@benc to shared branches, absolutely not. To a branch only that developer is working on, all day, every day. Anything for a useful commit history which tells a story rather than “fixed PR comments”.
We’re going to play test it on a small scale next week. No idea how it would work as video but it sounds very fun to just go and do for a day.
My brother and I nerd sniped each other and now we’re plotting a YouTube series which is a combination of Jet Lag and GeoGuessr called DashCam which we’ll probably never make, but I reckon it would be a banger if we did.
The BABY CHANGING STATION is where you can allocate ATTRIBUTE POINTS to raise your baby's ATTRIBUTES, and unlock SKILLS with SKILL POINTS. You can also replace your baby's EQUIPMENT.
Just saw the most egregious use of YouTube face in a thumbnail while browsing some Google Cloud documentation. Nobody needs to be doing that to themselves for a video entitled “Manage CAs with Terraform”, either I’m interested in that or I’m not, you’re not getting driveby views on that regardless of how excited you look about the prospect.
@mike @pikesley @Thebratdragon @anon_opin the right people just have to want it. After that it’s quite simple, the council buys some busses and starts running routes. For extra value the council says to the current operators they’re going to do so, and asks if those operators fancy selling their busses and cutting their losses before their routes are abandoned because they cost 10x as much and run worse.
@an0key I feel you there. Suspect it’s one of those things that’s mind blowing when you first hear about it and then after you’re just like “oh, they pulled the firmware” unless there’s some wild exploits to bypass secure boot or something.
@gothintheshell I bought the flat I’d been renting last year, which is both lovely (paying half as much as I was for a start), but there was never a space for ripping out all the landlord crap and replacing it because the place is already full of my stuff. Every now and then I wonder if a can of petrol and a zippo is the answer.
(To my insurer, should my flat suddenly by engulfed in flame, this is mostly a joke. I’m not seriously considering arson).
Everything may be shite but this will make you happy, albeit briefly.
Promise.
@pikesley if your going to search for stuff like that I suggest incognito mode rather than typing it into Mastodon.
@tdp_org I was discussing this with some people in the pub last night, it was about 50/50 whether we’d seen it. I haven’t but also don’t use YouTube for music, I wonder if this is a model just going “statistically people who like music go wild for this stuff”.
@grajohnt there’s something intensely sci-fi about wires that blink as signals go over them.
I’ve managed to lose an AirTag. I can say for certain it’s somewhere in my bag telling me the battery is low, but I’ve checked all the pockets and I can’t find the thing to change its battery.
@cmconseils I was with you right up until “you just have to do it”, I don’t know why you would say such things.
All this because The Pitt, spiritual sequel to my beloved ER, is caught up in a legal nightmare and may never see a UK release.
I’ve been setting up a curiously large amount of software for acquiring Linux ISOs the last couple of evenings. Think I’ve got it down now, it can automatically find ISOs of interest and then make them available via the ISO viewing software on my TV for ease of browsing.
the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not just "downloading some code", it is *establishing an ongoing trust relationship with a set of human beings*. this fact is *way* too obscured in all the tools we use.
I know Alexa Skills were largely not a thing because at one point Amazon decided to pay me £80 a month out of the blue, apparently a skill I’d spent half an afternoon throwing together, and that was almost literally a random phrase generator, was one of the most engaged with skills at the time. They only stopped because I didn’t update it to use a new API so it got delisted.
My prediction is that these will be about as successful as Alexa Skills turned out to be, because very few processes are enhanced by playing a guessing game to work out what some software can do.
I see OpenAI have invented Alexa Skills. Lots of copy in this documentation saying how they shouldn’t be used for ads, or promoting users to come back to your company’s app, while these will absolutely be used for ads and feature prompts to come back. https://developers.openai.com/apps-sdk/concepts/design-guidelines/
I introduced the boy to git today (with a UI in VS Code, I’m not a monster), leading to the wonderful question “shall I make a commitment” when a change seemed like it was done. Took me a minute to work out what he meant.
The boy dropped “I want to make a Peak mod” on me this morning. Our history with “I want you to make an X mod” is that we attempt it, everything is terribly documented, and after several hours of getting gradually more annoyed we both lose interest (generally I lose interest a bit after he does).
Shout out to the Peak/Unity games modding community for making it not hateful. He’s added actual code that does something already, even said he enjoyed the process!
@solderandchaos @jackeric I did half that in 5 recently so it’s technically doable. Definitely wasn’t in any state to do it again by the time I was done though.
Critically this is different software (undecided which yet) running on the same hostname, so I don’t think I can just send out an “I’ve moved instances” message.