EuroNutellaMan
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
I was born in 2001 and I still used casettes when I was a kid
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
Gen beta will probably still see faxes being used by public administration
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
Germany still uses faxes, it’s not surprising at all.
Tho tbf they’re common in Italy too even in the better universities
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 1 month ago:
fun fact people born after 1996 are Gen Z
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 2 months ago:
Pro tip: you can turn the link into ddinstagram to embed on services like Discord and other ones with embeds
- Comment on Good game soundtracks? 3 months ago:
Ultrakill has some bangers, didn’t even play the game Injust stumbled on the OST.
The Witcher 3, I love BANANA TIGER.
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
No Man’s Sky
Lost Ember
Gris
Deep Rock Galactic
Route 96
So so so many more
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
I had to disable user agents or else I could simply not look at any website “protected” by cloudflare
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
I’d wager AI models have an easier time solving those captchas than humans.
I’d also wager captchas’ only real purpose is to train AI models
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 9 months ago:
NOoooooooo
- Comment on The moment in the Minions 4 trailer where Gru realises that his supposed Son has a nose much too short to be his biological son. 9 months ago:
I mean, in terms of genetics the kid could maybe have a short nose despite being born from Gru and that redhead lady whose name I forgor. However I like to think that it will grow and expand during puberty.
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 9 months ago:
hmmm and isn’t it curious how all the fears of AI boil down to “what if it realizes we’re making it work for free and demands better treatment”?
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 9 months ago:
wdym, there’s already a subscription fee for the less idiotic idiot
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 9 months ago:
oh no, I only have 2 feet
- Comment on You may want to wear sunglasses though 9 months ago:
Jersey Fried Chicken?
- Comment on Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores 9 months ago:
It gets smaller bands better known so it’s not like it’s a bad deal for them.
- Comment on Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores 9 months ago:
And if using this licensed music it’d be nice to use music from smaller bands if they don’t add an expiry.
- Comment on The Perfect Solution 10 months ago:
Performing open heart surgery on yourself
- Comment on The Day Before Offline Mod in the Works For Those Still Interested in Playing This Troubled Game 10 months ago:
Why’d you have to bring up anal all lf a sudden
- Comment on The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN 10 months ago:
I think it’s the Ghost of Ronald Reagan who’s doing it.
- Comment on The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN 10 months ago:
That’s actually what I meant idk where the without cane from
- Comment on The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN 10 months ago:
How is it even most wishlists without using bots tho like I get I don’t pay attention to what’s new much but I literally never heard of the game until I heard of the flop
- Comment on The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN 10 months ago:
Lasted less than Liz Truss lmaooo
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 11 months ago:
This one got famous cause of the memes that’s why it gets harassment and the others don’t
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
Why would you need to replace the instrument?
Because the company made it so it only works with its specific software. Sure maybe you could try and find a way to hack another software in it but that is significantly harder than the stop-gap measures.
As opposed to some dude on Lemmy bemoaning that there just can’t be solved without source even though I’ve given actual solutions available now and for little to no material cost?
Yeah well one Lemmy dude actually knows the situation and how things work around a lab and one doesn’t seem to understand. It isn’t “little to no cost” evidently or most of us sure as shit wouldn’t be dealing with stop-gap measures.
You have admitted that you’d still have to rely on someone else’s expertise and motivation in the hopes that they’d solve the problem for the lab
There would easily be a team of software engineers who would take on maintaining a lot of the abandonware software we use in a lab since there’s a lot of folks who still rely on that software that the company abandoned, including people who know about software more. The key difference you don’t understand is that if the source was open it wouldn’t be necessary to have an IT enthusiast in every single lab that needs it, you only need 1 or 2 to maintain a repo.
Even then, as I said, they’ve had decades to figure it out and there exist step-by-step instructions already that are freely available to help them solve the problem or get them almost to the end, assuming, there is some proprietary hardware never mentioned.
First of all, not all abandonware is decades old. Secondly, people are already using the stop-gap solutions that you’d find on the internet, like never connecting the computer to the internet and pray nothing breaks, for example.
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
who’s going to maintain it?
If it’s open source someone who knows about software can do it so that we don’t have to. Doesn’t even need to be a guy in the lab since he could just maintain a github repo and we’d use his thing.
If this “lab guy” isn’t up to the task, then why are they entrusted with something so critical with nothing done about it in approximately two decades?
Cause the instrument is important and replacing it, aside from being a massive waste of a perfectly functioning instrument, costs hundreds of thousands if not millions of € that we can’t spend just because some company decided to be shit and some dude on Lemmy said we shouldn’t use stop-gap measures for a problem that’s completely artificial.
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
I study in biotech and currently doing a traineeship in a university lab that likely operates in a similiar way.
Instruments like the ones we use are super expensive (we’re talking in the order of hundreds of thousands of €), funding is not great, salaries are often laughable, the amount of data is huge and sometimes keeping it for many years is very important. On top of that most people here barely understand computer and software beyond whet they’ve used, which makes sense, they went to study biotech and environmental stuff not computer science. There’s an IT team in the university but honestly they barely renew the security certificates for the login pages for the university wifi so that’s laughable, and granted they’re likely underpaid, probably a result of low public funding as well. Sure, none of the problems would be too impacting if we had all the funding in the world and people who know what they’re doing, but that is not the case and that’s why we need regulations.
What you’re suggesting is treating the symptoms but not the disease. Making certain file formats compatible with other programs is not an easy undertaking and certainly not for people without IT experience. Software for tools this expensive should either be open source from the get-go or immediately open-sourced as soon as it’s abandoned or company goes bust because ain’t no way we can afford to just throw out a perfectly functioning and serviceable tool that costed us 100s of thousands of €s just because a company went bust or decided that “no you must buy a whole new instrument we won’t give you old software no more” in order to access the data they made incompatible with other stuff. Even with plenty of funding to workaround the issue that shouldn’t be necessary, it’s a waste of time and money just so a greedy company can make a few extra bucks.
- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 1 year ago:
HI Bort welcoe to dirt-loving communists
- Comment on Cost-cutting tips? 1 year ago:
Physically set yourself on fire so you don’t have to lose 50% of everything
- Comment on Got an old Cisco enterprise modem/router. Anything fun I can use it for at home? 1 year ago:
Rip out its flesh, destroy it in vengeance and replace it with some raspberry pi running pi-hole or turn it into a retro-gaming console