@ipsquiggle for me they’re a good thing that are deeply problematic in our current society because they exist to take away jobs from people who are in a precarious position. Automating tedious and often physically demanding jobs would be great if people didn’t depend on those jobs to prevent their families from starving.
Today in ways my brain is broken: someone posting a map with one pin in entirely the wrong place and almost immediately going “lat/lon have been entered back to front”.
@catsalad not what I expected as I waited for the image to load, and now I want a coffee mug where the opening at the top is shaped like a cat’s butthole to give to guests.
@Dragon @jonty @Edent my ISP recently started offering 2.5G for about £20 a month more and I refuse to buy it because then I’d feel compelled to replace a bunch of network hardware which is perfectly fine for what I do in order to download a AAA game in 5 minutes rather than 10 every six months or so.
@grajohnt I do like a standalone trackpad for most things but it’ll depend on what you’re doing regularly, I keep a mouse tucked away for when I break out the CAD software/first person shooters.
@Thayer I’m giving two, but wearing different hats:
With my volunteer lead hat on: Pick up a volunteer shift or two (they’ll be available on the website), it’s what makes the event work, also it’s genuinely fun hanging out with people you wouldn’t otherwise while maybe learning a new skill.
With my long time attendee hat on: Don’t fill your schedule for the weekend, leave big gaps to just do whatever takes your fancy or chat shit with whoever happens to be in the bar.
@zandra the key advantages are a) they can’t be passed to an attacker who’s on the phone with you even if you try and b) they’re immune to domain typos/convincing looking fake login pages because they will *only* trigger for the domain they were created for.
@zandra because they’re substantially more secure than the alternatives (but they come with a bunch of caveats currently around not ending up with them spread across multiple passkey stores without noticing)
@cmconseils tfw you went along with the joke a bit too long and suddenly realised it wasn’t a joke.
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@jonty the EU did not mandate cookie banners, they’re malicious compliance from operators who don’t want to give up their 2,812 trusted partners. (But I do wish the EU would step in and declare them not informed consent, requiring ever more annoying options until the operators finally give up and do the right thing because their audience has left)
I will die on this heavily caveated hill.
I’ve been writing C on and off since I was 12 and my approach to working out if I need `var`, `&var`, or `*var` is still mostly to try one and see if the compiler explodes, then keep going until it stops moaning at me.
I work at #Grafana and persuaded my marketing team to sponsor #emfcamp ... I was speaking to #Antithesis and also persuaded them to sponsor EMF Camp.
Result... EMF Camp have a load of money, and I have more tickets than I need = a good problem.
Antithesis have given me 2 tickets and 1 car park pass to EMF Camp to give away, for free, with zero expectation of anything... also I have maybe 1 spare Grafana sponsor ticket... but how to do this?
Well here's Antithesis https://antithesis.com/ just for FYI, it's like a simulation testing fuzzer... runs your containers and fuzzes them amongst other things. Grafana you already know. That's the entire marketing pitch for both.
Anyone who both boosts and likes this post by 12:00 UTC on Thursday 7th May... those people will be entered into a random draw and I will give those people tickets. If someone does not reply within an hour of me notifying them, I'll move on to the next person, etc until all the tickets I hold are gone.
Yay to EMF Camp https://www.emfcamp.org/ which is July 16th– 19th 2026 in Eastnor, UK.
@0xabad1dea @mhoye @at the more I look at that picture the less convinced I am. None of those holds have any chalk on them, they’ve basically never been used (or they got people out to strip the wall, clean all the holds, then set some shit routes for the photo shoot I guess).
@0xabad1dea @mhoye @at if the climbing walls are anything to go by I can only assume they don’t *do* any of the various activities they’ve built into that house because why would you have four walls of the most beginner beginner routes in your house if you actually climbed seriously?
@pikesley I enjoyed the recent blog post on this where they got down on their knees and basically went “usage is way up and all the tech debt we’ve been accruing while we shove Copilot in every orifice has caught up with us” as if that’s somehow a good excuse.
I really have to stop having ideas because now this ADHD is medicated I also have the ability to execute on them and my life is way too full already.
Why must everything be YAML now? I’ve been playing with ESPHome recently, the device support/build pipeline is amazing but I really hate that it’s all built around a precarious stack of YAML with embedded C++ (no, that’s not a typo).
There’s all sorts of clever pre-processor hacks and extension points to make the YAML somewhat composable but please, just use a real programming language.
Can’t work out whether I have a migraine or the chip on my glasses lens is having much more impact than I’d expect on my ability to see. Either way I’m going to feel sorry for myself on the internet here.