everyone is broke and cashy money feeds mouths and privacy doesn't. Gross, but I understand it.
@arcticEdge There are plenty of selfhosting platforms which manage most of the underlying apps for you. (I contribute to one called Sandstorm.)
@jalefkowit Just replaced mine at ten years... only because Windows 11 won't support it.
kentonvarda.com First Alert will probably do you better than Kidde there. First Alert voice alarms, even the "non-smart ones" had me set up the name of each on them, Kidde doesn't.
I'm guessing anything that would convey that much detail into a smart device will end up being a proprietary app though. :/
But my key point is if you get a separate wired relay as opposed to a "smart smoke detector", you can wire it up to Zigbee, Z-Wave, MQTT, whatever possible hardware interface you like, and not be tied to something likely to become legacy quickly like a Wi-Fi device.
kentonvarda.com I think Kidde and First Alert/BRK are basically the duopoly of home fire alarms. The Interconnect protocol is (mostly) compatible between the two. The BRK version of the relay is called an RM4. (This is all assuming you have hardwire interconnect, mind you.)
For what it's worth in my case I am replacing some extremely old BRKs which have been doing nuisance alarms, and your pictured Kidde is a previous generation model. You're likely getting "better" with either.
kentonvarda.com The interconnect wire protocol for hardwired smoke detectors is pretty simple (for smoke, it's a little more complicated for CO) but general advice is not to wire your own stuff to life safety equipment. But a relay from Kidde/etc. provides a degree of separation where you can then tie any sort of automation hardware that can detect the relay flip. And it'll probably survive future technology changes much, much better than smart components in a detector.
kentonvarda.com If you want something quality ignore the smart detectors and get a relay from the company you can integrate how you want. I am looking at adding a Kidde SM120X in my future.
@jalefkowit Who says adults can't still make friends? Just need a mutual target of loathing.
@mark I mean the alternate electors plot did not work, but it entailed fake electors in seven states and was counting on Mike Pence to betray his oath of office for Trump. Do you think JD Vance would make the same choice Pence did? Trump has far more cronies in positions today and ostensibly more power than when he failed in 2020, and I'm not sure he was that far from success.
@mark All he needs is the right administrators in the right swing states, and a Supreme Court that will back the play.
@mark We have to try though I really doubt it'll be a fair count.