Things that annoy me, #8363: YouTubers opening with “only n% of people who watch my videos are subscribed”.
I’ve only known of your existence for the last 25 seconds, stop asking me to put out before you’ve even bought me a drink.
@solderandchaos every time I see one of these I can’t help but think you’re cheating by being pretty good at drawing pigeons to begin with. Any of these would be the end game for my pigeon drawing skills.
@weirdunits @gsuberland I saw “posts every hour” and decided not to follow because I knew that would be what happened.
@weirdunits @gsuberland much slower than any of those options. Maybe every six hours. Fedi isn’t high enough volume for something that posts every hour or more not to completely drown everything else out.
Hello, is this the International Bureau of Weights and Measures? I’d like to lodge a complaint, I think there must be a problem with the atomic clocks, my watch is telling me it’s midnight but that can’t possibly be right because I just sat down half an hour ago.
@dangoodin if it’s possible to spread a virus from an ink cartridge across a network via HP printers I feel like that’s a failing on HP’s part, not the buyer of a third party ink cartridge. (I’ve also never heard of this happening, and it sounds like pure bullshit)
This is an article that took a lot of strength to write and I might take it down again. But I felt like it is an article that is very necessary right now. https://bastianallgeier.com/notes/grandpa
Why is it all text editor colour schemes mute the colour of comments? They're often the most important thing in a given source file, don't make them so damn easy to skim over.
Me, a teenager in the late 90s: “Hackers is unrealistic, you can’t just hack into a sprinkler system and set it off by phone”
Me, today, sitting at my desk: “I’m logged into the building management system, you should find the Secret Room on the upper ground floor”
Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:
Not to alarm you about modern software but "emulate a complete 486/120 system and play an MP3 in it" turns out to be one of the more CPU and memory efficient ways to listen to music on my laptop.
Dear God, please stop asking me to rate things. There is no 5 star scale for a parcel delivery, there's just "I received the parcel intact" and "I did not receive the parcel intact".
An early morning surprise all-hands, with an ominous "don't come to the office today" and no details.
If you survive that heart attack, you're treated to performative PR jargon over Zoom, taking no questions.
Instructions to wait quietly for half an hour to see if you receive the "you're fired" email.
Watching your peers accounts wink out like dead stars in Slack.
And then you have to go back to work and, what, give delivery estimates?
Not a shred of humanity anywhere in the process.
@gsuberland a really good support team will tentatively back channel escalate with “this guy says X, should we escalate them” but that only really works in tiny startup teams at relatively low volume.
@gsuberland unfortunately it’s often to distinguish between “this person knows what they’re doing, escalate immediately skipping basic triage” and “this person has cobbled together a wildly inaccurate hypothesis from 18 different forum threads, do not escalate without triage”.
Just had an offer accepted on the flat I’m currently renting, leaving me equal portions of excitement and trepidation.
@pikesley Blue Monday, so called because of the colour people’s faces go explaining about PR agencies.
@Edent You could probably reduce it further by tokenising the 50 most common words down to greyscale values, maybe 45 or so as you'd then need *further* values as control codes to embed those tokenisations at the start of the image (or cheat, and do that out of band). I briefly made a start on trying that and then realised I have several more useful things to do today than implement a janky compression algorithm.
@avdi maybe, but I gave up after five or episodes of increasingly incoherent not very funny comedy.
After several years of “oh, I should get round to sorting that” in the past five days I’ve been officially told I have ADHD and unexpectedly started buying a flat after my landlord put it on the market. Tune in next week as I get remarried and adopt a dog in my speed run of being an adult with their shit together.
so, if you had an .af domain, does that mean you just got tali-banned?