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.
Periodic reminder that EU did not mandate cookie popups.
Cookie popups are yet another example of malicious complience by an industry that wants to use and abuse data about us all.
@PurpleJillybeans @catsalad so many different types of horrified face, it’s like looking at clouds.
Thinking for some reason today of all the horror stories I was told about Eastern European socialist countries to characterise them as rapidly failing states.
"Systems and products never worked, despite all the glowing propaganda; people just shrugged and accepted it."
"Jobs and contracts were granted based on who you knew, not what you knew."
"Friends and family of the party could get whatever they liked, everyone else struggled even to get housing, food, and essentials."
"Unbiased reporting was nonexistent; the media just printed endless propaganda."
"You could be grabbed off the street by police for saying the wrong thing."
Overheard at airport from airline staff : “sir, that is AI and AI is a liar”
When they run out of Toy Story characters will Debian switch to a rolling release model?
Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:
Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.
Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.
Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.