@stephen I keep almost rage writing a tvOS app which only shows subscriptions in order because I have a nasty habit of sitting down in front of YouTube and then finding its 3 hours later and I’m watching some nonsense I have no real interest in.
Shout out to the boy who entered his first climbing competition today, scored one (1) point out of a possible 275 and is chuffed with that result. Hoping I can have the same attitude when these boulders kick my ass in an hour or so.
@stephen there was at some point a version you could run on another machine and it would use the mobile app’s remote control API to do the same thing on TV but that stopped working.
@stephen if you don’t watch on a TV the SponsorBlock extension is fantastic, skips not only YouTube ads but also has crowd sourced tagging of in-video sponsor reads and begging for subscriptions.
Jonty single handedly destroying the tradition of gathering round the machine god praying it declares the festival to be feasible here.
https://chaos.social/users/jonty/statuses/116264137655228558
@mjg59 oh thank god, I’m not the only person on the planet who thinks systemd and its various *d components is actually quite nice to work with if you spend an hour or two reading the documentation.
The EMF team really are the best bunch of people you could find yourself, through a deeply unlikely series of events, running a festival with. Special shout out to @solderandchaos for going “hey, looked like your inbox was a bit overwhelming so I unwhelmed it for you”.
@thechaoszone yup, that’s the plan. I have no interest in using it as a social network, I was just sick of tapping a link to find out about an event or whatever and being presented with a big “log into Instagram” banner instead.
Caved and created a burner Instagram account this evening. Not because I want to use Instagram, I killed the last one because that thing is crack that destroys my ability to do anything else, but because there’s an increasing number of things where they solely post updates on critical information like “we’re closed today” to Instagram rather than their website.
just learned that my colleagues rotate VS Code by 1 degree when you leave your laptop unattended
@pikesley it’s almost like the hard part has never been writing the code.
@david_chisnall lost property handling varies pretty wildly depending on the individuals you speak to. I’ve been told they can’t do anything at all and I just have to wait and hope the thing shows up, I’ve also had a train guard call me when they found my bag with laptop in it and sort out handing it back to me an hour later when their train next went through the station I was at.
@NAB I think with my lips but in all honesty I can’t say for sure because I don’t think I’ve ever consciously thought about it.
Funny how websites never seem to be able to remember I declined their tracking cookies for more than a week but you’d better believe the moment I tap accept by accident it’s going to be etched in stone and carefully stored for the rest of time.
@0xabad1dea @lritter @catsalad one of my earliest computers memories was playing a game on my Dad’s work issued Mac Classic when an error happened and it popped a dialog with a bomb icon on it. I was convinced I’d done something terrible and his very expensive computer was about to blow up.
So AGENTS.md is just the human-readable documentation the AI dudebros have been refusing to include in README.md until now, because they claim that the code is "self documenting" and everyone else must be stupid if they can't figure things out.
@dave wow, that took a turn. Right up til the last sentence I thought they’d taken a day of to, ahem, spend some time alone.
Changing at Westminster rather than Embankment because I feel like a bit of nuclear bunker architecture.
Anyway, should you use Dropbox:
1. It seems pretty secure against social engineering the support team.
2. Make sure you’ve got those backup codes somewhere.
3. Back it up to something that’s not Dropbox (this is all part of me setting up sync from various cloud providers to a NAS I’ll always be able to access)
I’ve been trying to regain access to a long dead Dropbox account just to find out what’s in it but it’s got SMS based 2FA turned on and I no longer have that number, and I have no backup codes I can find.
This is fine, but I just can’t stop myself replying to the support guy with “but can you help” because he keeps replying “sure, I’d love to help, you can use any of [list of things I don’t have]” rather than going “nah, sorry mate, you’ve fucked it, it’s gone forever”.
@carnage4life @mdione hang on, did they not require code review before? Surely code review was required.