@LuluHelle @gothintheshell I’m absolutely fuming that “pay not to be tracked” was found legal. GDPR had so much potential but of course the big corporations stepped right up to the line, and then made a business model out of crossing it.
“You’ll get more conservative as you age” says the establishment, as I go from cheering on Tom Clancy novels in my teenage years to thinking maybe it’s time we gave anarchism a chance in my 40s.
David Graeber explained how in our system, the poor are always expected to pay their Debts and those in Debt are made to feel as if they did something wrong - almost like they committed a crime.
But of course, corporations are never expected to pay their Debts.
@Edent I mean my plan was to sit and play games today but if I must. [Enrolls in seminary]
Bought a book to learn electronics and the first tutorial is literally "lick a battery"???
Nerd sniped a Discord full of lifelong gamers by mentioning my 70 year old Dad has decided it’s time to give these new fangled video games a try. Other than Forza Horizon I have no idea where to start. Requirements are that it’s on Game Pass or Apple Arcade, because I’m not stumping up for a whole console so he can decide he doesn’t like it a week later.
Ugh. The internet is dying under the weight of SEO/ad slot optimised content. I just read what felt like about 3,000 words on how to clean climbing shoes which came down to “use warm water soap, don’t machine wash”.
My taxi driver on the proliferation of flags along the route home “oh, I think they’re just trying to send a message to the government”. I don’t think he was ready for me spending the rest of the journey shooting down his straw man arguments. “You can’t call that many people racists”. Just fucking watch me buddy.
What is the phenomenon that causes all TV shows to eventually make a fake documentary set in the world of their TV show? Is it that script writers have a burning desire to tell the story of how hard it is making TV?
@fromjason @catsalad speed running a bubble pop with this one I see.
Just walked into the kitchen to find my washing machine seems to be draining into the cupboard under the sink, which isn’t an ideal setup. Guess I’ve got some plumbing in my future.
HR, giving a safety meeting:
Staring at a screen for 8 hours is bad for you.
Sitting for 8 hours is bad for you.
Standing for 8 hours is bad for you.
Me: So, you're saying the 40 hour work week is unhealthy, and unsustainable?
Instead of going to bed I set up a PSX emulator on my Steam Deck because someone said that version of Final Fantasy VII is much better than the PC one. It does indeed look prettier thanks to CRT filters, but also my save game has vanished and it crashes when using magic, so not a complete success yet.
I was going to grab my Steam Deck and play a game about an hour ago but it would mean standing up from the sofa so instead I’ve been aimlessly reading the internet, a decision I definitely do not regret.
@ultrazool @jarkman depending on budget I’d maybe be looking at something like fly.io + maybe S3 for that sort of thing. tbh though if AWS & co are out of budget I think any container hosting solutions will be as well once you’ve got the database hosted, you may well find it cheaper to throw it on a cheap VM somewhere even if it doesn’t strictly need one.
I know reporting on your own dreams is a terrible thing but also last night I had one in which no one could agree on something at work and the boss ended it by saying we should all go feed the ducks instead.
Why is duck feeding never taught as a form of conflict resolution? Seems like very few people could continue fighting in the face of some hungry ducks.
Just passed a bookies advertising “collect online winnings in cash”, so well done to them for managing to combine crippling addictions to gambling and cocaine into one exciting new revenue stream.
This is an interesting one. Thinking about it I’d say yes, of course the app in question gets image metadata as well as the raw image, but also I think it should be much clearer to users that this is what’s happening.
https://tech.lgbt/users/h5e/statuses/115027588099437313
@lizardbill @codinghorror yeah, don’t buy that at all. I couldn’t review 10,000 lines of code a day, even if I wasn’t also hand holding an LLM through generating it.
This is from Israel's oldest paper. This is Israeli media reporting these war crimes and genocide in broad daylight.
You won't see this in American corporate media. They've continued to ignore this, enable this, even justify this and cheer it on.
Do not look away. This is genocide. This cannot stand.
So far this week I’ve walked clean into a low hanging sign, leaving a substantial dent in my head, and dropped a full metal water bottle on my big toe, and it’s not even Wednesday yet. Stay tuned to find out what other exciting injuries I incur.
